Salbuch of the Naumburg Monastery
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The Salbuch of the Naumburg Monastery (also Naumburger Saalbuch ) is a richly illustrated Salbuch from the early 16th century. It was created in the Cyriacus monastery Naumburg , today's Naumburg Castle in the Wetterau , and is now in the Hessian State Archives in Marburg .
history
The Benedictine - provost Naumburg subordinate to the monastery Limburg an der Haardt. In the 16th century it came into the interest of competing sovereigns in the Wetterau. In 1505 the monastery was destroyed in the Landshut War of Succession . In 1509 the altars were consecrated again, but no longer by Limburg, which was also affected by the war, but on the initiative and with the support of the Seligenstadt monastery .
Subsequently, the provost's position was also difficult. It was located in close proximity to the area of the Burggrafschaft Friedberg , which repeatedly attacked the monastery. There were frequent border disputes with the Kaichen Free Court , which had its seat in the neighboring town of Kaichen . Since 1376, the free court gradually came under the control of the burgraviate. The Counts of Hanau repeatedly appeared as the protective power of the monastery, who had a center of their territorial rule in the nearby Windecken Castle and who had held the bailiwick over the monastery since the 13th century. After the decline of monastery life in the 16th century and the Reformation , the monastery was finally acquired by Hanau in 1561 and its business operations continued as the Naumburg winery .
The Salbuch from 1514 is the documentation of a border adjustment between the monastery and the village of Kaichen. Illumination was rarely done in the small monastery of Naumburg, liturgical books were mostly obtained from outside. The painter is unknown, it could have been one of the monks or a commissioned panel painter. Another, now lost, document from the monastery from 1508 can be assigned to the same artist. The value of the Salbuch was shown for the first time in 1731–1734 in the source work Antiquitates Wetteraviae by Johann Adam Bernhard .
content
The text of the certificate lists the names of the seven Landscheiders who measured the area and provided it with boundary stones. This is followed by a description of the limits. The document closes with the request to the Friedberg burgrave and the builder to seal the document after it has been put into the register and written . This happened on December 5, 1514.
The certificate consists of 14 sheets of parchment , two in front of it and ten sheets of paper behind that, which have been bound to form a book. There is a hole on all sheets, but the seal of Friedberg Castle has been lost. The colored illustrations are on the two sheets in front of the certificate, on the lower half of the last parchment sheet that has remained free and the first four sheets of paper that adjoin it.
- The cover sheet shows, together with the following sheet, two images merging into one another: Eight kneeling monks, probably the named inmates of the monastery, above the buildings of the Naumburg. You turn to the right, where on the following sheet the main patron saint of the monastery, Cyriacus and the Holy Cross are shown together with the provost of the monastery.
- This is followed by the presentation of the actual event. The surveyors are shown with their tools in front of the village of Kaichen.
- Below the document text view of Friedberg Castle from the west.
- The St. George as patron of the castle with the arms.
- Coat of arms of the incumbent burgrave Eberhard Wais von Fauerbach .
- Coat of arms of the Burgmannen Rudolf Brendel von Homburg and Friedrich von Dorfelden .
- Coat of arms of Burgmanns Georg Reyprecht von Büdingen and Herrmann Wais von Fauerbach
- Coat of arms of the castle men Heinrich von Selbold and Marquart von Hattstein
- Coat of arms of the Burgmanns Johann von Bellersheim and Georg Löw von Steinfurth .
- Coat of arms of the castle men Cuno Riedesel von Bellersheim and Heinrich von Vilbel.
- Coat of arms of the Burgmannen Diether von Buches zu Staden and Philipp von Düdelsheim .
Coat of arms of the Friedberger Burgmannschaft
Coat of arms of Friedberg Burgrave Eberhard Wais von Fauerbach .
Rudolf Brendel von Homburg .
Heinrich von Selbold .
Georg Löw von Steinfurth
Diether von Buches .
Philipp von Düdelsheim
literature
- Suzanne Beeh-Lustenberger: The illustrations of the Naumburger Saalbuch from 1514. In: Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 21, 1966, pp. 274–286 and tables.
- HP Brodt: The Naumburg. In: Hanau city and country. A home book for school and home . Hanau 1954, pp. 335-341.
- Michael Müller: The Naumburg and the Salbuch. In: published history book. Erbstädter history and stories from 775 years. Published by the “Geschter Geschichtsbuch” working group, Nidderau 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-037670-2 , pp. 52–67.
Web links
- Treasures of the Marburg State Archives, Document 5: Salbuch (Libell) of the Naumburg (Wetterau) monastery in Kaichen with images of Friedberg Castle and St. George as the castle's patron saint. Illustrated manuscript, December 5, 1514