Salmendingen (noble family)
The Lords of Salmendingen (old: Lords of Salbeningen ) were a Swabian noble family , attested from 1245 to 1392. Their ancestral castle in Salmendingen , a current district of Burladingen in the Zollernalb district in Baden-Württemberg , was probably built in the 13th century.
possession
The former Salmendinger territory comprised the areas of the present-day localities Salmendingen, Ringingen , Melchingen and Erpfingen . In addition to the Salmendingen family castle, the family also owned a manor house in the 14th century and the older Hohenerpfingen castle , which was built in the 12th century, above today's Erpfingen, a district of the municipality of Sonnenbühl in the Reutlingen district . Below the Hohenerpfingen Castle was the associated, meanwhile disappeared settlement "Niederhofen"
history
In the first half of the 14th century two brothers, Hanß and Haintz von Salmendingen, seated at Erpfingen, and a woman (probably her sister) Agate von Salmendingen, also seated at Salmendingen, are mentioned. The latter married Burkhard Schilling von Mansberg from Dettingen unter Teck, Ministeriale of the Dukes of Teck , and so he became lord of the castle of Salmendingen in 1350.
Covenants, the Duke of Teck with the Habsburgs and the Count of Hohenberg led for the Lords of Mansberg repeatedly to conflicts with the counts of Württemberg , and due Agates marriage was now the Lords of Salmendingen as a vassal of the Duke of Teck quasi in permanent conflict with the Counts of Württemberg. Württemberg's Eberhard II directed his policy strongly against the imperial cities that stood in the way of a further expansion of Württemberg , and this resulted in numerous costly and costly battles in the region. The Salmendians fared in the confused previous years of the city war (1387-1398) like many other lower aristocratic families who had decided against the up-and-coming Württemberg: First, a number of goods and rights, then in 1385 the Hohenerpfingen Castle (already known as Burgstall ) had to be sold and the family castle Salmendingen was even destroyed in 1386.
In the city war, the Mansbergs were adversaries of the Württemberg people and placed themselves in the service of the imperial cities. Burkhard Schilling von Mansberg was captain of the Esslingen armed forces in 1388 and attacked Grötzingen in Württemberg, among others . There were many dead, and the people of Esslingen took 56 prisoners under the leadership of Mansberger. Unfortunately, there is no evidence, but it can be assumed that the family stayed together and that the Salmendingen family also sought protection and refuge in the imperial cities after the fall of their castles .
The Wuerttembergians were able to decide the city war in the heartland with the Battle of Döffingen on August 23, 1388 in their favor, and the defeated were forced under Württemberg fiefdom . In 1394 the children of the married couple Agate von Salmendingen and Burkhard Schilling von Mansberg officially had to renounce all their claims to the castle and village of Salmendingen. The former Salmendingen territory (Ringingen, Salmendingen, Melchingen and Erpfingen) was placed under the administration of Count Eberhard von Werdenberg in 1401 (the local ministerial was the Jehle zu Trochtelfingen family) and was later added to the Count of Fürstenberg .
literature
- A. Dreher: The Burichinga-Gau - local history of the places Groß- and Kleinengstingen, Erpfingen, Mägerkingen, Trochtelfingen, Undingen and Willmandingen. published 1957, 2nd edition 1972, Robert Blessing Druck, Pfullingen
- Sonnenbühl municipality: Erpfinger castles. 1987
- Sonnenbühl community: 1200 years of Erpfingen. 1978