Schweiker I. Tuschl from Söldenau

Knight Schweiker I. Tuschl von Söldenau († 1347 ) was Vice Cathedral on the Rott and ducal forest master in the Neuburg Forest . Schweiker's presumed father was Otto Tuschl. He came from the Lower Bavarian family of the Tuschl and is considered the founder of the family's wealth.

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Söldenau Castle, which was built by Schweiker I. Tuschl. Here on an engraving by Michael Wening from 1723.

Schweiker I. is documented between 1311 and 1345. Around the year 1320 he built Söldenau Castle on the Wolfach near Ortenburg . In 1323 he named himself for the first time after his property, the future ancestral palace of his family.

Between 1321 and 1340 Schweiker I held the ducal office of the Vice Cathedral on the Rott and was thus the Bavarian Duke's deputy in this area. In 1332 he succeeded in acquiring the important Hilgartsberg Castle on the Danube with all its economic assets, as well as the toll in Vilshofen and Pleinting , through a mortgage bond of 5700 pounds. In 1355 Hilgartsberg Castle came to the wealthy Ecker family. In the appendix to the ducal land register, Schweiker's total assets amounted to almost 7,000 pounds Regensburg pfennigs. Schweiker also had ducal estates in Mittling (near Neuötting ), Rengersdorf (near Landau an der Isar ) and in Bamling (near Wallerfing ).

Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian pledged Schweiker for 4281 pounds Regensburg pfennigs the castle Reichenberg near parish churches with affiliations, the court at the Rott, fishing purchases from the Rott, parish churches and Eggenfelden , as well as all meadows there. From this pledge, the Tuschl received an annual income of 430 pounds Regensburg pfennigs, i.e. an interest sum of a good 10%. In addition, the income from the Vice Cathedral Office for Schweiker amounted to a further £ 1239 Regensburg pfennigs.

In 1342 Schweiker I. held the ducal office of forester in the Neuburg Forest . A year later he was named patron of the St. Anthony Brotherhood in Osterhofen by Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian together with Hartwig von Degenberg .

Thanks to his influential and well-paid offices, as well as his pledges, he is considered the creator of Tuschl's wealth. On May 25, 1343, together with his brother Otto, he founded a permanent hospital for twelve people in the city of Vilshofen.

In 1347 Schweiker I. Tuschl built the stone bridge over the Wolfach in Vilshofen. In the same year, he and four other Tuschl family members built the Dießenstein fortress in the Bavarian Forest on behalf of Emperor Ludwig . It served to control the trade route between the Duchy of Bavaria and the Hochstift Passau . In the same year Schweiker I was mentioned as dead.

progeny

Schweiker I. was married to Kunigunde von Singham, they had 11 children:

• Johann I († before 1377)
• Otto III. († 1349), Canon of Passau
• Schweiker II, nurse to Griesbach
• Ulrich
• Heinrich († February 19, 1376)
• Kunigunde, ∞ Eglof the Altenburger
• Klara, nun in the Seligenthal monastery
• Ottilia, ∞ Arnold von Fraunberg
• NN, ∞ Protzk von Wolfenberg
• NN, ∞ Läutwein Uesel
• NN, ∞ Otto von Rain

literature

• Ina-Ulrike Paul: Tuschl from Söldenau. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 791 ( digitized version ).
• Karl Wild: Söldenau Castle - Four Hundred Years of Söldenau Castle Brewery , Vilshofen 1977.
• Karl Wild: The Testament of Heinrich Tuschl von Söldenau , in: Ostbairische Grenzmarken 3 , Passau 1959, pp. 39–79.
• Max Peinkofer : Schweiker I. Tuschl von Söldenau and his son Heinrich, the noble knight alone , in: Festschrift for the 750th anniversary of the city of Vilshofen 1206 - 1956 , Vilshofen 1956, pp. 46–59.
• Franz Seraph Scharrer: Chronicle of the city of Vilshofen from 791 to 1848 , unabridged new edition from 1897, Vilshofen 1984.