Seyfried Schweppermann

Tomb of Seyfried Schweppermann in the monastery church Kastl

Honorary honor for Seyfried Schweppermann in the monastery church Kastl

Seyfried Schweppermann (* around 1257 in Hillohe near Lauterhofen ; † 1337 in Deinschwang near Lauterhofen) was a field captain of the imperial city of Nuremberg .

Origin and family

Seyfried Schweppermann came from the ministerial family of the Hullocher, who had their headquarters in Hulloch (today Hillohe near Lauterhofen , birthplace of Seyfried Schweppermann). The family can be traced back to the end of the 12th century, died out in the 15th century and was usually called "von Hulloch" or "Hullocher" after its ancestral home. Some representatives of this family had the nickname "Schweppermann" (in different spellings, e.g. "Swepfermann"). In particular, the descendants of Seyfried Schweppermann continued this nickname. The origin of this epithet is not clear.

Life

Seyfried Schweppermann took part in several battles on the side of the future emperor Ludwig of Bavaria , for example in 1313 in the battle of Gammelsdorf against Friedrich III. the beautiful and received the pledge at Grünsberg Castle .

On September 28, 1322 Ludwig was victorious in the Battle of Mühldorf , the decisive factor in the battle was the timely arrival of Burgrave Friedrich of Nuremberg . Schweppermann's part in this battle is not emphasized until the 15th century, namely through the chronicle of Hans Ebran von Wildenberg , who, among other things, describes the mockery of the older knight's trembling feet in the stirrups. Nevertheless, Schweppermann is said to have distinguished himself through particular bravery in battle. According to another anecdote handed down by Sigismund Meisterlin in 1488 , Ludwig and his entourage only had a basket of eggs for food afterwards, and he exclaimed: “Yes potz laus, ettlichen an ai, the swept Swepferman zwai (mostly reproduced: Every man an egg , the brave / pious Schweppermann two). ”This saying was also reproduced in the 15th century in the coat of arms and in the epitaph of Schweppermann zu Kastl (in the church of the Kastl monastery castle ) in the Upper Palatinate . However, it can be assumed that Schweppermann only took part in the battle of Gammelsdorf and was therefore enfeoffed by Ludwig the Bavarian with Grünsberg Castle in 1315 . It was not until the second half of the 15th century that a reinterpretation from Gammelsdorf to Mühldorf took place.

The later Emperor Ludwig IV enfeoffed Schweppermann with several castles because of his bravery: Kunstein in Swabia and Deinschwang near Lauterhofen . The fact that the Schweppermannsburg in Pfaffenhofen near Kastl was already a fiefdom to Seyfried Schweppermann is an unproven assumption; it bears its name after his sons Hartung der Schweppermann and Heinrich der Schweppermann and their descendants, who had parts of the castle as a fief .

Seyfried Schweppermann was married to Katharina Rindsmaul . He died on Deinschwang in 1337 . Originally, the following text by the Nuremberg humanist Hartmann Schedel is said to have been available on the grave monument in the Kastl monastery church:

“ Seufrid Swepfermann is buried here, Everything is changing, a cheeky and firm knight, who at Gamelsdorff is fighting in furt ting the plague. Is death, got it. Anno domini M CCC XXX VII. "

- Quoted from Bernhard Lübbers (2016, p. 40)

Aftermath

In literary terms, the already eloquent emperor word was used by Max Eyth in his epic Volkmar in 1863 :

And every man gets an egg,
the good Schweppermann gets two.

This sentence can also be found on a relief of the equestrian monument of Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria on Kaiser-Ludwig-Platz in Munich. Theodor Fontane uses the same phrase in his novel Cécile (1887), where it is used in Chapter 3 by a man who orders eggs for breakfast.

As a souvenir of Schweppermann and as a tourist attraction, the municipality of Kastl has been performing a "Schweppermannspiel" at regular intervals since the early 1950s (every five years since 1953).

The Bundeswehr barracks in Kümmersbruck ( Amberg-Sulzbach district ) is now called "Schweppermann barracks ". The 123rd Panzer Battalion , which had been stationed there and was disbanded in 1994, carried the Schweppermann coat of arms as its association badge.

The Schweppermannsbrunnen is located in Weißenburg in Bavaria .

The 34-kilometer Schweppermann cycle path leads from Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz via Lauterhofen and Amberg to Schwarzenfeld in the Naabtal.

In the Berg am Laim district of the Bavarian capital Munich , Schweppermannstrasse, a side street off Trausnitzstrasse, is named after Seyfried Schweppermann.

References

literature

Alice Arnold: The Munich baker's servants with Seyfried Schweppermann . In: Jürgen Wurst and Alexander Langheiter (eds.): Monachia. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-88645-156-9 , p. 124
Heribert Batzl: History of the market town of Kastl . Marktgemeinde Kastl (Ed.), 1984.
Bernhard von Poten : Schweppermann, Seyfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 415.
David Popp: Seyfried Schweppermann and the family of Schweppermanne, memorandum for the fifth secular celebration of September 23, 1322. Sulzbach 1822 (There is the "Egg" quote on p. 25). Digitized
Georg Andreas Will : Message from the famous and brave knight, Seyfried Schweppermann, written more precisely and circumstantially than has been done before . In: Museum Noricum . Altdorf 1759, pp. 9-16.
Georg Andreas Will : Excerpts from documents pertaining to the gender of the Schweppermen . In: Museum Noricum . Altdorf 1759, pp. 76-88.

Web links

Commons : Seyfried Schweppermann - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Interview about the Schweppermannspiel in Kastl
Seyfried Schweppermann ( Memento from July 24, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) PDF (38 kB)
Information at Kastl.net
Website about the Schweppermannspiele

Individual evidence

↑ David Popp: Seyfried Schweppermann and the family of Schweppermanne, memorandum for the fifth secular celebration of September 23, 1322. Sulzbach 1822, p. 34.
^ Sigismund Meisterlin: Chronicle of the Imperial City of Nuremberg 1488. German version, ed. by Karl Hegel. In: The Chronicles of the Franconian Cities, Vol. 3 (Chronicles of the German cities from the 14th to the 16th century 3). Leipzig 1864, pp. 3–180, p. 122.
↑ Bernhard Lübbers (2016, p. 40).
^ Bernhard Lübbers: The Kastl monastery in the first half of the 14th century. A spiritual center of the Northern Gau during the reign of Ludwig of Bavaria? In Tobias Appl; Manfred Knedlik (Ed.), Upper Palatinate Monastery Landscape. The monasteries, monasteries and colleges of the Upper Palatinate. Friedrich Pustet , Regensburg 2016, pp. 36 - 45. ISBN 978-3-7917-2759-2 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schweppermann, Seyfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schweppermann, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Field captain of the imperial city of Nuremberg
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1257
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hillohe near Lauterhofen
DATE OF DEATH	1337
Place of death	Deinschwang near Lauterhofen

[1] David Popp: Seyfried Schweppermann and the family of Schweppermanne, memorandum for the fifth secular celebration of September 23, 1322. Sulzbach 1822, p. 34.

[2] Sigismund Meisterlin: Chronicle of the Imperial City of Nuremberg 1488. German version, ed. by Karl Hegel. In: The Chronicles of the Franconian Cities, Vol. 3 (Chronicles of the German cities from the 14th to the 16th century 3). Leipzig 1864, pp. 3–180, p. 122.

[3] Bernhard Lübbers (2016, p. 40).

[4] Bernhard Lübbers: The Kastl monastery in the first half of the 14th century. A spiritual center of the Northern Gau during the reign of Ludwig of Bavaria? In Tobias Appl; Manfred Knedlik (Ed.), Upper Palatinate Monastery Landscape. The monasteries, monasteries and colleges of the Upper Palatinate. Friedrich Pustet , Regensburg 2016, pp. 36 - 45. ISBN 978-3-7917-2759-2 .