Sebald Pögl the Younger

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Sebald Pögl , Freiherr von Reifenstein [and Arberg] (* approx. 1490; † June 1, 1540 ) was a Styrian hammer master and arms manufacturer .

Life

The son of the hammer gentleman Sebald Pögl d. Ä. inherited the armory in Thörl after his death (around 1510) .

He profited in several ways from the Turkish invasions ( first Turkish siege of Vienna in 1529): On the one hand, King Ferdinand I bought large quantities of weapons. On the other hand, the Turkish tax was waived to finance these armaments purchases , the financing of which forced many landowners to make emergency sales, in which he could appear as a financially strong buyer. With the purchase agreement of 21 April 1521, he acquired by brothers Ungnad the Reifenstein Castle in Pöls and called himself Pögl tires Steiner . In the following years the small Gothic castle was expanded into a remarkable late Gothic fortress. In 1522 he married Cordula von Herberstein . In 1528 he acquired the Araburg near Kaumberg in Lower Austria, which is why he called himself von Reifenstein and Arberg from then on . Also in 1529 he leased the Amtshof zu Aflenz and the Amt Aflenz ( Schachenstein Castle ) from Siegmund von Dietrichstein , which he had previously bought from St. Lambrecht Abbey for 24,000  fl . In 1530 he bought the Kaumberg office from Klein-Mariazell Abbey , and in the same year the Hohenberg and Schrattenberg castles in Lower Austria. Also in 1530, Sebald Pögl the Younger was elevated to the status of hereditary imperial baron by King Ferdinand . It is recorded from 1536 that he acquired the Jagd zu Parz , a castle near Schwechat that was lost during the first Turkish siege of Vienna.

In addition to his dominant position in arms production, he also tried to gain a foothold in the preliminary stages of production, which was prohibited by the princely chamber property regulations. Citing his citizenship in Leoben (his first marriage to a citizen of Leoben), he tried to circumvent the city of Leoben's right of resignation for pig iron and thus obtain cheaper raw materials for his hammer mill. He also transported pig iron away from the toll roads intended for this purpose . This led to an indictment and a lengthy process that was finally decided by King Ferdinand against Pögl on February 1, 1539: Pögl was deprived of his citizenship in Leoben, he had to sell his wheel works for the production of pig iron and pay the king a fine of 38,000 Rhenish guilders , as a result of which the king could elegantly get rid of his debts at Pögl. This devastating process failure and the simultaneous technological change from forged iron guns to cast bronze guns meant the end of Pögl's supremacy in weapon production.

Sebald Pögl the Younger wrote his will in 1538 and died in 1540.

religion

Through his trade relations in Central Germany, Pögl came into contact with the teachings of Martin Luther early on. As early as May 21, 1521, Pögl mentioned in a letter that he had obtained three Lutheran writings out of interest and commented on Luther's interrogation before the Emperor at the Diet in Worms , which had taken place on April 17, 1521. In 1535 he issued a ban on pilgrimages in his domain . An inventory from 1565 mentions several Lutheran books, including a translation of the Bible.

family

Sebald Pögl was married to:

  1. a nameless Leoben citizen daughter
  2. after 1522 with Cordula von Herberstein († March 17, 1543).

After Sebald Pögl's death, her brother Georg Freiherr von Herberstein took over the guardianship of the 11 underage children. His children enjoyed a university education and all married in families belonging to the Austrian nobility . None of Seebold's six sons had male descendants, so with the death of the youngest son Adam, the Pögl-Reifenstein family died out in the male line in 1589.

progeny

Coat of arms "Andre Pögel Freyherr zue Reiffenstain and Arberg"
  • Andreas Pögl (* 1525; † 1565) ⚭ 1547 Barbara Polheim (* 1521; † March 18, 1560 in Vienna). Andreas Pögl was brought up by Wolfgang Lazius , Ferdinand I's personal physician and court library prefect, who took him on extensive educational trips across Europe. After the death of his father and his brothers, he tried to concentrate the property that had been dispersed in the division of the estate again in one hand and to increase it through acquisitions in Lower Austria and Vienna. In 1556 he acquired the Schaunberger Hof in Vienna-Favoriten, which is then called Pögl-Hof (today's Theresianum), and in 1559 the rule of Mödling and Liechtenstein Castle. He was imperial Councilor under Ferdinand I .
  • Georg Pögl (* approx. 1526; † March 11, 1557) ⚭ Helena von Zacklin (* 1539; † March 14, 1579 in Horn); his daughter
    • Eleonora Pögl (Pöckling) († 1576), tombstone in the Altenburg branch church , ⚭ around 1573 with Friedrich von Prag († 1600), Baron von Windhaag,
  • Peter Pögl
  • Sebold Pögl
  • Paul Pögl (* around 1530; † 1554), studied at the University of Vienna in 1539 and in Padua in 1547 and died in 1554 unmarried and childless. The inheritance went to his brother Georg, the other two brothers were compensated with 5000 guilders,
  • Adam Pögl (* around 1530; † 1575), studied law at the University of Padua around 1549 and lived there with Johann and Bartolomäus Khevenhüller, Georg and Leopold Herberstein. He was married to Margarete Stadler and left no male descendants, which meant that the male line became extinct. His daughter was:
    • Elisabeth Pögl, ⚭ with Michael Székely von Kövend (Zekel; Zackl; Zaggl; Zäckhl) (* 1540, † 1603) on Fridau,
  • Cordula Pögl († January 20, 1557), ⚭ with Heinrich Strain zu Schwarzenau,
  • Susanne Pögl (*?; † January 21, 1589 in Graz), ⚭ June 20, 1553 with Wolf-Dietrich Harditsch († June 5, 1554), then on September 9, 1557 with Wolfgang von Stubenberg. In 1553 she renounced her father's inheritance as long as male descendants lived off him. Your daughter was
    • Esther von Gera (* approx. 1563 - † October 20, 1611), author of the Gera Memorial Book,
  • Eva Pögl ⚭ 1553 Wilhelm von Hofkirchen , Baron von Kollmitz, renounced her father's inheritance in 1553 as long as male descendants live from him. Her son
  • Marie Pögl († before 1575), ⚭ 1562 Valentin Sauermann (Sauromannus) von Jeltsch († 1573) from Silesia, studied in 1536 in Wittenberg and in Pavia, Bologna, Marburg an der Lahn and 1549/51 in Ferrara, Dr. jur., imperial councilor and envoy, since 1556 Bohemian council of appeals,
  • Esther Pögl.

proof

  1. ^ Roman Sandgruber, World Heritage "Austrian Iron Road (-wurzen)" . Linz 2003, p. 27 (pdf, 3.0 MB; eisenstrasse.info, accessed on July 17, 2010).
  2. ↑ a b Die Thörler Hammerwerke : Die Pögel , thoerl.gv.at, accessed September 30, 2014.
  3. ↑ Die Pögl - Reifensteiner ( Memento from August 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), at araburg.at, private website, viewed on July 17, 2010.
  4. ↑ Adler 1., VI (1876), p. 104; According to Stephan Neill: Attempt to map the lost places in the district under the Wienerwalde. In: Leaflets of the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria and Vienna , NF, 16th year, 1882, Parz. P. 200 (full article p. 148–236; eReader , archive.org, there p. 209).
  5. ↑ a b c d e f cf. Josef Zahn (Hrsg.): The family book of Sigmund von Herberstein, edited from the original. In: Archives for Austrian History. 39 (1868), pp. 293-415, especially pp. 332 and 407f ( Google Books ).
  6. ↑ a b See contract of inheritance from July 23, 1575; Třeboň State Archives (Cizy-Rody, 494).
personal data
SURNAME Pögl, Sebald the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pögl, Sebald Freiherr von Reifenstein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Styrian hammer master and arms manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1490
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1540