Sebastian Hornmold the Elder

Sebastian Hornmold the Elder (born January 1, 1500 in Bietigheim ; † May 12, 1581 ibid) was Bietigheimer Vogt and became the first church council director in Württemberg during the Reformation . He is the builder of the Hornmoldhaus in the old town of Bietigheim.

Life

He was the son of Adam Hornmold († 1546) and his wife Barbara. He attended the Latin school in Bietigheim and at the age of 10 came to the Hofkantoreischule in Stuttgart , where he was supported by Duke Ulrich . From 1519 he studied in Tübingen with a scholarship from the Duke and was temporarily imprisoned there as a result of the Edict of Worms in 1521. After the end of his term of imprisonment, he did not continue his studies, but began an apprenticeship as a scribe. In 1525 he became town clerk in Bietigheim, and he also ran a wine trade there.

After the return of Duke Ulrich, who was temporarily expelled from the country, Hornmold became Vogt in 1534 and, as such, had to enforce the Duke's tax claims against the Bietigheim clergy in 1535 and 1536, and he was also given supervision over those that fell to Württemberg in the course of the Reformation economic affairs of the monasteries in Rechentshofen , Steinheim , Lauffen am Neckar , Lichtenstern and Kirbarch as well as administrators of the income of various male monasteries in their properties in Bietigheim, Hessigheim and Walheim. In 1535, Duke Ulrich gave him the benefice house of the Johannespfründe in Bietigheim, in the place of which he built the so-called Hornmoldhaus , which has been preserved to this day .

In 1544 Hornmold appeared as one of the first secular participants in a church visitation in the Brackenheim office. During the Schmalkaldic War of 1546/47, Hornmold fled temporarily to Bretten from the Spanish troops encamped near Bietigheim . His house in Bietigheim was meanwhile looted. He returned immediately after the Peace of Württemberg on January 8, 1547 to have the cities ratified the peace treaty ( Heilbronn Treaty ) on behalf of the Duke.

After the announcement of the Augsburg interim in 1548, Hornmold was part of the ducal commission that had to visit and appease the official cities because of the interim, which Duke Ulrich had initially not accepted. After Ulrich recognized the interim, Hornmold was appointed to the so-called interim church council, which is responsible for maintaining the evangelical church services and the care of evangelical clergy in need, but also for the implementation of the interim regulations, i.e. H. essentially the reintroduction of Catholic worship.

In December 1548, imperial troops confiscated 100 loads of wine and a few chests with cloth in Hornmold's house, as compensation for his reformatory activities. Hornmold was later compensated by the emperor for the loss with a coat of arms and the ability to receive fiefs .

After Duke Ulrich's death in 1550, Hornmold was also taken into service by his son Christoph . Christoph abolished the interim in Württemberg in 1552 and set up the authority called Visitation , from which the Council of Churches or the consistory later developed. Hornmold was appointed director of the visitation councils within this authority and, alongside Johannes Brenz and Balthasar von VALLINGING, played a key role in the Great Church Ordinance of 1559.

Hornmold, who was enfeoffed with the Kirchbachhof in Metterzimmer and a court in Unterriexingen in 1554 , held the office of church council director until 1560, was still a secular church councilor until 1567 and continued to advise the Württemberg court and the consistory until his death in 1581. Among other things, he was also involved in the drafting of the wills of Duke Christoph from 1655 and 1568.

progeny

He was married to Anna geb. Brown. The marriage had six children:

• Josias (* approx. 1528/35; † after 1582), 1554–1574 Vogt in Bietigheim, later in Oberensingen
• Samuel (1537–1601), professor in Tübingen and Chancellor of Baden-Baden
• Esther († 1574), married to the Heilbronn patrician Johann Wendel Wolfgang Ans
• Hanna († 1581), married to the Bietigheim city physician Dr. Georg Winkler
• Moses († 1620), town clerk in Bietigheim
• Sebastian, pharmacist in Calw, later banker in Strasbourg and privy councilor of the margrave of Baden

literature

• Hermann Ehmer: The introduction of the Reformation in Bietigheim and the activity of Sebastian Hornmold , in: Himmelszeichen und Erdenwege - Johannes Carion (1499–1537) and Sebastian Hornmold (1500–1581) in their time , Ubstadt-Weiher 1999
• Günther Bentele: The paintings in the Hornmoldhaus and in the summer parlor (with supplement and appendix on the genealogy of the Hornmold family). In: Sheets on the city's history. Issue 5, Bietigheim-Bissingen 1986
• Günther Bentele: The paintings in the Bietigheimer Hornmoldhaus , Bietigheim-Bissingen 1995 (with family tree of the Hornmold family from Kübler / Bentele)
• Hermann Ehmer: Bietigheim, Sebastian Hornmold and the Reformation , Bietigheim-Bissingen 2017