Templar House Kirchheim

Templar House Kirchheim
	; Seal of the Templars
Data
place	Kirchheim an der Weinstrasse
Client	Knights Templar
Construction year	before 1283
demolition	between 1551 and 1588
Coordinates	49 ° 32 '43.7 " N , 8 ° 11' 18.7" E Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '43.7 " N , 8 ° 11' 18.7" E

The Templerhaus Kirchheim was a commander of the Knights Templar near the village of Kirchheim an der Weinstrasse (formerly Kirchheim an der Eck) in Rhineland-Palatinate , later a branch of the Order of Malta and an infirmary .

Localization

The Templerkommende Kirchheim was north-east of the village, near what is today the district of Grünstadt . At the time of its existence it was also called "Haus am See" , "Domus de Lacu" , "Laach" , "Seve" or "Sewe" . All of these names indicate a lake that once existed on this site, where there is still a wetland with woods today. The current district is called "Seeb" which is also derived from See. A brook, the “Seebergraben” , flows out of the wetland to the southwest and flows into the Eckbach near Kirchheim . According to Michael Frey , this brook was artificially created to drain the lake after the fall of the coming. There are no remains of the Templar settlement. To the west of it was Gernsheim, which has also disappeared.

history

Templar coming

The Kirchheim Templar House first appeared in documents in 1283, but it is older. According to a document dated June 5, 1283, the brothers Gerhard (Provost of Freising), Konrad and Godefrid called Raub, sons of the deceased wild count Emich von Dhaun, donated their goods in Gernsheim and Kirchheim to the Templar house in Laach in the Worms diocese . The donors are the three brothers of Freising Bishop Emicho Wildgraf von Kyrburg .

On June 12, 1288, the Mainz canon Wildgraf Hugo left his paternal inheritance of estates in Gernsheim and Kirchheim to his brother Friedrich Wildgraf von Kyrburg , provincial master of the Templars in Alemannia and Slavia and Grand Prior of Upper Germany. Both were also brothers of the aforementioned Freising Bishop Emicho Wildgraf von Kyrburg. These properties became the property of the Templerhaus zu “Laach” .

According to a document dated July 11, 1287, the named Templar provincial master Wildgraf Friedrich and the Kirchheimer Komtur Heinrich von Hohenfels , together with the other friars of "Domus de Lacu in Sewe" , in the diocese of Worms, sold shares of their goods in the corridor of the village of Laumersheim , to the St. Martinsstift in Worms .

Also in 1287 (April 27), Count Friedrich the Elder of Leiningen freed the possessions of the “Lords of the Lake” in Kirchheim, Gernsheim, Bissersheim , Wattenheim and Obersülzen from all secular taxes.

The provincial master Friedrich Wildgraf von Kyrburg appears again in a document dated August 7, 1292. Here he bought from his brother the wild count Gottfried and his son Konrad, for an annual interest, further goods in Kirchheim and Gernsheim for the Templar house "Zum See" .

A document from 1300 gives the Kirchheim Templars a grain valid in Eisenberg .

A commander (named in 1287) and knights and brothers lived in the Templar settlement , as well as a chaplain as spiritual supervisor. According to Christian von Stramberg and Anton Joseph Weidenbach, in the Memorable and Useful Rhenish Antiquarian , the Upper German provincial master Wildgraf Friedrich also stayed largely in the Templar house "Zum See" in the diocese of Worms.

Maltese ownership

The Knights Templar was dissolved by Pope Clement V on March 22, 1312 under tragic circumstances . In Germany, most of his goods fell to the Order of Malta (then called the Order of St. John). This also happened with the Templar House in Kirchheim. The Order of Malta took it over and later converted it into a manor house, in which mainly lepers were housed.

In 1407 the Kirchheimer "Hof am See" was called on the occasion of a fight between the mercenary leader Hannel Streif, who was in the service of Worms , with the Leiningen castle man Hanne Malchus and his people. There was a fight between the two groups, which resulted in several deaths and Streif was taken prisoner.

In 1496 the Worms Synodal occupies a still existing Johanniterkapelle (= Maltese) in the field near Kirchheim an der Weinstrasse, which undoubtedly means the church of the former Templar settlement.

The last time the “Seehof” appears near Kirchheim in 1551 in a document from Elector Friedrich II of the Palatinate . He arbitrated a dispute between the Malteser Coming Worms and Count Philipp von Leiningen, because of serfdom for the latter and his obligations for the material maintenance of the Kirchheimer Seehof. The count insisted that the grain to be delivered by him was intended for the chaplain of the branch, but that the house no longer had any, so he did not have to deliver anything. Should a priest be employed there again, he would like to resume the donation. At that time, the Maltese House apparently still existed, but was already in decline as it no longer had its own clergy.

In descriptions of properties and leases from 1588 onwards, the "Haus am See" is described as no longer existing. In 1588 it says: “First of all the place on which the courtyard and the same buildings and affiliations stood. Is trapped around with a ditch. "

Until 1788 the properties of the former Templars were checked or described in their inventory at certain intervals by document (so-called goods renovations) and leased again. With the transfer of the areas on the left bank of the Rhine to France, they were sold to private owners by auction in Mainz in 1804 .

literature

Heinrich Julius Keller: My home book: From past and present days of Kirchheim an der Eck , local community Kirchheim an der Weinstrasse, 1941, pp. 177–190
Nicolaus C. Heutger: The Templars then and now: For the 50th anniversary of the reactivation of the Templar Order in Germany , Lukas Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3867320179 , p. 69; (Digital scan)
Joe Labonde: The Templars in Germany: an investigation into the historical legacy of the Templar Order in Germany , Bernardus Verlag, 2010, ISBN 3810700886 , pp. 93 and 177; (Detail scans)
Werner Bornheim: Die Kunstdenkmäler von Rheinland-Pfalz , Volume 8, P. 6, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1982; (Detail scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal Bavarian Rhine district , Volume 2, Frankenthal judicial district , Speyer, 1836, p. 355 u. 356; (Digital scan)

^ Intelligence Gazette of the Rhine District , No. 25, Speyer, October 11, 1828; (Digital scan to the village of Gernsheim)

^ Adam Görz: Mittelrheinische Regesten , Volume IV, Part I., p. 241, Regest No. 1065

^ Genealogical website about Hugo Wildgraf von Kyrburg, who, according to the document mentioned, was the brother of the Templar provincial master Friedrich Wildgraf von Kyrburg

^ Adam Görz: Mittelrheinische Regesten , Volume IV, Part IS 352 Regest No. 1557

^ Johann Friedrich Schannat : Historia episcopatus Wormatiensis , Frankfurt am Main, 1734

^ Heinrich Julius Keller: My home book: From past and present days of Kirchheim an der Eck , local community Kirchheim an der Weinstrasse, 1941, p. 190; Document in the Leiningisches Hausarchiv in Amorbach

↑ Joseph von Hormayr : Fragments for the History of the Templar Order , in: Archive for Geography, History of State and War Art , XIII. Year, Vienna, 1822, p. 778

^ Heinrich Julius Keller: My home book: From past and present days of Kirchheim an der Eck , local community Kirchheim an der Weinstrasse, 1941, p. 190; Document in the Leiningisches Hausarchiv in Amorbach

^ Christian von Stramberg, Anton Joseph Weidenbach: Memorable and useful Rheinischer Antiquarius , II. Department, 18th volume, p. 601, Koblenz, 1870; (Digital scan)

↑ Alain Demurger: “The Templars. Rise and Fall. "Munich, 4th ed. 1994, p. 260.

^ Peter Kurmann, Thomas L. Zotz: Historical Landscape - Art Landscape ?: The Upper Rhine in the late Middle Ages , p. 193, Thorbecke Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3799568689 ; (Detail scan)

↑ Walter Gerd Rödel: The Great Priory Germany of the Order of St. John in the transition from the Middle Ages to the Reformation. 484 pp., Wienand Verlag, Cologne, 1972, p. 37; (Detail scan)

↑ Friedrich Zorn (1528–1610): Wormser Chronik , in: Mitteilungen des Historisches Verein der Pfalz , Book V, Speyer, 1875, p. 39; (Digital scan)

^ Hermann Graf: 1200 years Eisenberg (Pfalz) , local community Eisenberg, 1963, p. 77; (Detail scan)

[1] Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal Bavarian Rhine district , Volume 2, Frankenthal judicial district , Speyer, 1836, p. 355 u. 356; (Digital scan)