Teufen (noble family)

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The barons of Teufen (also Tüfen, Tuffen, Tufen, Tiuffen, Tiefenstein, Tiufinstein) were an aristocratic family in today's Bülach district (Canton Zurich), to which a line in the southern Black Forest in Tiefenstein also belonged and which became extinct in the male line at the beginning of the 14th century.

origin

The first documented mention of this family goes back to a Hugo von Tüfen (am Irchel ) in 1140. This came from Altenteufen on the "Guggisbuck", a protrusion of the Irchel mountain above the castle. In a document of King Conrad III. from the year 1144 Hugo von Tuffen was one of the witnesses of a comparison between the monastery Einsiedeln and Schwyz .

The Baron sex of Teufen had its headquarters at Castle Old-Teufen or castle High-depths on the mountain Irchel in today's Canton Zurich . Later the sex was divided into those of Altenteufen, von Hohenteufen (at the rear Irchel, at the height of the "Hörnli") and from Tiefenstein in the Albgau (southern Black Forest) . With the clearing as Neuenzell Monastery , they founded Unteribach .

Werner von Teufen - Manessian song manuscript around 1320

With Hugo von Tiefenstein, who died on February 24, 1317, the lineage of those of Tiefenstein died out in the male line.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the Lords of Altenteufen and Tiefenstein shows a red leopard in silver and a growing , attacking, silver swan with outstretched wings as a helmet ornament .

The coat of arms of Werner von Teufen in the Codex Manesse shows in the red shield a golden pot helmet with a growing silver swan as a crest ornament , golden armor and ready to attack with outstretched wings. The helmet above the shield bears the same growing swan as a crest. (In the Codex Manesse the silver is oxidized so that it now appears black.)

The coat of arms of the barons of Hohen-Teufen, whose castle was destroyed by the Zurich residents in 1338 and whose entire family died out around 1360, is somewhat different: a silver swan in a red shield and the swan on a red pillow as a crest. The swan still shows a connection with the old devil's coat of arms, like its lion with the low devil, where the silver lion in the red field is only in the divided blue shield below, and the helmet decoration is a red star with six silver tips.

Headquarters

Due to the division, the Lords of Teufen had three headquarters, each named after the lineage. These were Altenteufen Castle, Hohenteufen Castle and Tiefenstein Castle . All three castles have essentially disappeared today. Only from Tiefenstein Castle in the Albgau are there still small remains of walls, hidden in the forest. This fortress was broken and razed in 1272 by Rudolf von Habsburg after he had already destroyed the Neuenzelle (around 1250) .

literature

Web links

Commons : Teufen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmann Annales Eremi, p. 206.
  2. ↑ Hermann von Liebenau : The historical causes of the formation of a Swiss Confederation.
  3. ^ Thomas Fassbind: History of the Canton of Schwyz. Part 1.
  4. ^ Aegidius Tschudi : Chronicon Helveticum
  5. ^ Necrologium Güntersthalense - Necrologia Germania, Tomus IS 299
  6. ↑ The liber originum by Abbot Caspar von St. Blasien, p. 207, shows the shield in opposite colors
  7. ↑ Siebmacher II., P. 149, No. 7
  8. ↑ a b Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen : Minnesinger: German song poet of the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Vol. 4, Leipzig 1838, p. 115. ( online )