Thuringia from Ringoltingen

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Coat of arms relief Thuringia von Ringoltingen, from the Utzenstorf church, today Landshut Castle (1458)

Thuringia of Ringoltingen (* around 1415, † 1483 ) was mayor of Bern .


He came from the Zigerli family , who had lived in Bern since 1350 , had become prosperous and took the name of the extinct family of the von Ringoltingen . He served as mayor several times in succession to his father Rudolf and was the caretaker of the cathedral building. In 1457 he also donated the bell tower of the church in Utzenstorf . Thuringia died in 1483 as the last male representative of his family and was buried in the Ringoltingen Chapel in the south aisle of the Bern Minster .

Based on a French model by Coudrette (1401), he wrote the story Melusine in 1456 , which was later widely used as a popular book . It tells of the Lord of Lusignan, who lost his wife, the mermaid Melusine, when he secretly observed her bathing. The intricate plot spans four generations and has almost the entire world known at the time as the setting. The autograph of the work has been lost; seventeen manuscripts and around thirty prints from the 15th and 16th centuries have survived. The subject was taken up many times, including a. by Hans Sachs , Jakob Ayrer and Ludwig Tieck . Von Ringoltingen dedicated this work to Margrave Rudolf IV von Hachberg-Sausenberg . It is assumed that the margrave had access to the French verse version of Couldrette through his connections to the court of the Burgundian Duke Philip the Good and made it available from Ringoltingen. The assumption that von Ringoltingen created a commissioned work for Rudolf did not prevail.

Editions of the Melusine

  • Jan-Dirk Müller: "Library of the early modern times, first department, Ln, 12 vols., Vol.1, novels of the 15th and 16th centuries" (Melusine, Fortunatus, Faust), Deutscher Klassiker Verlag 1990, ISBN 3-618 -66310-2
  • Thuringia von Ringoltingen: "Melusine" Translated from Early New High German into New High German by Gerhard Wahle, ISBN 3-89821-330-7
  • Thuringia from Ringoltingen. Melusine (1456). After the first printing in Basel: Richel around 1473/74. Edited by André Schnyder in conjunction with Ursula Rautenberg . 2 vol. (Edition, translation and facsimile of the image pages; commentary and essays). Wiesbaden: Reichert 2006, ISBN 3-89500-508-8
  • Thuringia von Ringoltingen (Ed. Christine Hensel): The history of the beautiful Melusina. With 54 illustrations after woodcuts from the edition of the Volksbuch from 1474 . Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1979 ( Insel-Bücherei 629/2)
  • Thuringia from Ringoltingen. Melusine. Critically edited by Karin Schneider based on the manuscripts . Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag 1958. (Texts of the late Middle Ages, issue 9).
  • The histori or story of the noble and beautiful Melusina , printed by Heinrich Steiner , Augsburg 1543 digitized
  • Couldrette / Thuringia <von Ringoltingen>: The adventurous book beweyset vns from a frawen genandt Melusina, Augsburg, 1474 MDZ
  • Couldrette / Thuringia von Ringoltingen: Dis ouventurlich buch proves wye from a frouwen called Melusina , Basel, approx. 1474/75 MDZ
  • Couldrette / Thuringia von Ringoltingen: Dis ouentourlich bůch proved like a woman named Melusina who was a merfeye vnd dar zů a born queen from the mountain Awalon kūmen was , Strasbourg, not after 1478 MDZ
  • Couldrette / Thuringia von Ringoltingen: The adventurous book called beweyset vns by eyner frauwen. Melusina , Augsburg, approx. 1488 MDZ

literature

  • The St. Vinzenzenschuldbuch in Bern from 1448 and the church caretaker Thuringia von Ringoltingen , Roland Gerber and Richard Nemec (eds.), In: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte , vol. 79 No. 2, 2017 (ISSN 0005-9420)
  • Romy Günthart: German-language literature in early Basel book printing, approx. 1470-1510 ; Waxmann, Münster 2007 ( Studies and Texts on the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times  ; 11), esp. Pp. 78, 151, 242–250, 382–383 ( ISBN 978-3-8309-1712-0 )
  • Gustav Roethe :  Ringoltingen, Thuringia from . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 634 f.
  • G. Tobler: Thuringia from Ringoltingen. In: Collection of Bernese biographies. Historical Association of the Canton of Bern (editor), Volume 2, pp. 186–192 Digitized
  • J. Bächtold: Two Bernese novelists of the XV. and XVI. Century. In: Berner Taschenbuch on the year 1878, Volume 27 (1877), pp. 43-52, doi: 10.5169 / seals-124246

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Complete directory of authors / works Thuringia von Ringoltingen: 'Melusine'
  2. ↑ Mellusine: poème relatif á cette fée poetevine, composé dans le quatorzième siècle par Couldrette. 1854 edition in the Internet Archive
  3. ^ Siegfried Bühler: From the literary history of Rötteln. In: Unser Lörrach 1992. p. 167
  4. ↑ Claudia Steinkämper: Melusine - from snake woman to "Beauté with the fish tail" , Göttingen 2007, p. 81, footnote 155

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predecessor Office successor
Kaspar vom Stein Schultheiss of Bern Niklaus von Scharnachthal
personal data
SURNAME Ringoltingen, Thuringia from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Schultheiss of Bern
DATE OF BIRTH around 1415
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH 1483
Place of death Bern