Thomas Rhomberg

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Thomas Rhomberg (also Thoma Romberg , * 1572 or 1574 or after 1580 ; † January 4, 1647 in the Klause bei Lochau ) was Landammann in Dornbirn and captain in Vorarlberg ( Austria ) during the Thirty Years War .

Rhomberg family

Thomas Rhomberg comes from an old Dornbirn family and is an ancestor of the well-known Vorarlberg factory owner family Rhomberg. Over the centuries, the Rhomberg family provided most of the court clerks, ammen and mayors in Vorarlberg . In Dornbirn and the Hofrieden court , 15 representatives of this family held the office of Ammann for the past 350 years.

At the request of Thomas Rhomberg , the family was given a hereditary coat of arms by the Comes Palatinus Caesaraeus Christian Hindenlang on behalf of Emperor Ferdinand II in 1634 . The core of the awarded coat of arms was taken from the coat of arms of the Dornbirn family Mäser, from whose trunk the mother of Thomas Rhomberg, Magdalena Mäser , comes.

Life

Rhombergstein in Lochau

Thomas Rhomberg was a wealthy and respected citizen in Dornbirn. His father was the councilor and court assessor Ulrich Roberg (also spelled Romberg ), the mother the daughter of Ammann Martin Mäser , Magdalena.

Thomas Rhomberg was himself Landammann in Dornbirn. In 1620/1622 he is said to have taken part in a military expedition by Alois Baldiron against the Grisons as commander of the Dornbirn contingent. According to the surviving copy of the coat of arms letter, Thomas Rhomberg is said to have served the Kaiser for nine years and held public offices in Dornbirn for 14 years.

Thomas Rhomberg defended as a captain with others on January 4, 1647 the hermitage in Lochau against the advancing Swedish troops under the general Carl Gustaf Wrangel as part of the operations of the Thirty Years War (see also: Sea War on Lake Constance 1632–1648 ). He fell defending the hermitage. At any rate, he was over 65 years old and a grandfather, as is explicitly reported in Franz Ransberg's chronicle. The Rhomberg stone near the hermitage, which his descendant Wilhelm Rhomberg had erected, still reminds of him today .

The former Rhomberg barracks of the Austrian Armed Forces in Lochau (today: Seehotel am Kaiserstrand ) was named after him.

literature

  • We present: The "Rhomberg-Kaserne" in Lochau. in: Lochau on Lake Constance. - Vol. 13 (1993), No. 49, pp. 235-239.
  • Memory of the Landammann Thomas Rhomberg. Why there was a Rhomberg barracks in Lochau. in: Vorarlberger Nachrichten. No. 290 of December 16, 1967.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Rudolf Hämmerle Thomas Rhomberg and the coat of arms of the Dornbirn family Rhomberg , in Gartenstadt Dornbirn , Dornbirn 1951, pp. 158 to 166.
  2. ^ Franz Ransberg, Vorarlberg War History Book 1600 to 1648, p. 106 f.
  3. ↑ Still going to war at the age of 75? , Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung , No. 236 of October 11, 1986, supplement: Dornbirn, p. 44.
personal data
SURNAME Rhomberg, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Romberg, Thoma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian captain and governor in Vorarlberg
DATE OF BIRTH 1572 or 1574 or after 1580
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1647
Place of death hermitage