Tile from Kneitlingen

Tile von Kneitlingen , also called Tileke or Dietrich van Cletlinge (* in the 14th century in Kneitlingen ; † 14th century), was a Welf ministerial and is considered a possible model for the legendary figure Till Eulenspiegel .

Life

Tile von Kneitlingen is mentioned around the year 1338 to 1340 as Tile, Tileke or Dietrich van Cletlinge in document books in Braunschweig . According to studies by the Bamberg historian Bernd Ulrich Hucker, he was imprisoned in 1339 as Thile van Cletlinge (Kneitlingen) for robbery. His father was possibly the Ministeriale Dietrich I. von Kneitlingen, who served the Bishop of Halberstadt. Tile and Tileke are Low German diminutive (short forms) of the name Dietrich. Tile lived on a saddle-free farm next to the church in Kneitlingen. This is called "Eulenspiegelhof" in recent times. It is structurally recognizable as a former aristocratic residence. According to the Braunschweiger Eulenspiegel book from 1500, this was the home of Thyl Ulenspiegel. The book also reports that his godfather was a certain Thyl von Ütezen. This is also proven for the year 1265 as "Thidericus de Udesem" and the treasurers from Ütze were closely connected with those from Kneitlingen. These indications suggest that the squire “Tile von Kneitlingen”, alongside the court jester “Tyle Ulenspiegel” from Mölln, can be seen as the original figures for the figure from the saga cycle.

Tile von Kneitlingen had two sons, Dietrich (Tileke) and Friedrich (Fricke). He belonged to an impoverished landed gentry family and so came into conflict with the law. He had a shield in his coat of arms, divided three times by black and silver. His brother Otto (1308–1344 / 45) became a knight. There was also a "Ghese van Klettlinge", which served as a maid for Duke Magnus . However, it has not been proven whether it was identical to the Uhlenspeyghelschen, who lived in Braunschweig from 1335 to 1356. It is more likely, since the equation with the name Ulenspielgel only took place later, that it came from a von Lunen family from Soest, which was called Ulenspeghel.

Like the hero of the legend, Kneitlingen went east to Halberstadt between 1333 and 1347 . There he received a fiefdom from the Count of Regenstein on the Westerburg near Dedeleben . The family's headquarters have been there and near Wanzleben ever since. In the years 1338 to 1340 Tile von Kneitlingen was imprisoned in Braunschweig with other noblemen in the suite of Count Bernhard von Regenstein. During his lifetime he did not have the name Eulenspiegel, but there was a goblin, which was so named at Bernburg Castle and in Mariental and which goes back to a house goblin of the Eulenspiegelhof.

literature

• Unknown author: Tyll Eulenspiegel's strange and wonderful histories, or stories of a Bauren son, a native of the state of Braunschweig: short and funny to read. OCLC 494618585 .
• Josef Dolle: Tiele von Kneitlingen. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 701-702 .
• Bernd Ulrich Hucker : Was Tile von Kneitlingen (1339–1351) the historical Till Eulenspiegel? In: Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch . Volume 64. Wolfenbüttel, 1983, pp. 7-24 ( publikationsserver.tu-braunschweig.de ) ISSN  0068-0745 .
• Hubertus J. Schwarz: Sideways glance: The great stranger. Till Eulenspiegel's stories are famous, but little is known about his origins. Who was the rogue really? In: Der Spiegel Online . July 23, 2013 ( spiegel.de ).
• Wolfgang Stichel: In: Building blocks for the chronicle and genealogy of the Stichel families, Stickel, 1st self-published, Berlin 1966, OCLC 73884677 .

Web links

• Till Eulenspiegel was a mugger. on braunschweig-touren.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ saddle-free . In: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 11 , issue 9/10 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-7400-1240-3 , Sp. 1562 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - saddle-free means “free from horse services to be performed”.).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Till Eulenspiegel was a mugger. on braunschweig-touren.de, accessed on November 9, 2013 - "[...] he discovered the formerly 'saddle-free' Eulenspiegelhof, where 'saddle-free means that the owner was free of all services and taxes towards the respective sovereign'".
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Josef Dolle: Tiele von Kneitlingen. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 701-702 .
4. ↑ Bernd Ulrich Hucker: Was Tile von Kneitlingen (1339–1351) the historical Till Eulenspiegel? Wolfenbüttel, 1983. pp. 8–9 ( publikationsserver.tu-braunschweig.de PDF; 355 kB, “Tile van Cletlinge solidified with other men”).