Ulner von Dieburg

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The coat of arms
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Alliance coat of arms in the St. Laurentius Church in Weinheim . Heraldic left the coat of arms of the Ulner von Dieburg (right), on the right the coat of arms of Worms with the six lilies of the von Dalberg
Fechenbach Castle
Alliance coat of arms of the Ulner von Dieburg and von Dalberg families , dated 1626 at Weinheim Castle
Coat of arms of Kleinkahl , a municipality in the district of Aschaffenburg , heraldic left is the coat of arms Ulner of Dieburg added

The Ulner von Dieburg (also Eulner or Ullner von Dieburg or Ullner von Diepurg ) were one of the oldest noble families from the southern Hessian area, namely Dieburg . The oldest mention comes from the years of 1207. The family died out in 1771. They were members of the knightly canton of Odenwald and are also counted as the Franconian knight family .

history

Dieburger origin

The Ulner were an important noble family of the city of Dieburg. They appeared for the first time as castle men who owned what was then the vast area of ​​today's Albini Castle . After 1300, the city of Dieburg is now in the possession of the Archbishop of Mainz, the people of Uln had their seat at the corner between the city and the Zwingermauer of the castle, near the point where the Gersprenz crosses the city fortifications. Hartmann von Ulner expanded the building into a Renaissance residential building . The exact appearance is not known because the city archive was destroyed by fire during the Thirty Years War . In 1717, Franz Pleickard Ulner von Dieburg , married to Maria Theresia Josepha von Haxthausen (1692–1731), replaced the Renaissance building with a three-winged late baroque palace, which is now called Schloss Fechenbach . The outline of this building largely coincided with today's castle, had a residential floor above a high cellar and a mansard roof with a gable above the central building. At that time it was called "Ulnerschlösschen". The alliance coat of arms of the Ulner and Haxthausen families with the year 1717 is located above the former honorary portal. The castle, which was later slightly redesigned, is now a museum .

The last male descendant of the family was the son of Pleickard, Johann Wilhelm Franz Freiherr Ulner von Dieburg , who died in 1771 . Married three times, he had six children. His only son died in 1765. Since his daughter Elisabeth Auguste (1751–1816) married Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg , Minister and Director of the Mannheim National Theater , in 1771 , the inheritance fell to the Dalberg family.

Possessions

Erzhausen was from the 13th century ( Anselm Ulner von Dieburg ), after the sale of Dornberg to the Ulner, in their allodial possession until (even if only partially) 1771. In the 14th century, the Ulner were as Burgmannen at Lindenfels Castle and wealthy there too. 1419–1439 they had the village of Mauchenheim from Count Palatine Ludwig III as a fief.

In 1446 an abbot Heinrich Ulner von Dieburg of the Limburg monastery near today's Bad Dürkheim is recorded in the annals of the monastery, who is mentioned in 1476 and laid the foundation for today's Dürkheim sausage market with the signing of the first market rights for Dürkheim in 1449 and conversion into a parish festival . In the course of the Bursfeld Congregation he had to resign in 1481. The next but one abbot Anselm Ulner von Dieburg is also mentioned several times and abdicated in 1490.

In 1454 the Ulner inheritors of Bickenbach Castle , in 1463 after an attack by Hamann Ullner von Dieburg on Frankfurt merchants, the castle is burned down by the Frankfurters. The Ulner probably built the former moated castle in small rooms and had a slope at the moated castle in Habitzheim and the so-called Ulnerhof . Since 1561 they owned the village Igelsbach (near Eberbach) in exchange for their share in Reichenbach (Lautertal) , enfeoffed by the Counts of Erbach and received a tithe from the then village of Ober-Kinzig . Between 1503 and 1577, several members of the noble family also worked as castle men at Alzey Castle . They owned the lower jurisdiction ( Hubengericht ) together with the Aschenburg Abbey in Ostheim im Bachgau .

Weinheim connections

The history of the Ulner von Dieburg was also united in the 14th century with one of the oldest noble families in Weinheim. Hildegund Schultheiss von Weinheim came from her . She lived as a devotee . She left her entire fortune to her brother, Johannes Schultheiss von Winheim , with the task of rebuilding a wooden chapel in stones in the Neustadt Weinheim . Johannes Schultheiss von Weinheim fulfilled this contract between 1350 and 1367 and combined the building of the church with the establishment of a hospital for the poor and the elderly in what would later become the tanners' quarter. The Ulner von Dieburg got influence and their wealth through the marriage between Johannes called Hamann Schultheiss von Weinheim and a wife of the Ulner von Dieburg. The marriage remained childless and with it the von Weinheim family died out in 1407 . The rich inheritance fell to the Ulner von Dieburg family . This can also be seen at Weinheim Castle , where the Ulnians had their own aristocratic court in the southern part (with the southern wing that still exists today).

Freiherr von Ulner Foundation

The Ulner made further donations in 1454 and 1470 , gave Hildegund's Foundation its name and from then on called it Ulner Foundation. By contract of 1467 it was determined that the family should only have the right of care of the foundation in the male gender . When the last male Ulner died in 1771, the foundation's female descendants initially remained in the possession of the foundation before the government of the Lower Rhine District declared in 1854 that they were to be excluded from managing the foundation's assets and from disposing of its income. In 1856, the Grand Ducal Baden Ministry of the Interior ordered the foundation to be a district foundation and therefore to be administered by the district government.

In 1905 the Ulnersche Chapel with the hospital buildings and premises was assigned to a church foundation: the Ulner Fund, which is still administered by the parish of St. Laurentius to this day . From then on, the rest of the foundation's assets were formed by the secular Freiherr von Ulner Foundation. It was subordinated to the Grand Ducal Administrative Court. It has been a municipal foundation of the Rhein-Neckar district since 1979 and is administered by the district treasurer. The foundation's income is used to support poor and sick residents of the Rhein-Neckar district.

The only grave of the Ulner in the chapel is that of Hartman Ulner von Dieburg , who was buried in the chapel in 1502. The tombstones of Johannes Schultheiß von Weinheim , builder of the chapel and the hospital, and his son Johann can be seen in the Ulner Chapel to this day .

Today's use of the former building

The old arm hospital and Ulnersche Chapel St. Wilhelm was rebuilt several times and is now used as an event location and boarding house.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a three-pinned castle, the blazon is described in two color variations. The crest is self-evident, as Ulner is the old German term for potter.

As a former property of the Ulner von Dieburg, the coat of arms of the municipality of Erzhausen still shows the golden castle on a blue background in the coat of arms.

Blazon

  1. Golden castle on a blue sign:

In blue a golden castle with a red gate, entrance, two windows and three tin towers, the middle tower has a red roof. The crest is a golden pot (vase, urn) fitted with a peacock bump on a golden, red cushion. The helmet covers are blue-gold.

  1. Red castle on gold shield:

A red castle in gold with a gate, two windows and three tin towers, of which the central tower is roofed in blue. The crest ornament is a golden pot (vase, urn) with a peacock on a red cushion, comfortably seated in gold. The helmet covers are red and gold.

Attractions

In today's Neuburg Monastery there is an epitaph of the former abbess Agnes Ulner von Dieburg († 1452), No. 101. The Fechenbach Castle and Museum has a medieval section in which reports on the Ulner von Dieburg are reported.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive for Hessian History and Antiquity, Vol. 6 Darmstadt 1851, p. 266.
  2. ↑ JWC Steiner: Antiquities and history of the Bachgau in the old Maingau. Part 3: History of the city of Dieburg. Darmstadt 1829, p. 42 ff.
  3. ↑ Chronicle of Fechenbach Castle ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schloss-fechenbach.de
  4. ^ "Ulner von Dieburg, Johann Wilhelm Franz Freiherr". Hessian biography. (As of May 6, 2011). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  5. ↑ wikisource
  6. ↑ M. Frey: attempt of a geographical-historical-statistical description of the able. bayer. Rhine circle. Third part, Speyer 1837, p. 290.
  7. ↑ Cv Rotteck, C. Welcker: The State dictionary. Volume 8, Altona 1847, p. 252, Ref. 12 below
  8. ↑ M. Frey: attempt a geographical = historical = statistical description of the can. bayer. Rhine circle. Second part, Speyer 1836, p. 475.
  9. ↑ G. Simon: The history of the dynasts and counts of Erbach and their country. Frankfurt a. M. 1858, p. 147.
  10. ↑ www.burgenlexikon.eu (PDF; 55 kB) Burgmannenliste Schloss Alzey, p. 2.
  11. ↑ Color information according to Humpracht, Siebmacher Upper Austria, 1831, as well as Aschaffenburg Wappenbuch . Gruber gives blue-gold tinging as a variant, cf. Ulner von Dieburg (1)
  12. ↑ Color information according to Gruber, also in Siebmacher OstN, in Alten Siebmacher and in Rietstap . See Ulner von Dieburg (2)

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