Ursula von Rammung

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Gravestone of Ursula von Rammung in Daisbach

Ursula von Rammung (also Ursula von Schülmitz , † August 7, 1502 ) was a lady of the Kraichgau nobility. She is probably the founder , mentioned several times as Alte Orschel , to whom the evening bell in Hoffenheim goes back and who bequeathed the Ursenbacherhof and the nearby Orleswald to the Sinsheim monastery . The courtyard and forest could be named after her. Fragments of her tombstone are at the church in Daisbach .

Life

She was the daughter of Hans von Schülmitz and Barbara von Gumppenberg, both Bavarian noble families. Around 1480 she married Matthias von Rammung, nephew of the Speyer bishop of the same name . Her husband was probably born in Daisbach around 1458 and belonged to the Kraichgau knighthood. In 1478 he received his father's Daisbach castle loan in Landau, which the Roman-German King Maximilian I renewed in 1494. In 1501 he was the founder of the independent parish in Daisbach. The marriage with Matthias von Rammung had four children: three daughters and the son Siegfried, who died on June 1, 1560 as Commander and governor of the Order of St. John in Heitersheim as the last representative of the Lords of Rammung . Ursula died in 1502 and was buried in front of the altar in the church in Daisbach. Her husband, who died in 1506, found his final resting place next to her.

Foundations of the Old Orschel

According to a traditional legend, the evening bell in Hoffenheim goes back to a foundation of the aristocratic woman Ursula from Daisbach, called the "old Orschel". She got lost in the forest and only regained her bearings by ringing the Hoffenheim church bells. The foundation existed until 1973. The Protestant parish in Hoffenheim received regular donations from the Evangelical Nursing Schönau for the evening bells before an agreement was reached on a transfer fee of 561.75 DM (25 times the average annual amount of the donations in kind previously made). It is also said to have been the "old Orschel" who donated the Ursenbacherhof and the nearby Orleswald to the Sinsheim monastery. The courtyard and forest may also be named after her.

The identification of the founder, known as "old Orschel", with Ursula von Rammung is likely, but not beyond doubt. Old Daisbach files from the early 19th century describe the "old Orschel" as a member of the Göler von Ravensburg family , but there is no evidence of Ursula from the Göler family in Daisbach. In the Daisbach church building files of the 18th century, the founder is named as one of Rammung, but at the same time referred to as an abbess of the Lobenfeld monastery , where no such lady can be proven. Ursula von Rammung († 1502), wife of the local lord Matthias von Rammung, who was buried in Daisbach, remains the most credible identification of the "old Orschel".

Tombstone

The tombstone of Ursula von Rammung, like that of her husband, who was buried by her side four years after her death, was once above the vault in front of the altar of the old Daisbach church. The Rammung-Schülmitz alliance coat of arms once adorned the baptismal font and a golden chalice. Due to his annoyance about the donation of the Ursenbacherhof to the Sinsheim monastery, a Mr. Göler is said to have given up his nose to the plastic representation of the deceased on the tombstone. The tombstone was initially lost when the new church was built in Daisbach in the 1780s, but three larger fragments were found again during the renovation of the new church in 1967/68.

The fragments allow the size of the tombstone to be reconstructed: it was rectangular in shape, about 180 to 190 cm high and about 91 cm wide. The stone is framed by a circumferential Gothic minuscule that names the dead ( vrsvla schillmitzin ) and the date of death ( Anno domini MCCCCCII […] uff sant affra dag ) in the standard formula of that time and provides them with wishes of grace. The inscription is also documented from times when the tombstone was still in the church, which is why missing parts can be reconstructed today. In the middle of the stone, in the upper third, an angel holds the Rammung-Schülmitz alliance coat of arms. The coat of arms of the Rammung shows a split shield with a rising tip, that of the Schülmitz shows a striding stork. Below the deceased is shown.

The tombstone is now placed on the tower of the church in Daisbach.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Riehl 1989, pp. 275-278.
  2. ↑ Steidel 1910, pp. 40f.
  3. ↑ Riehl 1989, p. 275.
  4. ↑ Steidel 1910, pp. 39-41.
  5. ↑ Riehl 1989, p. 275.
  6. ↑ Riehl 1989, p. 275.
  7. ↑ Riehl 1989, p. 276.
  8. ↑ Steidel 1901, p. 41.
  9. ↑ Riehl 1989, p. 276.
  10. ↑ Riehl 1989, pp. 276/77.

literature

  • Hartmut Riehl: An enigmatic tombstone from Daisbach , in Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research , volume 11, 1989, pp. 275–279.
  • Heinrich Steidel: Local history of Daisbach with Ursenbacherhof , Heidelberg 1910.
personal data
SURNAME Ramming, Ursula von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schülmitz, Ursula von; Old Orschel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lady of the Kraichgau nobility
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1502