Vellberg (noble family)

Coat of arms of the von Vellberg family based on Scheibler's book of arms

Destruction of the Vellberg family castle in 1523

Today's view of Vellberg Castle

The von Vellberg family was a southern German noble family with possessions in the knightly canton of Odenwald .

origin

The eponymous place Vellberg is today a town in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in north-eastern Baden-Württemberg . Heinrich von Vellberg appeared for the first time in a document on May 3, 1102. The family castle that gave it its name was probably built at the end of the 11th century. Apparently, then took a jam fisches Ministerialengeschlecht the name Vellberg, as evidenced from the 1263rd They were in the service of the bishops of Würzburg and the margraves of Brandenburg . The family died out in 1592 with Konrad von Vellberg, who had achieved the greatest area-wise expansion.

distribution

The von Vellbergs came into the possession of the neighboring Leofels Castle in 1399 , which they kept until 1592. In 1545 they were briefly at Bichishausen Castle with Wolf von Vellberg .

In the 15th century they were the patron saints in Lendsiedel . They held the patronage for the church in Gründelhardt and introduced the Reformation in 1556 .

The Swabian Federation destroyed the castle in 1523 because of support for the robber baron Hans Thomas von Absberg . Wilhelm von Vellberg's share in the Ganerbeburg was broken off and he rebuilt it between 1543 and 1546.

There were family ties to the Hohenstaufen . In the Knight's Hall of Schloss Grumbach in Rimpar a large coat of arms frieze bears witness to the marriage of Konrad von Grumbach with Salome of Vellberg.

Personalities

• Ehrenfried von Vellberg , Abbot of the Ellwangen Monastery (1309-1311)

See also : List of German noble families  and List of Frankish knight families

literature

• Cord Ulrichs: From the feudal court to the imperial knighthood - structures of the Franconian lower nobility at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period (list of the canton Odenwald from 1550, StAL B 583 Bü 191.) . Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07109-1 . Pp. 214/215.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.kirchberg-jagst.de/data/lendsiedel.php
2. ↑ see church district Blaufelden # Kirchengemeinde Lendsiedel
3. ↑ see church district Crailsheim # Kirchengemeinde Gründelhardt
4. ↑ see Wandereisen woodcuts from 1523
5. ↑ see Fürstpropstei Ellwangen

Web links

• History on the website of the city of Vellberg