Counts of Wertheim

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Coat of arms of the Counts of Wertheim in Scheibler's book of arms
Epitaph of Michael III. von Wertheim in the Evangelical Church of Sandbach .

The Counts of Wertheim were a noble family from the Middle Rhine - Franconian .

origin

According to the historical researcher Wolfgang Hartmann, the aristocratic family, who appeared as Count von Wertheim from 1132 onwards, is a branch of the Reginbodonen . The town of Wertheim came into being under the protection of Wertheim Castle , built by the Counts to the left of the Main, on the right bank of the Tauber estuary . It developed into the center of the Grafschaft Wertheim, which existed until 1806. The Count von Wertheim family also had early residences in Schweinberg near Hardheim and in Mosbach im Bachgau (municipality of Schaafheim ), where they founded a Johanniter monastery around 1200 . In 1323 they inherited part of the Breuberg rule with the castle of the same name . During the imperial era of Charles IV, the Count of Wertheim subordinated the entire county to the emperor. The emperor gave the count back to the count as a fiefdom of the Bohemian Empire. This bondage to Bohemia made the Wertheim counts confidants of the monarchy. By 1497 she was able to take all other parts and expanded the castle into the residence of the younger line. Some of the Counts of Wertheim are buried in the church of Sandbach .

Connections - Reformation

The Counts of Wertheim had a connection to Martin Luther , which was shown by the early written request of the then Count Georg II for the mediation of a Protestant preacher. In 1522 the first evangelical preacher moved to Wertheim. Jakob Strauss came to Wertheim on Luther's recommendation, but had to leave Wertheim shortly afterwards. The same thing happened to the former Carthusian monk , Franz Kolb , who had to leave Wertheim in 1525 after a year of service. Only with the former Franciscan monk Johann Eberlin von Günzburg was George II supposed to reform the county of Wertheim in the spirit of M. Luther. After the death of George II in 1530, his wife, Barbara von Wertheim , continued the reform of the church as guardian regent. The former Augustinian monk Andreas Hoffrichter was appointed Eberlin's successor by Count Michael II.

Extinction of sex

With Count Michael III. the Counts of Wertheim died out in the male line in 1556. The county of Wertheim came to the counts (later princes) of Löwenstein , who have since called themselves Löwenstein-Wertheim after Wertheim . The Counts of Stolberg also inherited claims to Wertheim .

Personalities

See also

literature

  • Joseph Aschbach : History of the Counts of Wertheim from the earliest times to their extinction in the male line in 1556 .
    • Part I. With four illustrations and a table . Frankfurt am Main 1843 ( e-copy ).
    • Part II: Wertheim Document Book. With twelve coats of arms and seal plates . Frankfurt am Main 1843 ( e-copy ).
  • Herrmann Ehmer: History of the county of Wertheim. Buchheim, Wertheim 1989, ISBN 3-924611-11-4 .
  • Ders., Recuperati Evangelii Defensor et Instaurator. The Reformation orders and mandates of Count Georg II von Wertheim, in: Würzburger Diözesangeschichtsblätter, Volume 42, ed. by Theobald Freudenberger and Klaus Wittstadt, Würzburg 1980, pp. 215-234.
  • Wolfgang Hartmann: From the Main to Trifels Castle - from Hirsau Monastery to Naumburg Cathedral. On the traces of the Franconian noble family of the Reginbodonen in the Middle Ages . Aschaffenburg 2004 ( publications by the Aschaffenburg History and Art Association, Volume 52)
  • Erich Langguth, Unanimous in the new teaching: Dr. Johann Eberlin - Count Michael II. - Dr. Andreas Hoffrichter. The change in the Wertheimer Pfarramt 1530, in: Wertheimer Jahrbuch 1983, ed. from the historical association Wertheim in connection with the state archive Wertheim, Wertheim 1985, pp. 73-102
  • Thomas Wehner, Wertheim, in: Catholic life and church reform in the age of religious schism / Association publications of the society for the publication of the Corpus Catholicorum, ed. by Klaus Ganzer, vol. 52. The territories of the empire in the age of the Reformation and confessionalization. Land and Confession 1500–1650, 4 Central Germany, Münster 1992, pp. 214–232.

Web links

Commons : Wertheim (noble family)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wertheim Church District: Evangelical Church District Wertheim  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Online at kirchenbez-wertheim.de. Retrieved June 16, 2016.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / kirchenbez-wertheim.de  
  2. ^ Hermann Ehmer: Johann Eberlin von Günzburg in Wertheim . In: Wertheimer Jahrbuch 1983 . Verlag des Historisches Verein Wertheim eV, Wertheim 1985, p. 55-71 .
  3. ↑ Erich Langguth: Unanimous in the new teaching: Dr. Johann Eberlin - Count Michael II. - Dr. Andreas Hoffrichter. The change in the rectory in Wertheim in 1530 . In: Historical Association Wertheim in connection with the Staatsarchiv Wertheim (Ed.): Wertheimer Jahrbuch 1983 . Verlag des Historisches Verein Wertheim e. V., Wertheim 1985, p. 73-102 .