Weigel (patrician)

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The coat of arms of the Weigel

The Weigel (also: Weigel von Neumarkt ) were one of the oldest patrician families of the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg , first mentioned in Nuremberg in 1285. The Nuremberg Weigel line was represented in the "Inner Council" from 1332 until it died out in 1430 belonged according to the " dance statute " to the "old" sexes eligible for advice.

history

The origin of the Weigel is not clearly established. It is likely that they descended from a Hohenstaufen ministerial family from the area around Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate and immigrated to Nuremberg in the second half of the 13th century. The Nuremberg tradition assumes that the Weigel, Neumarkter and Muffel came from the same sex because of the identity of the coats of arms . The Weigel were first mentioned in a document in Nuremberg in 1285 and from 1332 had the right to send members to the Inner Council. Because of their ancestry, they were wealthy in and around Nuremberg from an early age. At the beginning of the 14th century, the Weigel divided into the Eschenauer and Nuremberg lines. The Weigel are first recorded in Eschenau in 1331, but were extinct again in 1379. The Nuremberg Line operated trade and was represented in the Inner Council until it expired in 1430.

The Weigel are said to be the namesake of the village of Weigelshof in the northeast of Nuremberg (today the city of Nuremberg).

Former possessions (extract)

  • ???? - 1379 Eschenau (from 1350 50% were in the hands of von Wolfstein through marriage )
  • 1302 - ???? the tithe of Geschaidt ( Kleingeschaidt and Großgeschaidt) and Schöllenbach ( pledged by Lupold von Bebenburg ), as well as the lordship over some of the property
  • ???? - 1381/88 the property Königstraße 2 in Nuremberg (later Viatishaus)
  • ???? - 1430 (?) Weigelshof
  • ???? - 1381 Eschenau Castle, Von-Muffel-Platz 1, 2 (from 1350 50% were in the hands of von Wolfstein through marriage)

Known family members

  • Offnai (Euphemia) Weigel (? -?) Obtained market freedom for Eschenau from Emperor Ludwig in 1331/34

coat of arms

Split by gold and red, on the right a black, red armored lion with a red crown, on the left a silver fish.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hallerbuch from 1533
  2. ↑ History of Eschenau -pdf
  3. ↑ History of Kleingeschaidt -pdf ( Memento of 30 July 2007 at the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Michael Diefenbacher : Weigel, patrician family . In: Michael Diefenbacher, Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( complete edition online ).

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