Hamlet (noble family)
Weiler is the name of an old Swabian noble family with their headquarters in Weiler , today a part of Obersulm in the Heilbronn district .
history
Origins
The place Weiler, ancestral home of the family, was first mentioned in 1037. The oldest documents about members of the family date from 1127 to 1147 and mention the brothers Nibelunc, Otto and Konrad. Ulrich von Weiler donated his shares in Affaltrach to the Johanniter Hospital in Hall in 1228 . In 1245 Konrad von Weiler received from Count Albrecht von Löwenstein a forest that had previously been a fiefdom as property. The family's early relationships are largely unknown. What is certain is that the family descends from the ministry of the Counts of Löwenstein . The secured family tree begins in 1322 with Hans von Weiler, who died that year and to whom all later descendants go back.
Trunk line
Hans' son Ruprecht sold a farm in Böckingen to the Schöntal monastery in 1310 and died in Weiler in 1342. Ruprecht's son Gebin was married to Hedwig von Sachsenheim and is documented in numerous documents. He and his wife are buried in the Johanneskirche in Weinsberg . Gebin's son Endris received one twelfth of the castle in Weiler as a fief from the Counts of Löwenstein, which at that time already existed as a moated castle and to which today's Weiler Castle goes back. Endris bought another third of the castle from his cousin Hans. In addition, Endris owned a third of the tithe of Frankenbach and was enfeoffed by King Wenzel with the mayor's office in Wimpfen and Heilbronn , which together with the bailiwick was in the hands of the family until 1464. In 1399 he built the castle chapel in Weiler, which was part of the church of Sülzbach . Endris' son Diether was Hohenlohe's bailiff in Langenburg . Diether's son Dietrich, married to Guta von Talheim , had numerous estates in the area around Weiler.
When the Electoral Palatinate gained sovereignty over the County of Löwenstein in 1441 , Dietrich initially entered the Electoral Palatinate service, but was later also the guarantor of Count Ulrich V of Württemberg . In addition to the headquarters in Weiler, he also owned half of Maienfels , Helfenberg , Ebersberg Castle near Backnang and the Castle near Stetten in the Remstal Valley and Lichtenberg Castle . During his lifetime the Löwenstein rule came to Württemberg in 1504. He was buried in the Hospital Church in Stuttgart in 1507 . His son Dietrich was the Württemberg governor in Bottwar and Beilstein and was killed in the Weinsberg blood attack in 1525 in the Peasants' War , and his son Hans Dietrich was murdered at the age of 14. Dietrich's son Wolf (1508–1585) continued the line of tribe and in 1530 introduced the Reformation in Weiler. Wolf's son Dietrich (1542–1602), like his father, entered court service in Württemberg and in 1575 was castle captain in Stuttgart. The new construction of Weiler Castle was built between 1588 and 1590 by him. The son Conrad (1572–1635) continued the sex among Dietrich's 15 children. He came to the Württemberg court as a page at the age of 16 in 1588, but returned from there in 1592 and stayed in Weiler until shortly before his death. His third son Konrad (1600–1662), who continued the family, was also a page at court: first with Duke Ludwig Friedrich in Mömpelgard , then later at the court of the Counts of Hohenlohe. He was later involved in several campaigns and was pronounced dead several times.
Weiler Castle was devastated by Bavarian troops in the Thirty Years' War in 1640 . Konrad, who was pronounced dead several times, returned to Weiler and married in 1651. The marriage had four children, of which Ludwig (1657–1729) became the family members. Ludwig spent his youth four years in parsonages, then went to the Heilbronn high school and married Maria Elisabeth von Gemmingen-Bürg in 1684 . All male fiefs of the entire family of Weiler fell to him, and he administered these goods from Weiler. His son Johann Friedrich (1685–1743) was in the Württemberg service and was forester in Reichenberg . Johann Friedrich's son Friedrich (1724–1799) was in Prussian military service until 1745 and was the only descendant to reunite all lines of the family. He was also a councilor on the board of directors of the knight canton of Odenwald . His son Johann Friedrich (1759–1832) was in Austrian military service, as was his son Friedrich Wilhelm Franz (1809–1877) and his son Friedrich Wolf (1842–1911), whose brother Herrmann joined Emperor Maximilian I in Mexico Death came. Friedrich Wolf's son August (1873–1935) was a major in the General Staff during the First World War . His son Dietrich (1903–?) Studied farmer and lived at Lichtenberg Castle.
Weiler Castle was sold after Marie Luise von Weiler's death. The current head of the family (as of 2014) is their son Burkhard Dietrich Freiherr von und zu Weiler (* July 21, 1931), who lives at Lichtenberg Castle.
Until its dissolution in 1806, the Weiler family (Weyler auf Weyler), which was directly part of the empire, was a member of the knightly canton of Odenwald of the Franconian knighthood .
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a red diagonal right bar in silver. On the helmet with red-silver blankets, two overturned red-topped silver tournament hats, each equipped with three silver pilgrim's staffs with gold buttons.
In 1605 Johann Siebmacher depicted the coat of arms of a Franconian von Weiler family in red with a silver sloping beam and reversed.
Due to the identity of the coat of arms with the Heilbronn patrician family Gebwin and the fact that several people named Geb (w) in appear in the family tree of the von Weiler family, it is concluded that the patrician family mentioned in Heilbronn in the 13th century is descended from the von Weiler family.
The coat of arms of the former community of Weiler, awarded in 1960, combines the elements of the coat of arms of the Lords of Weiler with the Württemberg stag sticks.
Coat of arms of the Franconian hamlets in Siebmacher's coat of arms book from 1605
Coats of arms of the hamlets in Siebmacher's book of arms from 1857
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Weiler bei Weinsberg
literature
- W. Steinhilber : Lordship and Castle Weiler . In: Swabia and Franconia. Local history supplement of the Heilbronn voice . 6th year, no. 8 . Heilbronner Voice publishing house, August 27, 1960, ZDB -ID 128017-X .
- Peter Wanner: Weiler and Talheim - about the beginnings of a noble family from Württemberg . In: Heilbronnica 3. Contributions to the city and regional history . Historischer Verein Heilbronn, Heilbronn 2006, ISBN 978-3-928990-95-0 , p. 31–47 ( Online [PDF; 1,2 MB ]).
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, pp. 17-18, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISSN 0435-2408
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses to the year 1860. Tenth year, p.935ff Weiler (Baden)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Archives of the former Hirsau Benedictine Abbey
- ^ Sabine Friedrich: Castle should remain in family ownership . In: Heilbronner Voice , WT edition . November 27, 2012, p. 33 .
- ↑ birthdays . In: Heilbronn voice . July 21, 2014, p. 12 .
- ↑ Eberhard Gönner: Book of arms of the city and district of Heilbronn with a territorial history of this area . Archive Directorate Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1965 (Publications of the State Archive Administration Baden-Württemberg, 9). Page 148