Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer

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Parish church of St. Martin in Meßkirch : bronze cast epitaph Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer
Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer: self-portrait (Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, Cod. Don. 593a, fol. 115v.)

Wilhelm Werner Graf von Zimmer (born January 6, 1485 in Meßkirch ; † January 7, 1575 in Herrenzimmern near Rottweil ) was a German collector, historian and lawyer.

Life

Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer was a member of the Herren von Zimmer family . The family was elevated to the rank of count during his lifetime in 1538. At the age of four (1489) he was in exile in Ortenstein in the care of Count Jörg von Werdenberg-Sargans. In 1496 he came back to his mother in Rottweil. After serving, probably as a squire , at the court of Duke Ulrich von Württemberg , he began studying at the University of Tübingen in 1499 . From the autumn of 1504 he studied philosophy, history and law at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , and in 1506/07 he held one of the rector's offices there. In 1509 he renounced in favor of his brothers, in exchange for an annual personal asset , the paternal inheritance, which had been partially regained in 1503 with the reconquest of Messkirch. After the failure of a clerical career (both in Constance and in Strasbourg he was refused admission to the cathedral chapter), he embarked on a legal career. In 1510 he became court judge at the imperial court in Rottweil . He then worked at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Speyer, first as an assessor, then as an imperial chamber judge. As a historian he became known through genealogies of Swabian noble families and his main work, the chronicle of the Archbishopric of Mainz and its twelve suffragan dioceses (including Worms , Würzburg , Eichstätt , Chur , Hildesheim , Paderborn ). He wrote some of the manuscripts of his works himself and provided them with illustrations he had drawn himself. He probably influenced his nephew Froben Christoph von Zimmer and his Zimmerische Chronik to a considerable extent through personal stories and discussions .

family

Alliance coat of arms Zimmer-Lupfen from the Zimmeric Chronicle, manuscript B
Alliance coat of arms Zimmer-Leuchtenberg from the Zimmer Chronicle, manuscript B

Wilhelm Werner married Katharina von Lupfen in 1521 , who previously lived in the Buchau women's monastery . The pregnant wife died that same year after falling from a horse, just four months after the wedding.

In his second marriage from 1524 he was married to Amalia von Leuchtenberg († 1538), the widow of Leonhard von Haag. The marriage remained childless.

He expanded the Herrenzimmern castle and housed his library and cabinet of curiosities here . The collection was sold to Ferdinand II. (Tyrol) by Wilhelm von Zimmer , son of Froben Christoph von Zimmer , although Wilhelm Werner had decreed in his will that it should not be for sale. Today it forms one of the bases of the Ambras collection .

At his request, his heart was kept in an iron box in the castle chapel of the castle Herrenzimmern. Today it is kept in the chapel at Heiligenberg Castle .

Fonts

  • The Kings of Hungary , from approx. 1540. Manuscript with illustrated biographies, Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, Cod. Donaueschingen 704 ( digitized version )
  • Chronicle of the ore monastery Mainz and its suffragan bishops , 5 volumes, completed around 1550 (various manuscripts)
    • A: Archbishopric Mainz
    • B: Worms, Würzburg and Eichstätt
    • C: Speyer, Strasbourg, Verden
    • D: Chur, Hildesheim, Paderborn
    • E: Halberstadt, Constance, Augsburg
  • Genealogy of the Counts of Kirchberg , manuscript, Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, Cod.Donaueschingen 593a ( digitized version )
  • Transience book , illustrated manuscript, Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, Cod. Donaueschingen A III 54 ( digitized ; transcription of the entire manuscript ). The transience book (1520–1550) contains on sheet 21v a washed pen drawing of the encounter between the three living and the three dead as well as a dance of death with 41 illustrations and the associated dialogue verses.
    • newer edition of the dance of death: dance of death , edited by Christian Kiening, Ulrich Gaier, Hans Pörnbacher. Edition Isele, Eggingen 2004 ISBN 3-86142-276-X
    • Copy as representative house book: Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, Cod. Donaueschingen 123 ( digitized version ).

literature

  • Georg TumbülleZimmer, Wilhelm Werner Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, pp. 302-306.
  • The Würzburg episcopal chronicle of Count Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer and the Würzburg historiography of the 16th century . Edited by Wilhelm Kraft. Würzburg: Schoeningh 1952.
  • The Eichstätter episcopal chronicle of Count Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer edited by Wilhelm Kraft. Schoeningh, Würzburg 1956
  • Gerhard Wolf: From the Chronicle to the World Book. Sense and claim of southwest German house chronicles at the end of the Middle Ages. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter 2001.
  • Wolfgang Achnitz: He knows the poets and ancient histories. The library of Johann Werner von Zimmer as a paradigm of literary historiography. Article in: Nine Miedema, Rudolf Suntrup (Hrsg.): Literature - History - History of literature. Contributions to medieval literature. Frankfurt / Main: Lang 2003.
  • Erica Bastress-Dukehart: The Zimmer chronicle. Nobility, memory, and self-representation in sixteenth century Germany . Aldershot; Burlington: Ashgate. ISBN 0-7546-0342-3
  • Felix Heinzer: Handwriting and printing in the oeuvre of Count Wilhelm Werner and Froben Christoph von Zimmer. In: Gerd Dicke, Klaus Grubmüller (ed.): The simultaneity of handwriting and letterpress. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2003. ISBN 3-447-04767-4
  • Franz-Josef Holznagel: Ignored warnings from poor souls, instructive encounters with the ancestors and an ungrateful revived woman. The “ghosts” of Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer (1485–1575) and their functionalizations . In: Moritz Baßler, Bettina Gruber, Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf (eds.): Ghosts. Appearances - Media - Theories. Würzburg 2005, pp. 55-75. ISBN 3-8260-2608-X
  • Beat Rudolf Jenny: Count Froben Christoph von Zimmer. Historian, narrator, sovereign. A contribution to the history of humanism in Swabia . Lindau and Konstanz: Thorbecke 1959 (contains, among other things, a clarification of the role of Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer in the creation of the Zimmerische Chronik).
  • Edwin Ernst Weber: The "patron" of the master of Messkirch. Count Gottfried Werner von Zimmer between the Reformation, the Peasants' War and the Old Believer Confession. In: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Elsbeth Wiemann: The master of Messkirch. Catholic splendor in the Reformation period. Stuttgart 2017, pp. 13-23.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the University of Zurich German Seminar
  2. ^ Website of the University of Zurich German Seminar
  3. ↑ For an overview of digital copies, see Klaus Graf: Review The Counts of Rooms and the Culture of the Swabian Nobility , in Archivalia, September 15, 2014, updated later
  4. Hans Georg Wehrens: The dance of death in the Alemannic language area. "I have to do it - and don't know what" . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2563-0 . P. 36f. and 154ff.

Web links

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