Wilhelm von Dorbenck

Wilhelm von Dorbenck († 1609 ) was a German nobleman with property in Wiesloch and Altwiesloch . In the records of the von Dobenck family he is also called the Rhinelander , since Wiesloch appears in the family chronicles as Weißla am Rhein . In the period before 1600 he was stable master at the Palatinate court for a few years .

Life

He came from the Upper Franconian von Dobenck family . What brought him to the Electoral Palatinate and when is unknown. After the murder of Hans Heinrich von Helmstatt in 1581, which was described in the files as the removal of the body of Helmstatt, his widow Anna von Nippenburg, who lived in the Freihof in Wiesloch , entered into a connection with Dobeck. It appeared in connection with Wiesloch for the first time on May 12, 1583, when it testified to the sale of goods from Maria von Frauenburg in Baiertal . Maria was the wife of the imprisoned Helmstatt murderer Hans Jörg von Frauenburg and had to sell her goods due to economic hardship. On December 14, 1583, Wilhelm von Dorbenck is documented as a member of the knightly canton of Kraichgau and therefore probably already resided in Wiesloch. In 1585 Anna von Nippenburg was still referred to as a widow, and by 1587 at the latest, Wilhelm von Dobenck and Anna von Nippenburg were married.

Most of his goods in Wiesloch came from the possession of his wife Anna, who in turn inherited them from her father Georg von Nippenburg. In addition to the Freihof, these goods included the fourth part of the goods on the district of Altwiesloch as well as Zins and Fron in Baiertal . Wilhelm sold some of the estates he inherited in Upper Franconia in 1584 ( Naila , Marlesreuth and Göpfersgrün ), most of them in 1590.

The couple lived in the Freihof in Wiesloch, where their son Jörg Philipp and daughter Margarethe were probably born.

In 1591 Wilhelm von Dorbenck was one of the group of men who negotiated with Count Palatine Johann Casimir about the supply of the last abbess Margaretha von Neipperg after the dissolution of the Seebach monastery .

In 1595 Wilhelm intended to purchase the Reuth manor from the Trautenberg family . A purchase contract with the indebted Wolf Christoph von Trautenberg for 28,000 guilders was concluded, but never carried out. The disputes about compensation for the broken sale dragged on for a long time.

Soon after the construction of the Marstall in Heidelberg in 1590, Wilhelm von Dorbenck was recorded as stable master of the Electoral Palatinate from 1595. Although a high court official, the Palatinate government ruled against Wilhelm and sentenced him to pay compensation of 2,000 guilders to the Trautenbergers. Since he refused, some of his property in Altwiesloch was seized and transferred to the guardian of a Trautenberg heir. In the meantime, Wilhelm was in Amberg with the Palatinate court for some time . He held the office of stable master at least until 1597, and in 1600 a successor was named.

In 1600 Wilhelm took over the guardianship of the descendants of the late Hans Georg Schenk von Winterstetten, who had inherited a share in Altwiesloch but also their father's debts. He sold the Winterstettian stake in Altwiesloch for 9000 guilders and was able to reduce the debts of the Winterstettian children. Nevertheless, he had to answer for this sale in 1605/06 before the higher court of the knightly canton Kraichgau. Guardianship ended in 1608.

On February 17, 1609 Wilhelm von Dobeneck appears for the last time alive in the documents, in the course of 1609 Anna von Nippenburg was again referred to as a widow.

His property initially remained in the hands of the widow Anna von Nippenburg and passed on to his son Jörg Philipp when he came of age in 1612. Only a few documents are known of this, he is either moved or died early. He sold the Freihof to the Scheibel family in 1616 at the latest. Wilhelm's widow Anna acquired the Altwiesloch mill in 1615 and took it as a widow's residence. The mill was then inherited by the daughter Margarethe von Dorbenck, who married Philipp Burkhard Lyher von Talheim around 1614 and after his death in 1642 Johann Ludwig Schöner von Straubenhardt. She also survived her second husband and in her will she favored the Teutonic Knight Augustin Oswald von Lichtenstein.

literature

• Alban von Dobenck: History of the von Dorbenck family , Schöneberg-Berlin 1906
• Helmut Walther: Wilhelm von Dorbenck, a Nippenburg inheritance in Altwiesloch , in: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research , volume 24, 2015, pp. 155–166.