Wilhelm von Zimmer

In the atrium Heroicum Caesarum Count Wilhelm is recorded and displayed in an engraving from the workshop of Domenico Custos.

Count Wilhelm von Zimmer (* 1549 in Meßkirch ; † 1594 in Padua ) was the only male successor to the chronicler of the Zimmer Chronicle , Count Froben von Zimmer . He is considered the last of the Counts of Zimmer .

Life

When it was foreseeable that the marriage would remain childless, Count Wilhelm received high offices at the court of Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol at Ambras Castle near Innsbruck.

There is a helpful source for this, the chronicle of Pastor Köhler on the history of the town of Oberndorf am Neckar from 1836 (quote in the original spelling):

In 1563 the owner of Oberndorf, Count Froben Christoph […] died. All of his possessions fell to his only son Wilhelm, Count and Herr zuzimmer, Herr zu Wildenstein and Meßkirch, who before his father's death, with his approval, paid homage to the town and government on Thursday after St. Ulrich (July 4th) took and confirmed all her letters and freedoms. [...] .

1580 May 18, Count Wilhelm, who had received the title of Austrian court marshal, was given all of his Austrian man fiefs and pledges as free inheritance as a further entanglement and locomotive meal, but with the condition that he did not sell any of them, and all in the case the extinction of the man line of the Counts of Zimmer [...] is supposed to fall back to Austria. […] The deceived Count's eyes should finally have opened when Archduke Ferdinand in 1591 granted his son Margrave Carl von Burgau the right to all Austrian pledges and fiefs owned by Count Wilhelm von Zimmer. […] Only the hands were the aging count's hands through the process of v. J. 1580 bound!

In September 1594, Count Wilhelm died, the last male branch of the barons and counts of Zimmer, under whose rule Oberndorf had been for 134 years without leaving a male heir.

After his death, Count Wilhelm von Zimmer was brought across the Alps from Padua and buried in the castle church of St. Martin, today the parish church of Messkirch . His extraordinarily elaborate bronze epitaph shows that he stayed with Pope Sixtus in Rome on behalf of the emperor or an imperial person.

Epitaph for Count Wilhelm von Zimmer

Epitaph of Wilhelm von Zimmer in St. Martins Church in Messkirch

Inscription on the epitaph of Wilhelm von Zimmer

The introduction praises the people of the Cimbri , from whom the Counts von Zimmer want to derive in the Zimmerische Chronik. However, this is historically not tenable.

The text, translated by H. Albrecht Hartmann, Schwaigern:

Grave inscription of the extremely famous and noble gentleman, Count Wilhelm,

and gentlemen in rooms, Wildenstein and Meßkirch,

Lord in Oberndorf and in the free rule Schramberg etc.

The people of the Cimbri were once terrible in the Italian war,

It has laid down its arms more peacefully on our land.

These [people] were made counts by imperial charter

The rooms, in the western realm, a noble line of ancestors.

When their virtue had reached the highest heights,

Has greedy death, alas! Knocked its last man to the ground,

The Wilhelm, the Count of Zimmer, the one who traveled

After Italy, Padua suffered the hardest fortunes.

He left eight living sisters like him in aristocracy,

Who had been married to noble men.

Proficient, humane, a protector of the inherited faith,

He was fair, eloquent, and generous.

Sent to Rome by the governor of the empire, Rudolf,

He carried out pleasant assignments for Pope Sixtus.

He stood by the emperor in person in Frankfurt,

With dignity among noble men.

As a well-traveled man he was also at the Austrian court for the Archduke

The most significant when it comes to secrets and advice.

His corpse, brought from the mountains, from the Italian regions,

Lies here and his mind delights in the eternal God.

literature

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• Zimmerische Chronicle . According to the edition by Karl August Barack , ed. by Paul Hermann. Meersburg and Leipzig: Hendel 1932 (4 vol.). Reprint of Barack's 2nd edition.
• Dominicus Custos: Atrium heroicum Caesarum, regum, […] imaginibus […] illustr [atum]. Pars 1-4. Augsburg: M. Manger, J. Praetorius, 1600–1602.

Representations

• Brauchle, Alfons: The landscape of Schramberg, one of the states of Swabian Austria. (= D 'Kräz'. Contributions to the history of the town and space of Schramberg. Issue 2. Schramberg 1982. p. 4)
• Dietl, Walter: The Elogien der Ambras prince portraits. The copper engravings of Dominicus Custos (1599) Innsbruck 2000, (Commentationes Aenipontanae; 32: Tirolensia Latina. Vol. II)
• Go, Hans-Peter: The acquisition of the manuscript collection of the FF Hofbibliothek Donaueschingen by the state of Baden-Württemberg. (= Heinzer, Felix [Hrsg.]: Preserved cultural heritage "Unpredictable interest". Stuttgart 1993)
• Köhler [Friedrich August]: Oberndorf am Neckar. Description and history of the city and its Oberamts district. Sulz 1836, Fotomech. Reprinted in 1989
• Royal Statistical Topographer's Bureau (Ed.) [Author: v. Paulus]: Description of the Oberamt Rottweil. Stuttgart 1875
• v. Langen: Contributions to the history of the city of Rot [t] weil am Neckar. Rottweil 1821
• Schramberg Museum and History Association (Ed.): D 'Kräz' 25 . Schramberg 2005
• Ruckgaber, Heinrich: History of the counts of rooms. Rottweil 1840
• Wohlleb, Joseph: The master of the bronze epitaph of Count Wilhelm to rooms in the city church of Messkirch. In: Zeitschr. f. Württemberg regional history . Stuttgart 1956. pp. 295-297

Web links

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