Wolfgang Schutzbar called Milchling (Hochmeister)

Wolfgang Schutzbar

Monument to Wolfgang Schutzbar on the market fountain of Bad Mergentheim, called Milchlingsbrunnen

Grand Master's coat of arms of Wolfgang Schutzbar

Coat of arms of Schutzbar at the Teutonic Order Castle Neckarsulm

Wolfgang Schutzbar called Milchling (* 1483 in Treis an der Lumda ; † February 11, 1566 in Mergentheim ) was Grand Master of the Teutonic Order .

family

The Schutzbar family called Milchling , a noble family from Upper Hesse, has belonged to the Althessian knighthood that still exists today since the founding year 1532 .

Wolfgang's parents were Crafft Schutzbar called Milchling jun. and his wife Margaretha, the only child of Philipp von Trohe . One of Wolfgang's brothers, Adolf, was a Teutonic Knight and Commander in Griefstedt in Thuringia . Another brother, Caspar, was abbot in the Springiersbach monastery , and one sister, Anna, was the abbess of the Marienschloss monastery near Rockenberg .

Life

Wolfgang Schutzbar entered the Teutonic Order in 1507. In 1529 Daniel von Lehrbach was proposed as coadjutor by the then Landkomtur in Marburg . Schutzbar then followed in 1529 Lehrbach in office and was Landkomtur for the Ballei Hessen in Marburg until 1543 .

In 1543 he became Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, based in Mergentheim (1543–1566). He built the town hall and the first aqueduct there in 1564. 1544 Schutzbar of Emperor Charles V was Prussia invested.

Monument and coat of arms

On the market square fountain in Bad Mergentheim there is a statue of a knight with the coat of arms of Wolfgang Schutzbar called Milchling on the shield that he holds in his left hand. The earlier assumption that the person represented the Grand Master himself has been refuted.

Blasonierung "square by a continuous black bars cross, covered with a gold lilies rod cross, in field 1 in Silver a black bar cross, in field 2 and 3 in Silver three (2: 1) with the stems to trefoil related black Linde leaves (including balls or Hearts) and in field 4 a black miter , the whole thing covered with a label, in it a black gold-armored eagle in gold . "

The Lindendreipass is the coat of arms of the Schutzbar, and the miter indicates the abbey of Fulda , whose abbot was his nephew of the same name Wolfgang Schutzbar called Milchling from 1558–1567.

The Grand Master's coat of arms of Wolfgang Schutzbar is described as follows: “Quartered by a continuous black bar cross with a golden lily cross, in fields 1 and 4 a black cross in silver, in fields 2 and 3 in silver three (2: 1) with the stems for a three-pass connected black linden leaves (also balls or hearts), the whole thing covered with a label, inside a black gold-armored eagle in gold . “Without the three pass in 2 and 3 it is the general grandmaster's coat of arms.

literature

• Heinrich Reimer :  Protectable, Wolfgang . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 136 f.
• Gustav Adolf Renz: Wolfgang Schutzbar, called Milchling: the life picture of an imperial prince and knight of the order. Bad Mergentheim: Kling, 1931. - 72 pp.
• The German Order in Hesse. Exhibition of the Hessian State Archives Marburg, arr. by Hans-Peter Lachmann, Marburg, 1983, p. 97.
• A. Hermann: Wolfgang Schutzbar called Milchling. In: Udo Arnold (Ed.): The Grand Masters of the Teutonic Order (= QuStDO 40). Marburg, 1998. ISBN 3-7708-1104-6
• Noppes, Elke, Reinholz-Hein, Ilse, Kaul, Albrecht, Kreuter, Peter, Lied, Herbert: The castle in Grossen-Buseck. History of a noble castle seat, published by the Buseck community, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-930612-15-1 .
• Katharina Schaal: On the run from Landgrave Philipp. The exile of the Marburg Teutonic Order Commander Wolfgang Schutzbar as reflected in an invoice from 1540. In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 54/2004 pp. 103–146

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Peter Lachmann: The German Order in Hessen. Marburg, 1983, p. 45
2. ^ Daniela Lippert: Bad Mergentheim. A walk through the city. Bad Mergentheim 2008. ISBN 978-3-934223-31-8 , page 28
3. ↑ cf. also: Milchlingsbrunnen on the Bad Mergentheim website.
4. ^ Restoration of the fountain by the Rotary Club Bad Mergentheim 2007/2008

Web links

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