Zwiefalter Chronicles

The Zwiefalter Chroniken , completely Zwiefalter Chroniken Ortlieb and Berthold , are two southern German chronicles from the 12th century, which were published together under this name in Volume 2 of the series Swabian Chronicles of the Staufer Period .

In 1135, the monk Ortlieb began to look back on the founding of the Zwiefalten monastery in 1089 and its furnishing with goods. Berthold wrote his own supplementary work in 1137/38. While Ortlieb's Chronicle has been preserved as an autograph , Berthold's work is only known from later copies.

The two monks also wanted to create a legally secure basis for the possessions of the monastery, founded in 1089, with the written fixation. Among other things, the chronicle deals with the verbally concluded Bempflingen contract on which the foundation of the monastery is based. The two monks list in great detail lands and other possessions, including church implements and relics, which the monastery received from mostly noble benefactors through donations or exchange.

The Zwiefalter Chronicles provide the first written mention of more than fifty cities and municipalities in southwest Germany.

literature

• Georg Heinrich Pertz a . a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 10: Annales et chronica aevi Salici. Vitae aevi Carolini et Saxonici. Hanover 1852, pp. 51–64 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
• The Zwiefalter chronicles of Ortlieb and Berthold. Newly edited, translated and explained by [Luitpold Wallach - corrected on the title page and in the foreword of the 2nd edition], Erich König and Karl Otto Müller (= Swabian Chronicles of the Staufer Period, Vol. 2). Stuttgart, Berlin: W. Kohlhammer 1941; 2nd edition Sigmaringen: Thorbecke 1978 [with new forewords], ISBN 3-7995-6041-6 .
• Herrad Spilling: Sanctarum reliquiarum pignera gloriosa. Sources on the history of the reliquary treasure of the Benedictine abbey Zwiefalten. Federsee-Verlag: Bad Buchau 1992 ISBN 3-925171-25-8 .
• Stephan Molitor: About the document insertions in Ortlieb's »Zwiefalter Chronik«. In: From Southwest German History. Festschrift for Hans-Martin Maurer . To the archivist and historian on his 65th birthday. Edited by Wolfgang Schmierer , Günter Cordes, Rudolf Kieß and Gerhard Taddey . W. Kohlhammer: Stuttgart 1994 ISBN 3-17-013158-3 , pp. 44-57.
• Klaus Graf : On the transmission of the Zwiefalter Chronicles Ortlieb and Berthold. 2013 ( online at Order History. An interdisciplinary community blog on the history of monasteries and orders ).

Web links

• Art. Chronicon Zwifaltense [Ortliebi] in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages" .
• Art. Chronicon [Zwifaltense Bertholdi] in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages" .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Württembergische Landesbibliothek , call number: Cod. Hist. Qt. 156 ( digitized version ).