House of Homberg
The Counts of Thierstein (often also written Animal Stone, also Count of Homberg, Honberg, Hochinberc or Hochberg and Hohenberg ) were in the Middle Ages an important high noble family in north-west Switzerland.
History
The first documented proven Count of Thierstein was Rudolf de Dierstein 1082nd He also called himself Count of Homberg. The two families parted 1149th To 1223 Homberger died with Count Werner III. from the male line. It received in 1231 the Habsburgs, the landscape in Frickgau. However, the hombergischen house goods came to Hermann von Frohnburg, who had married the daughter of the last Hombergers. His son Louis was called after the maternal gender Count of Homberg and was built in Läufelfingen in Basel Jura Mountains, the Castle Neu -Homberg.
The Thiersteiner moved away from Frick (Canton Aargau ), when the castle Thierstein, as well as the opposing castle Homberg, 1356 were uninhabitable destroyed in the earthquake of Basel. She then founded the Castle Neu - Thierstein in Büsserach (Canton Solothurn ).
When Count Sigmund von Thierstein II, Count and Lord to Frohnburg and Landgraf Sisgau, 1379 captured by Baron Henmann of Bechburg and the Bishop of Basel Johann III. was given of Vienne, he succeeded thanks to God and the good Lord Fridlin flight. In gratitude for his rescue he gave on May 31, 1379 the customs to which Mrs. Frick pen of St. Fridolin in Säckingen and got him by the Abbess to two pounds a year wax as a hereditary back.
1402 killed Count Bernhard von Thierstein and his servant Johann Ulrich von Pfirt the " Begerhans ", which probably came from Strasbourg. Margrave Bernard I, cousin of the animal Steiner, switched itself on 19 October 1402 from Pforzheim in the matter and asked in his and the Duke of Austria named champion and the Council at Strasbourg, in writing, to ask the friends of the slain, the matter with to discuss it, so that " not a big filth get away MOGE ". Same request at the same time also wrote John of Lupfen, Landgrave of Stühlingen.
When the Counts Bernard and John II had taken from Thierstein together with Count Ulrich von Berg Are the councils of King Janus of Cyprus captured through Lombardy on their journey and robbed, the German King Ruprecht called (1400-1410) on 26 May 1404 from Heidelberg from the Council and the Mayor of Constance to advocate for the release of the prisoners.
On May 21 1434 Bernhard and Johann II gave of Thierstein in Kaiserstuhl their fiefs above the Upper Hauenstein to Fribourg and Bern in favor of others on. The background for this action have not been clarified.
1479, Emperor Friedrich III. the Hohkönigsburg in Alsace as a fief to Oswald von Thierstein († 1488 ) and his brother Wilhelm. 1517 the Counts of Thierstein died out, so the castle reverted to Emperor Maximilian I, and thus the Habsburgs.
Thierstein - Farnsburg
A side branch with Count Otto I of Thierstein († 1347-1352 ) built around 1330 at the Farnsburg Ormalingen. He was owner of the land County Sisgau, a fief of the Bishop of Basel. His grandson Otto III. of Thierstein ( * before 1383, † 1418 ) was the last of the line Thierstein - Farnsburg. Meanwhile, heiress Claranna brought castle and lordship Farnsburg after the death of his father in 1418 and 1426, the country county Sisgau to her husband, Baron Hans Friedrich von Falkenstein ( † 1426). The two sons of Falk Steiner sold the castle and lordship Farnsburg 1461 the city of Basel.
Coat of arms
Blazon: In gold on a green floating Dreienberg a red deer ( doe ) with gesträussten ears. As a crest on the helmet lancing a growing, young woman torso with a golden coronet on a deer antler with ten ends. The helmet covers are silver outside and red on the inside.
The crest now leads the district of Thierstein in the canton of Solothurn, in the municipality Büsserach the ruins of Neu- Thierstein is.
People
Count Walram III. of Thierstein has been known for a legend of the Basel earthquake of 18 October 1356.