Nützel von Sündersbühl

Wappen der Nützel

The Nützel von Sündersbühl were one of the oldest patrician families of the Imperial City of Nuremberg, first mentioned in a document in 1272. The Nützel were represented in the Inner Council from 1319, with short interruptions, until their extinction in 1747, and according to the Dance Statute they belonged to the twenty old families eligible for council.

History

Kaspar Nützel (1471–1529), Ratsherr, Ratsgesandter, Bürgermeister (Kopie eines Porträts von Albrecht Dürer)

The origin of the Nützel is unclear. In 1272, with Wernher Nützel, a family member was first mentioned in a document in Nuremberg. They must have come into wealth early, because already in the beginning of the 14th century they acquired their namesake seat Sündersbühl and were represented in the Inner Council from 1319, which made them part of the Nuremberg Patriciate. Probably because of the marriage into the family of Stromer, the Nützel took over their coat of arms with the characteristic lily triangle, which was allowed to them in 1380 in the famous coat of arms dispute of the two families by the Council. Since an increase in the coat of arms in the 16th century, they also had a black eagle in silver.

Like many Nuremberg patrician families, the Nützels increased their wealth through long-distance trade in copper, silver and tin. Since the beginning of the 16th century they were engaged as mining entrepreneurs in the Bohemian Joachimsthal, Kuttenberg and Schlaggenwald mining districts, as well as in Thuringia around Mansfeld and Gräfenthal.

However, the main engagement of the Nützels was in diplomatic service for the Reich and the imperial city of Nuremberg. They represented kings and emperors, Nuremberg and other imperial cities, among others, at imperial congresses, in acts of war, and in negotiations about the economic future of the Upper German trading centers in the 16th and 17th centuries, after the discovery of America in 1492. The councillor and mayor Kaspar Nützel (1471-1529) promoted the Reformation in Nuremberg.

The Nützels died out in 1747 and were inherited by the Haller and the Stromer.

Former possessions (excerpt)

• 1320-1747 the Nützelschlösschen in Sündersbühl (destroyed in 1943/44)
• 1465-???? the Tullnau mill
• 1519-1535 the Zeidlerschloss in Feucht
• 1520-1521 the Pfinzing Castle in Feucht
• 1549-1581 (ca.) the manor Steinbühl (Wiesenstraße 19)
• 1570-1585 the Herrensitz Kreuth near Heideck (foundation December 6, 1570)
• 1584-1620 the manor Kugelhammer near Röthenbach
• 1605-1655 a farm in Seidmar (house no. 2/6)
• 1624-1728 the manor Rechenberg (Äußere Sulzbacher Straße), built in 1553 and demolished in 1916
• 1666-1703 the Gleishammermühle mill
• 1685-1713 the Herrensitz Gleißhammer (Zeltnerschloss)
• 1686-1747 the Herrensitz and manor Altenfurt
• 1692-1725 the manor Birnthon
• ????-1747 a manor in Fischbach (departed manor house at Fischbacher Hauptstraße 152)
• ????-???? the Valznerweiher (hereditary fiefdom)

Coat of arms

• The Stammwappen of the Nützel (adopted from the Stromern) shows in red a fallen silver triangle ending in Gleven. On the Helmet with red-silver Covers a red cushion, in which is a silver gleven staff.
• The 1548 arms are quartered, in 1 and 4 in silver a black eagle, in 2 and 3 in red an overthrown silver triangle, at the points half silver fleurs-de-lis. Two helmets, on the right with black silver covers of the black eagles, on the left the tribal helmet.
• In a richly decorated border, on a blue ground decorated with gold, stands the coat of arms of the Nützel von Sünderspül; in the fourfold divided shield, two eagles and two lilies; above double helmets, crowned with the signs of the shields. Below in the decoration stands the monogram M.S. and the year 1567.

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  Stammwappen der Nützel und der Stromer

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  Wappen der Nützel in Siebmachers Wappenbuch 1605 (spiegelverkehrt)

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  Wappenscheibe Lorenzkirche

Known family members

Joachim Nützel (1629-1671), councilor and founder of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, on a medal by Johann Philipp von der Pütt (1570-1619), dated 1601/1602, after a model from 1593, Germanisches Nationalmuseum

• Berthold Nützel († 1449), was in 1444 on behalf of Nuremberg and King Friedrich III Participant at the Diet of Speyer.
• Kaspar Nützel (1471-1529), 1502 councilor, 1503 mayor, 1504-1517 councilor envoy of Nuremberg in Ansbach, Heidelberg, Bamberg and Würzburg, 1509-1515 permanent ambassador to the Swabian Confederation, 1514 curator of the Klarakloster, administrator of the Secretieniegel, 1515 Zinsmeister, 1521 representative of Nuremberg at the Worms Diet, 1524 Hauptmann, Losunger, Spitalpfleger in Nuremberg, until his death, Nuremberg's commissioner in territorial disputes between the Nuremberg area and Margrave Georg, as well as the Wittelsbachs, advocate of the teachings of Luther and member of the Staupitzkreis. Portrayed by Albrecht Dürer.
• Gabriel Nützel (1514-1576), councillor, diplomat in the futile negotiations for the transfer of economic power from the Hanseatic cities to the Upper German trading metropolises of Augsburg, Nuremberg, Strasbourg and Ulm at the end of the 16th century.
• Bernhard Nützel († 1585, buried Heideck, city parish church St. John the Baptist) Pfleger of the Imperial City of Nuremberg in the office of Heideck, founded in 1570 on the field of the "Upper and Lower Kreuth" northwest of Heideck the Mansion Kreuth, was married to Edeltraud Harsdörffer, also buried in Heideck, city parish church St. John the Baptist.
• Karl Nützel (1558-1614), councilor in Nuremberg, councilor of the emperors Rudolf II and Matthias
• Gabriel Nützel (1624-1687), eldest privy councilor and foremost Losunger
• Joachim Nützel (1629-1671), councilor, founded the Academy of Painting (today: Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg) in 1662 together with Elias von Goedeler and the engraver Jacob von Sandrart.

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  Karl Nützel (1558–1614), Ratsherr und Kaiserlicher Rat

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  Georg Paul Nützel († 1643), Ratsherr

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  Gabriel Nützel (1624–1687), Ältester Geheimer Rat und Vorderster Losunger

See also

• List of German noble families N-Z
• Patriciate (Nuremberg)
• History of the city of Nuremberg
• Castles, palaces and manor houses in the Nuremberg city area

Literature

• Christoph von Imhoff (ed.): Berühmte Nürnberger aus neun Jahrhunderten. Nuremberg: Hofmann, 1984, 425 p., ISBN 3-87191-088-0; 2nd, erg. u. erw. edition, 1989, 459 p.; new edition: Edelmann GmbH Buchhandlung, October 2000.
• Michael Diefenbacher, Rudolf Endres, ed. (2000), Nuremberg City Lexicon (Stadtlexikon Nürnberg) (in German) (2nd, revised ed.), Nuremberg: W. Tümmels Verlag, ISBN 3-921590-69-8CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
• Anton Ernstberger, The Journey of the Nuremberg Patrician Karl Nützel von Sündersbühl to the Holy Land in 1586, in Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 46, 1964, pp. 28–96.
• Peter Fleischmann: Rat und Patriziat in Nürnberg. Die Herrschaft der Ratsgeschlechter vom 13. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert, Nürnberg 2008 (= Nürnberger Forschungen 31), vol. 2: Ratsherren und Ratsgeschlechter, ISBN 3-87191-333-2.
• Michael Diefenbacher (1999), "Nützel von Sündersbühl", Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in Deutsch), 19, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 373; (full text online)

External links

• Kupferstich von Karl Nützel von Sündersbühl

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