Ulrich RENZ

<p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><strong>In 1520 Weinsberg was occupied by the Austrains and on May 21, 1525, during the Peasants' War, was captured and burned by the LordHigh Steward from Waldburg. After this, Duke Ulrich of Wurttemberg conquered his land and established municipal law again in Weinsberg. Ulrich II Renz was acquired great merit in his hard-pressed home city and in 1542 took over the guardianship of the seminary at Oberstenfeld near Gross Bottwar. He retained this office until 1552; in 1568 he took over the tutorship at the monastery Lichtenstern near Weinsberg which he held until 1585. Two manuscripts of Ulrich Renz [II] from the monastery of Lichtenstern are preserved in the Stuttgart archives.</strong></p> <p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 'Ulrich II Renz is the ancestor of Swabian poet Hoelderin.</strong></p> <p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 'Ulrich died September 19, 1585, highly esteemed and honored. His wife died March 1, 1585. Their joint tomb still can be viewed in the choir of the Church at Weinsberg. It bears the Renz lily and the Moergenhardt coat of arms (wolf with a biscuit) with the following inscription: "In 1585, September 19, died the honored and revered Ulrich Renz aged and wise tutor at Lichtenstern, his age 79 years, and on March 1st, 1586 died his faithful wife, the charitable and virtuous, Euphrosine Moegenhardt, her age 77 years. They lived with one another in marriage for58 years. May God grant us all a joyous resurrection." '</strong></p>

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