Fähnlein Lodron

Fähnlein Lodron

Under the sign of the lionised leopard

Lodron - not an unknown name in Mindelheim when it comes to its history. After all, the second wife of Georg von Frundsberg, Anna, bore this very name. The patron saint of the ensign, however, is her brother, Ludovico of Lodron (1484-1537), scion of an old, wealthy and influential family of counts from the Chiese valley in Trentino. The Lodrons owed their economic power to the war craft they had always practised on the side of the Venetians. Like his ancestors, Ludovico of Lodron dedicated his life to warfare. Unlike his ancestors, however, he no longer fought on the side of Venice, but on the side of the Emperor and thus also of George of Frundsberg, under whom he fought against the Venetians in 1513, at Milan and Genoa in 1522 and 1523, and at the Battle of Pavia in 1525. A more than battle-hardened man whose luck only turned when the Turks advanced in October 1537, in whose captivity he finally met his death.

Behind the Fähnlein Lodron as such is the Mindelheim Singers' Association, founded in 1840, which has been a core part of the Frundsberg Festival since 1976. At that time, the choir was still dressed in borrowed clothes and camped in the former area of the Gasthof Ochsen, but its powerful voices still make many a more or less raucous lansquenet song resound. In the meantime, not only the robes and spits are their own. The camp has also moved and is now located in Steinstraße, right next to the old city wall.

The coat of arms shows in red a right-facing leopard looking forward with its tail curved three times in the shape of a love knot. On the shield rises a crowned helmet, from whose crown the described leopard grows out to the hips. The helmet covers are red and silver. The shield is held by two wild men looking inwards, the one on the right with his club raised to strike, the one on the left with his club propped up. Below this is the motto "Fortitude", thus describing in one word the many-sided meaning of the coat of arms as factual strength and energy, a call to courage and bravery and finally as a deterrent force and command.

Office of the Festring

Frundsberg Festring Mindelheim e.V.
"Alte Fronfeste" – Imhofgasse 3
87719 Mindelheim

Contact

08261 / 5584
08261 / 738441
info@frundsbergfest.de

Office's open hours

Tuesdays: 9 am to 12 pm
Thursdays: 2 pm to 5 pm
Support: Doris Kawan

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