270 Staufenberg castle window 10
Motif above: Man with plumed hat, bandolier and musket over his left shoulder. The woman in 16th century costume, with a cup in her right hand, leading a little daughter by the hand. Headpiece: The woman with platter and dishes, the man with 2 wine jugs serving guests, on the right four men at a round table. Coat of arms: Star and moon with H D. Inscription: “Hanß Dobler Ala Weibel zum Wasserz and frenen Metleri sin ee . frow 1598″
Motif center: Alliance coat of arms of Mar(cus), Imperial Councillor and Administrator of the Lordship of Constance and his wife, née Muntprat von Spiegelberg. Coat of arms left: a black ram growing to the left, coat of arms right: Muntprat von Spiegelberg, divided by black and silver with three lilies in alternating colors. Headpiece: Court scene and St. Magdalene. Inscription: “Marx Schultha… Fürstlich Dse Ertzherzog Leopol…reich Rath und Verwaltter d.nschafft zuo Costantz und Fr. Schuldthaisin née Mump. Mirror mountain his marriage o 1630″
Motif below: The parable of the laborers in the vineyard. Coat of arms left: Shovel and ploughshare, coat of arms on the right: tower in blue, headpiece: plow pulled by four horses. Donor presumably Sadrach Toman 1607, the names Ziegler, Bumann and Gartenhuser probably added later. Inscription: “Sadrach Toman Adria Ziegler des Raths und Barbara Bumanin and Barbara Gartenhuserin sine married couple ANNO 1607″
Motif above: Disc made by Balthassar Weyß zu Wesen for Hans Dobler and Verena Mettler for the water in 1598. The Toblers (or Doblers) were an economically and politically powerful family who lived in Nesslau (zum Wasser) and the neighboring village of Sidwald (later Neu St. Johann) and held important political offices. Hans Tobler’s first marriage was to a Barbel, who bore him the children David (before 1582), Elsbeth in 1587 and Verena in 1589. The second marriage to Verena Mettler is not recorded in the marriage register; however, the woman appears several times as godmother and gives birth to a daughter Salome in 1598. Hans Tobler probably died before 1601. His widow (Verena Mettler) married Andreas Tobler on October 4, 1601.
Motif center: On another coat of arms glass pane from 1584, Schulthaiß is described as Seckelmeister zu Constanz. From 1596 to 1600 he was mayor and bailiff, then until 1634 he was the captain of the town council in Constance. Marx Schulthaiß is mentioned in a document in the GLA KA 5 N.904 dated 19.10.1618 in connection with Reichenau Monastery. In 1613, Marx Schulthaiß donated a valuable illustrated collection of minstrels without melodies, the “Weingartner Liederhandschrift” (ca. 1310/20), to the Benedictine Abbey of Weingarten. Schulthaiß died in 1643.
Motif below: Two younger men, probably the workers, talking to the old owner of the winery. In the background a vineyard with workers. Coat of arms bottom left a shovel in blue and a plowshare in silver. Right coat of arms a tower in blue.
Shadrach – this name was given to Hananiah in Babylon. He was one of the three faithful who refused to worship the golden image of Nebuchadnezzar. They were then thrown into the fiery furnace and miraculously saved (Old Testament, Book of Daniel 1:7; 2:49; 3:12-30).