Colorful cow (ship, 1401)

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Colorful cow
Störtebeker disembarks the Bunter Kuh (shown here as a cog), wood engraving from 1877
Störtebeker disembarks the Bunter Kuh (shown here as a cog ), wood engraving from 1877
Ship data
flag HamburgHamburg Hamburg
Ship type Schnigge

The Bunte Kuh was probably a Schnigge built in Flanders , which, as one of the command ships of the Hanseatic fleet, led the attack on the pirate Klaus Störtebeker in 1401 .

history

In order to secure maritime trade with England and Holland from pirate attacks, the city of Hamburg financed the merchants Simon von Utrecht and Hermann Nyenkerken two Schniggen including weapons and seamen. One of the ships, the Bunte Kuh , was entrusted to Hermann Nyenkerken, and the second, whose name has not been handed down, to Simon of Utrecht, who had moved from Flanders to the Hanseatic city. The light cogs could be rowed and were ideally suited for hunting pirates, as they were superior to the large trading cogs because of their speed and agility. From the year 1400 it served to persecute and combat the vitality brothers Störtebekers and Gödeke Michels ', who threatened the sea trade in the North Sea with several ships, one of which was named Seetiger . Contrary to the legend about Simon von Utrecht, the colorful cow was commanded by Hermann Nyenkerken. The Bunte Kuh was accompanied by a fleet of armed merchant ships peace ships called, led by the Hamburg councilors Nicholas Schocke and Hermann Lange. Störtebeker was finally able to be placed in front of Heligoland . The pirates were defeated and transported to Hamburg on the Bunter Kuh , where Störtebeker and others were beheaded in 1401 on the Grasbrook outside the city gates.

Ship type

The name ( colorful ko ), skipper and the cost of purchase and maintenance of the historic vehicle are no longer known . The city's expenditure on this was noted in Hamburg's treasury books for several years. Its height allows the conclusion that the ship was a Schnigge, as the cost of building and maintaining a cog would have been more than twice as high. The incorrect classification of the Bunte Kuh as a cog and the attribution of the ship to Simon von Utrecht probably go back to the grave slab of Simons von Utrecht, which was renewed in the 17th century and which was provided with an incorrect inscription of praise.

aftermath

Despite the lack of contemporary image sources, there are numerous models and illustrations of the colorful cow from later times. Usually the ship was depicted as a type of ship similar to a cog. There are models of the colorful cow in the Hamburg Ratskeller and in the Museum of Hamburg History .

literature

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jörgen Bracker (Hrsg.): God's friend - all the world's enemy: from piracy and convoy travel; Störtebeker and the consequences . Museum for Hamburg History, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-9805772-5-2 , p. 26-28 .
  2. ^ Karl Koppmann: Combing invoices of the city of Hamburg, 1401–1470. Hamburg 1873 http://books.google.de/books?id=gT4OAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA2 :
    "1401. EXPOSITA. […] "
    " Ad expediendum naves contra Hollandrenses post Pascha , que non venerunt ad mare propter prorogacionem в pacis 356 ℔ 5 ß . Ad reysam dominorum Nicolai Schoken et Hinrici Ienevelt, super Weseram contra Vitalienses 230 ℔ 14 ß. Pro expensis Hollandinorum captivorum et Frisonum et Vitaliensium sub pretorio 193 ℔ 7 ß. 42 ß Knokere ad custodiendum captivos. Braxatoribus pro braxatura cerevisie, humulo et blado emissis in Hollandiam per navem Hermanni Nyestad 280 ℔ 7 ß. Ad reysam domini Hinrici de Hachede , contra Hollandenses super Albeam 121 ℔ 4 ß. Ad reysam domini Hinrici Ienevelt de anno preterito 42 ℔. Ad reysam dominorum Hermanni Langhen et Nicolai Schoken, in Hilghelande , de anno preterito contra Vitalienses: summa 57 ℔. Ad construendum naves Symonis de Utrecht et colored ko et pro expedicione eiusdem navis colored ko 95 1/2 ℔ 5 ß. Pro expensis consumptis per Hollandeses cum civibus nostris 15 ℔. 150 ℔ per 100 nobilibus auri expositis Iohanni Vlardinghe per arrestacione bonorum suorum. "
    " 1402. EXPOSITA. […] "
    " Ad diversa: 48 ℔ Symoni de Utrecht pro labore et destructione navalium instrumentorum, quando Godeke Michahelis et alii fuerunt capti. 6 ℔ 4 ß eidem pro anchoris, lanceis et expensis carpentariorum. 67 ℔ per 100 florenis Rynensibus propinatis comiti Hinrico Holtzacie. 32 ℔ Hermanno Nyenkerken pro labore et navalibus destructis ad usus navis buntko dicte. 28 ß fistulatori marchgravii Misneusis. 24 ℔ Werner de Ulsen pro eo, quod ceperunt Godeken Michahel et suos complices. "