Detlef von Rumohr

Epitaph for Detlef von Rumohr (with marshal's baton and cannonball), the fallen brother set by Kai von Rumohr

Detlef von Rumohr (* 1634 on Gut Roest near Kappeln ; † January 8, 1678 in Warksow near Gustow on Rügen ) was a German-Danish squire and officer in the Brunswick-Lüneburg and Danish services.

Life

After Rumohr had got to know Europe as far as the Bosporus on a gentlemanly voyage in his youth , he joined the Danish army, where he made it as a cavalryman to lieutenant colonel of the Zeeland regiment. After the outbreak of the Dutch War with France, also in Germany, he took over an infantry regiment of the Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg as a colonel . a. in the battle for the cities of Colmar and Trier occupied by the troops of Louis XIV in 1675. King Christian V brought the now war experienced back into Danish service and made him major general . As part of the Swedish-Brandenburg War , Rumohr was initially used in Skåne , was captured, but was released. He then became governor on Rügen, which was briefly regained by Denmark, where he was fatally hit by a Swedish cannonball in the Battle of Warksow on January 8, 1678.

The creation of Arnis

Rumohr became notorious for the fact that he was the initiator of emigration and the establishment of settlements. When in 1666 he asked the citizens of Kappeln, which belongs to his estate Roest, to take the oath of homage , the great majority of the families resisted. 65 of them finally emigrated as the conclusion of a 30-year legal dispute with the Lords of Rumohr, settled on a nearby island that had recently fallen to the very young Duke Christian Albrecht , and thus founded the future city of Arnis . Duke Christian Albrecht made the island of Arnis available to the rebellious Kappelnern with ulterior motives. His actions were integrated into the policy of the separation of the duchy from the Danish kingdom. Since Detlef von Rumohr had been in the service of the Danish army, he belonged to the "Danish" party. Kappeln should therefore be economically dried up with the establishment of a new shipping location in the ducal area. At the same time, the Duke and his Chancellor, Johann Adolph Kielmann von Kielmannsegg , hoped to gain an additional source of income for the dismembered duchy through this foundation, similar to the founding of Friedrichstadt by Christian Albrecht's father. Kappeln, in turn, was part of the area ruled jointly with the Danish king, the income of which the firm in Gottorf Castle could not freely dispose of. In response to this intervention, Detlef von Rumohr acted against Chancellor Kielmannsegg inside and outside the duchy. Duke Christian Albrecht then urged Rumohr in an unusually harshly worded letter to refrain from doing this.

A legend

The release of Rumohr from Turkish captivity, as represented by a group of young men from Kappeln, the Turkish Guild (today: Young People's Guild ), is a legend. Although he seems to have visited the Hohe Pforte , he was once captured by Sweden and released. At the time when two Kappelner Detlef von Rumohr allegedly freed Detlef von Rumohr from Turkish captivity in 1666/67, Detlef von Rumohr evidently argued in a lively correspondence with the Kappelnern, the Duke Christian Albrecht and later the Arnissern. The letters still preserved in the State Archives today were each addressed with “Gut Roest” and were not sent to Constantinople. It also makes no sense why the Kappelner should free a member of the family whom they wanted to force into serfdom.

Post fame

Detlef von Rumohr's brother Kai set an epitaph with a detailed biographical outline in the Quellinus baroque in the Nikolaikirche in Kappeln. The intention was obviously to restore the reputation of the von Rumohr family, who had suffered from the conflict over the introduction of serfdom in Kappeln.

literature

Nicolaus Schmidt , Detlef von Rumohr, in: Nicolaus Schmidt, Arnis 1667 - 2017. Wachholtz Verlag, 2017, p. 41.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the wording of the biographical summary (note 4).
2. ↑ Walter Luth, Arnis, Small Town with a Great Past, Schleswiger Druck- und Verlagshaus, 1977, p. 20
3. ↑ See Foundation of Arnis
4. ↑ Nicolaus Schmidt : Arnis 1667 - 2017. Wachholtz Verlag, 2017, p. 33f.
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6. ^ Nicolaus Schmidt: Arnis 350 years ago. In: Yearbook of the Heimatverein der Landschaft fishing, Sörup 2017, p. 260 ff.
7. ↑ Wording: To the immortal memory of the once well-born Mr. Detlef von Rumohr, Erbhern auf Röest, Toestorf and Hohenliet, who was born in AD 1634. to the world. After he spent his first years with his travels in Holland, England, France, Italy, and finally at the Ottoman gates, he went to church services according to his affection and during his lifetime: You: May: Frid: III. Glorious Gedachtnus a company on horseback under the Löbl. Clock niche: Regiment, further on top of it the Colonel Lute: Place under the Zealand language: Regiment received. But after the war in Teutshland begins: he is in Hochfürstl: Lüneburg: Wolfenbuttels: entered service, where he was entrusted by the colonel: Place a regiment at Fues, which he also entrusted in the meeting in front of Colmar and Trier, then also in the: Siege: before Trier, Stade and Demin so praiseworthy and well run that the now glorious. ruling king May. Crist. 5. Moved by this to appoint him as major general to the army, in what quality he then the one Attaq: captured in front of Malmoe, but later in the battle of Ronneberg, after his horse was shot under him, captured after the draw and conquest of the Insul Rugen he is already from her. Kön: May. He was appointed governor by a hostile: Canonschus on January 8, 1678. His life ended knightly. Is this decoration erected by his brother Kay von Rumohr auf Röest (etc.) Battle of the Ronneberg: Battle of Rönneberga on May 27, 1677.
8. ^ Hartwig Beseler: Kunst-Topographie Schleswig-Holstein Neumünster 1974, p. 679
9. ^ Nicolaus Schmidt: Arnis 350 years ago. In: Yearbook of the Heimatverein der Landschaft fishing, Sörup 2017, p. 260 ff.