Ludolf Quirre

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Coat of arms of the Halberstadt cathedral provost Ludolf Quirre with the year 1469 above the main portal of the Brunswick cathedral .

Ludolf Quirre even Ludolph or Latinized Ludolphus , (* around 1395 in Hannover ; † 9. April 1463 in Braunschweig ) was cleric and doctor of canon law , which it through nepotism , living collecting and cliques on the status of a pen Lord of the Brunswick St. Blasius - brought the pen to the cathedral provost in Halberstadt .

Life

family

The Quirre family has been recorded in Hanover since 1387. Ludolf Quirre came from a wealthy Hanoverian bourgeois family. He was related to Berthold Rike , provost of the cathedral in Lübeck from 1409 to 1436 , and to Ludolf Grove , who later became Bishop of Ösel in Estonia .

The Grove and Quirre families owned neighboring properties between the Leinstrasse and the Leine in Hanover, a site on which the Leineschloss was later to be built: in 1452, Bishop Grove gave the Grove family's "domus" to the Minorite Monastery in Hanover - on the site there The herb garden then built by the friars bordered the "Quirresche property".

Career

Quirre's parents sent young Ludolf to Braunschweig for training at the collegiate school of St. Blasius Cathedral. Rike then probably sent Quirre to study at the University of Erfurt . 1417 enrolled him at the University of Bologna to law study. Presumably he also obtained the notary's license there . In 1420 he was a notary in the service of Bernhard I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg .

With the protection of Bernhard, Quirre became canon of St. Blasius and in 1422 succeeded the deceased Johann Ember as pastor of St. Andrew's Church in Braunschweiger Neustadt . Quirre may have been closely related to Ember, whose estate he administered and whose benefices he had taken over. At that time Quirre was canon in Hildesheim and Halberstadt as well as secretary and chancellor (1455) of the dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and later of the Calenberg region .

During one of his numerous visits to Rome , he was ordained a priest in 1429 and obtained the archdeaconate of Groß Stöckheim through papal protection . Between 1434 and 1435 Quirre took again the study and was at the University of Rostock , where his relative Rike played a large role to the doctor of canon law doctorate , which he at the same time the instructor gained.

Quirre, who in the meantime had become rector of the Marienkapelle in Wolfenbüttel , brought numerous relatives to Braunschweig. B. the cleric Johannes Quirre , who received a canonical at Blasiusstift. Likewise a cousin of the secular class , who was also called Ludolf Quirre and married Gese Kalm in 1448 to the respected Brunswick family Kalm.

At the beginning of the 1440s Quirre was accepted into the cathedral chapter in Lübeck . In his hometown of Hanover he had the St. Gall Chapel built between 1445 and 1447 , which was connected to a Collegium canonicum . With papal authorization, he later expanded the chapel into a collegiate church , whose vicars had to look after the memoria of the dukes and the Quirre family. With this family foundation, which is unique in Hanover, Quirre expressed the status of his family, who did not hold any political office in the city.

In 1453 he succeeded in becoming provost of the cathedral in Halberstadt, where a fellow student and friend from his time in Bologna had meanwhile become bishop . Quirre also retained all previous offices. In the city itself, he probably pushed ahead with the expansion of the cathedral and ensured that his relative Johannes Quirre was appointed cathedral dean there in 1459. Ludolf Quirre literally collected benefices, but until 1454 he only achieved an archdeaconate , albeit an important one , as "Achidiakonus zu Bamstocken". He owed this, as well as other Brunswick benefices and similar ones in Hanover, to the patronage and protection of the Guelphs and other influential people, such as the Pope.

Afterlife

Brunswick Cathedral

North aisle of the Brunswick Cathedral with the Brunswick Lion in the foreground. On the right is the main portal, over which the Quirre coat of arms was placed in 1469.

Ludolf Quirre died in Braunschweig during Holy Week 1463 and was buried in Halberstadt Cathedral. His grave is no longer preserved today. In his will , he left the Braunschweig Blasiusstift two pensions, which were intended to finance the construction of the new north aisle of the Braunschweig Cathedral. This happened between 1466 and 1472 in the style of the German special Gothic . In 1469 the coat of arms of Ludolf Quirres (as Halberstadt Cathedral Provost) was placed above the main entrance. It shows the eagle of the Diocese of Halberstadt squared and a green wreath of leaves with five red five-petalled roses , the family coat of arms of the Quirres.

Quirrestrasse in Hanover

The Quirrestrasse in Linden-Nord , which was laid out in 1914, was named “after the Quirre family, which can be verified in Hanover since 1387”, who, according to the Hanover city directory of 1952, “owned Linden land ”.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Arnold Nöldeke : St. Gallenkapelle in the old town. In: The art monuments of the province of Hanover. Volume 1, Issue 2, Part 1, Hanover, self-published by the Provinzialverwaltung, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932 (Neudruck Verlag Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1 ), pp. 211-212.
  2. ↑ Anette Haucap-Naß: The Brunswick town clerk Gerwin von Hameln and his library. In: Wolfenbüttel Medieval Studies. published by the Herzog August Library , Volume 8, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-447-03754-7 , p. 27.
  3. ^ Ulrich Schwarz: Ludolf Quirre (d. 1463). A career between Hanover, Braunschweig and Halberstadt. P. 29.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Brigide Schwarz: A "rope team" of clerics from Hanover in the late Middle Ages.
  5. ↑ a b Helmut Zimmermann : Quirrestrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 .
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g Ulrich Schwarz: Ludolf Quirre. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 8th to 18th centuries. P. 459.
  7. ^ A b Arnold Nöldeke : Minorite Monastery. In: The art monuments of the province of Hanover. Volume 1, Issue 2, Part 1, Hanover, self-published by the Provinzialverwaltung, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932 (Neudruck Verlag Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1 ), pp. 215-220.
  8. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Minorites. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 444.
  9. ^ Hermann Dürre : History of the city of Braunschweig in the Middle Ages. Braunschweig 1861, p. 472.
  10. ↑ see: first entry SS 1434, no. 25 and second entry SS 1435, no. 48 by Ludolf Quirre in the Rostock matriculation portal
  11. ^ Heinrich Meier : On the genealogy of the Brunswick city families. In: Braunschweigisches Magazin. edited by Paul Zimmermann , No. 4, April 1905, p. 45.
  12. ↑ Paul Jonas Meier , Karl Steinacker : The architectural and art monuments of the city of Braunschweig. 2nd, expanded edition, Braunschweig 1926, p. 26.
  13. ^ Reinhard Dorn : Medieval churches in Braunschweig. Niemeyer, Hameln 1978, ISBN 3-827-19043-6 , p. 216.
  14. ^ German inscriptions online at inschriften.net
personal data
SURNAME Quirre, Ludolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quirre, Ludolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic cleric and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1365
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1463
Place of death Braunschweig