Adam von Dobschütz
Adam von Dobschütz (born October 18, 1558 in Breslau ; † December 6, 1624 ibid) was 1587–1624 councilor and councilor of Wroclaw and 1607–1624 governor of the Bohemian hereditary duchy of Wroclaw . He was also a royal man and from 1591 to 1624 the cellar lord of the Schweidnitzer cellar .
Origin and family
Dobschütz came from the Silesian noble family Dobschütz . His parents were the landowner, merchant and landlord Nikolaus von Dobschütz († 1583) in Polish Gandau and Jäschgüttel with Kanth and Margarethe Bache von Perschütz (1531-1600).
On May 2, 1580, Dobschütz married the much older Hedwig von Bank (* around 1540 in Breslau; † December 22, 1583 ibid), the daughter of Anton, in his first marriage in the Maria Magdalena Church in Breslau von Bank and Anna von Rhediger; both families were powerful councilors of Breslau. Only son Daniel descends from this brief first marriage.
On May 9, 1585, Dobschütz married Rosina von Hessler and Waldau (* 1569, † November 26, 1625 in Breslau), a daughter of Hans von Hessler and Adelheid von Schnitter, in Breslau. This marriage had five sons and four daughters, including Hans Georg von Dobschütz (* 1589), who was councilor of Breslau from 1626 until his death in 1635.
His younger brother is the merchant Bartholomäus von Dobschütz (1568–1637), captain of the soft picture Namslau .
His direct descendant is Karl Ernst von Dobschütz (1753–1806), who sold the family seat Sillmenau, which had been in operation for over 200 years and in the sixth generation, in 1785 and was hanged in 1806 for counterfeiting at the gates of Prague.
Life
After the early death of his first wife Hedwig, Adam von Dobschütz came to the goods in Lobetinz and Radaxdorf near Neumarkt and Sillmenau and Gräbchen near Breslau, which the deceased had inherited from her father. His further political and professional advancement were primarily the particularly close family ties of his in-laws, Bank and Rhediger, to the Wroclaw patriciate . Presumably for this reason Dobschütz was elected to the council of the city of Breslau on December 11, 1587 at the age of 29 , to which he belonged until 1607, alternately as "aldermen" or "consul". In 1607 he was promoted to councilor , with which the office of governor of the Bohemian hereditary principality of Wroclaw was connected. He held this office until his death in 1624. It is noteworthy that Dobschütz, a member of the old landowning nobility, entered the Wroclaw Council, which usually consisted of traders from Wroclaw. From 1591 until his death, Dobschütz was also the cellar owner of the Schweidnitzer Keller, the historic pub in the Wroclaw town hall ; This honorary position included the board of directors for the management of the Ratskeller, the supervision of the entire Wroclaw brewing industry, the control of the city brewery and the city malt house. In 1621 Dobschütz was also the supplier of the Wroclaw Mint. He was also a royal man.
As a staunch Protestant , Dobschütz defended the Principality of Breslau against the Emperor Ferdinand II of Habsburg and the Catholic Church during the Thirty Years' War .
Adam von Dobschütz died on December 6, 1624 in Breslau. With the greatest sympathy of the population, he was buried on December 17th directly in front of the altar of the Elisabeth Church in Wroclaw - in a " clumsy and hollow Sarche ". According to a historical source, he was fetched for this " from the other half of the city with 24 priests, 3 schools, all church bells, so belonging to the city jurist diction, 24 candles, 16 torches, a corpse flag and troublemakers, carried across the ring by 14 choralists (the street around the market square in Breslau (author's note) and in St. Elisabeth in front of the high altar under this stone with litera D in a double, curved coffin, placed in his bed and buried. "
The outstanding reputation of his person and his administration is not only clear from this place of honor in front of the church altar, but also from the printing and publication of countless mourning poems about his death, in which his struggle against the emperor and Catholicism are praised.
Current
The old tombstone has probably not been around since the 19th century, as the floor in the St. Elisabeth church was changed several times. But Dobschütz's copper coffin was removed from the crypt in front of the altar after the fire in 1976 and taken to the National Museum in Wroclaw . After extensive renovation, it was only returned to the library of the Elisabeth Church in 2002 ( see photos ). Today (2009) the coffin is in the Muzeum Miejskie Wrocławia . Dobschütz 'remains were - so the statement of Wroclaw historian and author Piotr Oszczanowski (2006, Ref : Oszczanowski) - after the exhumation from a side aisle of the church in 1976 in a crypt reburied .
The official painting from the Princely Hall of the Wroclaw City Hall was relocated during World War II and has been lost ever since. Another oil portrait of Adam of Dobschütz from the year 1619 is now in the Piast -Museum ( Muzeum Piastów Śląskich ), the former Piast castle in Brzeg public display ( photo ). The template for this oil portrait was the engraving by the Nuremberg copper engraver Peter Isselburg (1568–1630) from 1614 ( photo ). The original copper plate is in the graphic collection of the University Library Wroclaw yet received ( Ref : Oszczanowski + Gromadzki).
Coffin of Adam von Dobschütz in 2006 after the restoration
Gilded Dobschütz coat of arms at the head of the coffin lid
Brass plate with curriculum vitae on the coffin lid
Brass handle at the head and foot of the coffin
Literary figure
Adam von Dobschütz as President of the Wroclaw Council and Governor of the Principality as well as his (fictional) wife Mathilde are characters in the tragedy “Der Menschengläubige” by Waldemar von Grumbkow , Xenien-Verlag, Leipzig 1913. The play takes place during Dobschütz's lifetime in Wroclaw in the year 1611.
A maiden Dobschützin, the mayor's daughter , is mentioned in the novel "Meister Joachim Pausewang" by Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer , Verlag Albert Langen / Georg Müller, Munich 1910; Reprint: Kolbenheyer-Gesellschaft, 1958, ISBN 3926974400 . The action is about the philosopher Jakob Böhme (1575–1624) and his time.
literature
- Sigismund von Dobschütz: von Dobschütz - Stammliste of an Upper Silesian family over 500 years old , Archive East German Family Researchers (AOFF), Volume VIII, Page 105f, Verlag Degener & Co, Neustadt (Aisch), 1980, ISSN 0003-9470
- Sigismund von Dobschütz: The Upper Silesian Sex of Dobschütz , Archive East German Family Researchers (AOFF), Volume XII, Page 320f., Verlag Degener & Co, Neustadt (Aisch), 1993, ISSN 0003-9470
- Piotr Oszczanowski, Jan Gromadzki: Theatrum vitae et mortis - graphics, drawing and illumination in Silesia 1550-1650 , page 65/66; Ed .: Muzeum Historyczene in Breslau, translation: Rainer Sachs, Wrocław (Breslau) 1995; ISBN 83-86642-14-9 .
- Jan Harasimowicz , Włodzimierz Suleja (Red.): Encyklopedia Wrocławia , page 139/140, Wrocław 2000, ISBN 83-7023-749-5
Pastor Dr. theol. Hermann Zacharias , church and school inspector of Breslau (1625)
Tribute from David Fischer for the college of the Elisabethanum high school in Breslau
Latin homage
Tribute from Dr phil et med. Peter Kirsten , Rector (High School Board) of all Wroclaw schools
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Muzeum Miejskie Wrocławia, Pałac Królewski, ul.Kazimierza Wielkiego 35, 50.077 Wrocław.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dobschütz, Adam von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Councilor of the City of Wroclaw and Governor of the Bohemian Hereditary Duchy of Wroclaw |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1558 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1624 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |