Adolph Wilhelm Rottmann

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Market square with the tower of St. Nikolai Church

Adolph Wilhelm Rottmann (born November 26, 1616 in Bückeburg , † September 9, 1689 in Rinteln ) was a German Protestant theologian , vice rector , pastor and pastor primarius at the market church in Rinteln.

family

Rottmann's father was Hermann Rottmann from Billerbeck , Münster Abbey, a member of the council in Bückeburg. His mother was Margarethe Sassenberg, buried in Rinteln in 1662, daughter of Johann Sassenberg, citizen and brewer in Obernkirchen . Adolph Wilhelm Rottmann married angel Elisabeth Windhorn (* around 1622 in Rinteln), daughter of Conrad Windhorn, pharmacist in Rinteln, and his wife Elisabeth Sommermeyer in Rinteln on January 1, 1643. In 1652, in a year of particularly high mortality, he lost three of his children within a few weeks. His son Adolph was born in November 1655 and died on May 25, 1719. His eldest daughter Agnes Margaretha married the rector and preacher Bernhard Henrich Schröter on December 4, 1684 and died on November 14, 1716.

Interior of the church

Career

Adolph Wilhelm Rottmann attended schools in Bückeburg (until 1624), Minden and Münster . In 1639 he defended the dissertation De Mysterio Regni gratiae DN Jesu Christi at the Osnabrück grammar school . He matriculated at the University of Rinteln as a student of theology and philosophy, became vice principal of the council school in Rinteln in 1642 and adjunct to Johann Hasphord in Rinteln in 1644. In 1646 he was Magister and Pastor secundarius in Rinteln, from 1658 Pastor Primarius at the Church of St. Nikolai in Rinteln. He was buried in the St. Nicolai Church on the choir in front of the deacon chairs . Several of his funeral sermons are printed.

With his colleague at the Marktkirche in Rinteln, Pastor Daniel Wilhelmi , he also worked as a pastor in witch trials , e.g. B. in the 1654 proceedings against the citizen's wife Adelheid Sieveking (1600–1654).

Works

literature

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FW Strieder: Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story , Vol. 14, 1804, pp. 1-2.
  2. ^ Rinteln City Archives
  3. ^ Johann Conrad Paulus, messages from all Hessen-Schaumburg superintendents, churches and the dabey from the time of the Reformation up to now standing and standing preachers , Rinteln 1786, p. 303
  4. ^ Rottmann, Adolph Wilhelm , in: Hessische Biographie
  5. ^ Johann Conrad Paulus, messages from all Hessen-Schaumburg superintendents, churches and the dabey from the time of the Reformation up to now, established and still standing preachers , Rinteln 1786, p. 279
  6. Stefan Meyer: Adelheid Sieveking (1600-1654). A death at the stake . In: Geschichte Schaumburger Women , 2000, pp. 222–232.
  7. http://www.bookmaps.de/lib/all/c/h/chr_97.html