Andreas Geverdes

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Seal of Andreas Geverdes around 1457

Andreas Geverdes (* probably in Magdeburg ; † April 19, 1477 in Lübeck ) was mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

The dressmaker Geverdes migrated from Magdeburg to Lübeck around 1442. His three siblings stayed in Magdeburg. He was elected to the City Council of Lübeck in 1451 and appointed mayor of the city in 1475. He represented the city in 1468 during the negotiations on the Münzrezess with Hamburg , 1472 in talks with Hamburg councilors in Mölln , 1475 as an arbitrator in a dispute of the Kontor of the Hanseatic League in Bergen ( Bryggen ), with the Bergen outside the German Kontor in City of tailors and shoemakers, 1476 in negotiations with the city of Lüneburg about a new duty levied there .

Foundations

Infirmary in Grönau
Rood screen in Lübeck Cathedral

In 1458 he acquired a farm in Wesenberg and in 1461 half of the Westerau estate together with the garment tailor Gerhard von Lenten († after 1494) . Both bequeathed the village of Westerau to a foundation in 1477 in memory of them and to support those in need. This foundation has been administered by the city of Lübeck since the Reformation ; the village thus became one of the city monastery villages. Even today, several hectares of forest belong to this Westerau foundation .

According to the tradition of the Rehbein Chronicle (1619), Andreas Geverdes is still the founder of the late Gothic rood screen panel in Lübeck Cathedral, made by Bernt Notke in 1477 . The donor's coat of arms was still on the rood screen at the time of Senior Jacob von Melle at the beginning of the 18th century. The model for the design was the rood screen in Magdeburg Cathedral ; Andreas Geverde's brother Johann was a councilor in his hometown and had probably sent the sketches required as a template for Notke.

He also donated the infirmary for lepers in Klein Grönau just outside the gates south of the city. It was built in 1480 with funds from his estate.

Geverdes became a member of the circle society in 1460 .

literature

  • Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lückeck families from earlier times , Dittmer, 1859, p. 35 ( digitized version )
  • Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Publishing house by Bernhard Nöhring: Lübeck 1920, p. 155. Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
  • Rafael Ehrhardt: Family and Memoria in the City. A case study on Lübeck in the late Middle Ages. Dissertation, Göttingen 2001. ( full text ; PDF; 9.0 MB) with a prosopography of the council families von Alen, Darsow, Geverdes, Segeberg and Warendorf.
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 529
  • Gerhard Schneider : The Westerauer Foundation. In: Der Wagen 1966, pp. 94–98

Web links

Commons : Andreas Geverdes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Mr. Gêverdes (Sage)  - Sources and full texts
Wikisource: The Strangled Guarantor (Sage)  - Sources and full texts

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Ehrhardt, pp. 283-285
personal data
SURNAME Geverdes, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1477
Place of death Lübeck