Andreas Lettsch

Andreas Lettsch (* before 1519 , † after 1534 ) was a German notary , schoolmaster and chronicler .

According to his own information, he was born in Schwenningen, Villingen-Schwenningen is an option , Schwenningen am Heuberg would also be conceivable . His chronicle, also known as the Villinger Chronik , is, along with Heinrich Hug's Villinger Chronik and Heinrich Küssenberg's Chronik , an important source for the beginning of the German Peasants' War in southern Germany, in the County of Hauenstein , the Landgraviate of Stühlingen and the Landgraviate of Klettgau , of course subject to his Catholic point of view . In particular, he describes the leader of the farmers, Hans Müller von Bulgenbach , whom he met personally. At the time his chronicle was written, he was working in the monastery of St. Blasien under Abbot Johannes Spielmann . The chronicle itself, written by his hand in German, came to the archive in Karlsruhe after the dissolution of St. Blasiens.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johannes Gut, In: Meinrad Schaab , Hansmartin Schwarzmaier (ed.) U. a .: Handbook of Baden-Württemberg History . Volume 2: The Territories in the Old Kingdom. Edited on behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-608-91466-8 , p. 544.
2. ↑ Franz Josef Mone (ed.), Collection of sources for the Baden regional history , Vol. 2, Karlsruhe 1854, pp. 42 to 56.