Anton von Berckhusen

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Anton von Berckhusen (also: von Berkhusen and Barkhausen ; born January 17, 1500 in Hanover ; died September 8, 1581 there ) was a German merchant , mayor , deacon and author on the Reformation in Hanover.

Life

family

Anton von Berckhusen came from the old patrician and merchant family von Berckhusen . He was married to Elisabeth Meier († at the age of 81 on June 15, 1579), with whom he had 14 children, including Eberhard von Berckhusen , "the author of the genealogy of the Hanoverian families", and Erasmus († September 14, 1598 ), Anna and Evert .

Von Berckhusen's son Erasmus was married twice: his first wife Katharina von Wintheim died at the age of 29 on May 25, 1566, while the plague raged in the city , immediately before the birth of a child in childbirth . The second wife, Anna Herbst, died on January 28, 1607 at the age of 62.

Career

In 1533, Dietrich Arnsborg on a raised pedestal made the citizens swear by the teachings of the Reformation ;
Painting by Ferdinand Hodler on behalf of Heinrich Tramm , 1913, "Hodler-Saal", New Town Hall of Hanover

From 1530, von Berckhusen held the position of an old man as well as the registrar of the merchants' guild . After - as a result of the Reformation in Hanover , which had been initiated as a Reformation "from below" under the spokesman Dietrich Arnsborg - the old, Catholic city ​​councilors had left the city, Berkhusen was elected first mayor after this change of time in 1534. He performed this function with other mayor colleagues every year until 1550 .

Subsequently, von Berckhusen took on other public offices, including that of a deacon in the market church of Hanover until 1571 . "The so-called ' copy book', a compilation of copies of the documentary prescriptions for the benefit of the market church , was drawn up in 1569 from this position ." Von Berckhusen was in connection with Urbanus Rhegius ; In 1536 the superintendent in Celle had drawn up a reformatory church order for Hanover.

Anton Berckhusen handed down the "annotatio Berkhusii", a report on the course of the Reformation in Hanover.

Epitaph (s) in the market church

At least one epitaph - no longer available today - dedicated by Dietrich Wedemeier in memory of Anton von Berckhusen was located inside the market church: According to the chronicle of the historian Georg Hilmar Ising , this should be “a beautifully painted epitaph on the brick wall of the church at the tower “, Possibly a mural in the form of an epitaph. According to the church book , in addition to the inscription for Anton von Berckhusen, other family members, some of whom died later, were apparently mentioned later (see above, family section ). The archivist Otto Jürgens also reported in his Hanover Chronicle of an epitaph that was installed next to the church organ. Whether it was the same as the one on the tower “cannot be determined”.

Fonts

  • annotatio Berkhusii

Honors

  • An old driveway from Hanover to Misburg, first called Scheidestrasse and Koloniestrasse , was renamed Berckhusenstrasse (today's Kleefeld district ) in 1926 .

See also

literature

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ Compare the inscription on the tombstone of Berckhusens translated by Sabine Wehking (see literature)
  2. ↑ Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Busmann (Johann), in ders .: The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and still live in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover since the Reformation the most credible writers. Volume 1, Schünemann, Bremen 1823, pp. 328-329; Digitized by the State and University Library Bremen
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Klaus Mlynek: BERCKHUSEN ... (see literature)
  4. ↑ a b c d Sabine Wehking: DI 36 ... (see section Web Links )
  5. ^ Siegfried Müller : Mode: the clothes of the man in which: Life in old Hanover. Cultural images of a German city. Schlütersche, Hannover 1986, ISBN 3-87706-033-1 , pp. 74-77, here: p. 76
  6. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : ARNSBORG, Dietrich (von). In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 32f .; partial preview via google books
  7. ↑ The Reformation and its consequences. In: Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): History of the city of Hanover . From the beginning to the beginning of the 19th century . Schlütersche , Hannover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , pp. 126-136, here in particular p. 126; in excerpts online
  8. ↑ Sabine Wehking: Holdings: DI 36 (Hanover) / No. 118, Marktkirche, 1564 , in: Inscription catalog: City of Hanover on German inscriptions online
  9. ^ Jens Schmidt-Clausen: Rhegius (Rieger), Urbanus. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 521
  10. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Berckhusenstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 37
personal data
SURNAME Berckhusen, Anton von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berckhusen, Anton van; Berckhusen, Anton; Barkhausen, Anton von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Hanover after the Reformation, deacon and author
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1581
Place of death Hanover