Apostle of Buchau

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The “ Apostle of Buchau ” is - contrary to the assumption always expressed in the literature - not the most famous mayor of the Free Imperial City of Buchau Daniel Buggenheu (also Buggenhew), but the fisherman Eustachius Jeger. At the Reichstag in Speyer, he is the last of the participants and delegates from the city of Bucho am Federsehe to sign the Reichs Farewell. He probably went barefoot in 1542, without shoes, stockings and long trousers ("barschenkelt") as a representative of his city to the Reichstag in Speyer, in order not to walk through the shoes and not to wear the trousers and thus to spare the clammy treasury of the imperial city.

Joseph Mohn gives the year 1521, but there was no Reichstag in Speyer in 1521. Poppy was obviously wrong in both the date and the person.
The Zimmerische Chronik reports how the Count of Montfort, the brother of the abbess Margarete von Montfort of the imperial monastery at Bad Buchau , and Johann von Naves, as imperial commissioners, met the apostle von Buchau in Speyer and how Montfort mocked him when he returned to Buchau because he not only returned barefoot to Speyer, but from there also without shoes and pants, only to slip them on shortly before the city gates of Buchau. The trip of the "Apostle" can be dated to the year 1542, especially since Froben Christoph von Zimmer was born in 1519 and was in Speyer from 1541–42. The Spanish palace guard is said to have initially denied entry to the "Apostle von Buchau" because of his strange appearance, but then finally granted entry to the Reichstag.

Eustachius Jeger got the nickname "apostle" from the Latin saying per pedes Apostolorum (on foot like the apostles), which was used when someone was on foot, and is still used today in the abbreviation per pedes .

The original story of the "Apostle von Buchau" can be read in the "Zimmerische Chronik" :

“In addition to other good waving, which are due to this Reichstag, was that the von Buchen am Federsee, since it should also be and is a Reichstatt, wondering what should be dealt with and traded on the Reichstag seriously had been required. But now they would have let others thrash them out on mertails reichstägen beforehand, that no one had never come to any reichstag in long years. For this reason, I am supposed to be astonishing and demanding that they elicit iren mayor of Buchen, a vischer of his handicraft, and since then the state of Buchen not particularly in a fortune, one wants to be good, because the personal uf gemainer stat cost should be given away and Also to see and hear how it happened and what was done, also in his opinion no forgivable or necessary free costs, so set off on foot, a beau pied sens lance, and 'came on foot ridden Reichstag. Then he just hugs the other Reichstetten Gesanten according to his bevelch. They just wanted to laugh at himself and his lords von Buchen simply too sick, regardless of the fact that this was not rebuked in his counter-rebukes, and while this comitatus went to and fro under the constant resounding, he was only called the apostle, while he was only calling his message and drinking on foot thette. And how did Count Haug von Montfort, whose same Johan Naveau odes Naves von Messanz were emperor Carl's comissari, after the Reichstag had passed so long, do raiset grave Haug home now and then to his sister, the abbess of Buchen. If, accordingly, the apostle or the envoy from Buchen came to Speir for a while, the others would always call his power from ime, with the consolation that they would banish his masters from all over the world, they would please the good that he was only pulling back, then you probably saw that he was quite unpopular with these things. So my good mayor raises home again. One grounded of the day, when he goes home, is grave Haug to book; he saw the mayor in the place of allain, he also had his underpants or underpants off, so he walked barely thighs, but he put on his slippers and his trousers thrown over the armpits. Count Haug kant ine wol, spoke to Ine and marketed his speeches so much that he wanted to come early enough for the Reichstag to decide. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Mohn: Kappel - the village over the Federsee. Bad Buchau 1971, p. 31.
  2. ↑ Farewell to the Reychs Day at Speir erected in the Jar MDXLII .: http://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb10145411_00091.html , (October 27, 2013)
  3. ↑ Zimmerische Chronik: http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Seite:De_Zimmerische_Chronik_3_351.jpg , (May 3, 2013).
  4. ↑ Joseph Mohn: Kappel - the village over the Federsee. Bad Buchau 1971, p. 32.
  5. ↑ Zimmerische Chronik: http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Seite:De_Zimmerische_Chronik_3_352.jpg , (May 3, 2013).
  6. ↑ Dr. Kurt Falch: Bad Buchau - stories in the history of a city. Bad Buchau 2004, p. 45.
  7. ↑ Universal Lexikon: http://universal_lexikon.deacademic.com/284027/Per_pedes_(apostolorum) , (May 3, 2013).
  8. ↑ Zimmerische Chronik:
    http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Seite:De_Zimmerische_Chronik_3_350.jpg ,
    http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Seite:De_Zimmerische_Chronik_3_351.jpg ,
    http://de.wikisource.org/ wiki / Page: De_Zimmerische_Chronik_3_352.jpg , (May 3, 2013).
personal data
SURNAME Apostle of Buchau
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jeger, Eustachius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of the Imperial City of Buchau and Fischer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century