Arnold Wlome

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Seal of Arnold Wlome (around 1328)

Arnold Wlome († August 21, 1329 in Lübeck ) was a German merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

The merchant Arnold Wlome was elected to the Lübeck council in 1312. In 1317 he was head of the Marienkirche in Lübeck . As a merchant, he also did numerous real estate transactions. Together with the later Lübeck councilor Arnold von Bardewik , he acquired half of the village of Redentin in 1310 . In 1323 he acquired half of Strömkendorf together with the Lübeck councilor Johann Kaiser . In 1326 he acquired 14½ hooves in Westerglowitz on the island of Poel and a pension of 14 marks a year for a claim of 224 marks to the Zarrentin monastery . As founder he founded in 1327 in Lübeck Cathedral , a stipend and the Marienkirche in Lübeck received from him three vicarages .

family

Wlome married Adelheid von Bokholt, a daughter of the councilor Heinrich von Bokholt . He lived in the property on Mengstrasse 6 in Lübeck's old town . After his death he was buried in the family chapel he had built (since 1627 Küster's chapel ) in the north aisle of St. Mary's Church. He was shown in life size in the picture on the last recorded and not preserved grave slab made of brass with wooden inlays. It was the oldest known brass grave plate in Lübeck and a unique piece due to the wooden inlay.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fehling, Lübeck Council Line No. 273
  2. ^ Klaus Krüger: Corpus of the medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100–1600. Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999 ISBN 3-7995-5940-X , pp. 891/892 (LÜMA * 3); Ursula Wolkewitz: The engraved brass grave plates of the 13th and 14th centuries in the area of ​​the North German Hanseatic League - their origin and their meaning: Erinnern - Mahnen - Belehren , Kassel university press, Kassel 2015, p. 182 ( digitized )
personal data
SURNAME Wlome, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 13th century or 14th century
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1329
Place of death Lübeck