Baltzer von Zülow

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Balthasar "Baltzer" von Zülow (* May 12, 1599 in Zülow ; † June 12, 1670 in Groß Stieten ) was a Swedish or Mecklenburg major in the Thirty Years' War .

origin

His parents Christoph von Zülow , heir to his father's family estate, and his wife Anna von Lützow from the Lützow family had eight sons and four daughters. Son Balthasar, called Baltzer , was born on May 12, 1599 on Zülow. When he was a little older, he was sent to the court of the widowed Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, where he served in Winsen an der Luhe from 1612, first as a page and then as a chamberlain. After four years of service, he decided on a future military career. Before that, his mother's brother, Joachim von Lützow, heir to Seedorf, took him to stay for a year - he owed him a good science in geography.

In the Thirty Years War

In 1618 he went to the Bohemian War under the Bohemian Count Palatine Frederick V. He was there and survived the bloody battle on White Mountain near Prague.

When the Count von Mansfeld then set up a regiment for the new Bohemian King, he came as a cornet in the regiment of Duke Franz Carl of Saxony. At Weydhausen he took part in the big meeting with Tilly in the Upper Palatinate. Later he was appointed lieutenant (before 1622) and faced Tilly and the imperial once again in battle. Since 1625 he was in Danish service against the imperial and received here first the rank of lieutenant, then that of captain . He finally became captain under the royal Danish major general Obentraut . He was also at the forefront in the Swedish-Polish War from 1628 onwards. He recruited a company of riders as Rittmeister and was in the service of King Gustav Adolph of Sweden for three years. After the conquest of Mecklenburg by the Swedes, he went as a major in Mecklenburg state services and took part in many battles and skirmishes.

After Gustav Adolph had formally reinstated the Mecklenburg dukes as rulers, they set off from Lübeck with around 2,000 men at the end of July after completing their armaments with Swedish money and men . The supreme command was the colonels Kalkum called von Lohausen, taken over from the Danish service, and Menil; The captains were the Mecklenburg Raben, Holstein, Bülow, Zülow, Ilenfeld, as well as the Holsteiner Buchwald, Alefeld, and Wisch.

On the third day before Schwerin, the assault began immediately on the city, which was defended by only about two hundred imperial men under the captains Milatz and Kelly; The Mecklenburgers broke through the weakest point of the fortification, the game gate, into the city with minor losses on both sides. The imperial family moved into the castle; the Mecklenburgers led from the old chancellery across the riding arena in the old garden to the Laufgräben bridge, from where they set fire to the castle, which was strongly replied to. Many residents perished in their homes as a result. When, on the tenth day, six pennons of Finns with five fields fortified them on the Ostorf mountains and shot at the castle, and at the same time all the boars and boats in the area were brought in and were to be stormed from all sides at the same time, the imperial garrison surrendered against free withdrawal.

family

In 1632 Baltzer von Zülow took Margarethe von Barsse as his wife, the daughter of Wulff von Barsse on Groß Stieten , and thus later became the heir of Groß Stieten. This marriage had six daughters and four sons. His wife Margarethe died in 1650. In 1652, Baltzer von Zülow married Maria Elisabeth von Hahn , a daughter of Joachim von Hahn, heir to Saltzau. Five other children from this marriage enriched the family, one of whom died early.

death

On May 31, 1670, Baltzer von Zülow, until then always of a robust nature, fell ill in the chest, was bedridden, died on the evening of June 12, 1670 and was buried on August 31, 1670 in the church of Beydendorff . His son Joachim Baltzer von Zülow succeeded him as heir to Groß Stieten.

Unfair duel Bülow-Zülow

Barthold von Bülow the Younger (* 1591, † 1620) had delivered a duel on a sword with his cousin Baltzer von Zülow in 1620 in Boizenburg, Mecklenburg, in the course of which he struck down von Zülow, but did not stab him. At the moment of the defeat of Zülows, his brother jumped up, threw von Bülow down and stabbed the defenseless von Bülow lying on the ground in a dishonorable way. It is unclear whether the Baltzer von Zülow involved was identical to the one dealt with in the article. If so, and should the duelists actually have been first cousins, Barthold von Bülow's mother would have to have been born von Zülow, because the mother of the Baltzer von Zülow treated here was Anna von Lützow (* 1569; † 1611), daughter of Barthold von Lützow and Anna von Rantzau, so no Bülow.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Bernd Warlich, The Thirty Years War in personal testimonials, chronicles and reports : Zülow, Baltzer von (accessed on August 1, 2011).
  2. ↑ Manor houses and castles in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Groß Stieten near Wismar (accessed on August 2, 2011).
  3. ↑ State Library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Sermon on the corpse of Barthold von Bülow (accessed on August 2, 2011).
  4. ↑ Alexander Kästner, “A blessed death? Funeral sermons for duelists ”(Lecture manuscript for the conference“ The duel from the Middle Ages to the modern age. Interdisciplinary and international perspectives, May 31 - June 2, 2010, ZiF Bielefeld ”), Dresden University of Technology, p. 15.
  5. ^ Anna von Lützow (accessed on August 2, 2011).

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personal data
SURNAME Zülow, Baltzer from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zülow, Balthasar von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish major in the Thirty Years War
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1599
PLACE OF BIRTH to Zülow
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1670
Place of death on large stilts