Bastian Kröß

Bastian Kröß (also Kroes , Kreiß ; * 1524 ; † November 21, 1602 in Dresden ) was the elector's valet , Dresden councilor and mayor .

Life

Kröß came from “von Atzmannßdorf” , ie from the Thuringian Azmannsdorf and was valet of the Saxon Elector. In 1564 he received the citizenship of Dresden. He owned a house on Kreuzstrasse (No. 10) near the Altmarkt , which he had combined with the neighboring building and converted into an elegant residence. In 1773 the Palais Loß was built in its place , which in 1905 had to give way to the construction of the New Town Hall .

His daughter Maria was the wife of Paul Buchner , who as Oberzeugmeister of Elector August was responsible for the entire Saxon gun system and from 1567 was responsible for the construction of the Dresden fortifications . Kröß 'son Anton (born October 15, 1582) can be traced back to 1601 as a student at the Wittenberg University , where he received his doctorate in 1614. med. PhD was appointed and shortly before his death in 1637 as professor of medicine. His daughter Katharina married the ship merchant Balthasar Hauptmann. Her son August Hauptmann (1607–1674) was a Dresden doctor and co-owner of the Selva baths .

In 1589, Elector Christian I. Hans Plansdorf arbitrarily appointed Dresden mayor. At the same time, Bastian Kröß and Elias Vogel, two other people from his immediate environment, were added to the council. In 1591 Kröß became governing mayor for the first time and took over this office again in 1594, 1597 and 1600. Between 1591 and 1596 he was also the hospital master of the maternity hospital . In the first year of his tenure as mayor, the foundation stone was laid in August 1591 for the construction of a new town hall on Neumarkt . The elector had previously requested the new building. However, since the city was unable to finance the construction despite financial donations from the sovereign, Bastian Kröß, together with the two other mayors Hans Plansdorf and Elias Vogel, asked for the work to be stopped, which also took place on January 22, 1592. In 1601 Kröß was mentioned for the last time as a council member.

Kröß died at the age of 78 on November 21, 1602. He was buried in a flying buttress wall grave in the old Frauenkirchhof and, like his wife Sabina, who had died after him, received a tombstone in front of the wall.

literature

• Sieglinde Richter-Nickel: The venerable council of Dresden. In: Dresden history book. No. 5, Dresden City Museum (ed.); DZA Verlag for Culture and Science, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-9806602-1-4 .
• Otto Richter: Constitutional and administrative history of the city of Dresden. Volume 1, Verlag W. Baensch, Dresden 1885.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Heinrich Kramm: The Mayors of Dresden 1549–1806. In: Studies on the upper classes of central German cities in the 16th century, Central German research. Volume 87, Verlag Böhlau Cologne / Vienna 1981, p. 716.
2. ^ Viktor Hantzsch: Dresdner at universities from the 14th to the 17th century. (= Messages from the Dresden History Association. Volume 19). Verlag W. Baensch, 1906, p. 83.
3. ↑ Michael Ulrich Brysch: August Hauptmann (1607-1674): On the life, work and effects of a Dresden medical alchemist , Freiburg 2012
4. ↑ Alexandra-Kathrin Stanislaw-Kemenah: Hospitals in Dresden: from the change of an institution. In: Writings on Saxon history and folklore. Volume 24, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86583-163-7 , p. 123.
5. ^ Martin B. Lindau: History of the capital and residence city of Dresden from the earliest to the present time. Volume 1, Verlag Kuntze, 1858, p. 610.
6. ^ Johann Gottfried Michaelis : Dreßdnische Inscriptiones und Epitaphia . Self-published by the author, Dresden 1714, p. 199 f . ( Digitized version ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Elias Vogel (1590, 1593, 1596) Jonas Möstel (1599)	Mayor of Dresden 1591, 1594, 1597, 1600	Hans Plansdorf (1592, 1595, 1598, 1601)