Berend von Plesse
Berend von Plesse (documented mention 1527; † February 4, 1555 in Damshagen ) was a large landowner in Mecklenburg , member of the knighthood and is considered the main promoter of the Reformation movement in northwest Mecklenburg. He came from the originally noble Mecklenburg-Holstein noble family Plesse . (The name form Plesse was replaced by Plessen in the 17th and 18th centuries .)
Life
Berend von Plesse was the second-born son of the landowner on Großenhof , Tressow and Zierow Kord von Plesse (document: 1455–1501) and his wife Christine, nee. by Parkentin .
Like his father, he became a knightly lord of the Klützer Winkel and his extensive land ownership included the villages of Tressow, Damshagen, Hagen, Lütken, Greschendorf, Tramm , Hofe, Nieder-Klütz, Pohnstorf, Stellshagen , Hohen-Schönberg and Grundshagen. He had further land holdings in Gressow , Steinfort and Fliemstorf.
family
His wife Dorothea († 1562) came from the marriage of Otto von Gadendorp with Anna, b. from Ahlefeldt . The couple Berend and Dorothea von Plesse left their sons Kord and Heinrich.
Feud against the Bishop of Ratzeburg
Berend von Plesse exercised the secular patronage of the parish in Gressow . In this function he appointed the Protestant preacher Thomas Aderpul, banned from Lübeck , to the pastor's office of the previous “one-eyed helpless priest” as the parish priest , who also became the first Lutheran preacher in Klützer Winkel and also had a wife. After the establishment of Aderpuls, the Reformation made rapid progress among the population. The bishop of Ratzeburg , Georg von Blumenthal , who exercised the Catholic church loan in Gressow , had Thomas Aderpul , who was in his opinion “ heretical ”, arrested in December 1529 and locked in dungeon at his castle in Schönberg . All efforts by Berend von Plesse to get the parish priest Aderpul free again through Duke Heinrich V of Mecklenburg , failed because of the intransigence of the bishop. Unpaid and very considerable debts of the Klützer knighthood to the Catholic clergy hardened and aggravated the situation. The knights of the von Plesse who lived in Klützer Winkel, above all Berend von Plesse and his older brother Johann as well as numerous other noble families from the region, now resorted to violence and waged a feud into the diocese of Ratzeburg to free the imprisoned pastor Aderpul.
On December 26, 1529, Bishop Georg von Blumenthal received a feud from his adversary Berend von Plesse, the content of which has been historically transmitted as follows:
- The bishop believed
- well in his arrogance,
- that the trees were green twice for him,
- while for other people they only greened once,
- but his arrogance should
- not shunned by them,
- but to be thought and broken!
The knights involved in the feud demanded the surrender of the castle and the release of Aderpuls.
When Bishop Georg von Blumenthal had read the feud letter, he spoke the following traditional words to his castle captain Bernd Rohr:
- What should the Klützerorte do!
- If it was a good big pot of beer
- so the Klützerorte would be good neighbors
- they probably eat it up.
His castle captain is said to have replied to the Bishop of Ratzeburg:
- My lord, the journeymen
- who can probably drink the big pot of beer,
- they can also be found and held,
- what they promise.
With a total of three shots from a cannon , castle captain Bernd Rohr was then able to drive the attackers away.
Fritz Meyer-Scharffenberg wrote that it is no longer known today whether it was “ fear, surprise or the herd instinct of the horses; in any case, the besiegers put themselves at a good distance with great speed. "
During the retreat, the villages of Groß Bünstorf, Klein Bünstorf, Blüssen, Rüschenbek, Poppenhusen and Rodenberg (today's Papenhusen municipality ) were looted by the retreating knights; they also looted the Blüssen chapel.
The feud between the Berend von Plesse and the knights from the Klützer Winkel went down in Mecklenburg state history as "The War of Religion in the Ratzeburg District."
After a year in prison, Pastor Aderpul was released from prison; he did not resume his pastorate in Gressow. The Reformation movement, which had already been initiated before his imprisonment, could no longer be stopped in Mecklenburg.
Death and burial
Berend von Plesse died on February 4, 1555 in Damshagen. He was buried in front of the altar in St. Thomas Church in Damshagen. His great sword was given to him in the grave. The tombstones of Berend von Plesses and his son Kord (1532–1601) are still in this church today.
Trivia
The renowned and multiple award-winning writer Fritz Meyer-Scharffenberg dealt with the real person of Berend von Plesse in his historical novel “Der Angstmann” in 1975 and characterized him as a coward who had never actually used his “great sword” in battle but rather preferred to flee by looting and vandalizing.
literature
- Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch : History of the diocese of Ratzeburg. F. Aschenfeldt, Lübeck 1835, pages 468–472 ( digitized version )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berend v. Plesse (n) (1527-1555) in Landschaft-mv.de ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Family history on the website of a von Plessen family (see Genealogical Handbook of the Adels , Adelige Häuser A, Volume XXI, page 301, Volume 98 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn), 1990 - Adopted children of Bernhard von Plessen zu Damshagen and Schönfeld, contract north, 7.9.1972, official court order ibid. 6.11.1972 of Wilhelm-Edzard Fst zu Innhausen and Knyphausen )
- ↑ a b c compare Max Naumann: Die Plessen. Line from the XIII. to XX. Century . CA Starke Publishing House
- ^ A b c Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Thomas Aderpul or the Reformation to Gressow , Malchin and Bützow . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 16, Schwerin 1851, pp. 57–97 ( digitized version ( memento of the original from May 19, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove them Note. ).
- ↑ Ev. Church community Gressow-Friedrichshagen historical ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ compare Fritz Meyer-Scharffenberg : The island of Poel and the Klützer angle. Carl Hinstorff Verlag , Rostock
- ↑ Church leaders with illustrations - See page 5: Berenth v. Plessen, died February 4, 1555
- ↑ see on this: Berend v. Plesse (n) (1527-1555) in Landschaft-mv.de ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- see chapter Bishop Georg and his opponents. In: Reformation and marriage policy, Duke Magnus von Sachsen-Lauenburg as opponent of the Ratzeburg bishop and father-in-law of the Lutheran princes in the north (online at pkgodzik.de) (PDF; 400 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Plesse, Berend from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Landlord and initiator of the Reformation movement in Mecklenburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century or 16th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 1555 |
| Place of death | Damshagen |