Bernd Krechting
Bernhard "Bernd" Krechting (* before 1500 in Schöppingen , Münsterland ; † January 22, 1536 in Münster ) was one of the leaders of the Anabaptist Empire in Münster .
Life
Krechting was born the son of the town clerk and church musician Engelbert Krechting. Like his five brothers, he received a higher education, became a clergyman, private tutor to the Count in Bentheim and obtained a pastor's position at Gildehaus in the county of Bentheim . When he was teaching Anabaptist teachings there , he was released. He moved to the Westphalian Munster (in the so-called " New Jerusalem ") with many whom he had convinced . There he became one of the Anabaptist predicants. In the court rules of Jan van Leiden , he ranked as a council. His brother Heinrich Krechting was and is better known, the Chancellor of the Anabaptist Empire. Heinrich Krechting escaped capture, while Bernd Krechting, probably also on behalf of his brother, had to endure a painful end.
On January 22, 1536, he was tortured to death together with Jan van Leiden and Bernd Knipperdolling on the Prinzipalmarkt in Münster. The corpses were hung in three iron baskets on the tower of the Lambertikirche , where the baskets have remained to this day, as a testimony “that they served to warn and terrify all restless spirits that they would not attempt or dare to do something similar in the future” .
literature
- Hermann von Kerssenbroick (Kerssenbrock): History of the Anabaptists at Münster in Westphalia. Along with a description of the capital of this country. Translated from a Latin manuscript by Hermann von Kerssenbroick. (Subheads: The frenzy of the Anabaptists which Munster destroyed the famous capital in Westphalia. Described by Hermann von Kerstenbroich dFK Magister, and the Paulinisches Collegium Gymnasiarchen. In the year of Christ 1568 ). Publisher: Ohne Ort (probably Münster), 1771.
- Richard van Dülmen (ed.): The Anabaptist Empire at Münster 1534–1535. Reports and documents . Dt. Taschenbuch-Verl., Munich 1974, ISBN 3-423-04150-1 .
- Carl Adolf Cornelius (ed.): Reports of the eyewitnesses about the Munster Anabaptist empire . Aschendorff, Münster 1853, reprint Münster 1983.
- Robert Stupperich (ed.): Writings of the Münster Anabaptists and their opponents . 3 volumes, Aschendorff, Münster 1970–1980.
- Thomas Seifert: The Anabaptists at Münster . Agenda Verlag, Münster 1993, ISBN 3-929440-18-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Seifert: The Anabaptists at Münster . agenda Verlag, Münster 1993, ISBN 3-929440-18-0 , p. 142
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krechting, Bernd |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krechting, Bernhard |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Baptist of Munster |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1500 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schöppingen , Münsterland |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1536 |
| Place of death | Muenster |