Bernhard Berlin

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Board of benefactors of the Eternal Alms for Bernhard Berlin, 1457

Bernhard Berlin (* unknown; † 1457 in Heilbronn ) was mayor of the imperial city of Heilbronn in 1456 and 1457 .

Life

Berlin came from an old patrician family from Heilbronn. The family's coat of arms shows three nested bears , two buffalo horns are used to decorate the crest.

He was the second mayor from the Heilbronn family of Berlin. Bernhard was possibly the son of Hans Berlin , who was mayor of the city in 1431. Bernhard Berlin is mentioned relatively rarely in documents. In 1444 he was mayor and sold a field to the city of Heilbronn, on which the Carmelite monastery was built shortly afterwards . Various legal acts were also confirmed in documents. On August 5, 1456, a purchase agreement between the Mayor of Berlin and Holzapfel for fish water is sealed. He died in 1457.

Board of donors

In the Heilbronn House of City History , a donor board from 1457 from the Heilbronn Kilian's Church has been preserved. Their inscription reads:

Anno Domini died in 1457
of the eren and firm
Bernhard Berlin
with the donor of the eternal
Alms to Heylpron
and the Predicatur
to good people
Have mercy on God. Amen

The Eternal Alms was founded in 1449 by the city council as a foundation. The "Almosenhäuschen" was located next to the northern choir entrance of Kilian's Church (today Kaiserstraße) until 1830. Bernhard Berlin increased the foundation in 1452 by a contribution of 40 guilders. On his death in 1457, Bernhard Berlin left the legacy of increasing the financial contribution by a further 42 guilders. The proceeds of the foundation were distributed in kind as alms to those in need.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knupfer, p. 268 (line 18): "On June 12, 1431 a verdict was issued by Konrad von Weinsberg on the legal dispute between the Deutsches Orden and Heilbronn, which is represented by the mayor Hans Berlin."
  2. ↑ Heribert Hummel: The Carmelite monastery complex in front of the city of Heilbronn . In: Schwaben und Franken (local history supplement of the Heilbronner Voice ), No. 3, 1986
  3. ↑ Knupfer, p. 321 No. 627

literature

  • Eugen Knupfer (edit.): Document book of the city of Heilbronn. Volume 1. (= Württemberg historical sources . NF 5, ZDB -ID 520100-7 ). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1904.
  • 450 years of the Reformation in Heilbronn , Heilbronn City Archives 1980, p. 93, no. 22.
personal data
SURNAME Berlin, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Heilbronn (1456–1457)
DATE OF BIRTH before 1444
DATE OF DEATH 1457
Place of death Heilbronn