Bernhard Krechting

Bernhard Krechting (born February 2, 1622 in Lübeck ; † October 22, 1700 ibid) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, chief pastor of Lübeck's Marienkirche and senior minister of the clergy .

Life

Bernhard Krechting's father of the same name († 1631) had moved from Münster to Lübeck and had Elsabe, b. Boye († 1671) married.

He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck and studied at the universities of Helmstedt and Wittenberg , where he graduated with a master's degree in 1646 after a disputation chaired by Jakob Martini .

On October 18, 1649 he was called to preacher of the Marienkirche, and on February 27, 1673 he became its (main) pastor. on July 12, 1688 he was elected senior in the Lübeck Spiritual Ministry; During the vacancy times until August Pfeiffer was appointed superintendent in 1689 and after his death on January 11, 1698, he was the leading clergyman of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck . Krechting was the clergyman with whom Dieterich Buxtehude worked for the longest as the organist of St. Marien. He was considered theologically adherent to Lutheran Orthodoxy , militant, and someone who was not afraid of violent collisions with the council .

He was married to Margarathe, b. Stolterfoht, a daughter of Pastor Jacob Stolterfoht . On April 29, 1700, they were able to celebrate the then extremely rare golden wedding with 300 guests. A silver medal was made for this occasion. The couple remained childless, but they were the foster parents of their nephew Jacob von Melle . He also supported Caspar Sagittarius during his school days in Lübeck and his nephew Johann Jacob Stolterfoht , later Stadtphysicus in Lübeck.

A wooden epitaph in the Marienkirche commemorated Bernhard Krechting . It was located on the east side of the second northern choir pillar. A richly carved, gilded rococo frame enclosed the bust of the deceased, which was painted on wood and signed by Johann Heinrich Wedekind and dated 1698, and the inscription panel below. The upper end of the epitaph was formed by a mark between a skull and an hourglass in the middle of a cartouche . The epitaph burned during the air raid on Lübeck on Palm Sunday night 1942.

Fonts

Partitionum Theologicarum Disputatio Quarta De Providentia / In… Wittebergensi Academia proposita Praeside Jacobo Martini… Respondente Bernhardo Krechtingk Lubecens. Indicitur ad diem XXVII. Maii… Röhner, Wittenberg 1646 ( 39: 131657S in VD 17th .)

literature

Johann Jacob Stolterfoht: Vectigal Connubiale Margaritiferum sive Uniologia Physico-Medica: In Memoriam Iubilaei Gamici, Viri Pl. Reverendo Nobilissimo atq [ue] Clarissimo Domino M. Bernhardo Krechtingio… nec non… Matronae Margaretae Stolterfohtiae Transimae Margaretae Stolterfohtiae matras transacta, Felissimonii post dilissimi fausto celebrati omine Tabulis affixa votivis. Schmalhertzius, Lubecae [1700] ( urn : nbn: de: bvb: 29-bv039612702-5 , University Library Erlangen-Nuremberg )
Enoch Svantenius : Memoriam… Bernhardi Krechting… In: Georg Heinrich Götze : Elogia Germanorum Quorundam Theologorum. Wiedemeyer, Lübeck 1709, pp. 688-694

Web links

Publications by and about Bernhard Krechting in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

^ Anton Fahne (ed.): Jacob von Melle: Die Westphalen in Lübeck . 1855, p. 132
^ Wolf-Dieter Hauschild : Church history of Lübeck. Christianity and the bourgeoisie in nine centuries. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1981 ISBN 3-7950-2500-1 , p. 327
↑ Peter Ambrosius Lehmann: Historical Remarques of the newest things in Europe of the 1700th year. Part 2, Hamburg 1700, p. 142
^ Description by Heinrich Behrens : Coins and medals of the city and the diocese of Lübeck. Verlag der Berliner Münzblätter, Berlin 1905 (reprint 2008, ISBN 978-3-936059-30-4 ), p. 223
^ Neudecker: Sagittarius, Caspar . In: Johann Jakob Herzog : Real Encyclopedia for Protestant Theology and Church . 1st edition. Verlag Rudolf Besser, Gotha 1860, Volume 13, p. 301 f.
↑ Gustav Schaumann, Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck . Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906, p. 372 ( archive.org )

predecessor	Office	successor
Johannes Reiche	Senior of the Spiritual Ministry in Lübeck 1688 - 1700	Thomas Honstedt

personal data
SURNAME	Krechting, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, chief pastor of the Marienkirche in Lübeck and senior of the Ministry of Spirituality
DATE OF BIRTH	February 2, 1622
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH	October 22, 1700
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] Anton Fahne (ed.): Jacob von Melle: Die Westphalen in Lübeck . 1855, p. 132

[2] Wolf-Dieter Hauschild : Church history of Lübeck. Christianity and the bourgeoisie in nine centuries. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1981 ISBN 3-7950-2500-1 , p. 327

[3] Peter Ambrosius Lehmann: Historical Remarques of the newest things in Europe of the 1700th year. Part 2, Hamburg 1700, p. 142

[4] Description by Heinrich Behrens : Coins and medals of the city and the diocese of Lübeck. Verlag der Berliner Münzblätter, Berlin 1905 (reprint 2008, ISBN 978-3-936059-30-4 ), p. 223

[5] Neudecker: Sagittarius, Caspar . In: Johann Jakob Herzog : Real Encyclopedia for Protestant Theology and Church . 1st edition. Verlag Rudolf Besser, Gotha 1860, Volume 13, p. 301 f.

[6] Gustav Schaumann, Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck . Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906, p. 372 ( archive.org )