Bernhard Schorhar

Bernhard Schorhar († 1409 or 1410) to 1399 often Bernd Merck was 1371-1409 Bremer councilor and from 1394 mayor of Bremen .

Life

From 1371 onwards, Schorhar was a member of the Bremen City Council for almost four decades. This council testified in 1387 that the councilors Bernd Schorhar, Johann Hemeling the Younger and Gerd Cornegel as well as the Bremen citizen Hinrick de Frie had leased a camp for fifty years from the Paulskloster to plant a vineyard there.

The four council quarters of the city in turn provided the ruling mayor and the associated councilors. The 1st council quarter from 1399 was headed by the mayor Johann Brand from 1396, the new mayor of the outgoing 2nd council quarter was Bernd Merck (Schorhar) from the council third from 1398. The mayor from 1397, Reynwerd Dene , was sworn in in the second half of 1399. Since a change in the law in 1398, the five councilors of the council district, whose mayor had resigned, chose from all of Wittheit who they thought was suitable. They were no longer tied to the men who came from their own council district.

In 1404, under the direction of Mayor Bernhard Schorhar and above all his colleague Friedrich Wigger and von Hinrich von der Trupe , the preparatory work for the construction of the new town hall began .

In the second half of 1410 Schorhar was succeeded by Johann Oldewage as mayor.

Remarks

^ The chronicles of the cities of Lower Saxony: Bremen , p. 173.
↑ Bremen document book, documents from 1381 to 1410, No. 70.
↑ Lieselotte Klink (Ed.): Johann Hemelings Diplomatarium fabricae ecclesiae Bremensis , 1988, p. 17.
^ Arthur Fitger, Johann Georg Kohl: Monuments of the history and art of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Second section: Episodes from the cultural and art history of the free imperial city of Bremen . Bremen: C. Ed. Müller 1862, p. 6.

personal data
SURNAME	Schorhar, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Merck, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mayor of Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH	14th Century
DATE OF DEATH	1409 or 1410

[1] The chronicles of the cities of Lower Saxony: Bremen , p. 173.

[2] Bremen document book, documents from 1381 to 1410, No. 70.

[3] Lieselotte Klink (Ed.): Johann Hemelings Diplomatarium fabricae ecclesiae Bremensis , 1988, p. 17.

[4] Arthur Fitger, Johann Georg Kohl: Monuments of the history and art of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Second section: Episodes from the cultural and art history of the free imperial city of Bremen . Bremen: C. Ed. Müller 1862, p. 6.