Bertold Witig

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Bertold Witig's coat of arms disk from St. Katharinen, today in the St. Annen Museum
Family coat of arms from the Witig chair in St. Katharinen

Bertold Witig , also Witik (* in Lübeck ; † May 14, 1474 ibid) was a councilor and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Bertold Witig was the son of the member of the New Council from 1408 to 1416 Johann Witig († 1447). He was elected to the city council in 1439. In 1443 he became a member of the patrician circle society . As councilor he was the city's ambassador to King Christian I of Denmark in 1449 and negotiated together with councilor Gerhard von Minden in Lüneburg in 1450 with the council of the city of Lüneburg about the payment of pensions that were not paid by the Lüneburg creditors from Lübeck. In 1450 he was also involved in the negotiations on the coin recess. In 1456 and 1457 he was also in Lüneburg on city affairs. In 1457 he was appointed one of the Lübeck mayors in the council . As mayor, he represented the city in the peace negotiations between the ambassadors of Kings Christian I of Denmark and Kasimier II of Poland in 1459. At the Hanseatic Day in July 1466 in Lübeck, he reported on the silting up of the roadstead in front of Travemünde and the countermeasures taken by the city of Lübeck . In 1469 he hosted the peace negotiations between the kings Christian I of Denmark and Charles VIII of Sweden in Lübeck. In Lübeck citizens' wills he is listed several times as a documentary witness and guardian .

Witig was married twice. In his second marriage he married Adelheid, widow of councilor Johann Bruskow . She was a daughter of Segebodo Crispin († 1455) , son of the councilor Johann Crispin and the last male representative of his gender. In 1462, Bertold Witig donated five weekly masses in the easternmost side chapel in the south aisle of the Katharinenkirche, which he built as a provisional agent from the estate of Hans Overkamp in 1458 . The Lübeck Bishop Arnold Westphal gave him the patronage of two vicarages in Lübeck's Marienkirche , which Gerhard Oldesloe had donated. His coat of arms is handed down in the Lübeck citizens' seals . It can also be found on Crispin's grave slab in her family chapel in the Katharinenkirche. In his three wills, however, he had expressed the wish to be buried in the chapel he had furnished. In Lübeck Cathedral , his coat of arms can be found on the inside of the end cheeks of the so-called Vorsteherstuhl that he presumably donated .

Initially he lived in the house at Große Petersgrube 21, later at Johannisstraße 5 . In 1445, at the gates of the city, he and the councilor Johann Gerwer bought a pension of 36 marks for 600 marks at the Lauenburg villages of Salem and Farchau .

His daughter Gertrud († 1485) married Gottschalck von Wickede († 1483) for the second time ; her sister Anna was married to the mayor of Lübeck, Hermann Meyer , for the second time .

literature

  • Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns , Hugo Rahtgens : The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck . Volume IV: The Monasteries. The town's smaller churches. The churches and chapels in the outskirts. Thought and way crosses and the Passion of Christ. Lübeck: Nöhring 1928, facsimile reprint 2001 ISBN 3-89557-168-7 , p. 72f. (to the chapel)
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 521
  • Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, pp. 818-820 ISBN 3-7995-5940-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hanserezesse , Volume II, 5., p. 794.
  2. ↑ Gunnar Meyer: “possessing citizens” and “miserable sicknesses”: Lübeck's society in the mirror of their wills 1400–1449 (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, published by the archive of the Hanseatic city, series B, volume 48) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2010 ISBN 978-3-7950-0490-3
  3. ^ S5, Chapel of Hans Overkamp , Antje Grewolls: The chapels of the north German churches in the Middle Ages: architecture and function. Ludwig, Kiel 1999, ISBN 3-9805480-3-1 , p. 219
  4. ^ Carl Julius Milde : Lübeck Citizen Seal , Plate 15, 103.
  5. ↑ Krüger (Lit), p. 818f (LÜKA23)
  6. ↑ Uwe Albrecht (Ed.): Corpus of medieval wood sculpture and panel painting in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2: Hanseatic City of Lübeck, The Works in the City Area. Ludwig, Kiel 2012, ISBN 978-3-933598-76-9 , pp. 125f, no.22
  7. ↑ Krüger (Lit), p. 833 (LÜKA37)
  8. ↑ Krüger (Lit), p. 987 (LÜPE * 24)
personal data
SURNAME Witig, Bertold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Witik, Bertold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Councilor and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1474
Place of death Lübeck