Brother Sigwalt

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Brother Sigwalt (also Siegwalt , Sigenwalt , Sigewall , Sigeboldus ) is the alleged author of a late medieval prophecy that claims to be a work of the 12th century.

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The text has come down to us in various versions. One of these, preserved in a 15th century manuscript (cgm 267), begins with the words:

“ This letter was found in the cappeln near Heydenheim, herdiß half way up the high gein Nuremberg, something was going on when one purted thirteen hundred years after Christ in the eighth year. Unde what happened with the three slussels two hundred iar than they say.
In the names of the father and the holy geyst. Amen. I brother Sigwalt, a worldly priest, wants to avoid the world of yrsalung and the sorrow of these worlds and I trample the devilish ghosts with the power of the almighty god. So I have withdrawn from worldly business jndas ellend unde in the violence of this mess "

This means that the text was found in a chapel in Heidenheim near Nuremberg in 1388 , after having been there for two hundred years. After finding the three keys mentioned in the prophecy, the Roman Empire should regain strength, the evil in the world should be overcome, and:

“ According to this, and if it has been wrong, the Nurembergers become the other Romans, is that they are the warrior and do justice enough. "

That means that Nuremberg should have a great future as a second Rome.

literature

Lore

  • Munich, cgm 267, 246 r -247 r
  • Munich, UB, 2 ° cod. ms. 684, 95 v -96 v
  • Coburg, LB, Ms. Sche. 16, 313 vb -314 vb

expenditure

  • W. Altmann: Eberhart Windeckes memorabilia on the history of Emperor Sigmund. 1893. pp. 361f.
  • Alexander Reifferscheid, nine texts on the history of the religious enlightenment in Germany during the 14th and 15th centuries. Festschrift of the University of Greifswald, Julius Abel, Greifswald 1905, text no. VII, pp. 41–42
  • Wolfgang Stammler, Prose of the German Gothic: A History of Style in Texts , Berlin 1933, pp. 89–90

Secondary literature

  • Wolfgang Stammler u. a .: The German literature of the Middle Ages: author's lexicon , 2nd edition, volume 8, de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 1978, col. 1244f. Volume 11, ibid. 2004, Col. 1434
  • Concise dictionary of German superstition , Vol. IX, supplements, Sp. 95–96

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from Stammler's prose of the German Gothic, pp. 89f
  2. ^ Probably the Middle Franconian Heidenheim . There was a monastery that was abandoned during the Reformation . The place was owned by the Burgraves of Nuremberg, later Margraves of Ansbach .
  3. ↑ Stammler p. 90
  4. ↑ Manuscript Census | Munich, Staatsbibl., Cgm 267 . Handschriftencensus.de. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
  5. ↑ Manuscript Census | Munich, University Library, 2 ° Cod. Ms. 684 . Handschriftencensus.de. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
  6. ↑ Manuscript Census | Coburg, Landesbibl., Ms. Sche. 16 . Handschriftencensus.de. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Sigwalt, brother
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siegwalt, brother; Sigenwalt, brother; Sigewall, brother; Sigeboldus, brother
BRIEF DESCRIPTION alleged author of a late medieval prophecy
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century