Brother house Culm
The brother house was a branch of the brothers who lived together in Culm in Polish Prussia from 1472 to around 1509.
history
In 1472 the city of Culm gave permission for brothers from living together to run a school. The first two religious priests Johannes Westerwaldt and Gerhard Zewerth came from the founding house of the community in Zwolle in the Netherlands. The branch in Culm was the most easterly ever.
The brothers built a schola particularis , which roughly corresponds to a grammar school and was the highest-ranking school in Polish Prussia at that time. In 1489, the management was transferred to them forever , and the ownership of three houses, the Gogolin and Steinwage estates , a mill and fishing rights in the Vistula were confirmed.
The brothers left the city probably in 1509 and returned all their property there. The cause may have been military events. The school - Nicolaus Copernicus is said to have attended it - continued to exist until around 1536.
The brothers had a large library and probably a printing press in Culm. Some volumes have survived, including works by the Devotio moderna .
literature
- Wilhelm Heine: Academia Culmensis. An outline of the story . In: Journal of the West Prussian History Association . Vintage XLI (41). 1900. pp. 149–188, here pp. 152–156, with documentary texts PDF
- Zenon Hubert Nowak: Bracia Wspólnego Życia i ich szkoła w Chełmnie (1473–1536 / 1545) [The brothers from common life and their school in Culm]. In: Zapiski historyczne . 52, 1987. pp. 53-77.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eliza Szandorowska: Biblioteka i pracownia introligatorska Braci Wspólnego Życia w Chełmnie . Warsaw 1972.