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Calixtus Kern (born October 15, 1577 in Stockholm , Kingdom of Sweden , † April 9, 1656 in Sangerhausen , Electorate of Saxony ) was an electoral Saxon mountain official. He was the mountain bailiff in Sangerhausen.

Life

Calixtus Kern came from Sweden and came to the Electorate of Saxony at the beginning of the 17th century. First he settled in the mountain town of Schneeberg in the Saxon Ore Mountains , where he can be traced back to 1612, but did not make it at home.

In Leipzig on January 16, 1619 he was appointed mountain bailiff of the Elector of Saxony. He was used in the official city of Sangerhausen. There he was responsible for the observance of the manorial mountain shelf and the taking of the mountain tithe for the Elector of Saxony.

He chose the small town of Pölsfeld near Sangerhausen as the center of his life . There he had his own pew built in the church. During the Thirty Years' War he had to witness several looting of the Sangerhausen mining and steel works as well as his own household effects. In 1634 he finally moved to Sangerhausen, after having bought a free estate there in Magdeburger Strasse.

He was buried on April 17, 1656 in the St. Ulrici Church in Sangerhausen. The tombstone with a pictorial half-relief has been preserved to this day.

family

He married in 1627 in the electoral residence at the smelter in front of Sangerhausen. His wife was Barbara née Prenckenhoff.

literature

Thilo Ziegler : The history of the Sangerhäuser Berg- und Hüttenwerk from the beginning to modern times . Issue 1 Der Gesamtüberblick , self-published, 2011, p. 37f.
Rudolf Mirsch: Personalities of the Mansfeld mining and metallurgy industry . In: Announcements 126 of the Mansfeld Miners and Huts Association e. V., 6/2013.

Web links

Calixtus Kern in: Manuscripts, autographs, bequests in the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden

Individual evidence

↑ The predecessor of today's St. Moritz Church .
↑ Mathias Köhler: St. Ulrici in Sangerhausen (= large architectural monuments, issue 458), 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1998.

personal data
SURNAME	Kern, Calixtus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Saxon mountain official
DATE OF BIRTH	October 15, 1577
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stockholm , Kingdom of Sweden
DATE OF DEATH	April 9, 1656
Place of death	Sangerhausen , Electorate of Saxony

[1] The predecessor of today's St. Moritz Church .

[2] Mathias Köhler: St. Ulrici in Sangerhausen (= large architectural monuments, issue 458), 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1998.