Caspar Rugg

Caspar Rugg (also Caspar Ruck ; first mentioned in St. Gallen in 1482 ; † 1509 ibid) was a Swiss merchant and mayor of St. Gallen (Switzerland).

Life

Caspar Rugg was born as the son of Ulrich Rugg, canvas merchant and guild master.

Like his father, he was a canvas merchant and thus a member of the tailors' guild and from 1485 a 911 and guild master.

In 1482 he occupied the public office of governor and in 1491 was master builder of the cathedral . From 1492 to 1499 he was, together with Hans Rainsperg and Niklaus Roth and from 1504 to 1506 together with Hans Bränders and Heinrich Hochreutiner , every three years mayor , former mayor and bailiff .

Caspar Rugg was married to Walpurga von Schwarzach.

Role in the conflict over the Münsterfriedhof

In 1504 Merz was involved in the conflict with Prince Abbot Franz von Gaisberg over the right to be buried and the fees at the Münsterfriedhof. This revolved around the St. Gallen merchant Ulrich Leeman, who had died in the St. Gallen monastery . The abbot believed he was entitled to have him buried in the local churchyard of his own accord. The priest of the Church of St. Laurenzen , however, did not want to grant the abbot this right and requested the body to be buried. The gravedigger, who had meanwhile begun to dig the grave, was forbidden by the mayor Caspar Rugg, who was accompanied by the town clerk , to continue digging, so that the abbot had to have the body buried in the collegiate church .

As a result, the magistrate had the bones kept in the ossuary confiscated by the minister's caretaker in order to have them confiscated by the city. This led to earlier disputes about the parish rights of the Church of St. Laurenzen flaring up again, in addition to the fact that the abbot viewed what happened as a punishable interference with the rights and freedoms of his monastery. This led to a long-term dispute, which was fought partly before the Confederates and partly before the Pope.

The pastor of Altstätten , Christoph Winkler, worked for the side of the monastery , and the lawyer Wolfgang Mangold from Constance , who was sent to the papal court in 1507 , worked for the city side . Because no agreement could be reached, Pope Julius II , who founded the Swiss Guard in 1506 , transferred the case to his legate Achille Grassi , Bishop of Città di Castello , who then traveled to Switzerland.

He summoned the parties to Bischofszell and was able to reach a settlement through his skill. In this comparison, the Church of St. Laurenzen expressly for Parish explained and the local pastor, the pastoral care of all outside the monastery district resident parishioners granted, the mayor and the council was granted the right to choose the priest, the abbot was the presentation right about this Awarded clergy. Anyone could, without obtaining the abbot's consent, establish spiritual benefits in the Church of St. Laurenzen out of his own fortune ; the right of patronage was reserved for the founder . The city council was allowed to set up altars, pictures and organs in this church, the church remained incorporated into the monastery , and the minster there was regarded as the main church , so that religious ceremonies, festivities and processions could only be held there. The churchyard with the ossuary and the other chapels was declared part of the monastery district, with the authority of the abbot to have the people who died within the scope of the monastery buried in the local churchyard without objection from the pastor of the church of St. Laurenzen, whereby the pastor does the exclusive right to bury all people who died outside the monastery district was granted. The withdrawal of the right negotiated in 1506 to set up a school at the Church of St. Laurenzen and to choose its teachers himself had a particularly negative effect on the city. This right now fell back to the abbot.

literature

August Naef : Chronicle or Memories of the City and Landscape of St. Gallen. With the epitome of the related Appenzell events. From the oldest to the more recent. Friedrich Schulthess, Zurich, Scheitlin, St. Gallen 1867, p. 64 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Patric Schnitzer: Rugg, Caspar. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

↑ Guild Constitution of the City of St. Gallen. Retrieved December 27, 2018 .
↑ Karl Wegelin: The parish church of St. Laurenzen from its origins to our times. A documented contribution to illuminating the church and Reformation history of the city of St. Gallen . Wegelin, St. Gallen 1832, p. 51 f . ( Limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 27, 2018]).
↑ Monika Reininger: Ulrich Lemans Reisen. Experience of a merchant from St. Gallen from the end of the 15th century in the Mediterranean and Provence . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3747-4 , p. 15 f . ( Limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 27, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Rugg, Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rugg, Kaspar; Jerk, Caspar; Jerk, Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss businessman and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century
DATE OF DEATH	1509
Place of death	St. Gallen

[1] Guild Constitution of the City of St. Gallen. Retrieved December 27, 2018 .

[2] Karl Wegelin: The parish church of St. Laurenzen from its origins to our times. A documented contribution to illuminating the church and Reformation history of the city of St. Gallen . Wegelin, St. Gallen 1832, p. 51 f . ( Limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 27, 2018]).

[3] Monika Reininger: Ulrich Lemans Reisen. Experience of a merchant from St. Gallen from the end of the 15th century in the Mediterranean and Provence . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3747-4 , p. 15 f . ( Limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 27, 2018]).