Caspar Tryller

Caspar Tryller

Coat of arms vonTryller (von Triller)

Caspar Tryller , also Caspar Triller , (born June 9, 1542 in Graba ; † March 8, 1625 in Sangerhausen ) was an Electoral Saxon civil servant and founder of several foundations .

Life

After attending school in Saalfeld, the pastor's son Tryller worked from 1559 to 1563 as a clerk for Dr. Stephan Klott in Weimar . 1563 he became a clerk in Roda for Notarius publicus appointed and the following year as clerk to the Leuchtenburg added. In 1570 he was appointed town clerk in Neustadt an der Orla . From 1571 to 1586 he was office Schösser or bailiff in Sangerhausen , then treasurer in Dresden and superintendent of the mines. When he was removed from office in 1594, he retired to his manor in Emseloh . In 1596 he was appointed bailiff to Colditz by the widowed Electress Sophie von Brandenburg , in 1597 he was entrusted with the administration of all her Witthum and remained in this position until his death.

For his loyal service, Tryller received a privilege from Elector Christian von Sachsen in 1588 , which exempted him from tax payments for his current and future possessions. At the time, this mainly affected his house on Neuer Markt in Sangerhausen , which he had built from 1616 to 1622 and is now known as the New Palace . Together with his younger brother Michael , who, like him, worked in Sangerhausen until his death, he received the title of nobility from Emperor Rudolf II on January 28, 1592 . At his death in 1625 Tryller left a capital fortune of 141,000 guilders, including his foundation monies. His two sons Caspar (1569-1612) and Heinrich (1570-1614) had died childless before their father. Tryller was buried on March 20, 1625 in the Jakobikirche in Sangerhausen. His wall epitaph made of black marble depicts him and his wife life-size in white alabaster.

Foundations

On Michaelmas Day 1616, Tryller pledged 3,600 guilders to the city of Sangerhausen against the mortgage pledging of the city stables. In 1617 he decreed that the annual interest of 216 guilders should be used as follows:

• 60 guilders as endowment for a vice rector position at the Saalfeld school (half to be paid to the council of the city of Saalfeld at Easter and Michaelmas)
• 30 guilders for the hospitals in St. Gangloff and in Kieselhausen near Sangerhausen (6 groschen per week)
• 20 guilders, which were to be distributed to poor schoolboys (preferably from Tryller's relatives) every year on June 9th, Tryller's birthday
• 20 florins to the superintendent in Sangerhausen
• 10 guilders to the deacon of St. Jacob in Sangerhausen
• 10 guilders to the parish administrator in Sangerhausen
• 10 florins to the deacon of St. Ullrich in Sangerhausen
• 10 guilders to the school principal in Sangerhausen
• 6 guilders each to the four schoolmates and the sexton at St. Jacob
• 16 guilders for an honest convivium for the collators of his foundation.

In the event that members of the Tryller family got into need, the 30 guilders were allowed to be used for the hospitals in St. Gangloff and Kieselhausen and the 20 guilders for the poor schoolboys for the needy family members.

The state government of Electoral Saxony gave Tryller 5900 guilders in capital in exchange for 354 guilders annual interest for the establishment of the Tryller free table at the University of Leipzig . Of this, 330 guilders were to be used "for all time and without ever asking for a subsidy" for 12 students a year to give them free table in the Konvikt of the university as well as six rooms and chambers in the Collegium Paulinum . The remaining 24 guilders are to be given to the inspectors of the scholarship holders. The implementation of this foundation can be verified until the end of the 19th century.

The foundation conditions of his three foundations in Leipzig, Saalfeld and Sangerhausen were recorded in a deed of foundation on September 29, 1617.

literature

• Ernst Koch: The Kaspar Tryllers Foundation of September 29, 1617 and the Tryller family tree , writings of the Verein für Meiningische Geschichte und Landeskunde 7, Meiningen 1889