Christian Feyerabend

Christian Feyerabend (born January 17, 1629 in Königsberg , † October 31, 1696 in Königsberg) was the mayor of Königsberg.

Life

Feyerabend (alternative spelling: Feierabend) came from a middle-class family in Königsberg. Since 1614, this had an inverted battle ax as a coat of arms. His father (Johann) Albrecht Feyerabend (1577–1658) was Vice Mayor and Electoral Chamber Adjunct, his grandfather Hans Feyerabend (around 1530–1590) was a ducal “relative”, chronicler of Königsberg and author of the poem Marggraf Albrecht's life about Duke Albrecht I of Brandenburg- Ansbach .

Feyerabend's mother was Katharina († 1654), the daughter of the burgrave and pawnbroker of Georgenburg Sebastian Krause.

Feyerabend studied from 1647 in Leipzig and from 1649 at the University of Jena before he settled in Königsberg at the family estate on Kneiphofer Langgasse.

From 1655 to 1671 he was married to Anna Schwenn (1639–1671), the daughter of court attorney Balthasar Schwenn, and from 1672 to Dorothea von Schmittner (1651–1723).

Until his death, Feyerabend was mayor of Kneiphof , the most densely populated and wealthiest of the three Königsberg sub-towns, which were formally independent until 1724 and only then became the town of Königsberg, and made a contribution to the administrative reform in Prussia.

Under his direction, the construction of the city's penitentiary began in 1691, which had already been decided by Elector Friedrich Wilhelm in 1654 , but had been postponed due to the financial crisis at the time. Feyerabend himself made a considerable advance on the construction costs from his assets and his heirs also donated a considerable part of theirs to the institute. The building burned down in 1789 and was replaced by a new building.

Feyerabend had eight children from his first marriage, all of whom he survived, and seven children from his second marriage. His son Christian Feyerabend (1660–1692) was from 1688 Electoral Brandenburg Legation Secretary.

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• Johannes Gallindi: Königsberg city families. 1961.
• Fritz Gause: The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia. 1968, p. 115.
• K. Roemer (editor): Old Prussian gender studies. Volume 18, pp. 257ff.