Christoph Frantze

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Christoph Frantze (* in the Harz Mountains) was a mountain master from Cologne (1669–1684) at the mining office of the Duchy of Westphalia .

Live and act

According to his own admission, Christoph Frantze came from an old mining family in Stolberg in the Harz Mountains . Little is known about his life before his time as a mountain champion in Cologne . In 1664/1665 he was in charge of miners from Silbach who were driving a tunnel at a planned copper mine in Hagen near Sundern . Frantze was the successor of the miner Caspar Engelhardt, who died in Olpe in 1668 . He received 200 Reichstaler annually. His reputation as a competent miner reached as far as Saxe-Gotha . However, his employer, the Elector of Cologne, Maximilian Heinrich von Bayern , refused to be "posted". Some reports by the miner Frantze have been preserved. They provide information about the diversity and scope of his activities. According to his own statement, Frantze is also the originator of the Kurkölnische Bergordnung of 1669. In 1684 Frantze fell from grace. He fled to the county of Waldeck and thus escaped the prince's control. Later he was among the visitors (and petitioners) of Duke Friedrich I of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg . From 1682 to 1690 he was listed in the appointment and salary books.

Electoral Cologne Mountain Regulations from 1669

family

He married Clara Prael from Schwerte on July 31, 1667 in Ramsbeck . In his second marriage he married Anna Catharina Höynck, a daughter of the Balver judge Johannes Höynck. He had the following (known) children:

  1. Max Frantze (Frantze asks Ferdinand von Wrede for a graduate degree for his son.)
  2. Johann Hermann Frantze (later Mayor of Meschede)
  3. Walter Frantze (later pastor to Balve and dean of Attendorn)

Works

  • Electoral Cologne Mountain Regulations from 1669

literature

  • Wilfried Reininghaus , Reinhard Köhne: Mining, smelting and hammer works in the Duchy of Westphalia in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period , Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-402-15161-7 , pp. 93-101
  • Horst Conrad: The Kurköln mountain order of the year 1669 and its environment in: Bergbau im Sauerland , ed. Westfälisches Schieferbergbaumuseum Schmallenberg-Holthausen, 1996, ISBN 3-930271-42-7 , pp. 153–171, pp. 153–171
  • Die Freiheit Meschede -500 years of civil language- , Meschede 1986, ISBN 3-9801248-0-0 , p. 175 u. 178
  • Johann Josef Scotti: Collection of the laws and ordinances that were passed in the former Electorate of Cologne (in the Rhenish Archstones of Cologne, in the Duchy of Westphalia and in the Veste Recklinghausen) on matters of state sovereignty, constitution, administration and justice , p. 1040ff.
  • Manfred Wolf: Sources on the history of Stift und Freiheit Meschede , Meschede 1981, p. 343
  • Roswitha Jacobsen: Friedrich I von Sachsen-Gotha and Altenburg Diaries 1667-1686 , Third Volume Commentary and Register, 2003, ISBN 3-7400-1033-9 , pages 607, 614, 615, 654, 692

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilfried Reininghaus : Mining cities in the Cologne Sauerland in: Stadt und Bergbau , 2004, ISBN 3-412-12204-1 , p. 61
  2. ^ Reports from the miner Christoph Frantze to the electoral Cologne miners Raban Gaudenz von Weichs and Ferdinand von Wrede
  3. ↑ Horst Conrad: The Kurköln mountain order of the year 1669 and its environment in: Bergbau im Sauerland , ed. Westphalian Slate Mining Museum Schmallenberg-Holthausen, 1996, ISBN 3-930271-42-7 , p. 156
  4. ↑ Appointment and salary books, page 205 (PDF; 3.2 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Frantze, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franzen, Christophel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION electoral Cologne mountain official
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Harz (low mountain range)
DATE OF DEATH 17th century