Conrad Bodenstab (clerk)

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Conrad Bodenstab (also: Konrad Bodenstab ; * 1588 in Hanover ; † 24 August 1657 ibid) was a Princely Braunschweig-Lüneburg clerk , as well as a citizen , brewer , deacon and provisional at the Aegidienkirche in Hanover.

Life

Conrad Bodenstab was the son of Heinrich Bodenstab or Heinrich Bodestab (around 1547–1623) and Margareta Paxmann (around 1565–1618) , who worked in “ Herighausen ”. Born in the “great danger year 1588”, he attended the municipal Latin school in his hometown until he was 20 years old. In 1608 Albertus Block , the princely Brunswick-Lüneburg bailiff of the Marienwerder monastery , took him into his service as a copyist for two years . From there, Bodenstab went to Bremen in 1610 , initially for two years as a scribe for the Junkers and dean of the Bremen Cathedral, Frantz Marschalck, who was commissioned by the Archbishopric . He then entrusted him with the management of all his property and - at the request of Bodenstab - issued him an honorable letter of recommendation after five years of activity.

At the urgent request of his father, Bodenstab returned to Hanover at the age of 27 in order to set up his own household there and, in particular, to run the family's own brewery , which was allowed to be operated by the brewing lawyers . About two years later he got engaged to Marie, daughter of the bailiff Block, whom he married on May 11, 1617 in the Aegidienkirche. The 41-year marriage resulted in eleven children, including two stillbirths and seven who died in childhood. He later became the grandfather of 17 grandchildren through a surviving daughter and son.

During the Thirty Years' War , Bodenstab fully complied with its contribution obligations to pay the enemy occupiers and, as one of 24 men with his “consilis”, served the common good of the entire city. When the tower of the Kreuzkirche was badly damaged by a storm in 1630, Bodenstab took care of the security and repairs, advanced the necessary money, administered the church register, took care of the payment of salaries for the preachers and other church servants and administered the finances for the Preservation and renovation of the church building and the rectory.

After the death of Franz von Windtheim in 1634, Conrad Bodenstab was appointed church mayor and deacon of the Aegidienkirchen community. In 1641 he entrusted his daughter Elisabeth Bodenstab to the clergyman David Erythropel, who also worked at the Aegidienkirche .

Bodenstab successfully organized a collection for the construction of a new church organ, which the organ builder Adolph Compenius received in 1646. After his death in 1650, Johan Funcke took over the further construction of the organ until 1660, for which the carver Tönnie's flower was also frequently mentioned.

For 23 years and until the end of his life, Bodenstab exercised his ecclesiastical offices, weakened only by the accumulation of water in his legs, which increased in the last years of his life . Most recently, he suffered from several paroxysms , with chills and fever, against which the court medic Christoph Arnold Konerding prescribed various medications. Pastor Georg Erythropel , who stood by the dying man in his last hours in his house, gave the funeral sermon printed by Georg Friedrich Grimm for Bodenstab, who was buried on August 30, 1657 in the churchyard of S. Aegidii. An epitaph for the deceased was also set up at the church .

Aftermath

More than two centuries after Bodenstab's death, local history researcher August Jugler published In his 1876 book From Hanover's Vorzeit. A contribution to the history of German culture, a longer excerpt from the funeral sermon written by Pastor Erythropel in 1657 in favor of Bodenstabs, in order to - in the analysis of other such obituaries as well - present Conrad Bodestab as a "good citizen" characterized in this way.

literature

  • Georg Erythropel : Erected epitaph and grave inscription Also well-founded honor seule of the true godliness ... composed and set and at the funeral of the ... Conradi Bodestabs, of the churches of S. Aegidii in Hanover ... Dicaconi, as the same on August 24th on Days Bartholomaei ... separated from this world, and then in a crowded gathering on the 30th ejusdem in the churchyard there in his little rest room was settled ... in a held corpse sermon ... declared and hung up / by M. Georgium Erythropilum, the Christian Congregation to S. Aegidien Pastorem , Hanover: printed by Georg Friedrich Grimmen, 1657; Digitalisat the state and University Library (SUB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Georg Erythropel: Erected epitaph and grave script ... , funeral sermon, Hanover: Grimm, 1657; Digitized version of the Göttingen State and University Library
  2. ↑ a b Joachim Lampe: Aristocracy, court nobility and state patriciate in Kurhannover. The spheres of life of the higher officials at the Electoral Hanoverian central and court authorities 1714 - 1760 (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , Volume 24) (= Studies on the history of the estates of Lower Saxony , Volume 2), Volume 2: Lists of officials and ancestors , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1963, p. 192; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ Otto von Dassel: Familiengeschichtliche Blätter. Journal for the Promotion of Family History Research for the Nobility and Bourgeoisie , Vol. 1 (1903) -7 (1909) = Vol. 1–3, ed. from vol. 1 Archive for Family History, Döbeln, Saxony: self-published Otto von Dassel, 1906, p. 176; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ Florian Hoffmann: Kreuzkirche , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 368
  5. ^ Elias Friedrich Schmersahl : M. Elias Friedrich Schmersahls ... reliable news from recently deceased scholars , Volume 1, cell: Joachim Andreas Deez, 1748, p. 202; Digitized via Google books
  6. ^ Arnold Nöldeke : Organ , in ders .: The art monuments of the city of Hanover , part 1: Monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hanover , The art monuments of the province of Hanover vol. 1, no Buchhandlung, 1932, p. 123; limited preview in Google Book search
  7. ↑ August Jugler: From Hanover's prehistory. A contribution to German cultural history , 2nd edition, Hanover: Verlag von Carl Rümpler, 1876, p. 299; Digitized via Google books
personal data
SURNAME Floor stick, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Floor stick, Konrad; Bodestab, Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Braunschweig-Lüneburg clerk, brewer, deacon and provisional
DATE OF BIRTH 1588
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1657
Place of death Hanover