Dietrich Arnsborg

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In 1533, Dietrich Arnsborg on a raised pedestal made the citizens swear by the teachings of the Reformation ;
Painting by Ferdinand Hodler on behalf of Heinrich Tramm , 1913, "Hodler-Saal", New Town Hall of Hanover

Dietrich Arnsborg (also: von Arensborg ) (* around 1475 in Hanover ; †  1558 ibid.) Was, among other things, word holder and significantly involved in the introduction of the Reformation in the city of Hanover.

Life

Dietrich von Arensborg was a “son of the new citizen of the same name who was naturalized [in Hanover] in 1473 and was first mentioned in 1486 in the lap registers [of the city]”. In 1498 the junior was also listed for the first time .

Two years later Arnsborg was in 1500 Lord of the Guard of the Council of the city and 1504 brick master. A good two decades later, from 1525 to 1540, Arnsborg was both the elected elder and the holder of the word “ vulgarity ”, the community of non- guild-bound citizens of Hanover, “to which he still belonged until 1548, although no longer as a word holder”.

Even before that, Dietrich Arnsborg was significantly involved in the introduction of the Reformation in Hanover : On June 26, 1533, the word holder made the citizens gathered on the market square between the then town hall and the market church swear to stand by the new church doctrine initiated by Martin Luther . Arnsborg is said to have called out to the citizens: Everyone who thinks now, an Evangelical Broder to syn un by the Evangelio to blywen, put your hand up in the air. Thereupon the new teaching was accepted unanimously. This oath scene could be seen on the base of the Luther memorial at the market church in a relief representation that has not survived .

This oath marked the beginning of the Reformation "from below", against the will of the old believing clergy and the Catholic sovereign Erich I , Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Calenberg-Göttingen . The oath was repeated on August 20th of that year in the old town hall; the city council, which had adhered to the previous faith, had to give way in the same year by fleeing to Hildesheim , which was still Catholic at the time . Anton von Berckhusen became the first mayor of Hanover after the Reformation .

Whose been translated on 28 February 1558 Arnsborg Testament in "City Protocol Book" handed down is, is dead "probably" between 28 February and 16 March 1558th

Honors, aftermath

“ Authoritarian versus autonomous ?” Duke Ernst the Confessor at the Protestant Supper in 1525 - but he had nothing to do with the Reformation “from below” through Arensborg and other citizens ;
Relief in the historical frieze on the New Town Hall, Trammplatz ; Sculptor Peter Schumacher
  • For part of the scenic design of even the time of the German Empire built the New Town Hall in Hanover appointed city manager Heinrich Tramm the Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler : In his monumental painting unanimity of 1913 Worthalter Arnsborg on raised platform is at the center between the assembled - time typically all-male - citizens. Tramm held on to the painting, originally created for the mayor's hall , despite numerous hostilities at the time. The work survived both National Socialism and the air raids on Hanover during World War II and today occupies the full width of a wall in the Hodler Hall of the town hall.
  • In contrast to Hodler's 1913 painting, which emphasizes grassroots democracy , the historical frieze on the facade of the New Town Hall facing Trammplatz , which was created around the same time, emphasizes the rather autocratic , co-determination- hostile understanding of urban autonomy : not the citizens of 1533, but the "As early as 1525, Duke Ernst from Lüneburg, who joined the Reformation for primarily fiscal reasons , [...] had nothing to do with the Hanoverian Citizens' Reformation ", was immortalized in the right relief by the sculptor Peter Schumacher .
  • According to the address book of the city of Hanover , Arensborgstrasse , which was laid out in the Hanoverian district of Kleefeld in 1929 , was named "after an old Hanoverian patrician family ", but according to the archivist Helmut Zimmermann "more correctly after the word holder of Meinheit (the citizens who were not bound by guilds) during the Reformation" .

literature

Web links

Commons : Dietrich von Arnsborg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Helmut Zimmermann: Arnsborg ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ Ziegelherr was a municipal office. The bricklord was responsible for the supervision of the brickworks . [1] [2]
  3. ^ Franz Hinrich Hesse : Landmarks of local history. A guide through hikes through the city of Hanover and the surrounding area, compiled and described according to location, origin, importance, etc. , Helwingsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Hanover (n.d.; about 1929), p. 7, no. 37 (Arensborg, Dietrich)
  4. ↑ Illustration of the monument with the base from the time it was built
  5. ↑ a b The Reformation and its consequences. In: Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): History of the city of Hanover . From the beginnings to the beginning of the 19th century , Hanover: Schlütersche , 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , pp. 126-136, here in particular p. 126; online through google books
  6. ↑ 1533. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 37; online through google books
  7. ^ Klaus Mlynek : BERCKHUSEN, from (van) (1) Anton. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 50; online through google books
  8. ↑ Gerhard Schneider: Ferdinand Hodler and his painting for the New Town Hall in Hanover (see literature)
  9. ↑ Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer: Authoritarian versus autonomous ? (see literature)
  10. ^ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Trammplatz 2. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 206ff.
  11. ^ Helmut Zimmermann: Arensborgstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 28
personal data
SURNAME Arnsborg, Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnsborg, Dietrich von; Arensborg, Dietrich; Arensborg, Dietrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German word holder, was significantly involved in the introduction of the Reformation in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH around 1475
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 1558
Place of death Hanover