Dietrich von Schachten

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Family coat of arms from Schachten

Dietrich von Schachten (* around 1445 ; † 1503 ) was a North Hessian nobleman and ministerial who wrote a detailed travel description for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1491. His report, obtained from copies from 1613 onwards, is characterized above all by his descriptions of places and customs in Italy and the Orient as well as the administrative handling of the pilgrimage. Dietrich von Schachten is mentioned in a document from 1468 to 1503.

origin

Dietrich von Schachten came from the noble von Schachten family , who had their ancestral seat in Schachten near Grebenstein and whose members had served as ministerials in the Landgrave of Hesse since the 14th century . He was a son of Eckbrecht von Schachten and his wife, unknown by name, from the Hase family.

career

Grebenstein

From 1468 at the latest, and until his death in 1503, Dietrich von Schachten served the Landgraves of Hesse as bailiff and councilor. Even under Landgrave Ludwig II he was bailiff at Grebenstein from 1468 to 1472; he later held this office again from 1485 to 1498. From 1483 to 1487 he is notarized as a bailiff to Gieselwerder ; he had to return the customs to Allendorf ad Werra . In 1486 he was present at the funeral of Margrave Albrecht von Brandenburg in Heilbronn. 1487 and 1491 he has been a Secret Council of Landgrave Wilhelm I expressed. In 1487 he was bailiff in Trendelburg , bailiff in Schöneberg from 1487 to 1502 , and bailiff in Plesse from 1500 to 1501 .

Pilgrimage

Jerusalem 1487 (from the travel description of Conrad Grünenberg )

On April 10, 1491, Landgrave Wilhelm I set out on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. During his journey he stopped at the ducal court in Innsbruck , visited Rome and Venice , and traveled on via Ragusa , Rhodes and Cyprus . Dietrich von Schachten accompanied his employer and, as he admits, described the trip as a "short break and in memory of all experiences" in a travel report. In addition to Dietrich von Schachten, the Landgrave was accompanied by around 15 people, including Hermann von Wartensleben, Christian von Hanstein, Arnold von Stammer / Stein, a cook and a few servants.

In Jerusalem the members of the group were knighted by the Holy Sepulcher on August 22nd . On the way back from the trip, which lasted until mid-February 1492, Dietrich was accepted into the order of the jug and the griffin by King Ferdinand I in Naples on December 13, 1491 .

literature

  • Karl E. Demandt: The personal state of the Landgraviate of Hesse in the Middle Ages . Second part, Marburg, 1981, pp. 727-729.
  • Walter Hueck (main processor): Genealogical manual of the nobility . Adelslexikon, Volume XII, Limburg / Lahn, 2001, p. 295.
  • Karl Poppe: History of the sex of those from and to Schachten . Göttingen, 1933.
  • Reinhold Röhricht : The Germans in the Holy Land . Reprint 1894, Aalen 1968.
  • Dietrich von Schachten: In God's name we go .... The pilgrimages of Landgrave Wilhelm the Elder of Hesse to the holy land. Heimatschollen-Verlag A. Bernecker, Melsungen, 1925. Series Hessen-Nassauische Bücherei.
  • Hermann Schelenz: Landgrave Wilhelm's trip to Palestine in 1491 . Communications from the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, 1913/14, pp. 41–45.
  • C. v. Stamford (ed.): The pilgrimages of the Landgraves Ludwig I and Wilhelm I of Hesse to the Holy Grave . In: Hessenland, Journal for Hessian History and Literature, Jg. 1887, pp. 154–221.
  • Bianca Weyers: "Manor in Schachten". In: Herrenhäuser, Schlösser, Burgen, Gutshöfe, Kassel, 2004, pp. 48–51.
  • Werner Wiegand: Interesting facts about our city Immenhausen . Immenhausen, 1998, pp. 109-112.
  • Julius Pistor:  Schachten, Dietrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 486.
  • Phillip Landgrebe: "Dietrich von Schachten's travel report" (pdf file) . In: Journal for Hessian History and Regional Studies (ZHG), Vol. 123 (2018), pp. 177–198.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Person state No. 2583
  2. ^ Dietrich Huschenbett: Dietrich von Schachten. In: Burghart Wachinger et al. (Hrsg.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition, volume 2. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-11-007264-5 , column 146.
  3. ↑ Magdeburg Uradel - Adelslexikon
  4. ↑ Person State No. 1000
personal data
SURNAME Schachten, Dietrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH around 1445
DATE OF DEATH 1503