Tomb of Dorothea Mehlbaum
The tomb of Dorothea Mehlbaum on the old St. Nicholas Cemetery in Hanover is a Grade II listed and presumably in 1654 by the sculptor Peter Koster created Standmal for alderman, captain of the jury and treasurer Lorenz Niemeyer and his wife Dorothea Mehlbaum.
family
Pastor Melchior Ludolph Sattler's “memory of honor” for Dorothea Mehlbaum can be summarized as follows in today's language: She was the daughter of the Hanoverian citizen Heizo Mehlbaum and Margareta Volckmers. She lost her father at the age of 12; through the death of her mother in 1616 she was ultimately an orphan; without supplier. Soon afterwards the virgin was married to the jury captain Lorentz Niemeyer on September 21, 1617 in Hanover - "with consensus and approval on both sides of the brothers and other close relatives ." Although the couple could not have children, the wife led a life described as impeccable as a loving housewife who stood by her husband in spite of the suspicions expressed against him by third parties at times. She worked threads with the spindle and worked wool and flax into fabrics. She cared for the poor and needy and eventually adopted an orphan for a child. The one described in Pastor Sattler's Christian obituary as virtuous and modest had wished during her lifetime to be buried with her grandparents and friends in the St. Nikolai cemetery.
At the end of her life, the previously regular churchgoer fell ill around Christmas 1653, but was able to at least partially recover for a short time after visiting the house of the city physician Hurlebusch senior , who died soon after, and then the court medicus Dietrich Konerding . After almost a year of illness, despite the drugs and medicines most recently prescribed by city physician Christian Busmann , she died in the presence of Magister Ludolph Walter , her confessor Justus Henricus Barnstorff and other Christian "matrons" during common prayer.
For the "Laurentii Neumeyers / Haus Zier" the typist and arithmetic master Johannes Hemeling wrote a funerary inscription, followed by a poem written in Latin by Johan Daniel Ludovici .
description
On the relief in the upper half of the picture, the Niemeyer-Mehlbaum couple frames a Pietà on which the Mater dolorosa is pierced by the sword. Above, God the Father is enthroned on a cross, vaulted by a pair of figures. In the background the three Golgotha crosses.
The personal inscription below the half of the picture of the 2.40 m high and 0.71 m wide work of art reads
"[...] Lorentz Niemeyer, council administrator, captain of the jury members and Camerararius, b. 1554 "
as well as the woman
"Dorothea Mehlbaums"
born January 1, 1589, died November 30, 1654.
When this privately commissioned stone was made when his partner died, Niemeyer was still alive. He did not die until 1663. He only received an official stone after his own death, with which the City of Hanover apparently wanted to honor him.
The tomb was erected in the “Memorial courtyard to S. Nicolai ” at the beginning of the 20th century .
literature
- Melchior Ludolph Sattler : Status Christianorum, That is: The true believers' happiness and condition / how they are attacked / hated and persecuted by the ungodly world because of their piety / and what their consolation should be in such persecution / From the beautiful church song / I like misfortune not again / [et] c. : Bey ... funeral of ... Frawen Dorotheen Mehlbaums / Des ... Mr. Laurentii Niemeyers / this city jury Hauptmans and Camerarii ... HaußEhr / Which on the day of Andraeae November 30th. expired 1654th afternoon of the year between 3 and 4 o'clock ... fall asleep / and then the 7th day of the following month of December. ... been adopted / Described / by M. Melchiore Ludolpho Sattlern / the parish churches to H. Creutz Pastore , Hanover / Printed by Georg Friedrich Grimmen. In 1666. Digitalisat the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage (SBB)
- Carl Schuchhardt : No. 92. Narrow stand of Lorenz Niemeyer and his wife Dorothea Mehlbaum, 1654 , in the latter: The Hanoverian Sculptors of the Renaissance , Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1909, pp. 129–130; Digitized via archive.org
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Carl Schuchhardt: No. 92. Narrow Standmal of Lorenz Niemeyer and his wife Dorothea Mehlbaum, 1654 , in this: The Hanoverian Sculptors of the Renaissance , Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1909, pp. 129-130; Digitized via archive.org
- ↑ * Gerd Weiß , Marianne Zehnpfennig: Nikolaikapelle and Nikolaifriedhof. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 1, vol. 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 57ff .; here: p. 58; as well as in the middle of the addendum to volume 10.2, list of architectural monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 3ff.
- ↑ a b c Melchior Ludolph Sattler: Ehrengedächtnüß Frawen Dorotheen Mehlbaums ... , Hanover: Grimm, 1666
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 41.6 " N , 9 ° 43 ′ 56" E