Elisabeth Beling

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Elisabeth Beling
Schleswig-Friedrichsberg, Trinity Church,

Elisabeth Beling , also Elisabeth Behling (* January 7, 1595 , † November 24, 1679 in Schleswig- Kratzenberg ) was a German donor.

Life

Elisabeth Beling's origin and maiden name are not clearly established. She probably came to Schleswig as a teenager and earned her living by serving as a companion for court officials and officers.

She married the officer Bonifacius Beling († 1630) and moved with him to Itzehoe ; her son Oswald was born there in 1625 . After the death of her husband, she was first accepted as a housekeeper in the house of Major General Hieronymus Plessen († August 2, 1639) at Gut Beckhof near Itzehoe, until she later returned to Schleswig. Her son was from the landlord adopted and received a good education, but died in 1646 at the smallpox .

Altar by the carver Henning Claussen

In 1649, in memory of her son, she donated the main altar of the Marienkirche in Rendsburg with a capital of 400 gold thalers ; the altar was a masterpiece by the woodcarver Henning Claussen . Already at a young age she is said to have taken a vow that she should one day become prosperous, to have a church built in her then place of residence Kratzenberg, in order to save herself the long path to St. Andreas Haddeby in Busdorf . With the death of her husband and son, Elisabeth Beling had gained a great fortune; she decided to use the assets for foundations and bequests for the benefit of the church and people in need. In 1650/1651 she had the Friedrichsberg Trinity Church built in Schleswig in memory of her husband and son . Adam Olearius , from whom her son had received lessons in mathematics and warfare , laid the foundation stone for the new building on April 9, 1650 . In the deed of foundation she undertook to cover the costs of the building materials, the wages for masons and carpenters, the altar , the sermon chair , the confessional and two bells. The inauguration of the church was carried out on May 11, 1651 by General Superintendent Johann Reinboth . Until her death, she exercised the patronage rights to the church, which then fell to national rule. The first pastor of the congregation was Michael Zwerg (1624–1675), who also held the diaconate. The fact that he was married to Elisabeth Beling, as Jensen claimed, is a mistake, which may be based on the fact that he named one of his sons (Christian) Oswald. The altar that she had bought from Rendsburg was replaced in 1719 by a bequest from Mayor Beck. The Friedrichsberg district developed around this church over the years.

The epitaph of the Beling family from 1668 on the north wall of the Dreifaltigkeitskirche, an ornamental cartilage structure , is attributed to the workshop of the carver Hans Gudewert the Younger . In the middle it shows the risen Jesus Christ, who triumphs over the world, death and the devil, on the right Bonifacius and Oswald Beling as officers in armor and on the left Elisabeth Beling.

Elisabeth Beling also donated a legacy to improve the entertainment of the pastors in Friedrichsberg and supported other church institutions. After her death, she decided to use her house, which was near the Trinity Church, as a poor house for five needy women from the Friedrichsberg community. The old poor house became today's modern parish hall, Elisabeth-Beling-Haus . The Satrup parish gave them a small poor house for six needy people.

Elisabeth Beling was buried in the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Friedrichsberg.

literature

  • Elisabeth Beling . In: Bernd Philipsen: Schleswiger heads . Husum 2013. ISBN 978-3-89876-671-5 . P. 22 f.
  • Falk Ritter: Was Elisabeth Beling, founder of the Friedrichsberger Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Schleswig in 1650, a born "von Frechter"? Schleswig 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive for state and church history of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein, Lauenburg and the neighboring states and cities . DCC Schwers Wittwe, 1840 ( google.de [accessed June 21, 2020]).
  2. ^ Art and Church. Retrieved June 22, 2020 .
  3. ^ Nicolaus Outzen : Investigations on the most memorable antiquities Schleswig and the Dannewerk. Altona 1826, pp. 34-36.
  4. ↑ Nicolaus Heldvader : Chronicle of the City of Schleswig: continued from 1603 to 1822 and accompanied by comments and additions by Joh. Chr. Jürgensen . Printed in the Royal Deaf Mute Institute, 1822 ( google.de [accessed June 22, 2020]).
  5. ↑ HNA Jensen: Attempt at church statistics of the Duchy of Schleswig . Kastrup, 1841, p. 1201–1205 ( google.de [accessed June 21, 2020]).
  6. ^ Johann Heinrich Zedler: Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Published by Johann Heinrich Zedler, 1750 ( google.de [accessed June 22, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Michael Kohlhaas and Jens Kirchhoff: dwarf (ius) from Strasburg in the Uckermark. January 9, 2020, accessed June 22, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Ev.-Luth. Parish of Schleswig. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .
  9. ^ Andreas Rumler: Schleswig-Holstein: Culture, history and landscape between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, the Elbe and the Flensburg Fjord . DuMont Reiseverlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3-7701-3566-0 ( google.de [accessed June 22, 2020]).
  10. ^ CO Heiberg: Communications on the poor with regard to the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein . K. Aue, 1835 ( google.de [accessed June 21, 2020]).
  11. ↑ Historical city tours through Schleswig. Tourist information Schleswig, accessed on June 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Beling, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Behling, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German donor
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1595
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1679
Place of death Schleswig- Kratzenberg