Epitaph of Bartold Busse

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Photo print with the subtitle "Christ treading the press"

The epitaph of Bartold Busse was a grave monument at the Nikolaikapelle in front of Hanover . The Renaissance - Epitaph of the 16th century during the bombing of Hannover in World War II destroyed. It commemorated Bartold Busse, who died on October 19, 1592. The deceased was married to Katharina von Wintheim, whose coat of arms can be found on the epitaph at the top right opposite the Bussesche coat of arms.

The archivist Otto Jürgens (1862–1929) recorded Bartold Busse in his 1907 Hanover Chronicle as a jury member of the Hanover City Council for the term of office from 1574 to 1586. According to the chronicle, Busse is said to have fallen from a horse-drawn carriage and then for more than ten years have been bedridden. The long period of his illness was the reason for both the unusual motif for a tomb with the depiction of Christ in the winepress ( Isaiah 63: 2-5  EU ) and the selection of quotations from the Bible .

Above the wine press God the Father appears in the clouds with a sword, below in the foreground Bartold Busse and his wife adoring on their knees.

The imprint of a photograph of the epitaph, made by the “Aubeldruck-Anstalt, Aubel & Kaiser, Lindenhöhe near Cöln”, can be found in August Jugler's book From Hanover's Prehistory .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family history sheets. Monthly journal for the entire German genealogy , ed. from the Central Agency for German Personal and Family History, Volume 8 (born 1910), 1911, pp. 12-13; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ a b Sabine Wehking: DI 36, City of Hanover, No. 175 † on the website of the German Inscriptions Online (DIO)
  3. ↑ August Jugler: From Hanover's prehistory. A contribution to the history of German culture, 2nd edition, Hanover: Verlag von Ernst Kniep, 1883, photomechanical reprint [of the edition]; Hannover-Döhren: Verlag von Harro von Hirschheydt, 1979, ISBN 3-7777-0032-0 , plate 13 (after page 308)