Gerricus

Gerricus sarcophagus in the St. Margareta Basilica , Düsseldorf - Gerresheim

Gerricus (also: Gerrich ) (* 9th century ; † 9th century) was a Franconian nobleman who owned a lot of land in the area of today's Düsseldorf district of Gerresheim . The place name of Gerresheim (originally: Gerichesheim) is derived from him.

Around 870 Gerricus founded the Gerresheim monastery , a canonical monastery (coenobium), as a home for high nobility ladies. His alleged daughter Regenbirg (also Regienbierg / Reginberga) as the first abbess, like his relative Hathebold, the first bailiff of the monastery, is probably an invention of the Regenbirgischen document , a forgery from around 1200.

The bones of Gerricus, who was never beatified but was called Blessed in the Catholic Church because of his relationship with the Pope, are in the Gerricus sarcophagus from the 14th century in the former collegiate church, today's Basilica of St. Margaret . This is a highly Gothic tumba , which was made from a single block of trachyte and provided with circular pointed arches with finials and crenellated turrets. The sarcophagus stood in the parish church of Gerresheim until the 17th century, which was south of the collegiate church until 1892.

Gerricus is namesake for pharmacies, hotels, travel agencies, sports trophies, squares, a school, the Gerresheim scout tribe and a local junk market.

literature

Peter Stegt: Who was Gerrich ?: The origins of Gerresheim in the context of politics, religion and region , Nordhausen, 2016, ISBN 3-95948-128-4

Individual evidence

↑ Rhenish document book. Older documents up to 1100, vol. 1–2, edit. by Erich Wisplinghoff , editor: Wolf-Rüdiger Schleidgen u. a. (= Publications of the Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde 57), Düsseldorf 1972, 1994, here: Vol. 2, No. 178 pp. 69–71; on this Brigide Schwarz, The Mintard Parish Church in the Middle Ages: Church - Pfarrsprengel - Geistliche, in: Zeitschrift des Geschichtsverein Mülheim ad Ruhr, Issue 92, 2017, pp. 11-69 (commentary, pp. 14-19; diplomatic analysis and translation, pp. 39-45).

personal data
SURNAME	Gerricus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gerrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Frankish nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH	9th century
DATE OF DEATH	9th century

[1] Rhenish document book. Older documents up to 1100, vol. 1–2, edit. by Erich Wisplinghoff , editor: Wolf-Rüdiger Schleidgen u. a. (= Publications of the Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde 57), Düsseldorf 1972, 1994, here: Vol. 2, No. 178 pp. 69–71; on this Brigide Schwarz, The Mintard Parish Church in the Middle Ages: Church - Pfarrsprengel - Geistliche, in: Zeitschrift des Geschichtsverein Mülheim ad Ruhr, Issue 92, 2017, pp. 11-69 (commentary, pp. 14-19; diplomatic analysis and translation, pp. 39-45).