Geseke Cletzen

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Geseke Cletzen († 1447 or 1448 in Hamburg ) was the founder of the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Hamburg.

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Geseke Cletzen was the daughter of the Hamburg councilor Albert Schreye and his wife Margarethe Rhode. Her first marriage was the Hamburg councilor Siegfried Clingspor. The children Henneke and Gerborch emerged from this marriage and died before their mother. After Siegfried Clingspor's death in 1406, she married Johann Cletzen in 1410 , who became a councilor in Hamburg in 1411 after participating in the 1410 uprising as the elected representative of the parish of St. Jacobi. The couple lived in a house on the Burstah and bought several breweries and residential buildings in the Hanseatic city .

During the Danish-Hanseatic War tried troops of the cities of Hamburg and Lübeck , Flensburg to conquer, but failed. Johann Cletzen was made responsible for the failure of the attack and was executed for this reason on January 16, 1429. Johann Cletzen wrote a will together with Geseke in which he stipulated that his entire fortune should be used for a pious foundation. Geseke Cletzen complied with her late husband's request. She converted the former home into a hospital. In the house, which offered space for 20 impoverished, sick and also bedridden residents, only women lived from the start.

In 1427 Hamburg mayor Hein Hoyer lost a sea battle against the Danish Navy. He then spent several years in captivity with two councilors and numerous Hamburg residents, from which Hoyer returned to Hamburg in 1432. In memory of those who died in the battle, he founded the St. Elisabeth brotherhood together with Geseke Cletzen and Simon von Utrecht , which was confirmed by the Hamburg council and Count Adolf VIII . The brotherhood took over the administration of the hospital founded by Geseke Cletzen and a chapel of Elisabeth of Thuringia , which was located in St. Nikolai. Geseke Cletzen held a leading role within the brotherhood until her death. She had extensive knowledge of the economic, social and ecclesiastic structures of the city. Despite the foundation of the hospital in Johann's memory, she had a large fortune.

Geseke Cletzen bought a garden in 1440 and looked after the children of her brother Dietrich (also called Tydeke) Schreye, who died in the 1420 war for Bergedorf . This is shown by her will, written in 1443, which lists extensive, valuable household items, numerous clothes, 16 marks in the form of salt rents, more than 20 marks and eight Rhenish gulden cash. She bequeathed these to monasteries of the Carthusian Order in Stettin , Rostock , Hildesheim , Ahrensbök and Frankfurt am Main . It is noticeable that your maid especially true Greteke Puttfarken and befriended women supplied by their heritage, to be named a Anneke Grise and the Beguine Wibke Roslevesdorf. The relatives Mette Cordes and Abelke Reuverdes are also mentioned. Further parts of her fortune inherited a scholarship foundation that her father Albert Schreye had founded.

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SURNAME Cletzen, Geseke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kletzen, Geseke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Founder of the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1447 or 1448
Place of death Hamburg