Gottfried von Wedderkop

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Gottfried von Wedderkop also Wedderkopp , (born March 6, 1689. In Tremsbüttel ; † January 25, 1741 in Lübeck ), was a German diplomat in the Danish service, bailiff , district administrator and canon of Lübeck .

Life

Gottfried von Wedderkop was a son of Magnus von Wedderkop and his wife Margaretha Elisabeth von Pincier († 1731) and brother of Friedrich Christian von Wedderkop .

Steinhorst manor house

As a child, he received a canon position in the Lübeck cathedral chapter on October 12, 1701 , which Christian August von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf had resigned after part of the chapter had elected him coadjutor . In 1710 he became a Danish chamberlain. The following year he went on a cavalier tour that took him to England and the Netherlands. In 1713 he succeeded his father as a bailiff in Tremsbüttel, and in 1716 also district administrator.

In 1717 he received the Steinhorst estate from his father . From 1721 to 1724 he had the manor house rebuilt. From 1723 to 1728 he was the royal Danish ambassador to Paris . At this time, Wedderkop is said to have a love affair with Madame de Pompadour's mother , Louise-Madeleine de La Motte . On September 17, 1728 in Wolfenbüttel, on behalf of the Danish king, he accepted his enfeoffment with the Stad- und Butjadinger land by Duke August Wilhelm (Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel) . A little later he became a privy councilor and chief steward in Wolfenbüttel .

After his father's death in 1721, he also inherited Moisling . He was very committed to the Jewish community in Moisling and in 1723 obtained passes to the city from the Lübeck City Council. On December 6, 1726, he sent a request to King Friedrich IV , in which he asked for permission to build a synagogue for the Jews of Moisling. The answer from the Danish king has not been received, but it must have been positive, as Wedderkop built a synagogue in Moisling the following year and let the Jewish community use it.

Von Wedderkop gave the church clock to the Bargteheide church together with his brother and the church lawyer Joachim Filter .

In 1724 he bought the Gelting estate , the property of which, however, was encumbered by the arguments with the daughters of Georg Heinrich von Görtz, who was executed in Stockholm in 1719 . In 1736 he had to sell it to the royal rent chamber in Copenhagen .

In 1737 he wanted to leave Steinhorst to Georg II ; The King of Denmark, to whom Wedderkopp had assured claims to Steinhorst twenty years earlier, had the estate occupied by 50 Danish dragoons on November 24, 1738 and took possession of the king to protect his rights . On December 14th, 200 Brunswick soldiers appeared, attacked the Danes, killed Captain Christensen and seized Steinhorst Castle. The King of Denmark now gathered more troops; However, the Danish ambassador Ernst Hartwig von Bernstorf zu Hanover succeeded in concluding a treaty on March 5, 1739, according to which the king later ceded all his claims to Kurbraunschweig for 70,000 guilders. On August 4, 1739 Steinhorst became Lauenburg again. Gottfried von Wedderkop was present and at the same time renounced all his rights as a result of the contract concluded on December 12, 1737 and moved to Lübeck.

Since 1713 he was married to his cousin Friederica Amalia (1697–1757), a daughter of the Lübeck cathedral provost Johann Ludwig von Pincier , Baron von Königstein. The marriage ended in divorce. They had a son with Johan Ludvig von Wedderkop.

View into the dean 's chapel with the tombstone of Reimar Peter von Rheder († 1711) and the sarcophagi from the Wedderkop chapel under the south tower

In 1725 he had acquired a place on the south wall under the south tower of Lübeck Cathedral and had it expanded into a burial chapel . It was closed off by a simple wall divided by pilasters and a cornice. A black marble plaque with an inscription was set over the central entrance door. His wife, Gottfried von Wedderkop himself, who died on July 3, 1724 in Paris, as well as the couple's two children, the cavalry master and canon Magnus von Wedderkop († 1741) and the conventual of the Uetersen monastery, Margaretha Elisabeth von Wedderkop , rested in sandstone sarcophagi in the chapel. † 1774). The architecture of the chapel was completely destroyed in 1942; however, the sarcophagi have been preserved and are now placed in the choir in the dean's chapel .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Prange: Bishop and cathedral chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, Principality and part of the country 1160–1937. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 403 has a different building 1690 Febr. 24/25 .
  2. ^ Wolfgang Prange: Bishop and cathedral chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, Principality and part of the country 1160–1937. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , p. 403 No. 319
  3. ↑ The as geltingische Wedderkop-Goertzische Acta collected pamphlets 8 Sammelbände include in the university library Kiel
  4. ↑ Kobbe (lit.), p. 150
  5. ↑ Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, p. 98 Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
personal data
SURNAME Wedderkop, Gottfried von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wedderkopp, Gottfried von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish bailiff, district administrator and diplomat; Canon in Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1689
PLACE OF BIRTH Tremsbüttel
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1741
Place of death Lübeck