Gottschalk from Segraedt

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Gottschalk von Segraedt (* 15th century in Aachen ; † November 11, 1483 ibid) was aldermen and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .

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The son of the mayor Statz von Segraedt, senior and Titzel von Hochkirchen and brother of Statz, junior and Peter von Segraedt succeeded his father as a member of the college of aldermen and was first mentioned as such in 1467. From June 1474 he took over the office of sendschöffen . In 1471, 1476 and 1479 he was elected mayor of the Free Imperial City of Aachen.

Gottschalk von Segraedt was married to a certain Marie, with whom he had several children. Through his son Statz and grandson Gottschalk, he was the great-grandfather of the future mayor Anastasius von Segraedt . Gottschalk von Segraedt received the Segraedtsmühle am Johannisbach , also known as the Plattenbauchmühle , from his brother Statz . It was on the edge of the Carlsweiher on the site of what would later become the van Houtem cloth factory between Karlsgraben and Lochnerstraße and was used for the fulling mill and dye works there until 1817.

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