Gottschalk from Wickede

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Matthias Black : Gottschalk von Wickede with the sign of the circle society on the hand and on the family coat of arms
Epitaph in St. Marien (destroyed in 1942)

Gottschalk von Wickede (born June 16, 1597 in Lübeck ; † January 3, 1667 there ) was a mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Von Wickede came from a council family that has been recorded in Lübeck since the 14th century. He was the son of councilor Thomas von Wickede (1566–1626) and enrolled in 1612 at the University of Rostock . On April 17, 1627 he received the citizenship of Lübeck and on September 19, 1654 his nobility diploma.

Wickede was elected to the city council in 1644. In the years 1657-63 he was the treasurer and from 1659 mayor of the city. The council commissioned him in December 1661 to explain the dire situation of the budget to the townspeople. This triggered the cash process after several years of negotiations . In the related political dispute, he did not take the side of the Lübeck patriciate . In 1662 he sold his grain to the poor in Lübeck at half price because of the high prices.

Since 1627 was a member of the circle society and in 1636 was elected for life to the Schaffer (chairman). In 1642 he signed the company's statutes amendments.

He owned the following properties in Lübeck: Johannisstrasse (today Dr.-Julius-Leber-Strasse ) 8-10 (1644-1645), Krähenstrasse 18, Mengstrasse 26 (1646-1647), Königstrasse. 9 (1650), Poggenpohl [old no. 310] (1665), Fischergrube 5 (1664), Depenau 19 (1665–1666) and An der Trave 13 (1667). This also included the Kastorf and Wesloe estates at the gates of the city.

Today the Wickedestrasse in Lübeck's St. Lorenz district commemorates the Wickede family.

On June 8, 1658, Wickede bought a chapel in Lübeck Cathedral , but he is buried in the mayor's chapel of St. Mary's Church . His grave slab with coat of arms is preserved in the church, while the epitaph set for him in 1673 burned in 1942. His portrait can still be found in the hall of Lübeck's town hall and another one has hung in the city library since 1787, but it was no longer preserved by 1900.

family

Gottschalk was married several times:

  • (1.) Catharina Müller († October 10, 1629), daughter of Lübeck councilor Lorenz Möller ;
  • (2.) Ursula D. Wedemhof († June 7, 1647), daughter of the Lübeck mayor Heinrich Wedemhof ;
  • (3.) Margarete Lüneburg († May 19, 1647), daughter of Lübeck councilor Hieronymus Lüneburg and widow of Mayor Heinrich Köhler ;
  • (4.) Ursula D. von der Dyke († 1660), widow of a Rostock councilor;
  • (5.) Sophie M. Elvern († 1687), daughter of a councilor from Lüneburg.

The following children emerged from these marriages:

  • Anna Magdalena (* and † 1628)
  • Thomas Heinrich
  • Elisabeth (1633–1658), married to Lucas Stauber
  • Gottschalk, member of the circle society (No. 412)
  • Johann, member of the circle society (No. 414)
  • Anna (1638–1674), married to the Zirklern Bruno Warendorp and Heinrich Kerkring, mother of Gottschalk Kirchring
  • Alexander, member of the circle society (No. 415)
  • Paul (1641–1664), captain-lieutenant of the Braunschweig auxiliaries against the Turks
  • Magdalena Dorothea (1644–), married in 1663 to Heinrich Adrian Müller .

literature

  • Hartwig Beseler (Ed.): Art Topography Schleswig-Holstein Neumünster 1974, p. 63
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925. No. 769.
  • Gustav Schaumann , Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2: Petrikirche. Marienkirche. Salvation. Geist-Hospital Nöhring, Lübeck 1906, p. 360 (epitaph), p. 402 (tombstone).
  • Sonja Dünnebeil: The Lübeck Circle Society. Forms of self-portrayal of an urban upper class (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, published by the archive of the Hanseatic city, series B, volume 27) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1996. ISBN 3-7950-0465-9 , pp. 279–281 (with further sources and literature).

Web links

Commons : Gottschalk von Wickede  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Description by Anne-Dore Ketelsen-Volkhardt: Schleswig-Holstein Epitaphies of the 16th and 17th centuries. Neumünster: Wachholtz 1989 (Studies on Schleswig-Holstein Art History, Vol. 15) ISBN, s. 232f
personal data
SURNAME Wickede, Gottschalk from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1597
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1667
Place of death Lübeck