Hans von Sagan

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Hans Sagan is a fictional shoemaker journeyman handed down in the legend , who is said to have decided the Battle of Rudau in the Lithuanian Wars in 1370 in favor of the Teutonic Order due to his bravery . For this he was promoted to senior journeyman and ennobled by Emperor Charles IV (or the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order). He is the main character of the legend The Blue Sleeve in the German sagas of Ludwig Bechstein and one of the main characters in the dramatic poem The Battle of Rudau by Agnes Miegel .

This story is also linked with the establishment of a traditional, festive evening meal in Königsberg (Prussia) , the so-called "Schmeckebier". In the Rosenwinkel of Königsberg- Kneiphof there was a painting, which can be proven to have been renewed as early as 1614, depicting the battle of Rudau and especially Hans von Sagan. In addition there was a plaque with a text glorifying Sagan's deeds and honor:

Former statue of Hans Sagans in the Koenigsberger Kneiphof

"Whether the Order represented Prussia
is almost known,
because since the Pohl penetrated the land hard,
it was protected by the Order,
and whether the Pohl was out of hand,
the Order was already turning to flee,
the Cneiphöffische flag caught it,
a henchman even a pugnacious man,
hence the luck and victory at hand
on the order has since turned.
That is why God is to be thanked,
and Hans von Sagen at the time who desires the Smeckbier
from the high authorities at
all times,
in Himmelfart too special honor,
City of Kneiphoff no other
such man by man should drink from,
with peace on the princely Hauss
and obs so far what is postponed
is therefore not canceled at all.
If the ancients then defend
their freedom and justice with good and blood
and have
brought such things to their posterity with great power ,
they are honored
by the painter's art, this history
is to be honored with eternal gratitude to
their male doing will be spread,
and their descendants will
seek the same white honoring virtue preiß.
      Renoviret Anno 1614 "

Later, a memorial was placed in honor of Hans von Sagan in the Kneiphof. This was considered so unaesthetic that there was still a household word in the 1930s that someone was "ugly like Hans von Sagan". Another statue by Carl Steinhäuser can be found at the Hans-Sachs-Haus in Bremen . In Königsberg there was a Hans-Sagan-Strasse that connected Stresemannstrasse with Samitter Allee. The shopkeeper gate of the fortification buildings in Königsberg carried a statue of Sagan; it was canceled in 1752.

In the shoemaker's guild legends, this legend justifies the fact that their guild mark in Germany does not bear a typical tool of the craft or the product as a symbol, but the double-headed imperial eagle . Like the mastersinger Hans Sachs , the mystic Jakob Böhme and the Saint Crispinus von Viterbo , Hans von Sagan is one of the historical identifying figures of the profession.

literature

  • Adolf Boetticher : The architectural and art monuments in Königsberg (= The architectural and art monuments of the province of East Prussia. Volume 7). On behalf of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament. Teichert, Koenigsberg 1897, OCLC 312871065 .
  • Fritz Gause : Post-fame of Hans von Sagan. In: The Ostpreußenblatt. 11, 28, 1960, p. 19 (PDF; 13.2 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The blue sleeve. Entry in German legends. Leipzig 1853.
  2. ↑ Agnes Miegel: The battle of Rudau. Gräfe and Unzer, Königsberg 1944.
  3. ^ Johann Georg Theodor Grasse: Book of legends of the Prussian state. Volume 2. Glogau 1871, p. 546 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ See Kneiphöfischer Junkerhof. In: Adolf Boetticher : The architectural and art monuments in Königsberg (= The architectural and art monuments of the province of East Prussia. Volume 7). Königsberg 1897, pp. 353-357, especially p. 353 ( archive.org ). See also Michael Lilienthal : Illuminated Prussia or exquisite remarks on various special things belonging to the Prussian church, civil and scholarly history [...]. Tomus I. Königsberg, 1724, p. 639f. ( Google Books )
  5. ↑ Illustration in the East Prussia picture archive
  6. ^ Image in the picture archive of the Herder Institute in Marburg.
  7. ^ Robert Albinus: Lexicon of the city of Königsberg Pr. And surroundings. Rautenberg, Leer 1985, ISBN 3-7921-0320-6 , p. 371.
  8. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, p. 182.
  9. ^ Johann Georg Theodor Grasse: Book of legends of the Prussian state. Volume 2. Flemming, Glogau 1871, p. 909.
  10. ^ Text of the Berlin Shoemaker Guild