Heinrich Brömse (Mayor)

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Heinrich Brömse, detail from the Brömsen altar

Heinrich Brömse (* 1440 in Lüneburg ; † June 6, 1502 in Lübeck ) was a mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Brömse was the son of Lüneburg councilor Dietrich Brömse. He completed his law studies at the University of Bologna with a licentiate in law.

He came to Lübeck in 1466 and was elected to the city council of Lübeck in 1477. In 1487 he became one of their mayors . The Lübeck Council , which is otherwise sparing in praise, remarks to him: Vir grandis doctus et eloquens. In 1478 he negotiated on behalf of the city with representatives of the council of the sister city of Hamburg in Oldesloe "in Hanseatic affairs" and in 1484 with the bishop of Ratzeburg Johannes V. von Berkentin , because he had given hideaway to muggers . In 1487 he was commissioned by the Hanseatic League to work on the formulation of a letter to Emperor Friedrich III. have involved. He also mediated in Mecklenburg between the city of Rostock and Duke Magnus II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in the " Rostock Cathedral feud ".

Brömse lived in the house at Königstrasse 9 near the Jakobikirche , which he had acquired in 1478. He was buried in the side chapel of this church, equipped with a comer . The altar of the Brömsen Chapel, donated from his estate, consists in the middle part of reliefs made of Baumberger sandstone , which were formerly regarded as the work of Heinrich Brabender , today as that of Evert van Roden . It is the only side altar from the late Middle Ages that has remained in St. Jakobi. The altar shows the entire family of the mayor Heinrich Brömse in paintings on the wings dated to 1515. The smaller flap paintings on the upper middle section are attributed to Johann von Soest or the master of 1489 who was close to him. The chapel in the Jakobikirche was passed on to his son, the later mayor of Lübeck, Nikolaus Brömse , who also received the house.

family

Headquarters of the Brömse family in Lüneburg

Heinrich Brömse was married to Elisabeth Westfal († 1495), the daughter of the Lübeck mayor Johann Westfal . The couple had eleven children, nine of whom reached adulthood:

  • Dietrich (1470–1508), 1506 councilor.
  • Adelheid (Taleke) (1471–1538), entered the St. John's Monastery before 1496 ; abbess since 1517 , she succeeded in averting its abolition in the Reformation, citing the imperial immediacy of the monastery.
  • Gertrud (Geseke) († 1510) married Thomas Lüneburg († 1498) before 1496. After his early death, she married the Revaler Jürgen Wowel. Her daughter Elisabeth Lüneburg was married to Johann Stolterfoht .
  • Heinrich (1476–1542), like his father, studied law at the University of Bologna, where he was elected one of the two procurators of the German nation in 1502, and made it up to the position of an imperial council.
  • Richel (~ 1477–1517) married Johann Salige .
  • Wilhelm (1478-1532) was in 1494 as an apprentice in the destruction of Peterhof in Novgorod by Ivan the Terrible detained and returned two years later to Luebeck back. According to his father's will, he took over the family's shares in the Lüneburg salt works as Sülfmeister . In 1525 he became a member of the circle society.
  • Nikolaus (year of birth unknown), councilor in 1514, was the most important representative of the conservative council party during the turmoil of the Reformation and an opponent of Jürgen Wullenwever .
  • Georg († before 1529) matriculated in Rostock in 1500. In 1521 he was an elderly man at Stalhof in London.
  • Anton († 1519 in Reval ).

  • Seal of Heinrich Brömse (around 1478)

  • Brömsen Altar

  • Heinrich Brömse and his sons

  • Elisabeth Brömse and her daughters

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Brömse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: The Brömsen (Lübische Sage)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Königstrasse 1-10 (pdf, accessed December 7, 2014)
  2. ^ Matriculation entry for "Georgius Bremse de Lubeca" in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Brömse, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 1440
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1502
Place of death Lübeck