Hekling

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Hekling (Polish Hejking ; † 26. August 1672 ) was an out Kurland originating German-Balt from the noble Heyking serving the Polish Crown and Major of artillery in the fortress Kamieniec Podolski . In the face of the surrender and capture of the fortress Kamieniec Podolski by the troops of the Ottoman Empire , he blew himself up in the ammunition depot in 1672. Up to 800 people were killed in the explosion, including Colonel Jerzy Wołodyjowski . Both were immortalized in Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel Pan Wołodyjowski (Colonel Wołodyjowski).

  • Coat of arms of the noble family Hejking

  • French map from 1691 with city and fortress.

  • The fortress in 2008

literature

  • Bazhenov, Solovey: (Батюшков П.Н. Подолия: Ист. Описание. - СПб. 1891 г. - XXXI, 264с.I) (excerpt online (ukr.))
  • Henryk Sienkiewicz : Pan Wołodyjowski , 1888, (German translated by S. Horowitz, Herr Wolodyjowski, the Little Knight , English Jeremia Curtin, 1883, Pan Michael , English edition from 1917 available online )
  • Adam Przybos: "Hejking" entry in Polish biographical lexicon , Volume IX, pp. 351–352 Warsaw, 1961–1962
personal data
SURNAME Hekling
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hejking (Polish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German soldier in Polish service
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1672