Helias Heimanns

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Helias Heimanns (von Senheim) (* 1532 in Senheim ; † 1604 in Einsiedeln ) was a German dean , sealer and rector of the University of Trier .

Life

Helias was a son of the married couple Eberhard Heimanns († 1580) and his wife Anna geb. Decker. Heimanns, about whose education nothing is known in his youth, was first documented in writing on January 27, 1568 in the St. Simeon Abbey in Trier when he paid his statutes and the factory invoice (Latin fabricam scholae ) for school purposes. According to a reform statute from 1326 and the current Trier synodal statutes, every canon who asked for admission to the monastery had to pay an admission fee of 100 florins for the purchase of a choir mantle. Within the same year Heimanns was occupied on November 26, 1568 as a canon of St. Simeon and as a waiter of the St. Irminen monastery . He received his appointment as a sealer on January 26th, 1570 from Archbishop Jakob and was commissioned by him to reform the country chapters.

According to the document, Helias Heimanns acquired the St. Thomas Chapel (also known as the Curie, later called the Court) in Trier and two vineyards for 500 thalers from Bernhard III on September 23, 1570. d'Orley and his third wife Juliana von Bulich as well as von Oswald von Fels-Heffingen and his wife Katharina von Orley. The St. Thomas Altar belonging to the court and the associated right of collation were given to Heimann as a gift for purchase.

After a vote, Heimanns was elected Dean of St. Simeon by a large majority on February 26, 1573 and, after confirmation of the election and taking of the oath of allegiance, was introduced to his new office on March 10, 1573 by the Archbishop. Also in 1573 he was named as rector of the University of Trier , which has been proven by further documentary evidence, such as B. from 1583, where he is named as trustee of the Poor Clares .

During a visit to the monastery on March 3, 1575, Archbishop Jakob III von Eltz asked his vicars and altarists for a list of all income, burdens and benefices and at the same time asked whether they were fulfilling their assigned tasks and also living in their altar houses. After there was no answer in the following two years, the archbishop wrote his order again on August 22, 1578, whereupon the Dean Heimanns took up the commission on March 10, 1578 and asked all 11 affected altarists to present themselves by April 11, 1578 and submit all desired directories. Although no responses have been received, a published letter indicates a note that the Altar of St. Trinity and the Church of St. Nicholas in the hospital disobeyed and did not appear (Latin absentes inobedientes , absent, unruly).

In April 1589 Heimanns was named as Dean of St. Simeon in witch trials several times to have participated in witch meetings; u. a. he was accused in May 1589 of the later executed pastor Johann Raw zu Fell to have participated in meetings of this kind. At the end of 1589, Heimanns had to leave the city of Trier after he had previously renounced the office of dean (lat. Ad manus capituli , in the hands of a chapter). The fact that there was a very high number of convictions in the Trier area between 1587 and 1593 as a result of witch trials was also largely due to the former auxiliary bishop and witch theorist Peter Binsfeld . Heimanns first fled to Italy , where he enrolled at the University of Siena on April 22, 1590 . In Trier, in August and October 1590, he continues to be counted among the group of people whom the people tormented in the ordeal name as participants in witches' meetings and call them the former sealer . Heimanns later found refuge in Einsiedeln Abbey in Switzerland , where he worked as a collector of relics . Two letters from 1596 and 1597 prove that he was in contact with the witch theorist Peter Binsfeld - although he was accused of attending witch meetings .

In 1603 the Heimanns probably made his last trip back home to Koblenz and Trier. On his return trip he was filled with relics a. a. from Engelport , Cologne , Rommersdorf , Boppard , Bingen , Eberbach as well as from Mainz and Worms .

literature

  • Alfons Friderichs (ed.): Heimanns, Helias (Heimes, Hemans, also Helias Edigerus) In: Personalities of the Cochem-Zell district, Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , pp. 147–148.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The term Fabrica in the eLexicon at peter-hug.ch
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Franz-Josef Heyen Germania Sacra, Historical-Statistical Description of the Church of the Old Kingdom, Das Stift St. Simeon in Trier , NF, 41, Berlin, New York, 2002, ISBN 3-11-017224- 0 , p. 1125.
  3. ↑ Former St. Thomas Chapel (1), Mitte-Gartenfeld, City of Trier, Kutzbachstraße 3 at kulturdb.de
  4. ^ Parish church of St. Martin in Junglinster: Epitaph for Bernhard III. von Orley, von Bernhard Peter Galerie: Photos of beautiful old coats of arms No. 1577 Junglinster (Grand Duchy of Luxembourg)
  5. ↑ Former St. Nikolaus Hospital in Trier at Kulturdb.de
personal data
SURNAME Heimanns, Helias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heimanns, Helias Edigerus; Heimes, Helias; Hemans, Helias; Heymans von Senheim, Helias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Dean, Siegler and Rector of the University of Trier
DATE OF BIRTH 1532
PLACE OF BIRTH Senheim
DATE OF DEATH 1604
Place of death Einsiedeln Monastery