Hermann von Harras

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Epitaph Hermanns in the Thomaskirche (Leipzig) .

Hermann von Harras (* uncertain around 1400 ; † February 2, 1451 ) was a German knight of Thuringian origin.

Life

The von Harras family was an old Thuringian aristocratic family , which had various possessions from the Wettins , Counts of Mansfeld and von Beichlingen to fief .

Von Harras was born around 1400 as the son of the Landgrave Thuringian marshal Knight Albrecht von Harras . His brothers were Balthasar, Werner and Jorge (Georg) von Harras.

He was married to Elisabeth (usually called "Ilse" for short, † after 1474) and had at least four children:

Knighthood

Von Harras was first mentioned in a document in 1424 and took part in the battle against the Hussites near Brüx together with his brother Werner in 1438 , for which he also received the accolade . In Hermann's time Burgscheidungen (1441), then Magdala (1445) and Oßmannstedt were acquired first.

The knight Hermann von Harras appeared in the Meißnischen area when he received Lichtenwalde on March 9, 1447 together with his other brother Georg I von Harras as a fief from Elector Friedrich II. The Meek . Von Harras was a field captain and burned 60 villages in one day in the Saxon fratricidal war in revenge against the Vitzthums in Thuringia. He was therefore called "the fire chief". As a knight pillaging in Thuringia, he lost his goods there, including the Azmannstädt Castle on the left bank of the Unstrut, and was therefore compensated with Lichtenwalde. His brother Georg I von Harras received the "entire hand of the good". During his absence, his wife Ilse von Harras managed the castle in 1448. Like his father, the eldest son, Dietrich, enjoyed a high degree of favor from the sovereign, and on October 30, 1450 Dietrich was mentioned as being in military service with Elector Friedrich.

death

Von Harras died, as his late Gothic tomb in the Leipzig Thomaskirche reports, in 1451 to Mary Candlemas , i.e. on February 2nd. Grasse called the tomb in his book The Treasure of Legends of the Kingdom of Saxony “a symbol of Leipzig”. He narrates the following legend about the lion at the knight's feet:

“Harras had gone to war in a foreign country, during which his bride got engaged to another and the devil is said to have informed him of it and promised that if he wanted to adopt himself to him, he would follow him before the marriage was consummated Leipzig will create. Harras agreed, on the condition that his faithful lion was allowed to accompany him, he lay down on it to sleep and when he arrived in Leipzig, the lion woke him with his roar, so that he could prevent the marriage and his bride himself could lead home. "

- Johann Georg Theodor Grasse

Tomb

Gurlitt describes the "excellently preserved" tomb as follows:

“Sandstone slab, 1.11 m wide, 2.18 m high, in which the life-size, approximately 1.66 m high figure of the knight is carved out in full plastic. The knight is armed with a sallet, beard pushed several times, breast armor with two round floating discs, raised chest piece, full armor, half clams, fingered gloves with high gauntlets, belly bracelets and buckled leg pockets, whole legwear with upper and lower uchies and knee attachments, pointed shoes with sharp spurs. He wears a richly decorated mace in his right hand, a leather pouch and a dagger on his belt, and a sword on his left. The position is calm but free, the left thumb leaning on the hanger, the beardless head turned to the right. The feet stand on a crouching lion, next to it stands the coat of arms with a masterfully formed, closed helmet. The tang-like helmet covers indicate that the monument was not created until the end of the 15th century. Inscription in ornate minuscules:

after crist birth m cccc li iare ā unss libē frauē day lichtwihe is v'storbē er herman von harras knight dē got grace.
[After the birth of Christ 1451 years on the light consecration day of our dear wife , Mr. Hermann von Harras, knight, to whom God be gracious, died] "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Heinrich Zedler: Harras, an aristocratic family, ... In: Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts, [...] volume 12 : H-He. . Zedler, Halle / Leipzig 1735, OCLC 312322195 , Sp. 615-616 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ Harras . In: Des Heil. Rom. Reichs Genealogisch-Historisches Adels-Lexicon. tape 1 . Gleditsch, 1740, Sp. 733 ( books.google.de ).
  3. ↑ 1447 on lichtenwalde-mueller.de, accessed on August 28, 2016.
  4. ↑ Heinrich Döring: The Thuringian Chronicle: With an introduction by Ludw. Bechstein . tape 1 . Erfurt 1841, p. 481 ( books.google.de ).
  5. ^ Karl Grosse: History of the City of Leipzig from the oldest to the most recent . tape 1 . CB Polet, 1839, OCLC 213501061 , p. 579 ( books.google.com ).
  6. ↑ The tombstone of the knight Harras in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig on de.wikisource.org; Wilhelm Schäfer: German city landmarks. Their origin, history and interpretation. Volume 1, Leipzig 1858, p. 50 f. ( books.google.de ).
  7. ^ Johann Georg Theodor Grasse: Treasure of sagas of the Kingdom of Saxony (fairy tales of the world) . Jazzybee Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8496-0294-9 ( books.google.de - first edition: 1855).
  8. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. Issue 17, Meinhold & Sohne, Dresden 1895, p. 67 ( archive.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Harras, Hermann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German knight
DATE OF BIRTH around 1400
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1451