Hermann von Vechelde (councilor)

Hermann von Vechelde (* around 1379 in Braunschweig , † 1460 ) was a German merchant , tailors and councilor of the precincts of the old town in Brunswick.

Life

Vechelde was born around 1379 as the son of Herman von Vechelde and his wife Ilse (née Kerkhof). At the age of around 20 he was accepted into the old town's dressmaker's guild in 1399 . He thus belonged to the circle of the city's respected cloth merchants and merchants . They mainly bought their cloths from merchants from Brabant, Flanders or England and exported their goods to the north-eastern areas belonging to the Hanseatic League . Von Vechelde partially sold his cloth goods in small cuts in his hometown Braunschweig in the stalls of the Gewandhaus . In addition to trading in fabrics, he also acted as a wholesaler for grain and beer. He invested his profits in the acquisition of urban land, earning interest. He was later sent to the city council as a representative of the changers' guild, which suggests an activity as a money changer .

In 1429 von Vechelde joined the city council and held the office of rubbish chamberlain (a councilor responsible for the collection and administration of fines) for seven years . On August 2, 1437, together with his brother Albrecht and his cousin Hermann, Emperor Sigismund awarded him a letter of mercy or coat of arms , which allowed his family to officially use their coat of arms. In 1440 he became a member of the kitchen council, the city's highest government council, for five years . During this time he also worked as an old town chamberlain, chair and kitchen chamberlain before he retired into private and business life in 1445. In his will he paid particular attention to his widow Mette and his sons, but made a considerable part of the fortune available for the foundation of an altar, for feeding the poor and for building church facilities.

Family and coat of arms

Coat of arms of those of Vechelde

Von Vechelde was married to Adelheid von Gustidde for the first time . From this connection the sons Albert and Hinrik emerged. After Adelheid's death, he married two more times, with Ilse and with Mette (ke). One of these women was the daughter of Hans Bode, a member of the respected Braunschweig councilor family Bode. His sons Herman and Hans come from this connection.

The coat of arms of those of Vechelde at that time is described as follows: "In a silver shield leaning to the right, a slanted, black bar, covered with three gold roses with red clusters."

Coat of arms of the municipality of Vechelde

This is similar to the coat of arms of the municipality of Vechelde , although the colors are different. With a resolution of the council of Vechelde on July 13, 1965, the municipal coat of arms was adopted in the following form: "In blue a golden sloping bar, covered with three red roses with golden studs." The choice of the colors blue-gold shows that Vechelde belongs to the former district of Braunschweig .

The long-established Braunschweiger patrician family von Vechelde , named after the town of the same name , had already been knighted in 1388 with the mayor Herman von Vechelde (around 1350-1420) and has since carried the family coat of arms. According to Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book of 1869, the shield shows black sloping bars with three golden roses on a white background; on the helmet, which is provided with a red and white helmet cover, a fan-like umbrella board, wide at the top and pointed at the bottom, the two outer sticks black, the inner sticks alternating white and green, each stick topped with black cock feathers.

literature

Kerstin Rahn: Hermann (IV.) Von Vechelde. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 342 .
Werner Spieß : From Vechelde. The story of a Braunschweig patrician family 1332–1864. (= Work pieces from the museum, archive and library of the city of Braunschweig. 13.) Orphanage printing house, Braunschweig 1951, OCLC 832370324 .
Brunswick nobility. - Vechelde. In: Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt (Ed.): J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms. Volume 2, Section 2: The Nobility of the Duchy of Braunschweig. Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1869, doi: 10.11588 / diglit.24713 , p. 10 and table 8 ( uni-heidelberg.de , uni-heidelberg.de ).

Web links

Letter of arms on zma.de (PDF)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Wolfgang Spielhagen : Family table of the v. Vechelde. In: Ziering-Moritz-Alemann family association. Print booklet 4. Berlin 1940, OCLC 648132749 pp. 38-40, (PDF).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 342 .
^ Lower Saxony yearbook for regional history. New episode of the "Journal of the historical association for Lower Saxony". Volume 34 August Lax, Hildesheim 1962, p. 42.
↑ ^a ^b Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German Adels Lexicon. Leipzig, 1859-68, OCLC 465775608 Volume 2, p. 363.
^ Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch. Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 , p. 147/148.

personal data
SURNAME	Vechelde, Hermann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Vechelde, Herman of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German councilor and wholesaler
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1379
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH	1460
Place of death	Braunschweig

[Stammtafel-1] Wolfgang Spielhagen : Family table of the v. Vechelde. In: Ziering-Moritz-Alemann family association. Print booklet 4. Berlin 1940, OCLC 648132749 pp. 38-40, (PDF).

[BBL-2] Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 342 .

[3] Lower Saxony yearbook for regional history. New episode of the "Journal of the historical association for Lower Saxony". Volume 34 August Lax, Hildesheim 1962, p. 42.

[Wappen-4] Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German Adels Lexicon. Leipzig, 1859-68, OCLC 465775608 Volume 2, p. 363.

[5] Arnold Rabbow: New Braunschweigisches Wappenbuch. Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag, Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 3-926701-59-5 , p. 147/148.