Hieronymus House Magdeburg

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The house of St. Jerome (also Fraterhaus , Brüderhaus ) was a settlement of the brothers who lived together in Magdeburg from 1482 to 1541.

location

The Hieronymus House was located on Neumarkt near the cathedral in the old town of Magdeburg.

history

At the request of the archbishop's personal physician Dr. Thomas Hertzhorn, the council of the old town left the house to the fraternal lords in 1482, after the intercession of the papal legate Bertholdus. The first two brothers came from the Lüchtenhof in Hildesheim . In 1486 the Magdeburg house took over its statutes and entered into a confederation with them. The Hieronymushaus was legally subordinate to the Archbishop of Magdeburg, who in 1496 granted permission for up to 20 fraternal lords to live here. In that year the 13-year-old Martin Luther came under the influence of the brothers who influenced his later theology.

In 1534 the brother lords no longer paid any taxes to the archbishop and submitted to the council of the old town, which the cathedral chapter complained about in 1535. In 1541 the house was lent to a canon by the archbishop, as only one former brother and wife lived in the house.

literature

  • Ernst Barnikol: The Magdeburg Brothers House. In: Theological works from the Rhenish Scientific Preacher Association. New series, Volume 19. 1922. pp. 8–58.

Remarks

  1. ^ Ernst Barnikol:  Bocholt, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 340 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Luther reported in 1522 that he had gone to school with the Nullbrothers in Magdeburg. However, they did not have a school there, so that one can only guess to what extent he may have been in the Brothers House, cf. Heiko A. Oberman : Luther. Man between god and devil. Berlin 1982. p. 77 , before that Ernst Barnikol: Luther in Magdeburg and the Brothers School there. In: Theological works from the Rhenish Scientific Preacher Association. New series, Volume 17. 1917. S. 8ff.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Hinz: The Brothers of Living Together in the Age of Reformation. The Münster Colloquium. (= Late Middle Ages and Reformation. NR 9), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1987. P. 70f.