Hinrik Paternostermaker

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Hinrik Paternostermaker (also: Hinrich Paternostermaker; born between 1330 and 1337 in Lübeck ; died 1384 there ) was a Lübeck insurgent in the 14th century during the Hanseatic League .

Life

Hinrik Paternostermaker came from a respected family in Lübeck. He was the son of Johann Paternostermaker, who was initially a craftsman and later a merchant. From him he inherited three houses on Braunstrasse . Contrary to what the name suggests, and although he led the bone-cutter revolt, Hinrik was neither a paternoster maker nor a bone-cutter , but a merchant .

Equestrian relief to commemorate the bone tusk uprisings in Lübeck

Paternostermaker was economically unsuccessful, was guided by personal motives and was closely associated with the local bone cutter guild . Civil unrest shook Lübeck during this time. From 1380 to 1384, Paternostermaker planned the overthrow of the Lübeck city council as the leader of the bone carpenters . The conspiracy under his direction was betrayed and bloodily suppressed. A relief on a building on Königstrasse that depicts a rider commemorates the traitor . Of the 47 insurgents, 18 were executed.

In a troubled time after the costly wars with Denmark and after the Peace of Stralsund in 1370, the names Godeke and Detmer Wittenborg, bonehauer, who were significantly involved with the leader, Hinrik Paternostermaker, in the uprising of 1384. After Deecke in Die Hochverräter zu Lübeck in 1384 they fled the city after the unsuccessful uprising. Their property and property were confiscated by the council.

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Individual evidence

  1. Cosima Künzel: Amber from Lübeck's history In: Lübecker Nachrichten of August 5, 2010, p. 10
  2. Liber de traditoribus eorundem bonis. Contemporary manuscript, Lübeck City Library , Ms. Lub. 2 ° 100 digitized ; on this source see Deecke, p. 3