Joachim von Bassewitz (District Administrator)

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Joachim von Bassewitz (* 1534 (1537); † February 20, 1610 in Medewege ) was Mecklenburg district administrator , court master , monastery captain of Dobbertin , cathedral provost in Schwerin and court councilor in Mecklenburg, Denmark and Braunschweig-Lüneburg .

Life

Joachim von Bassewitz came from the Mecklenburg line of the old Bassewitz family . He was born in 1534 (1537) as the second son of Achim von Bassewitz and his wife Magarethe von Bülow . He still had four brothers.

Martini In 1578 he married the 18-year-old Margarete Anna von Bülow, the daughter of Christoph von Bülow and Anna vam Lohe, who was born in Plüschow in 1560 . They had seven children. Serious illness struck her on January 5, 1595, after attending a sermon in church that day. On January 11, 1595 she died at the age of 35 and was buried on February 4, 1595 in Lübow .

On April 17th, 1597 Joachim von Bassewitz married Anna Ilse von Schmecker, the widow of Hans von Behr auf Hilgendorf . They had three sons, including Karl Ulrich von Bassewitz . Anna died in 1621.

Joachim von Bassewitz studied in Rostock in 1558 , then in Wittenberg and in Leipzig in 1562 . In 1567 he made a cavalier tour to Italy with a relative .

Joachim was friends with the poet Mylius, who sent him a long poem in December 1587, which dealt with the common scholarly and poetic striving, but also commemorates the complaints of the beginning age. In Kleinow near Ludwigslust, Mylius wrote four distiches in 1592 against a contemporary who had panned some verses by Joachim von Bassewitz.

In 1576 Joachim von Bassewitz was court master of the Mecklenburg princes Johann VII (1558–1592) and Sigismund August (1561–1600), whom he accompanied to the University of Leipzig . In the same year Joachim von Bassewitz, together with the licentiate of the rights Hubertus Sieben zu Poischendorff as well as the notaries Herdingus Petri and Christoph Morder, took an inventory of all princely “vestungen, heuser vnd embter” for their uncle and guardian Duke Ulrich and swore all administrators employed and servants. From February 9, 1577 Joachim von Bassewitz was court master of Duke Ulrich and Mecklenburg District Administrator. In 1588 he was sent by Duke Ulrich to the wedding of Duke Johann Princess to Sophia von Holstein. In 1594 Joachim was sent to the Scottish royal court as an envoy . In 1595 Joachim von Bassewitz was Councilor of Mecklenburg and Denmark, he was also Councilor of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . In 1596 Joachim von Bassewitz was the envoy of Duke Ulrich von Mecklenburg to the archbishopric in Bremen. In 1597 Duke Ulrich asked his councilors Joachim von Bassewitz and Claus von Below to send their report on the trip to Silesia. In the late summer of 1597, the dukes Ulrich and Sigismund August, as guardians of the dukes Johann Albrecht II and Adolph Friedrich I., asked Tycho Brahe for a loan of 10,000 thalers . On the day of Bartholomäi August 24, 1597, after extensive negotiations, a main prescription was issued with ten guarantors , including Joachim von Bassewitz and his cousins Khöne Wolfrath von Bassewitz zu Maslow and David von Bassewitz zu Dalwitz . Joachim had tried all sorts of things over the years, without much success. Joachim von Bassewitz was appointed dean in 1598 and Duke Ulrich appointed Thumpropst Dompropst in Schwerin in 1599 .

Acquis

Joachim von Bassewitz was hereditary lord on Levetzow and also owned the Thorstorf and Wendorf estates (later Schönhof). On 12 July 1599 the chapter of the monastery Dobbertin he sold the village Warkstorf for 3,200 marks , which he wanted to use for Levetzow, on condition that it pin fief remain. In various sales contracts, border regulations and disputes in the Dobbertin monastery, Joachim von Bassewitz appeared as a signatory, co-sealer or as a witness in the documents.

From May 1st, 1600 Joachim von Bassewitz was able to take over the Propsteigut Medewege , including 145 head of cattle, including 20 milk cows and a sowing of 48 Drömpt 3 bushels of winter and summer seed . He was briefed in the name of the cathedral chapter by the senior Magnus Huebner and the canon Kurd von Sperling before notaries and witnesses. As a special perk he received the whole fishing on the Lankower See and from Duke Ulrich the fishing on the Medeweger See .

Convent captain and provost

After the death of the monastery captain Joachim von der Lühe on June 9, 1588, Bassewitz was elected the new monastery captain for Dobbertin in the state parliament in 1588 at the suggestion of the dominatrix Margarete von Pritzbuer with the convent and the provisional Johann von Cramon and Claus von Oldenburg . The country Magnificent confirmation with the certificate of appointment presented Duke Ulrich on November 2, 1588 from Gustrow. Witch trials were also carried out in the administrative area of ​​the Dobbertin Monastery in the Middle Ages . From 1594 to 1682, 25 witch trials are known to date, 14 of them in Dobbertin alone. During the tenure of the monastery captain Joachim von Bassewitz, six witch trials were carried out under his direction in the Dobbertiner monastery district court from 1595 to 1602 . Among them, Margarete Kagen and Lena Hovemann were sentenced to death by burning at the stake for witchcraft and sorcery, and a death sentence for Trine Bornesche by beheading for being a slave to the devil. In order to reach a verdict, the monastery district court always asked the teaching institute, the law faculty of the University of Rostock . The gallows of the Dobbertiner monastery district court Datgericht stood north of Dobbertin on a hill, visible from afar, in order to better keep robbers and rabble away from the monastery village and is still known today as the parcel near the judicial hill . In 1599 there were violent arguments with Ilsabe Nick and Ilsabe Springer over theft and witchcraft.

A special case in 1610 in the Schwerin cathedral chapter was the dismissal of the provost Bassewitz due to incompetence . He had probably taken on himself with work over the years. As provost, he still had the administration of his two estates, Warkstorf and Medewege, and he was also the owner of Levetzow near Wismar, as well as the ducal Mecklenburg councilor and monastery captain in Dobbertin, where he stayed constantly. The chapter was not satisfied with him, had fallen out over the purchase of Warkstorf and pronounced its removal at a chapter meeting. After reporting, the administrator Ulrich II approved this process. In the letter of deposition of the cathedral chapter it can be read that von Bassewitz was too old and too weak for this office, and that during his preposition the church and chapter were put into confusion, abuse, harm and danger. Since von Bassewitz did not want to leave his office without further ado, more detailed reasons were given: he could neither advise nor help the chapter, the church was almost countered by his guilt, the chapter had been despised, its wealth diminished. . .

After his dismissal, Joachim von Bassewitz also had to return the two church properties, including Warkstorf, which he bought from the Chapter with the permission of the administrator, but for which he had not yet paid the purchase price. Without a proper investigation, Duke Ulrich II ordered his secretary Daniel Kuhhorn, the kitchen master Johann Woker zu Warin and the notary Georg Brandt zu Bützow to instruct the new provost of Winterfeld in Warkstorf and all that there was of the property of Bassewitz would be found to be seized. Von Bassewitz's letter to Duke Ulrich was answered with a note in the margin. The answer remains as it was. The Bassewitz heirs initiated a lawsuit over Warkstorf that survived the Thirty Years War and was not set until 1652.

Joachim von Bassewitz died a few weeks after his deposition by the cathedral chapter on February 20, 1610 on the Propsteigut in Medewege near Schwerin and was buried on February 24, 1610 in the monastery cemetery in Dobbertin. He left a widow Ilse, née von Schmecker with many children, some of whom are underage. Without waiting for the year of grace, the widow, on the instructions of the cathedral chapter, was to leave the estate in Medewege in a proper condition by May 1, 1610.

A short time later, the new Provost of Winterfeld , who had the estate managed, also moved in here .

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Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin (LHAS)
    • LHAS 1.5-4 / 3 documents Dobbertin monastery.
    • LHAS 2.11-2 / 1 External relations including the Reich. (Acta externa)
    • LHAS 2.12-3 / 2 Monasteries and orders of knights. Dobbertin.
    • LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin .
  • Rostock University Library
    • Dept. special collections, funeral sermons.
  • Rostock University Archives
    • Proverbs (witch trials).
  • City archive of the Hanseatic city of Wismar
    • Trial files of the Council Court 1518–1699. (Old court archive)
  • Ribnitz City Archives
    • Existing Ribnitz Monastery, D 59/2 Dobbertin Monastery.

Printed sources

literature

  • Carl Heinrich Bill: Mecklenburg nobility in the early modern age 1550 to 1750. Series of publications by the Institute for German Adels Research, Vol. 15, Sonderburg 1999.
  • Karl Wilhelm August Balck: Mecklenburg citizens at foreign universities until the middle of the 17th century. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher No. 48 (1883) pp. 55-88.
  • Franz Schildt: The diocese of Schwerin in the Protestant era. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher No. 49 (1884) pp. 145–279.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Heinrich Bill: Anna v. Bassewitz (1560-1595). In: Mecklenburgischer Adel in the early modern period 1550 to 1750. 1999 p. 44.
  2. ↑ Funeral sermon by Johannes Werkentin from Sternberg, Schwerin State Library, Schmidtsche Bibliothek Bd. LXVIII, 5
  3. ↑ Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien: The von Smecker 1230-1638 An extinct family of the Mecklenburg nobility, in: Mitteldeutsche Familienkunde, Bd. 9, Jrg. 29, volume 4 Oct – Dec 1988 (pp. 161–169)
  4. ↑ See the entry of Joachim von Bassewitz's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  5. ^ Karl Wilhelm August Balck: No. 149, Joach. a. Bacewitz. In: Mecklenburgers at universities outside Germany until the middle of the 17th century. 1883 p. 64.
  6. ↑ LHAS 2.11-2 / 1 Foreign Relations including Reich. No. 3991.
  7. ↑ LHAS 2.11-2 / 1 Foreign Relations including Reich. 113.Silesia, no.4927.
  8. ↑ LHAS 1.5-4 / 3 documents Dobbertin monastery.
  9. ↑ LHAS 2.12-3 / 2 Monasteries and orders of knights. Dobbertin Generalia, monastery captain, No. 9 Appointment of the council Joachim von Bassewitz as monastery captain 1588–1610.
  10. ↑ City Archives Ribnitz: Inventory monastery Dobbertin D 59/2.
  11. ↑ Horst Alsleben : The Dobbertiner court mountain. SVZ Lübz - Goldberg - Plau, October 18/19, 2014.
  12. ^ Horst Alsleben: witch trials in the Dobbertin monastery office .
  13. ↑ Stadtarchiv Wismar: Trial files of the Council Court 1599 No. (1) 0371.
  14. ^ Franz Schildt: The Diocese of Schwerin in the Protestant era. MJB 49 (1884) p. 225.
  15. ^ Franz Schildt: The Diocese of Schwerin in the Protestant era. MJB 49 (1884) p. 241.
  16. ^ Franz Schildt: The Diocese of Schwerin in the Protestant era. MJB 49 (1884) p. 241.
personal data
SURNAME Bassewitz, Joachim von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mecklenburg District Administrator, Councilor and Provost
DATE OF BIRTH 1537
PLACE OF BIRTH Mecklenburg
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1610
Place of death Mecklenburg