Jobst Edmund von Brabeck

This article deals with the Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim; for other persons of the same name, see Jobst Edmund von Brabeck (disambiguation) .

Jobst Edmund von Brabeck, engraving, 17th century

Bust in the garden of Letmathe House in Iserlohn

Jobst Edmund Freiherr von Brabeck (born November 11, 1619 in Letmathe , today the city of Iserlohn , † August 13, 1702 in Hildesheim ) was Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim since 1688 .

Origin and education

He was the second son of the heir to the Letmathe family , Westhoff von Brabeck from the Westphalian nobility. His mother was Anna Ursula (née Landsberg zu Erwitte ). It was a family tradition for later sons to pursue a career in the church. His brothers Johann Ernst (1625–1690) and Ludolf Walter (1623–1699) were canons in Münster . Engelbert (1621–1693) was canon in Hildesheim . In 1619 Jobst Edmund received a canon position in the cathedral chapter of Münster . He was emancipated as a canon in 1630 after completing a degree in theology . He attended the university in Orléans . Between 1649 and 1650 he undertook an extensive Grand Tour that took him to Italy and Malta , among other places .

Canon in Munster

With a number of other younger canons, von Brabeck pushed through the election of Christoph Bernhard von Galen as Bishop of Münster . In 1651, he appointed him cathedral sexton and secret councilor. He also held the archdeaconate Stadtlohn . In 1655 he became cathedral dean. On behalf of the bishop he undertook a number of diplomatic missions.

In 1662 he was criticized by the Provost for not having been ordained a priest. In 1667, the cathedral chapter denied him the right to vote because he had still not fulfilled his obligation. Some time later he presented a certificate of ordination.

The good relationship between bishop and cathedral dean ended in 1667. Brabeck was in opposition to von Galen because Ferdinand von Fürstenberg and not, as Brabeck wished, Maximilian Heinrich von Bayern appointed coadjutor . The aim of Brabecks was to strengthen the cathedral chapter at the expense of the bishop. Possibly the goal behind this was to become the successor of Galens himself.

Prince-Bishop in Hildesheim

As a follower of Max Heinrich, who was also Bishop of Hildesheim, von Brabeck was accepted into the cathedral chapter of Hildesheim in 1668 and became cathedral dean. A year later he was appointed governor of Maximilian Heinrich in the diocese of Hildesheim and took up his apartment in the bishop's court . In 1674 he gave up his position in the cathedral chapter of Münster.

After the death of Maximilian Heinrich von Brabeck was elected Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim on July 19, 1688. For the first time since 1573 and only until 1763 , the personal union with Kurköln under Wittelsbach prince-bishops was interrupted because of the Cologne succession dispute.

Although the Protestant citizens of Hildesheim tried to find a balance, von Brabeck, like his predecessor Maximilian Heinrich von Bayern, tried to reclaim episcopal rights from the city of Hildesheim. When he had his troops line up for his episcopal ordination in the courtyard of the cathedral, this was seen as a provocation by the citizens. As a result, they saw their long-standing fortification law being disregarded. The bishop was forced to leave the city and move to Steuerwald Castle . The townspeople stayed away from the homage that took place there. In 1692 there was even fighting between the citizens and the bishop's troops in the city. Ernst August von Hanover used the weakness to occupy the city of Peine.

He did not succeed in subjugating Hildesheim by force either. He came into conflict with the other estates of the diocese because he disadvantaged the Lutherans and promoted the Counter-Reformation. One of the ways in which he did this was by settling Catholic farmers from Westphalia in areas that had fallen desolate during the Thirty Years' War.

In 1697 he was appointed Vicar Apostolic of the North . In 1690 he enfeoffed members of the Brabeck family with Söder Castle .

Entrepreneur

St. Peter and Paul in Hemer, largely financed by Jobst Edmund von Brabeck

Von Brabeck was intensively involved in ore mining and smelting. He had stakes in mining in what is now the town of Plettenberg . Around 1680 he also acquired the extremely productive Rhonard copper mine near Olpe . In the 1690s he acquired the copper mine on the Rahrbacher Höhe near Rahrbach from the Bilstein judge Johann Adolph Meyer and added it to the Olper mines. The “Brabecker Stolle” near Rahrbach is still shown in the map of the 1743 heather gravel hunt. The upswing in copper smelting began while Jobst Edmund von Brabeck was still alive. From 1682 he ran the Kunigunde ironworks . In 1688 the fiefs of the Lords of Bortfeld fell to him . In 1690 he founded an ironworks in Dassel in the Hildesheim monastery. From 1694 he had coal mined at Mehle . The salt works in Heyersum also came into his possession. In 1685 he was enfeoffed by the Hildesheim bishop with the saline Groß Rhüden , around 1690 he acquired the Mancke'schen Hof in Rhüden and set up a salt factory there.

The income from his activities allowed him to finance church buildings. He remained closely connected to his home in South Westphalia, where he also owned properties. He emerged as a financier of church buildings in Letmathe and Hemer . He also donated something for the Magdalenenstift (Hildesheim) .

Von Brabeck died in 1702 as the oldest imperial prince at that time.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Kohl: The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Cologne. The diocese of Münster IV, 2. The cathedral monastery of St. Paul in Münster. Berlin, 1992 (Germania Sacra vol. 17.2) p. 150f. Partial digitization
2. ^ Wilhelm Kohl: The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Cologne. The diocese of Münster 7.3: The diocese. Berlin, 2003. (Germania sacra New Series Vol. 37,3) Partially digitized
3. ↑ Andrea Germer : History of the City of Hildesheim ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 260 kB) 
4. ^ Mining near Plettenberg ( Memento from October 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
5. ^ Winfried Reininghaus / Reinhard Köhne: Mining, smelting and hammer works in the Duchy of Westphalia in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Münster, 2008 p. 267
6. ^ Martin Vormberg: The hunting districts of Schloss Adolfsburg. Historical views of the town and landscape elements in the South Sauerland around 1743/44. Kirchhundem 2013. p. 38.
7. ^ Winfried Reininghaus / Reinhard Köhne: Mining, smelting and hammer works in the Duchy of Westphalia in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Münster, 2008 pp. 332f., Wilfried Reininghaus / Reinhard Köhne: Mining, smelting and hammer works in the Duchy of Westphalia in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Online version
8. ↑ Bergrath von Unger: Geognostic description, in: Archives for Mineralogy, Geognosy, Mining and Metallurgy, 1843, p. 211
9. ↑ Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch, 1955, p. 145
10. ↑ History boards on Rhüden and the surrounding area. Verein der Natur- und Heimatfreunde Rhüden am Harz eV, pp. 36–39 , accessed on October 18, 2015 . 

literature

• Adolf Bertram : Prince-Bishop Jobst Edmund v. Brabeck (PDF; 10.7 MB). In: History of the Diocese of Hildesheim , Volume 3, Hildesheim / Leipzig 1925, pp. 86-105
• Arno Herzig : Brabeck, Jobst Edmund Freiherr von . In: Heimatbund Märkischer Kreis (Hrsg.): Striking heads from the Märkischer Kreis. Life data of important personalities from Iserlohn; with districts Letmathe, Hennen and Sümmern . Verlag Mönnig, Iserlohn 1997 ISBN 3-922885-89-6 , p. 18f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Maximilian Heinrich of Bavaria	Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim 1688–1702	Joseph Clemens of Bavaria