Johann Bertram von Wylre

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Johann Bertram von Wylre (baptized October 4, 1623 in Aachen , † April 15, 1679 in Aachen) was lay judge and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .

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Johann Bertram von Wylre was the son of lay judge Andreas von Wylre († 1654) and Elisabeth von Hegum from Heinsberg . Johann Bertram joined the star guild in 1648, in which the Aachen lay judges had come together and in which his father had also been a member in the last years of his life in Greve . A year later, on April 1, 1649, he himself was referred to as a lay judge and from 1652 also belonged to the Sacramentary Brotherhood of St. Foillan . In addition, he was appointed as a secular lay judge at the Aachen Sendgericht and from 1666 took over the job of a commissioner at the original Hungarian chapel at Aachen Cathedral . In the same year he was also sworn in as a municipal forester .

After von Wylre had made a name for himself as city envoy on various occasions, he was elected ten times mayor of the city of Aachen between 1659 and 1679 in the years 1659/60 (with Leonard Schleicher as "mayor" from the ranks of the guilds), 1660/61, 1662/63, 1664/65 (each with Balthasar Fiebus, the elder ), 1666/67, 1668/69 (each with Gerhard Maw), 1669/70 (with Nikolaus Fiebus ), 1674/75, 1676 / 67 (each with Gerhard Schörer) and 1678/79 with Nikolaus Schörer.

Johann Bertram von Wylre was a wealthy man who owned several prestigious properties inside and outside Aachen, some of which were inherited and some of which were acquired through acquisitions. Among other things, he was enfeoffed by his mother with the fiefdom of Hegum near Heinsberg and, through his father, he was co-heir of Gut Beyenbruggen near Meerlo in the municipality of Horst aan de Maas and co-owner of Kasteel Terworm , which had been in the family since 1568. In Aachen itself, von Wylre acquired the Diepenbenden estate in 1657 and the Wylre'sches Haus on Jakobstrasse in 1669 , with the double coat of arms of the Wylre and Merode-Houffalize family engraved on its column fireplace. He was also the owner of several townhouses and owned shares in Weims Castle near Kettenis and in the Hof de Bongh in Bergen in the province of Limburg .

Von Wylre was married to Anna Isabelle von Merode-Houffalize (* 1688), who gave birth to 15 children. None of the nine daughters married, several died young and four went to the monastery. His son Hubert Friedrich Hyazinth von Wylre (1676-1714) followed him into the jury and his son, Johann Jakob von Wylre , held the office of mayor of Aachen more than ten times. His coat of arms with the year 1668 can still be found on the fireplace in the former foremen's kitchen in Aachen's town hall .

Johann Bertram von Wylre died on April 15, 1679 and was buried in the St. Paul church of the Dominican monastery in Aachen on Jakobstrasse. The tombstone there with the double coats of arms of the Wylre and Merode-Houffalize family was later removed during renovation work in the church in the 19th century and was found by chance in 1925 while working on the Clermont house in Vaals . The Suermondt Ludwig Museum in Aachen acquired this stone, had it restored and added it to its inventory. It is the only surviving tombstone of a former aldermen and mayor from Aachen.

His son Hubert Friedrich Hyazinth and his wife Anna Catharina Dumont received the Lehnsgut Hegum, above whose main entrance the double coat of arms of the married couple Wylre and Dumont has since been located. Hyazinth also inherited the Diepenbenden estate, which he sold to the wine merchant and banker Michael Freiherr de Broe in 1710, as well as the Beyenbruggen estate, which he sold to the Count of Schellart in 1714, and the Wylre'sche house, which his widow owned to the family after her death in 1726 Clotz transferred. Kasteel Terworm remained in family ownership until 1738, most recently in the hands of Hyacinth's brother and Canon Friedrich Wilhelm von Wylre.

literature

  • Luise Freiin von Coels von der Brügghen : The lay judges of the Royal See of Aachen from the earliest times until the final repeal of the imperial city constitution in 1798 . In: Journal of the Aachen History Association . No. 50 . Publishing house of the Aachen History Association , Aachen 1928, p. 386-391 ( online on rootsweb ).
  • Luise Freiin von Coels von der Brügghen: The Aachen mayors from 1251 to 1798 . In: Journal of the Aachen History Association . tape 55, 1933/34 , pp. 70–71 ( aachener-geschichtsverein.de [PDF; 1.7 MB ]).