Johann Bruskow

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Johann Bruskow (* in Lübeck ; † 1449 ibid) was councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Johann Bruskow was the son of the Lübeck citizen of the same name. He was elected to the city council in 1439. In 1440 he was in command of the Lübeck fleet in the Öresund , which was supposed to block the sound against people traveling around from the Netherlands. In 1443 he took part in the settlement negotiations between the council of the Hanseatic City of Rostock and Duke Heinrich IV of Mecklenburg in Rostock. In Lübeck citizens' wills he is listed several times as a documentary witness and guardian .

His first marriage was to the daughter of a Lübeck mountain driver, Bruno Sprenger. In his second marriage he married Elisabeth, daughter of Segebodo Crispin († 1455) . After his death, she became the wife of councilor Bertold Witig in her second marriage . Johann Bruskow lived in the house at Johannisstrasse 23 , which is now overbuilt with the Hermbergsches house . At Trinity 1429 he was already a member of the patrician circle society . He bore the same seal as his father; it is reproduced in the Lübeck citizens' seals . The mayor of Lübeck, Bruno Bruskow, was his son.

Bruskaus gang

Coats of arms of the council families Lunte, Bruskow and Warmböke above the entrance to Bruskaus Gang

The Bruskow family had owned the property at Wahmstrasse 49, then called De nackende Hof , since 1384 . A descendant of Johann Bruskow of the same name established a foundation for the poor in 1510. Bruskaus gang as poor gang appears for the first time in the tradition around 1580.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Gunnar Meyer: “possessing citizens” and “miserable sicknesses”: Lübeck's society in the mirror of their wills 1400–1449 (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, published by the archive of the Hanseatic city, series B, volume 48) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2010 ISBN 978-3-7950-0490-3