Johann Christian Bracke

Johann Christian Bracke († July 4, 1710 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a miller from Brunswick . He was a miller at Wolfenbütteler Dammmühle and a Brunswick-Lüneburg court carpenter. In official sources he is first called Christian and later, as court carpenter, Hans .

Life

Bracke came from a family of millers. His father was Barthold Bracke, who owned the mill at Mahner Teich in Klein Mahner . Bracke's brother Harmen was initially a miller at the Nieder-Amtsmühle in Lutter am Barenberge . In 1672 he leased the ducal mill in Wendessen . Three years later, in 1675, Harmen acquired the watermill in Groß Denkte on a long lease. Seven generations of millers lived there one after the other. They were the ancestors of Wilhelm Bracke , the co-founder of the Social Democratic Workers' Party , publisher and publicist from Braunschweig .

Bracke married Catharina Matthias, daughter of the cooper Hans Mathias from Pilsenbrück, in the Marienkirche in 1863 and the couple had five children. Hans Bracke was initially a carpenter in the "Gotteslager", a part of the newly established settlements outside Heinrichstadt, where the wood was landed and stored over the Oker .

His later activity as court carpenter, in particular some of his orders from the royal court, are documented in the account books of the royal court. Hans Bracke was both a carpenter and a miller. In various entries in baptismal registers he is the godfather of close relatives and is given as miller of the dam mill in Wolfenbüttel. For the conditions at the time, the mills were fragile systems that had to be serviced regularly and therefore also required a high level of expertise. The construction and maintenance of a flour mill required some technical knowledge, acquired through many years of training. Therefore, the professions of carpenter and miller were often close together. Well-known carpenters often became mill masters.

Services

The rights of a guild are recorded in a document, which at the instigation of the court carpenter Hans Bracke and the Schlentermüller Franz Jorden u. a. be awarded by Duke Rudolf August and Duke Anton Ulrich .

“Duke Rudolf August and Duke Anton Ulrich give the carpenters of Wolfenbüttel at the request of Master Hans Ernst, Master Franz Jordan, the court carpenter Hans Bracke, the fortress master carpenter Heinrich Schrader as well as Master Hans Jürgen Donner, Master Barthold Bracke, Master Heinrich Schrader, Master Bendix Helmeke and Master Andreas Helms the rights of a guild and give them an order in 20 articles. So give and happen in our vestung Wolffenbüttel the 30th May 1701 "

- Wolfenbüttel State Archives

He worked as a court carpenter on a number of building contracts at Salzdahlum Castle and the Old Residence in Wolfenbüttel. In February 1688 the opera house behind the castle was opened, which must have been built in 1687 and for which small sums were still spent in 1688. The master carpenter Hans Bracke is named by the construction clerk. From Trinity 1696 to Trinity 1697, invoices for construction work on the New Palace were again posted for more than 3,800 thalers , and the carpenter Bracke is again mentioned among the craftsmen.

Duke Anton Ulrich had the former Salzdahlum Castle built between 1689 and 1694, the builder was Johann Balthasar Lauterbach . Christian Bracke is listed as a master carpenter in a five-volume work that contains all building editions. The castle was built entirely of wood for cost reasons.

Christian Bracke also participated in the expansion of the Rotunda library, which lasted from 1705 to 1713. A construction cost of 19,400 thalers was mentioned and this time Bracke was the head of the carpentry. He did not live to see the completion and died in 1710.

literature

• Mill construction in and around Wolfenbüttel. A journey through the development history of mill construction in our region by Rüdiger Hagen. In: Searching for traces. Booklet 4. Aktiongemeinschaft Altstadt Wolfenbüttel eV, ISBN 3-00-017604-7 .
• Friedrich Thöne: Wolfenbüttel: Spirit and splendor of an old residence. Verlag Bruckmann , Munich 1963, OCLC 4944978 .
• Werner Alleweit: Description of the Wolfenbüttel office from 1630. Verlag August Lax, Hildesheim 1975, ISBN 3-8269-3403-2 .

Web links

• Attempts at a reconstruction of Salzdahlum Castle ( Memento from July 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on o3d.de
• Image of the library rotunda
• On the subject of Heinrichstadt on wolfenbuettel.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Bardehle (arrangement): The head tax description of the Hochstift Hildesheim from 1664 (=  publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen . Series XXVIIa.). August Lax Verlagbuchhandlung, 1976, ISBN 3-7848-3639-9 , p. 71 .
2. ↑ Fritz Grühne: Müller index (smaller places Müller AF) , desgl larger places with millers AZ;. excluding Wolfenbüttel), Wolfenbüttel State Archives. Call number 273N, boxes 1–2 and 273 N 25.
3. ^ Heinz-Ulrich Hardenberg: History of the village of Wendessen . Ed .: City of Wolfenbüttel (=  contributions to the history of the city of Wolfenbüttel . No. 7 ). 1993.
4. ^ Village description Neindorf and Thought. Available from Heimatpflege Samtgemeinde Asse
5. ^ Franz Schubert: Principality of Braunschweig Wolfenbüttelschen part : wedding registers from the church registers of the 16th and 17th centuries. 17th century, Göttingen 1996–1997, Kitzingen 1999–2000. Part 2. City of Wolfenbüttel (Ed.)
6. ↑ Searching for traces, No. 4. Mill construction in and around Wolfenbüttel. A journey through the development history of mill construction in our region by Rüdiger Hagen. Aktiongemeinschaft Altstadt Wolfenbüttel eV ISBN 3-00-017604-7 .
7. ↑ Wolfenbüttel State Archives. Signature 7 Alt M No. 942.
8. ↑ Friedrich Thöne: Wolfenbüttel: Spirit and splendor of an old residence. Publishing house Bruckmann, Munich 1963.
9. ↑ Wolfenbüttel State Archives. Signature 4 Alt color 6 No. 270.
10. ↑ Friedrich Thöne: Wolfenbüttel: Spirit and splendor of an old residence. Verlag Bruckmann Munich 1963, p. 201.
11. ↑ Friedrich Thöne: Wolfenbüttel: Spirit and splendor of an old residence. Verlag Bruckmann Munich 1963 p. 202.
12. ↑ Friedrich Thöne: Wolfenbüttel: Spirit and splendor of an old residence. Verlag Bruckmann Munich 1963, p. 213.