Johann III. from Blankenfelde
Johann III. von Blankenfelde (* 1507 ; † October 9, 1579 , buried in the Nikolaikirche ) was the last of his family of seven Berlin mayors .
was standing
Blankenfelde came from the Berlin patrician and councilor family Blankenfelde . His father was the businessman Wilhelm (Wilke) Blankenfelde, born in 1465, and his grandfather Thomas von Blankenfelde was also mayor of Berlin . Johann Kaufmann was like them.
job
Under Elector Joachim I. Nestor , Blankenfelde was already a Kastner (tax officer) in Tangermünde . From his successor, Joachim II. Hector , he was in 1537 with the unpaid purchase of firewood from the Electoral forests for the present in his village Weissensee free Wohnhof invested . In 1544 he became elector kitchen master and in 1549 at the request of Joachim II also a member of the council . In the years 1558 to 1571 he held the highest office in the mandatory annual change. In 1572 Blankenfelde was released from the mayor's office at his request.
In 1571, Blankenfelde was listed in the Berlin city register as the citizen with the largest property. He is mentioned as the heir of Pankow , Blankenburg , Birkholz bei Bernau , Weißensee and Kaulsdorf .
One of his achievements was the construction of the first water pipe for Berlin, called water art , made of wooden pipes . This delivered the water to the house for larger companies. He is also said to have built the first lock in the Cölln Spreearm . It is said that he "... in his life with wonderful and diverse buildings on ponds, ditches, sluices, and other did a lot of things ...".
At his death, Blankenfelde is said to have been heavily in debt.
family
Blankenfelde was married twice. Her marriage to Dorothea Vintzelberger in 1534 resulted in 14 children, but only five sons and two daughters reached adulthood. His son Joachim (1529–1612) was mayor of Frankfurt (Oder) from 1574 , and Johann (1542–1579) was secretary of the Brandenburg electorate, district and chamber. In 1571 Blankenfelde married Martha Müller from Hamburg , with whom he had two sons. Son Wilhelm (1575–1629) was heir to Weissensee.
In the 17th century, the councilors of the empire lost their importance, including the Blankenfelde family. His sons sold the Blankenfeld parent company at Spandauer Straße 49 in 1612 and lived on the remaining estate in Weißensee until it was sold in 1616.
Web links
- Association for the History of Berlin eV
- "At the top of Berlin" (The Berlin Mayors) on luise-berlin.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ quoted from: Berlin's mayor: Johann Blankenfelde on luise-berlin.de, accessed on August 18, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blankenfelde, Johann III. from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician, Mayor of Berlin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1507 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 9, 1579 |
| Place of death | Berlin |