Johann Lüneburg († 1461)

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Johann Lueneburg

Johann Lüneburg (* around 1394 ; † November 15, 1461 in Lübeck ) was mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Lüneburg was elected to the city council as councilor in 1428 and its mayor in 1442 . 1430–1434 he was bailiff at the Riepenburg and 1434–1438 bailiff of the two-city office of Bergedorf .

In the summer of 1429 Johann Lüneburg was a member of the Circle Society ( membership number 117 ).

In 1440 he represented the city in Kolding in negotiations with King Christoph III. from Denmark . He was in command of the Hanseatic fleet that was supposed to block the Oresund from the Dutch bypassers . In 1441 he was again with Christoph III. because of the confirmation of Hanseatic trade privileges and the conclusion of the so-called Peace of Copenhagen , an armistice with the Dutch . In 1443 he represented Lübeck at a Hanseatic Congress in Lüneburg, at which it was decided not to give any support to anyone who attacked a Hanseatic city. In 1445 he took part in negotiations between the city of Soest and the Archdiocese of Cologne and in 1447 Johann Lüneburg was the representative of the city of Lübeck in a dispute with Duke Heinrich IV (the Fat) of Mecklenburg and Copenhagen and because of a dispute between the merchants in the Bergen office of Bryggen . Further missions took him in 1449 to King Christian I , to negotiations with the sister cities of Hamburg , Lüneburg and Wismar about the coin recess and in 1455 together with the mountain driver and councilor Godeke Burmeister to Flensburg to negotiate with the king and the Danish nobility about the confirmation of the Hansa Privileges in Denmark and Norway. In 1458 he participated in negotiations between King Christian I of Denmark and King Casimir II of Poland in Danzig , which he continued in Lübeck the following year. In 1460 he negotiated together with other council members ( Wilhelm von Calven , Johann Westphal ) on the occasion of the death of Duke Adolf VIII. Von Holstein (1459) again with King Christian I, who in the same year succeeded the extinct Schauenburger as the new ruler in Schleswig and Holstein became. He is listed several times as a documentary witness in Lübeck citizens' wills .

Tomb

His grave is in the lower choir of the Katharinenkirche . The brass grave slab is a Flemish work and is one of the outstanding and worth seeing pieces of its kind in Lübeck. The inscriptions on the grave slab and the inscriptions in the stone also list the other members of the Lüneburg family buried here, including his son, councilor Johann Lüneburg († 1474) .

family

Johann Lüneburg came from a patrician family that was very important in Lübeck . He was the son of the Lübeck citizen of the same name, Johann Lüneburg († after 1406), who also belonged to the circle society. His first marriage was to Taleke, a daughter of Mayor Henning von Rentelen . His second marriage was to Elisabeth von Wickede .
His children were:

literature

  • Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lückeckische families from older times , Lübeck 1859, p. 56ff. (Digitized version)
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. No. 511. Lübeck 1925.
  • Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, pp. 822-824 ISBN 3-7995-5940-X
  • Jan Friedrich Richter : Grave slab of Johannes Lüneburg . In: Jan Friedrich Richter (Ed.): Lübeck 1500 - Art metropolis in the Baltic Sea region , catalog, Imhoff, Petersberg 2015, pp. 399–401 (No. 85)
  • Ursula Wolkewitz: The engraved brass grave plates of the 13th and 14th centuries in the area of ​​the North German Hanseatic League - their origin and their meaning: Erinnern - Mahnen - Belehren , Kassel university press, Kassel 2015, p. 95 ff. ( Digital copy )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Richert: Castle captains and officials in Bergedorf . In Lichtwark booklet no. 59. Verlag HB-Werbung, Hamburg-Bergedorf, 1994. ISSN  1862-3549
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ Complete text with explanation and translation by: Adolf Clasen: Verhabene Schätze - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, p. 176 ff. ISBN 3795004756
  4. ↑ Information on the family supplemented by Sonja Dünnebeil: The Lübeck Circle Society. Forms of self-portrayal of an urban upper class ( publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck , published by the archive of the Hanseatic city, series B, volume 27) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1996 ISBN 3-7950-0465-9 , p. 273.


personal data
SURNAME Lueneburg, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luneborch, Johan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH around 1394
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1461
Place of death Lübeck