Johann Wilhelm of Olmüssen

Johann Wilhelm von Olmüssen, called Mülstroe (* in the 17th century in Aachen ; † April 6, 1693 there ) was aldermen and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .

Live and act

From Olmüssen was the son of Johann, lord of Gut Neuenhof, located in the office Schönforst between Aachen- Forst and Brand , to which the farms Gut Weide, the Haarhof and the Harner Mühle also belonged. About the origin of the family and the name is not much known, the suffix Mülstroe (mill straw) one in the room Prummern 's common name. In 1465, a certain Ludwig von Olmüssen, called Mülstroe, took over the Neuenhof from the Lords of Kinzweiler and thus became a citizen of the Aachen Empire.

Johann von Olmüssen joined the star guild in 1648, the union of the Aachen lay judges, and was first mentioned in a document a year later as a lay judge on the occasion of his enfeoffment with his father's Gut Neuenhof. However, more than twenty years passed before he was elected mayor by the city council of Aachen in 1670, together with Gerlach Maw as mayor from the ranks of the guilds. However, his election met with the protest of the star guild, which had previously proposed other candidates to the council, but who were not born or raised in the city. According to a comparison from 1611, the lay judges were obliged to accept only long-established Aachen citizens, but could also propose newly appointed citizens for election to public office. In 1670, however, the council insisted that only "old Aacheners" be allowed to vote, and thus rejected the appeal of the star guild. Von Olmüssen, who in the meantime had already been sworn in, subsequently served his year in office properly until May 1671. However, since the dispute continued and had been carried to the emperor's court, no new mayor was elected until 1674 and the city was only represented by the mayor. Finally, the emperor enforced the local origin again by decree and there was again a lay mayoral election for the 1673/74 period of office, which, however, could only take place on March 9, 1674 due to the lengthy negotiations and therefore only until the regular new election in May of Year counted. Johann Wilhelm von Olmüssen was again elected mayor of the aldermen, who also worked with Johannes in 1675/76, 1677/78, 1679/80, 1681/82, 1883/84, 1685/86, 1687/88 and 1689/90 Chorus was re-elected as mayor. This stringing together of terms of office of both mayors over a period of 16 years, which was also operated by other "couples", led to great resentment in the ranks of the guilds and among the citizens, which, among other things, triggered and fueled the Aachen complaint .

The highlight of the mayor of Olmüssen's years in office was his trip to Augsburg for the coronation of Joseph I as Roman-German king , to whom he, as head of the delegation, brought the imperial regalia. A year later he joined the Sacramentary Brotherhood of St. Foillan as a stale (former) mayor .

Von Olmüssen was married to Anna Gertrud Pastor, (* 1621) daughter of the lawyer and lay judge Georg Pastor, who bore him eleven children, seven of whom died before their father. The Neuenhof estate was initially inherited by his daughter Apollonia, whose husband Johann Wilhelm von Mülstroh was enfeoffed by the man's chamber of the Münsterstift in 1706. In addition, Olmüssen still owned the Gassmühle near Lemiers , which his daughter Apollonia also inherited.

Literature and Sources

• 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 . tape 50 , 1928, ISSN  0065-0137 , pp. 393-398 , No. 292 ( p.124 / 125 ).
• 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. 68–70 ( aachener-geschichtsverein.de [PDF; 1.7 MB ]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive for ancestry and heraldry, p. 104ff