Jonas Möstel

Jonas Möstel (born February 20, 1540 in Weida ; † January 17, 1607 in Dresden ) was a Dresden town clerk and mayor .

Life

Möstel came from a Vogtland family. His father Wolfgang Möstel was superintendent of Weida, his older brother Tobias rector of the Dresden Kreuzschule and later city judge in Leipzig . Jonas first attended school in Naumburg and studied from 1565 to 1569 at Jena University . He then moved to the University of Leipzig . After completing his legal training, he was employed as a court clerk and lower town clerk in Dresden in 1571. On February 4, 1578, he married Anna Schaffhirt , the second oldest daughter of the paper maker and city judge Hieronymus Schaffhirt , who came from a Dresden councilor family . The couple had a total of 11 children.

After Möstel acquired Dresden citizenship in 1575, he was accepted into the council ten years later. In 1599 he became the ruling mayor for the first time and held this office again in accordance with the council regulations in 1602 and 1605. One of his first tasks was the management of the repair of the Sophienkirche between 1599 and 1602. In 1601 he was one of the twelve councilors who were appointed lay judges in the trial of the electoral chancellor Nikolaus Krell .

He died on January 17, 1607 in Dresden and was buried on January 22nd in the Frauenkirchhof in the Schwibbogengrab XXVII on the south-eastern wall of the sacristy extension of the old Frauenkirche .

The daughter Margaretha (born May 13, 1580 in Dresden † October 15, 1626 in Leipzig) married the Dresden (later Leipzig) court attorney Johann Rentzel the Younger in 1598 (born August 20, 1569 in Hamburg † August 5, 1631 in Leipzig).

literature

Sieglinde Richter-Nickel: The venerable council of Dresden. In: Dresden history book. No. 5, Dresden City Museum (ed.); DZA Verlag for Culture and Science, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-9806602-1-4 .
Otto Richter : Constitutional and administrative history of the city of Dresden. Volume 1, Verlag W. Baensch, Dresden 1885.
Paulus Laurentius: Funeral Sermon for Jonas Möstel , Leipzig, 1607. Evidence in the complete catalog of German-language funeral sermons : The funeral sermons of the Braunschweig City Archives , Volume 5, 1981. Signature in the Braunschweig City Archives : Volume 63, No. 31.

Web links

Entry in the Stadtwiki Dresden

Individual evidence

↑ Robert Bruck: The Sophienkirche in Dresden, your history and your art treasures. Publishing house H. v. Keller, Dresden 1912. (Reprint: Salzwasser-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8460-2366-2 )
↑ Life, fate and end of D. Nicolaus Krell, former secret councilor and canzler at the Electoral Saxon Court: together with portraits and documents. Verlag Linke, 1798, p. 55.
↑ Johann Gottfried Michaelis : Dreßdnische Inscriptiones und Epitaphia, On which monuments of those who rest in God / are buried here in and outside the church to our dear women, and expect a joyous rise to find / those who have died to perpetual Andean corners / those who are living but to the mirror and willing succession, sought together with all diligence / and for public printing / along with a historical preface by the intended church . Self-published by the author, Dresden 1714, p. 122 f . ( Digital copy of the SLUB Dresden; online in the Google book search - the age is incorrectly stated with LXI (= 61) instead of LXVI (= 66) years, there may be a transmission error on the part of Michaelis.).

predecessor	Office	successor
Hans Plansdorf (1598, 1601, 1604)	Mayor of Dresden 1599, 1602, 1605	Bastian Kröß (1600) Jakob Lehmann (1603, 1606)

personal data
SURNAME	Möstel, Jonas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dresden city clerk and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 20, 1540
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weida
DATE OF DEATH	January 17, 1607
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Robert Bruck: The Sophienkirche in Dresden, your history and your art treasures. Publishing house H. v. Keller, Dresden 1912. (Reprint: Salzwasser-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8460-2366-2 )

[2] Life, fate and end of D. Nicolaus Krell, former secret councilor and canzler at the Electoral Saxon Court: together with portraits and documents. Verlag Linke, 1798, p. 55.

[Michaelis-3] Johann Gottfried Michaelis : Dreßdnische Inscriptiones und Epitaphia, On which monuments of those who rest in God / are buried here in and outside the church to our dear women, and expect a joyous rise to find / those who have died to perpetual Andean corners / those who are living but to the mirror and willing succession, sought together with all diligence / and for public printing / along with a historical preface by the intended church . Self-published by the author, Dresden 1714, p. 122 f . ( Digital copy of the SLUB Dresden; online in the Google book search - the age is incorrectly stated with LXI (= 61) instead of LXVI (= 66) years, there may be a transmission error on the part of Michaelis.).