Konrad Pfettisheim

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Representation from the rhyme chronicle: Siege of Neuss

Konrad Pfettisheim (* 15th century; † 1516 in Strasbourg ) was the author of a rhyming chronicle about the Burgundian Wars printed in Strasbourg in 1477 .

His name is mentioned in the acrostic at the entrance to the print as Conradvs Pfedteshem . He was certainly from Strasbourg, but a bag maker Conrad von Pfettisheim attested to in 1456 is less of an option than a priest at St. Thomas in Strasbourg who died in 1516, according to the author's lexicon in 1989. The final address of the addressees as "dear children" refers to a pastor as the author. A Strasbourg cleric with this name has emerged as the author elsewhere: he gave a sermon on the dance song Der scheffer von der nuwen stat from 1490 (the wording is not preserved) .

Since Konrad Pfettesheim is presented as “our” confessor in the manuscript that has been handed down to this sermon, it makes sense to think of the Reuerinnenkloster , because a Konrad Pfettesheim was the confessor and benefactor of this monastery for 25 years. His tombstone, which probably originally stood in the cloister, was briefly presented at the board meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Historical Monuments in Alsace on November 14, 1888. However, the date of the tombstone from a more recent source is 1500.

That the animissarius of St. Thomas - Tobler states that he is buried in St. Wilhelm in Strasbourg - who was proven by Kindler von Knobloch with the year of death 1516 - was the reuer pastor, results from further information in the bulletin of the society mentioned. On January 24, 1906, it was reported that an inscription with the name Conrads von Pfettisheim, Animissarius of St. Thomas, had been uncovered in the choir of the former Reuerinnenkirche St. Magdalena. It was later announced that the high school chapel of Hagenau , which was formerly part of the Reuerinnenkloster, also had an inscription Conradi de Pfettisheim, Argentinensis (from Strasbourg).

The first-mentioned tombstone is located in the garden of the Women's Works Museum in Strasbourg and actually bears the inscription: GEDENCK IN GOTT CONRAD PFETESHEIM PRIESTER VORZITEN XXV IOR LANG BICHTER DISES CONVENTS GUTTETEL AND GRETRWER DINER. DIED ANNO MCCCCC. A short French biography, which is in the inventory documents of the museum, can be seen: Pfettisheim studied in Erfurt (1460) and held various benefices in Strasbourg from 1470. From 1470 he was chaplain in St. Nicholas, from 1480 in St. Stephan. From around 1490 he was a preacher and confessor in the penitentiary convent. Until his death in 1516 he also held the position of animissarius at St. Thomas.

It is unlikely that Konrad Pfettisheim belonged to the noble Pfettisheim family. There is more of a connection with Johann Pfettesheim from Strasbourg, who was matriculated in Leipzig in 1450 and who wrote a legal manuscript in 1460/65.

proof

  1. ↑ Mentioned in Wackernagel, Das deutsche Kirchenlied, vol. 3, 1870, p. 1131 no. 1310 from an apparently burned Strasbourg manuscript. See also Walther Lipphardt in the Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung 12 (1967), pp. 42–79, here p. 72.
  2. ↑ In the meeting reports p. 30.
  3. ↑ Cahiers alsaciens d'archéologie, d'art et d'histoire 1989, p. 107: Epitaphe murale de Conrad Pfettesheim, 1500.
  4. ↑ He took special care of the soul masses.
  5. ↑ P. 71 and 73, with US proxy: Société pour la conservation des monuments historiques d'Alsace: Bulletin .... Berger-Levrault., 1908, p. 73 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  6. ↑ Quoted in: Archivalia: Neues zu Konrad Pfettisheim .
  7. ↑ See Kindler von Knobloch in the yearbook "Adler" 1885, p. 17f. (US proxy): Heraldic-Genealogical Society "Adler": New Yearbook. 1885, p. 17 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  8. ↑ Manuscript catalogs ONLINE. In: manuscripta-mediaevalia.de. Retrieved January 14, 2015 .

literature

  • Gustav Tobler: Conrad Pfettisheim's poem about the Burgundian Wars Bern 1917 Commons
  • Frieder Schanze, in: author's lexicon . 2nd edition, Volume 7, 1989, Col. 564-567

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personal data
SURNAME Pfettisheim, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Author of a rhyming chronicle about the Burgundian Wars
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1516
Place of death Strasbourg