Konrad Wedemeyer the Elder

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The - listed - epitaph of Conrad Wiedemeyer on the north wall of the Marktkirche in Hanover, created in 1598 by a member of the Wulff family of artists

Konrad Wedemeyer the Elder , also: Conrad Wedemeyer or Conrad Wedemeier or Conrad Wiedemeyer (born January 26, 1533 in Gronau ; † January 25, 1598 in Hanover ) was the princely councilor and Grand Bailiff of the Principality of Calenberg and represents the beginning of a centuries-old social rise of the Von Wedemeyer family .

Life

family

Conrad Wedemeyer was born as the son of the then Gronau city council and mayor Hans Wedemeyer , from whom the noble family von Wedemeyer derives its family tree . Conrad married a daughter of the ducal chancellor Jakob Reinhard since 1529 , who, according to the will of Duke Erich I of Calenberg-Göttingen, together with his widow Elisabeth von Brandenburg and the Hessian landgrave Philip I, became the guardian of the underage son Erich in 1540 II. Was. Konrad's second wife was born from Borries . Since the Chancellor Reinhard's son had died before him, after his death in 1569 Konrad Wedemeyer was enfeoffed as his son-in-law with his Burgsassenhof zu Eldagsen. Konrad Wedemeyer's daughter Anna, born in 1564, married Joachim Brandis the Younger in Hildesheim in 1587 . In addition, Konrad had an only son of the same name, who married Margarethe Brandis from Hildesheim in 1597.

Career

Conrad Wedemeyer studied law at the University of Erfurt and entered the service of Erich, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Prince of Calenberg-Göttingen in 1533 .

From 1553 Wedemeyer served his sovereign as secretary in Münden at the court there . In 1560, Wiedemeyer was appointed Grand Bailiff and in this function - "[...] with interruptions" - until 1593 he headed the office of Calenberg . In 1585 he wrote a memorandum on the administration.

In 1564, Konrad Wedemeyer was enfeoffed by Erich II with the Gallenhof in the city of Hanover . In 1576 he gave a guarantee for Wilhelm II, Provost of Hildesheim , Count of Holstein, Schaumburg and Sternberg , a son of Count Jobst I.

Duke Erich II of Calenberg enfeoffed his Grand Vogt in Eldagsen with the “Upper Manor ” ; Obergutstraße road sign with legend board
In the same year Wedemeyer also received the Untergut there , which existed until 1961.

Conrad Wedemeyer later acquired two manors in Eldagsen : In 1582, the Grand Bailiff was enfeoffed with the saddle yard of the von Stemmen family . The so-called "Untergut" in Eldagsen later became the residence of the family's Untergut line, which has been preserved to this day as the Wederade manor on Coppenbrügger Straße . The other fiefdom was a former Burgmannshof of the Counts of Hallermund , with whose castle the Grand Vogt von Calenberg was also enfeoffed. The castle complex was later destroyed in 1626 - during the Thirty Years' War - so that Wedemeyer's descendants moved to the so-called "Obergut" in Eldagsen. This entire complex with its buildings, some of which were built later, is now a listed building .

Conrad Wedemeyer was buried in Hanover in the market church "[...] by the baptismal fairy after the market ". His sandstone epitaph , often referred to as a grave slab , with the coats of arms of the three families Reinhard (Reinharter), Wedemeyer and Borries can be found on the north wall outside the market church at Hanns-Lilje-Platz .

Archival material

Archival material on Konrad Wedemeyer can be found in the Lower Saxony State Archive (Hanover location) , there in the Deposits , Card Department and Collections up to 1945 departments .

literature

  • Wolfgang W. Ewig: Conrad Wedemeyer (1533–1598). Grand Bailiff of Calenberg. Barsinghausen 2002
  • Carl Schuchhardt : The Hanoverian Sculptors of the Renaissance, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1909, No. 29

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ In the calendar sheet it is explicitly stated that Wedemeyer "[...] entered the service of Duke Erich the Younger as a secretary in 1533", but this representation contradicts the year of death of the then, older sovereign Erich I, the elder, the first Died in 1540; compare Rainer Kasties: Erich I (the Elder), Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Calenberg-Göttingen. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 162.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Manfred Hamann (edit.): Overview of the holdings of the Lower Saxony State Archives in Hanover , Vol. 4: Deposit, card department and collections up to 1945 (= publications of the Lower Saxony Archive Administration , Vol. 47), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1992, ISBN 3-525-35531-9 and ISBN 9783525355312 , p. 253 Preview of Google books
  2. ^ Wolfgang W. Ewig: Conrad Wedemeyer (1533–1598). Grand Bailiff of Calenberg. Barsinghausen 2002
  3. ↑ " Conrad Wedemeier , calenbergscher Grossvogt" is mentioned in 1585, see August Seidensticker: History of Forests. Legal and Economic History of North German Forests ..., Volume 2, Göttingen 1896, p. 63; online via archive.org
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g N.N. : Grave slab of Conrad Wiedemeyer. In: November , loose-leaf collection, presumably from a Hanoverian calendar from the 1970s, with a photograph of the grave slab after a photo by j. Wipe
  5. ^ Family database NLF / list of persons on the website of the Verein für Computergenealogie
  6. ^ Heinrich Christian Beck, M. Johannes Sutellius, reformer and first superintendent of the churches in Göttingen and Schweinfurt , Schweinfurt 1842, p. 50 f.
  7. ^ Urban Friedrich Christoph Manecke, Biographical Sketches from the Chancellors of the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Lüneburg 1823, p. 38 f.
  8. ↑ DI 83, Landkreis Holzminden, No. 210 (note 9) (Jörg H. Lampe and Meike Willing), in: www.inschriften.net
  9. ^ Daniel Eberhard Baring , Der Lauensteinischen Saale and adjacent Oerter description , 2nd part, Lemgo 1744, p. 71 f.
  10. ↑ Samse, Die Zentralverwaltung in den Südwelfischen Landen , pp. 257, 270
  11. ↑ Dirk Henning Hofer, Karl Konrad Werner Wedemeyer (1870-1934): A Jurists and Scholars Life , Kiel 2009, p. 29 f.
  12. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , New Preussisches Adels-Lexicon , Volume 4, Leipzig 1837, p. 470
  13. ↑ Gerd Schwarz (responsible): Historischer Rundweg Oberstadt ( Memento from August 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the eldagsen.de page , with an overview map, photos and other details developed with the Eldagsen Urban History Working Group , last accessed on September 5 2015
  14. ^ Siegfried Müller : Mode: the clothes of the man in which: Life in old Hanover. Cultural images of a German city. Schlütersche, Hannover 1986, ISBN 3-87706-033-1 , pp. 74-77
  15. ^ Arnold Nöldeke : Monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hanover. (Incorporation until January 1, 1870) , in which: The art monuments of the province of Hanover , ed. from the provincial committee and provincial directorate of the province of Hanover, Part 1: District of Hanover , booklet 1 and 2 (booklet 19 and 20 of the complete work), City of Hanover , self-published by the provincial administration, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, Hanover, 1932, p. 105; Digitized in the Internet Archive and through cooperation with the University of Toronto
  16. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Hanns-Lilje-Platz 11. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , 4th, updated and expanded edition, pp. 127–132; here: p. 128
personal data
SURNAME Wedemeyer, Konrad the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wedemeyer, Conrad; Wedemeier, Conrad; Wedemeyer, Konrad; Wiedemeyer, Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer and Brunswick-Lüneburg Grand Bailiff to Calenberg
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1533
PLACE OF BIRTH Gronau
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1598
Place of death Hanover