Konrad von Alen

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Seal of Konrad von Alen
Dorothea from the Lettner cycle in Marien (2011)

Konrad von Alen (* before 1387 in Lübeck ; † 1410 in Hamburg ) was commander of the Lübeck fleet and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Konrad von Alen was the son of Lübeck councilor Holto von Alen and was elected to the council in 1387. As a member he belonged to the circle society . Together with Councilor Reyner von Calven, he led the Lübeck troops in the war between the cities of Lübeck, Hamburg and Lüneburg against the dukes Heinrich and Bernhard von Lüneburg . In 1404 he was with councilor Albert von der Bruges in command of the Lübeck fleet in the Baltic Sea. In 1408 he left the city because of the civil unrest and joined the lawsuit of the old council against the new council. His property in Lübeck was confiscated by the New Council. He is listed several times as a documentary witness in Lübeck citizens' wills .

Alen was married to a daughter of the councilor Eberhard Morum ; he lived at Königstrasse 31 in Lübeck. His wife brought him the salmon weir and the village of Lasbek as dowry . He is considered to be the founder of the stone statue of Saint Dorothea on the rood screen of the Marienkirche in Lübeck . The rood screen was destroyed in the air raid on Lübeck in 1942; the statue of Dorothea was the only one from the cycle of rood screen figures that remained almost intact and was put up again in 1981. With regard to the other donors of individual figures of this cycle, only the later councilor in the New Council Marquard could be proven by the Kyle for the statue of Elizabeth .

literature

  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No. 422
  • Walter Paatz : The Lübeck stone sculpture of the first half of the 15th century (= publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck 9, ZDB -ID 520795-2 ). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1929.
  • Anna Elisabeth Albrecht: Stone sculpture in Lübeck around 1400. Berlin 1997, pp. 30–32; P. 140 f. ISBN 3496011726

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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
personal data
SURNAME Alen, Konrad von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Commander of the Lübeck fleet and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH before 1387
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 1410
Place of death Hamburg