Konrad Sack

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Konrad Sack as city founder in the old coat of arms of Gollub
Gollub Castle , built under Konrad Sack

Konrad Sack , also Konrad von Sack and Conradus Saccus (* around 1250 in Vogtland ; † 1309 in Gollub Castle , which was built under him ), was a Teutonic Knight and from 1302 to 1306 Landmaster of Prussia . In the course of his career in the order he was also Vice State Master of Prussia, Landkomtur von Kulm and held the Komturamt zu Thorn , Kulm and Gollub .

Bag comes from a service in the Reeves of Weida, Gera and Plauen standing and the kingdom ministerial family . The bailiffs were also involved in the expansion and administration of the Teutonic Order State.

He was buried in the cathedral at Kulmsee . Up until the end of the 19th century he was commemorated by a now lost figural grave slab with the inscription still legible in 1885:

..EODSI.R ... BIIT.FRAT
CVN ..... SACCVS PRECEPTOR P

literature

  • Johannes Voigt : History of Prussia from the oldest times to the fall of the rule of the Teutonic Order. Fourth volume: The time from the subjugation of Prussia in 1283 to Dieterich von Altenburg's death in 1341. Königsberg 1830, p. 180 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. Bernhard Schmid-Marienburg: The inscriptions of the German Order of Prussia up to the year 1466 , in: Writings of the Königsberger Gelehrten-Gesellschaft - Geisteswissenschaftliche Klasse , 11th year, volume 3, Halle (Saale) 1935, No. 140.
predecessor Office successor
Helwig von Goldbach Landmeister of Prussia of the Teutonic Order
1302–1306
Siegfried von Schwarzburg