Kuno Hahn
Kuno (von) Hahn , also Cuno , Kone (born October 21, 1525 in Basedow ; † January 21, 1590 in Liepen ( Gielow )) was a Mecklenburg landowner, district administrator and financier.
Life
Kuno Hahn came from the Mecklenburg nobility family (von) Hahn (no. 260 of the sex census ). He was the older son of Lutke / Ludolf (IV.) Hahn auf Basedow and Müggenburg and his wife Mette, geb. from Quitzow . His father was not yet old when he died in 1540. He left his two underage sons Kuno and Paris under the tutelage of his widow. On May 3, 1546, Ludolf's sons first appeared independently when Friedrich Hahn gave his cousins Kuno and Paris Hahn 15 gulden leases on his inheritance on Basedow and Müggenburg. In 1548, Kuno and Paris shared their inherited feudal estates. Kuno Hahn took up residence on Basedow, Paris on Liepen. Paris died in 1565, his son of the same name in 1587, so that this inheritance also went to Kuno.
Through extensive land and money deals, Kuno Hahn became an unusually respected man; unusually rich, energetic and insightful . In 1566 he was able to lend Emperor Maximilian the significant sum of 70,000 thalers .
On March 25, 1572, the dukes of Mecklenburg appointed Johann Albrecht I and Ulrich Kuno Hahn to the Mecklenburg district administrator. As such, he helped prepare the state parliament in Sternberg , where the dukes submitted the Sternberger Reversals , also Sternberger Assekuration , a declaration of commitment ( revers ) to the estates of the duchy in July 1572 . They marked the end of the Reformation in Mecklenburg and strengthened the power of the estates over the sovereigns.
Acquisition of Seeburg
The most important investment in Kuno Hahn's life was the acquisition of the Seeburg castle and lordship (Mansfelder Land) in 1574. Seeburg and Markt-Beesenstädt (today Beesenstedt ) included 13 villages in addition to Seeburg and Markt-Beesenstedt .
Count Christoph II von Mansfeld (born September 11, 1520, † August 29, 1591 in Dresden) from the Mansfeld-Mittelort line had speculated on mining and, like the rest of his family, was heavily in debt. Since 1570 all Mansfeld possessions were under compulsory administration . He sold Seeburg, which was already pledged to his debtors, to Kuno Hahn for 115,250 thalers, with a right of repurchase for 3 years. On May 27, 1574, with the prior knowledge and consent of the administrator and cathedral chapter of Magdeburg , the count left Kuno Hahn on Basedow and his feudal lordship, with the consent of his older son and the guardianship of his younger son, for himself and his heirs and heirs Müggenburg and his heirs the castle and office Seeburg. Count Christoph took up residence at Schraplau Castle and had it expanded from 1574, which is why the Mansfeld-Mittelort line is also known as the Schraplau line .
Despite initial imperial resistance, as Christoph von Mansfeld at this time the imperial ban was defeated, the purchase came about. Kuno Hahn took possession of the castle and office of Seeburg on May 18, 1575 in the presence of the archbishopric Magdeburg councilors. In order for the purchase to be possible, however, he had to sell his Pomeranian goods such as Müggenburg and Pinnow in Mecklenburg.
He now lived mainly at Seeburg Castle, but came to Basedow regularly. His descendants lived on Seeburg for 200 years. After 1780 it came to the von Geusau family through Anna Hedwig Hahn, married von Geusau, the last of the Seeburg-Remplin family .
The rule over Seeburg was not without problems and led to a total of four lengthy processes.
The Counts of Mansfeld did not redeem their right of repurchase in the allotted time. But they wanted to assert it later, from which the first process developed, which ran through the courts for over 100 years from 1602 and in which the decision was made in favor of the Hahnschen Eben.
The second and third processes involved Seeburg-related bonds. Anna Freyberger, widow of Christoph von Neuhöfer, had inherited several debt claims from her grandfather in the amount of 80,000 Hungarian gold guilders and transferred them to the Jewish financial agent Michael von Dornburg († 1549) in 1543 for collection. The latter could not fulfill the contract, which led to several lawsuits by Anna Freyberger against Dornburg and his heirs. In 1563 she sued the emperor, namely against Count Christoph von Mansfeld, who should owe her 25,000 gold guilders, and then against his creditors, including Kuno Hahn as the lien owner of Seeburg. The dispute rested for 20 years, from 1583 to 1603. In 1603 Hans Caspar von Ponnikau appeared with the pretense that the claim was ceded to him and sued for execution against Seeburg. The contending parties died, but the heirs continued the lawsuit. In the war years of the Thirty Years' War the dispute rested for another 20 years, from 1630 to 1652. Then the former Bavarian Quartermaster General Georg Friedrich von Holtz zu Niederholz appeared as the heir to Ponnikau and filed another lawsuit. The matter dragged on for a long time. It was not until 1733 that the descendants of Kuno von Hahn received a positive judgment for them. In a further dispute about a loan from Michael von Dornburg to Count Gebhard von Mansfeld for 12,605 guilders that had not been repaid, the trials lasted until 1754. Only then did the Hahn receive a definitive, favorable judgment against the heirs of the bond, the Gugel and von families Coburg.
The fourth and last trial was brought against the von Geusau family by the Mecklenburg male indirect descendants of Kuno Hahn in order to prevent Seeburg from coming to them. They lost this last trial in 1783.
Wills and foundations
On December 2, 1585, Kuno Hahn made his will . In it he donated a poor house in Seeburg, in which six poor people should be entertained. He determined that his sons should be heirs of his goods in equal parts, including those of Seeburg. His seven daughters, who were living at the time, were to be compensated with money.
Together with his cousins Werner († 1593) and Joachim († 1589) and Werner's son Hans († 1633) he donated the Renaissance altar of the church in Basedow, which was only completed after his death in 1592.
On September 20, 1589 he prescribed his second wife Sophia, b. von der Schulenburg zum Leibgedinge his court in Remplin with pertinence and various income.
Kuno Hahn died during a stay in Mecklenburg. He was buried in the church at Basedow, where his tombstone and an epitaph for him and his two wives commemorate him.
Family and offspring
Kuno Hahn married Gödel, geb. von Maltzahn , a daughter of Georg von Maltzahn on Penzlin . She died on March 11th, 1575. In 1576 he married Sophie, b. von der Schulenburg (born January 9, 1551, † October 21, 1591 in Seeburg), the daughter of the Elector Brandenburg captain Levin von der Schulenburg on Beetzendorf and Apenburg .
Kuno Hahn had 4 sons and 10 daughters from his first wife and 4 sons and 4 daughters from the second wife, making a total of 22 children.
The first two sons Lüdeke (V., No. 264 of the gender census) and Georg (I., No. 265) probably died in childhood. The next son and possible heir Georg (II., No. 266) died of tuberculosis at the age of 23.
The next oldest living son, Kuno Paris (born October 20, 1558, No. 267), was shot at the age of 20 on August 21, 1578 in the Nonnental near Unterrißdorf by a servant of Colonel Ernst von Mandelsloh who had illegally entered the Seeburg hunt . Likewise, his first child from his second marriage, Kuno Georg Paris (No. 278), died a violent death on July 9, 1580 at the age of one and a half years. According to a comment on the family tree drawn up by the Privy Councilor Christian Friedrich Hahn († 1701), he drowned “through the negligence of his wet nurses ”, according to tradition in a brewing pan . Both have a common epitaph in the Fleckenkirche St. Nicolai in Seeburg.
Only the three youngest sons from the second marriage and 7 daughters survived the father. The three sons Levin Ludwig (1579–1635, No. 279), Werner (1583–1634, No. 280) and Claus (No. 281), of whom Claus died young, were minors when their father died. Levin Ludwig and Werner continued the line.
Monuments
- Epitaph for Georg Hahn , St. Gotthardt (Brandenburg an der Havel) (around 1575)
- Double epitaph for Kuno Paris and Kuno Georg Paris Hahn, St. Nicolai's Fleckenkirche in Seeburg (Mansfelder Land)
- Altar of the church Basedow (Mecklenburg) (1592)
- Epitaph and gravestone, Basedow church
literature
- Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : History and documents of the Hahn family. Volume 4: Containing the Basedow-Seeburg line. Schwerin 1856 ( digitized version), pp. 2–22
- K. Heine: Seeburg Castle and its residents. A contribution to the local history of the county of Mansfeld. In: Zeitschrift des Harz-Verein für Geschichte und Alterthumskunde 30 (1897), pp. 299–330 ( digitized version , UB Jena)
- Friedrich Schlie : Art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Volume 5: The district courts of Teterow, Malchin, Stavenhagen, Penzlin, goods, Malchow and Röbel. Schwerin 1902, p. 125 ff.
To the trials around Seeburg
- Delineatio of the Ponickauischen Juden-Schuldt and the nullity: In the matter of Hanen Contra Ponickau. Which else Ponickau against Magdeburg initiates; Incidentally, the facti story before this meal only two quaestiones ... are discussed recently. 1. That this matter is now not before that laudable Käyserliche Cammer dishes; But belong to the Iudicium Revisorium. 2. That because of such Jewish guilt ... the execution against the Hanen in Seeburg ... cannot rightly be executed. 1653 ( digitized version )
- Examination of the alleged reasons, as stated by the Cammer court Jurisdiction in the matter of Ponigkau versus Magdeburg, nunc Holtz versus Hahnen , 1695 ( digitized version )
- Justitia Et Authoritas Caesarea Vindicata, Sive Acten-wise deduction, that the seven decrees, rescripta, and mandata lawfully issued in the matter of Ponigkau Contra Magdeburg Nunc Holtz and Welden Contra Hahn zu Seeburg, among the next three Roman Cheesers, seven decrees, rescripta, and mandata, and where not quoad inhibitiones ad Cameram Imp. then to renew quoad Inhibitiones and Mandata to Magdeburg and the Ponigkauische specified heirs ... , 1700 ( digitized )
- Vera & Dilucida Facti Species Ex Actis Cameræ Imperialis, Berolinensibus & Hallensibus desumta, Cum quæstionibus aliquot Jn things Gugelischer and Coburgischer heirs Contra Hahn zu Seeburg. 1702
- Preliminary brief information founded in Jure & Facto, In the matter of Manßfeld Contra Hahn. In terms of præt. revocat. the office of Seeburg. [Sl], [approx. 1709] ( digitized version )
- Resale contract between Christoph zu Mannßfeld and Cuno Hahn on the castle and office of Seeburg concluded on May 27th, 1574: in addition to those partly collated and vidimized in the Royal Magdeburg Government with the originals of the High Lands-Magnificent Consensus and other related documentis ... , 1711
- Actual and historical deduction, also well founded in Jure, in the Manßfeld Contra Hahn case. [Sl] 1712 ( digitized version )
- Iudicatum Caesareum Conditionale de 10 Decembr. 1700, Nunc Adimplita Conditione Purificatum, Sive Acten-moderate Representation Veri Praesentis Status, Et Exceptionum Reorum De Hahn ... in the matter of Schlichting afterwards Ponickau versus Magdeburg, nunc Holz- and Welden versus Hahn zu Seeburg ... , 1728 ( digitalized )
- Appendix actis conformis to the Hahnische Representation sive Vindiciae , 1729 ( digitized version ), which was brought to light in 1728
- Complete execution of the right of inheritance to which the von Hahn brothers are entitled to the Seeburg castle and office. Frankfurt and Leipzig 1781
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The primitive noble family only used the nobility pronoun "von" since the Count in the 19th century.
- ↑ Lisch (Lit.), p. 3
- ↑ Lisch (Lit.), p. 11
- ↑ Michael von Dornburg in the Fürth Wiki
- ↑ For details see Lisch (Lit.), p. 17
- ↑ For details see Lisch (Lit.), p. 19
- ↑ Heine (Lit.), p. 312
- ^ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : History and documents of the Hahn family. Volume 3: The Basedow Line of the XVI. Century and containing the extinct younger houses of this line . Schwerin 1855 ( digitized version ), p. 240
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hahn, Kuno |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hahn, Cuno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mecklenburg landowner, district administrator and financier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1525 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basedow |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1590 |
| Place of death | Liepen ( Gielow ) |