Lüneburg (patrician family)

This article deals with the Lübeck patrician family; for the noble family of the same name, see Lüneburg (noble family)

Coat of arms of the Lübeck family von Lüneburg

Lüneburg is the name of a family originally from the Hanseatic city of Lüneburg , which rose in the Lübeck patriciate and in this city from the exclusive circle society provided councilors and mayors for generations and which became extinct in the male line in the 18th century.

history

Coat of arms of the von Lüneburg family on the imperial confirmation of nobility in 1641

Mayor Johann Lüneburg, who died in 1461, is considered to be the progenitor of the family . His grave is in the lower choir of the Katharinenkirche . The brass grave slab is a Flemish work and as such is one of the outstanding and worth seeing pieces of its kind in Lübeck. The inscriptions on the grave slab and the inscriptions in the stone also list the other members of the Lüneburg family who were buried here until 1498.

Then the family buried in the Jakobikirche. Epitaphs were in both the Jakobikirche and the Marienkirche. You have not received.

In 1580 Joachim and Hieronymus Lüneburg were among the innovators of the circle society that came into being during the Reformation as an amalgamation of long-established families of the Lübeck patriciate. In 1641 the Lüneburgs belong to the families in the circle society whose nobility is confirmed by the emperor.

The last of the family in Lübeck was the mayor Anton von Lüneburg, who was buried in Lübeck Cathedral after his death in 1741 . His Baroque epitaph there contained the Latin inscription:

"IV et quod excurrit secula Lubecae floruit et quinque consules, to quinque vero senatores numeravit."

coat of arms

Three golden chess towers in blue (2, 1). On the helmet a blue-clad man's torso with a blue-and-silver flying headband. The helmet covers are blue and gold. The coat of arms of Hieronymus Lüneburg with three crenellated towers is located on the great organ of the Jakobikirche , where he was one of the three church leaders at the time the organ was renewed in 1575. In the same church in the north aisle is the coat of arms of a non-council member of the family with a blue shield and silver towers. The councilors family members, however, led golden towers.

Important representatives

Brass tombstone in the lower choir of the Katharinenkirche

• Alexander Lüneburg (1240–1302), Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
• Johann Lüneburg († 1373) , councilor in Lübeck
• Johann Lüneburg († 1461) , Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
• Johann Lüneburg († 1474) , councilor in Lübeck since 1467
• Johann Lüneburg († 1493) , Lübeck patrician, carnival poet and religious art lover
• Johann Lüneburg († 1529) , councilor in Lübeck since 1527
• Johann Lüneburg († 1531) , councilor in Lübeck since 1530
• Ludeke Lüneburg († 1539), councilor in Lübeck since 1535
• Hieronymus Lüneburg († 1580), Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
• Joachim Lüneburg (1512–1588), Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
• Alexander Lüneburg (1560–1627), Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
• Johann Lüneburg († 1619) , councilor in Lübeck since 1601
• Hieronymus Lüneburg († 1633) , councilor in Lübeck since 1610
• Alexander Lüneburg († 1625) , councilor in Lübeck since 1617
• Alexander von Lüneburg (1643–1715), canon in Lübeck from 1679 until resignation in 1679; Councilor in Lübeck since 1703
• Anton von Lüneburg (1678–1744), Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck

Further

see list of members of the circle society

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  Seal of Mayor Alexander Lüneburg (1302)

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  Alexander Lüneburg (1560-1627)

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  Anton von Lüneburg (1678–1744)

Possessions

Distribution of inheritance to the Lüneburg family in 1616

literature

• Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lückeckische families from older times , Lübeck 1859, p. 56ff. (Digitized version)
• Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920. Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925
• Max Hoffmann: The Lübeck patrician family Lüneburg , in: Communications from the Association for Lübeck History and Antiquity 12 (1905–1906), pp. 131–144.
• Carl Friedrich Wehrmann : The Lübeck patriciate. In: Journal of the Association for Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde 5 (1888), pp. 293–392

Web links

Commons : Lüneburg (noble family)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Coat of arms of the Lüneburg in Lübeck in Volume 3, Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch from 1701

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Complete text with explanation and translation by: Adolf Clasen : Verhabene Schätze - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, p. 176 ff. ISBN 3-7950-0475-6
2. ↑ Illustration on bildindex.de
3. ↑ free translation: And now what had flourished in Lübeck for four centuries and had five mayors, and even five councilors twice, died out.
4. ↑ According to J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms. Part III, 3: The nobility of the Free Cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck. Nuremberg: Bauer and Raspe 1871, p. 14; Fig. On plate 13.
5. ↑ BuK III, p. 337, footnote 6 with reference to Jacob von Melle : Noticia majorum. Leipzig 1707, p. 84 (note)