List of the bishops of Lübeck
Adaldag , the Archbishop of Hamburg and Bremen , founded the Diocese of Oldenburg on behalf of Emperor Otto I, probably in 972 . He appointed a clergyman named Egward as the first bishop . The news about an allegedly first bishop named Marco or Merka is very uncertain.
In 1163, under Bishop Gerold, with the consecration of the first Lübeck Cathedral, the bishopric was moved from Oldenburg to Lübeck.
While the diocese perished as a spiritual unit in the Reformation, (dissolved in 1648), the ownership of the chapter and bishop, the bishopric , remained as territory. The cathedral chapter (now Protestant) continued to elect the prince-bishop , who had always come from the Holstein-Gottorp family since 1586 . After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 , Lübeck was the only Protestant prince-bishopric in the German Empire. It was only with the secularization through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 that the monastery area became part of the (Grand) Duchy of Oldenburg as the Principality of Lübeck .
Bishops | from | to | Remarks | Illustration | Seal / coat of arms |
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Bishops of Oldenburg | |||||
Mareus | 952 | 968 | also Marko, Marcus | ||
Ekward | 968 | 974 | |||
Wago | 974 | 983 | |||
Egizo | 983 | 988 | |||
Volkward | 989 | 990 | |||
Reginbert | 992 | 1013 | |||
Bernhard | 1013 | 1023 | |||
Reinhold | 1023 | 1030 | |||
Meinher | 1030 | 1038 | |||
Abelin | 1038 | 1048 | |||
Ehrenfried | 1051 | 1066 | |||
Vice-Lady | 1149 | 1154 | The temporary seat of the diocese after the destruction of Oldenburg in 1149 by the Danes is Bosau with the Petrikirche from 1151 |
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Bishops of Lübeck | |||||
Gerold von Oldenburg / Lübeck | 1155 | 1163 | In 1156 Gerold began building the Johanniskirche in Oldenburg . The diocese is moved from Oldenburg to Lübeck in 1160 |
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Konrad I. von Riddagshausen | 1164 | 1172 | The second main church is being built with the Petrikirche | ||
Heinrich I of Lübeck | 1172 | 1182 | When he was consecrated, Heinrich the Lion laid the foundation stone for Lübeck Cathedral | ||
Konrad II of Lübeck | 1183 | 1184 | |||
Dietrich I of Lübeck | 1186 | 1210 | since 1181 provost in the monastery of Zeven | ||
Berthold von Lübeck | 1210 | 1230 | |||
John I of Lübeck | 1230/1231 | 1247 | |||
Albert Suerbeer | 1247 | 1253 | |||
John II of Diest | 1254 | 1259 | John II of Diest was a Franciscan, previously Bishop of Samland. He built the paradise of Lübeck Cathedral. | ||
John III from Tralau | 1260 | 1276 | Builder of Eutins Castle. At that time, the Marienkirche in Lübeck also burned and therefore has its current appearance. | ||
Burkhard von Serkem | 1276 | 1317 | Double grave plate with Johannes von Mul (1341–50) | ||
Heinrich II. Bochholt | 1317 | 1341 | introduced in 1341 the eastern choir of Lübeck Cathedral finished | ||
John IV. Mul | 1341 | 1350 | Mul came from a family of knights from Lower Saxony. On January 3, 1315, he was appointed cantor and scholaster at Lübeck Cathedral by Bishop Burkhard von Serkem . In 1327 he received a canon at the Schwerin Church, was ordained a canon in Lübeck and on April 22, 1341 in Lübeck by the Archbishop of Bremen Burchard Grelle as Bishop of Lübeck. Infected by the rampant plague, he died. In the cathedral of Lübeck there is a grave slab that represents him together with Burkhard von Serkem. | ||
Bertram Cremon | 1350 | 1377 | Bertram Cremon was the 14th Bishop of Lübeck from 1350 to 1377. On October 22, 1375 he received Emperor Karl IV in Lübeck. | ||
Nicholas I of Meissen | 1377 | 1379 | 1376 dean of the cathedral monastery Meißen , appointed him Pope Urban VI. on March 4, 1377 to the bishop of Lübeck. On March 19, 1379 he became Bishop of Meissen. | ||
Conrad III. from Geisenheim | 1379 | 1386 | He became protonotary of Charles IV in 1358 and took over the management of the Imperial Chancellery as Chancellor in 1370. He also held this position under the Roman-German King Wenceslaus and was often on the road in that capacity in diplomatic services at the papal court. After his appointment as Bishop of Lübeck, he remained active in the Reich Chancellery until December 1384, while he delegated his episcopal tasks to his brother Johann von Geisenheim and Johannes von Klenedenst . | ||
Johannes V. von Klenedenst | 1386 | 1387 | In 1377 Klenedenst was elected bishop by the Lübeck cathedral chapter as a citizen of Lübeck. Therefore Klenedenst went to Prague to get his confirmation, there he learned that the Pope had appointed another bishop. This was Nicolaus I. billy goat, sp. Nikolaus I von Meißen , who did not stay long in Lübeck, since he received the diocese of Meißen on March 19, 1379. Under his successor Konrad von Geisenheim, Klenedenst became vicar general and provost in Lübeck around 1381. After his death, Klenedenst took over the office of bishop of the Lübeck diocese in 1386. He was not granted a long term of office and had no effect on the Lübeck diocese, as he died the following year. | ||
Eberhard I. Attendorn | 1387 | 1399 | Bishop from the Lübeck council family | ||
John VI Hundebeke | 1399 | 1420 | |||
John VII Schele | 1420 | 1439 | |||
Nicholas II. Sachau | 1439 | 1449 | |||
Arnold Westphal | 1450 | 1466 | |||
Albert II. Krummendiek | 1466 | 1489 | donated Bernt Notke's triumphal cross in 1477 | ||
Thomas Grote | 1489 | 1492 | |||
Dietrich II. Arndes | 1492 | 1506 | |||
Wilhelm Westphal | 1506 | 1509 | |||
John VIII Grimholt | 1510 | 1523 | |||
Henry III. Bockholt | 1523 | 1535 | |||
Detlev von Reventlow | 1535 | 1535 | first evangelical bishop | ||
Balthasar Rantzau | 1536 | 1547 | |||
Jodoku's testicular filter | 1547 | 1551 | |||
Theodor von Rheden | 1551 | 1556 | |||
Andrew from Barby | 1556 | 1559 | |||
John IX Tiedemann | 1559 | 1561 | Double epitaph together with his brother, the canons of Lübeck and Ratzeburg Christopher Tiedemann († 1561) with Latin inscription in the ambulatory of Lübeck Cathedral. His bronze tombstone in the Renaissance style is also in the cathedral on the south wall in the south aisle. | ||
Eberhard II von Holle | 1561 | 1586 | Implementation of the Reformation in the monastery area | ||
Prince-Bishops of Lübeck | |||||
Johann Adolf | 1586 | 1607 | |||
Johann Friedrich | 1607 | 1634 | |||
Johann X. (Hans) | 1634 | 1655 | |||
Christian Albrecht | 1655 | 1666 | |||
August Friedrich | 1666 | 1705 | |||
Christian August | 1705 | 1726 | |||
Karl | 1726 | 1727 | |||
Adolf Friedrich | 1727 | 1750 | from the house of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf ; from 1751 King of Sweden | ||
Friedrich August | 1750 | 1785 | 1773 Treaty of Tsarskoe Selo , Friedrich August becomes Duke of Oldenburg | ||
Peter Friedrich Ludwig | 1785 | 1803 | 1803 secularization of the principality to the principality of Lübeck |
Sources and references
- Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling: The German bishops up to the end of the sixteenth century - presented biographically, literarily, historically and in terms of church statistics . 1. Volume, Leipzig 1858, pp. 562-589 .
- Ernst Friedrich Mooyer: Directories of the German bishops since the year 800 AD. Geb. Minden 1854, p. 56–57 .
- Hermann Grote : Family Tables, Leipzig 1877
- To the bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck (1933–1978)
- For the bishops for the Holstein-Lübeck district of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (1978–2008) see: North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erich Hoffmann : Lübeck in the high and late Middle Ages: The great time of Lübeck . In: Antjekathrin Graßmann (ed.): Lübeckische Geschichte . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck, 4th, improved and supplemented edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-7950-1280-9 , pp. 81–329, here 88.