Marsilius de Berlin
Monument group 5 on Berlin's Siegesallee . The secondary figure on the right is Marsilius de Berlin.
Marsilius de Berlin lived in the 13th century and was the first Schulze and Richter of the city of Berlin mentioned in a document . He was a long-distance trader from the Rhineland.
"Marsilius scultetus de Berlin" appears for the first time on April 29, 1247 as a witness to a donation for the Walkenried monastery in southern Harz . On July 14, 1253, he testified to the document of Margrave Johann I of Brandenburg , in which the latter granted the city of Frankfurt (Oder) the city rights of Berlin.
In Berlin's Siegesallee , the sculptor Max Baumbach created a bust of Marsilius as a secondary figure to the group of figures for Johann I and his brother Otto III. ( Monument group 5 ).
Web links
- Marsiliusstrasse . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marsilius de Berlin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marsilius schultetus de Berlin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | first officially mentioned Schulze and Richter of the city of Berlin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1247 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1253 |