Matthäus Rodde

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Matthäus Rodde in the mayor's gallery in Lübeck's town hall .

Matthew Rodde (* 1598 , † 29. November 1677 in Lübeck ) was a German merchant and Lübeck councilor and from 1667 until his death in Lübeck Mayor .

Life

Matthäus Rodde was the son of councilor Adolf Rodde and son-in-law of councilor Franz Prünsterer. As a merchant he belonged to the company of the Spanish drivers around 1627 and in 1635 was a senior man of the Lübeck skipper drivers . In 1626 he was head of the orphanage and the Marienkirche . In 1646 he became councilor of Lübeck and represented the city in 1663 as envoy to Sweden. As mayor , he represented the city council together with mayor David Gloxin . As a result of the negotiations, two years after the cash process, the Lübeck citizens' recession of 1669 came about, which was to remain in force as a constitution with the interruption of the Lübeck French era until the constitutional reform in 1848.

He was married twice, first to Anna, geb. Prünsterer, a daughter of councilor Franz Prünsterer , and then with Katharina, born. Schumacher.

His monumental wooden epitaph in St. Mary's Church was a late work of cartilage style by Eckernförder school to the family Gudewerdt inspired "by tangled Arkanthuslaub overgrown". It burned in the air raid on Palm Sunday 1942 . On the other hand, his grave slab, artistically cast in brass, which he had made by Wolffgang Hartmann in 1648 and which was in the rood screen before 1942 , was saved. Today it is erected in the south aisle. His name stands with those of the other church councils such as councilor Hermann von Lengerke in the inscription on the pulse bell of the church, which was newly cast by Albert Benningk in 1669 and which was also destroyed in 1942 and the remains of which are today a memorial.

  • Grave slab (2013)

  • Marking of the grave slab

  • The broken bells of St. Mary's; on the right the pulse bell cast by Albert Benningk in 1669

  • Epitaph by Matthäus Rodde the Elder Ä. in the Marienkirche in Lübeck (destroyed in 1942)

  • Gold medal with the face of Matthäus Rodde d. Ä. (left) and Johannes Ritter (right) who had the latter minted in 1669 when he was elected mayor of Lübeck, and in memory of his friend.

His sons Franz Bernhard Rodde (politician, 1644) and Adolf Mattheus Rodde were also councilors in Lübeck.

literature

  • Jürgen Asch: Council and citizenship in Lübeck 1598-1669 . Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, 1961
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925 No. 775
  • Anne-Dore Ketelsen-Volkhardt: Schleswig-Holstein Epitaphs of the 16th and 17th Centuries , Neumünster: Karl Wachholtz, 1989 (Studies on Schleswig-Holstein Art History, Vol. 15) ISBN 3-529-02515-1
  • Schaumann, Gustav; Bruns, Friedrich (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck , ed. from the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906.

Web links

Commons : Matthäus Rodde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ see Council Line No. 736
  2. ↑ see Council Line No. 746
  3. ↑ Fehling with reference to Mrs. Sievert: History and documents of the Riga drivers in Lübeck. 1899, p. 296.
  4. ^ Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from older times , Lübeck 1859, there pp. 106-108: The Lübeckische Rath in 1660
  5. ↑ Architectural and art monuments, p. 433.
  6. ^ Walter Paatz : The Marienkirche in Lübeck. Burg 1929, p. 32.
  7. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments: Northeast Germany. 1906, p. 271
personal data
SURNAME Rodde, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and Lübeck councilor and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH 1598
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1677
Place of death Lübeck