Megedebek
The Megedebek was a chapel in Lübeck .
history
The Megedebek was a chapel in today's St. Jürgen district . It was located east of Genin not far from the modern Kronsford Landstrasse near the Rothebeck settlement.
Its real name was in the 15th century Capella Sanctae Crucis in Megehedebeke ( Holy Cross Chapel at Megedebek); under this name it is mentioned in a document dated February 5, 1426, with which Bishop Schele donated a vicariate in honor of the Mother of God and the holy virgins Barbara and Katharina from the estate of the Mainz canon Johann Hertze . This mention is also the earliest verifiable news from the chapel.
The name after the Holy Cross fell out of use in the following years, the chapel was only briefly referred to as Megedebek (in various variants of the spelling). It was actually the name of the stream on which the chapel was located. This brook still exists today, but no longer has a proper name. Nowadays it runs underground to a large extent, but still flows into the Trave , or the Elbe-Lübeck Canal , one kilometer away at the former brewery for Walkmühle .
Only sparse information can be found in the historical records of the probably rather insignificant chapel. In 1428 it is mentioned in a directory of church tithes in the area in front of the Mühlentor , in 1444 there is a casual note in a document about a nearby farm, on December 7th 1484 it was given 8 schillings in a Hermann Beke's will : Item tor Megedebeke tom Hilgen Cruce geve ik 8ß .
None of the few sources give information about the size or architectural shape of the Megedebek; not even their origins and date of construction can be determined.
At the end of the 16th century , the chapel seems to have been in a badly neglected and dilapidated condition. In his chronicle, Mayor Gotthard von Hoeveln reports that around August 24, 1596 the tower of the chapel, possibly the only part of the structure still standing at that time, collapsed. He adds that the Megedebek was generally believed to be almost 200 years old at that time and that a number of stones had been removed for work on the cathedral .
In the same year the pastor and the congregation of Genin asked to be allowed to take over the stones when the Megedebek was to be demolished in order to use them as building material for planned renovations at the Genin church . The responsible Lübeck cathedral chapter gave its consent to this. The unprejudiced demolition of the chapel indicates that in 1596 it had been profaned and unused for a long time .
As early as 1607, Megedebek was completely demolished, as an entry in the cathedral's pastors' book from that year shows: It is noted that Canon Georg Duncklow (Georg von Dincklage), returning home from a trip, died on August 23 shortly before reaching Lübeck, and Although that one Megedebek called at the location outside the city where there used to be a tower .
Individual evidence
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literature
- Wilhelm Leverkus : Praise poem for the Bremen people after their victories in 1407 and 1408 in: Journal for German Alterthum 11th Volume (1859), pp. 375-380
- Monument Council of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck (ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Volume IV . Publishing house by Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1928