Melchior butcher

Melchior Metzger , named after his place of birth Calwer , Calwer became a family name in 1556 (* probably shortly after 1500 in Calw ; † 1563 in Tübingen ), was a judge, city sealer and mayor of Tübingen. Melchior Metzger was a member of the landscape parliament and a member of the landscape select committee. Melchior Metzger is the father of Jörg Calwer and Jacob Calwer , who also became mayors of Tübingen.

Inscription on the facade of the Calwer house: "After a fire on September 21, 1540, which destroyed part of the market square, this house was built by the then owner, Mayor Melchior Metzger, known as Calwer."

Life

Melchior Metzger was the son of a Tübingen citizen named Metzger, who died in Calw before 1512, and his wife Anna, who after his death married Conrad Schetterlin, who was a relative of Tübingen. He was initially married to Margarete Hirschmann († 1538), a daughter of the mayor of Schorndorf, Jacob Hirschmann. After her death he married Geneve Heuenberger († 1568).

Metzger has been mentioned in the Tübingen magistrate documents since 1542. From this year (maybe even earlier) he was a judge and city sealer (until 1561), as well as mayor (until 1558). In addition, he was in the years 1551–1555 member of the landscape and from 1552 to 1553 a member of the select committee of the landscape. In addition, he was subordinate bailiff in 1549/50. In 1551 Metzger was a member of the state delegation to Emperor Karl V. He was also a member of the commission (1551–1555) for the development of the first Württemberg land law. The then existing legal statutes of the Württemberg cities as well as drafts were sent to him.

After the market square fire in 1540, Melchior Metzger had a large house built for himself in Tübingen Kirchgasse (postal address Kronenstraße 17 ), which has been called Calwer House since then.

Metzger's seal in 1551 shows a floating St. Andrew's cross with a split shield. On his seal from 1558 is a bird (presumably griffin ) to the left with its head turned back.

The Tübingen historian Carl Friedrich Haug is one of his well-known descendants .

Creation of the first Württemberg land law

In January 1552 he supported Duke Christoph when he had a new state order with police regulations and directives of a private law drawn up. During the negotiations with the estates gathered in Böblingen about the creation of a common land law, it was decided on January 12, 1552 that all cities and offices should send their previous customs and rights to the mayor Melchior Calwer in Tübingen by February 7, 1552 and that In Tübingen some experts were supposed to meet with the ducal councils in order to draw up an opinion on the documents sent and to present this to a larger committee on February 21, 1552.

However, this decision was initially not effective. Because the dates - from January 12th to February 7th and 21st, 1552 - were set too short and the undertaking was too difficult. At that time, almost all cities began to draw up their own local laws and even attach some suggestions to the latter about the statutes to be laid down in the new law book. These reports were submitted to the larger Estates Committee on February 21, 1552. The latter approved it, but asked the Duke in turn to entrust the further handling of the matter to a few legal scholars. Duke Christoph complied and ordered those four councilors who had previously worked with the Estates Commission to complete the draft of the land law on their own. Very soon afterwards, however, the war riots of 1552 began; one of the councilors also died after a few months, and so the company threatened to come to a complete standstill.

Nevertheless, it was possible to produce at least individual parts of the draft by the Böblingen state parliament in October 1552, with which the estates immediately agreed. The completion of the work, to which the professors of the Tübingen Law Faculty were now also called in, took almost the whole of 1553 to complete, so that the estates could only examine the entire land law draft at the great Stuttgart Landtag from December 1553 to January 1554. During this examination they requested a number of larger and smaller additions and changes, which were then used in the course of 1554 by Duke Christoph and his councilors in the final determination of the text. In October 1554 the printing of the new law book began; in March 1555 it was completed; In May 1555, the land law was sent to all cities and offices with the condition that they comply with the same "in force of the landscape comparison in all ways".

Further documentary mentions

On May 31, 1501 (Whit Monday), the mayor judge and the entire community of the village of Baisingen certified that they had given the Melchior butcher, citizen of Calw, an annual interest of 10 Fl Rhenish. The interest could be redeemed again with 200 fl.

Gall Schütz von Eutingertal certified on December 27, 1539 (on the day of the Evangelist Johannes) that he had Melchior butcher called Calwer, citizen of Tübingen, an annual validity of 9 mltr of rye, 8 mltr of Vesen , 8 quarters of peas Tübinger Mess, 3 ß hlr. Wuerttemberg currency, 100 eggs and 4 autumn chickens or 19 fl money. According to the agreement, the validity could have been redeemed for 380 fl main goods.

children

• Anna (⚭ Johann Michael Sattler, town clerk in Schorndorf)
• Katharina (⚭ 1556 Christoph Dreher, mayor and lawyer in Leonberg)
• Jörg Calwer (1548-1618)
• Jacob Calwer († 1609)

See also Library of Princeton University Digitization in Facsimile

• Altwirtembergisches from family papers for the best of the Lutherstift, an educational institution for pastors' sons digitized by Google, written by Karl von Riecke [1]
• For the family, Metzger - Calwer - Kalber, see pages: 47. 51. 52. 53. 57. Digitization
• For the Sattler family see pages: 46. 47. 48. 51. 55. 56. 57. Digitization

Appreciation

The Tübingen Calwerstrasse , which runs on the site of the old clinics between Gmelinstrasse and Frondsbergstrasse , was named after Melchior Metzger called Calwer and his sons .

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Rudolf Seigel: judgment and advice ... . Pp. 247/248
2. ↑ Reinhold Rau: On the history of the Tübingen pharmacies on the market square
3. ^ Carl Friedrich Haug: Communications from his life and from his estate, printed as a manuscript for relatives and friends , edited by Karl Riecke . Stuttgart, printed by IB Metzler'schen Buchdruckerei 1869.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Bernhard Kugler: Christoph: Herzog zu Württemberg , Volume 1, Ebner and Seubert, 1868, p. 313.
5. ^ Friedrich Carl Moser (Freiherr von): Patriotic Archives for Germany , Vol. 1, Schwan, 1784, p. 160.
6. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, holdings Dep. 37 T 1 No. 17: Count Schenk von Stauffenbergisches Archiv Lautlingen: Documents from Baisingen
7. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, holdings Dep. 37 T 1 No. 19: Count Schütz von Eztingertal
8. ↑ This is why they are written together (in one word), while the streets named after places are written separately.

literature

• Rudolf Seigel: Court and Council in Tübingen. From the beginnings to the introduction of the municipal constitution 1818–1822 , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1960 (= publication of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg)
• Reinhold Rau: On the history of the Tübingen pharmacies on the market square . In: “Tübinger Blätter” 56, 1969, pp. 15–26: p. 130 (PDF file; 299 kB), p. 131 (PDF file; 399 kB) and p. 132 (PDF file; 335 kB )