Mudder Cordes
Mudder Cordes (Bremen dialect: "Mother Cordes"), actually Metta Cordes, b. Behrens (born December 21, 1815 in Bremen ; † December 16, 1905 in Delmenhorst ) was a well-known Bremen city original .
biography
Metta Cordes was the daughter of the farmer Behrens from Oberneuland . She attended the local village school. Then she worked as a housemaid in the country. In 1833 she married the cigar maker Cordes, who died early. They had five children together. Cordes was materially faced with existential nothing, because there was no social security. She was forced to send four of the children to an orphanage, and she kept the youngest. With a junk wagon that she pulled herself, she now drove through Bremer Neustadt and sold vegetables and fruit. In 1860 an unknown worker gave her a dog named Sultanreceived and pulled the car. This first dog team caused a sensation and from now on the greenery shop began to flourish. After the death of Sultan in 1866, the members of a "death box" based on the idea of the Küpers Anton Spohler gave her the donkey Anton , who from then on pulled the wagon. This popular team also received careful attention. When the donkey died in 1895, the Overseas Museum stuffed and exhibited it. The now 80-year-old Mudder Cordes moved to her daughter in Delmenhorst in 1895.
In an obituary for Metta Cordes on December 19, 1905, the Bremer Nachrichten wrote : "She is resting from a life full of hard work."
Honors, memorial
- In Bremen- Gröpelingen (In den Wischen) the Mudder-Cordes-Weg was named after her.
- The bronze monument Mudder Cordes comes from the sculptor Christa Baumgärtel . Donated by her great-grandson, it was set up on October 12, 1987 in the Bremen-Mitte district on Kniehauerstraße .
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 43 " N , 8 ° 48 ′ 27.3" E
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Johann-Günther König : Heini Holtenbeen, Fisch Lucie and other Bremen originals - an attempt at resuscitation . Brockkamp Verlag, Bremen 1990, ISBN 3-922496-31-8 .
- Christine Holzner-Raber in portraits of women in the Bremen Women's Museum.
- Christine-Holzner-Rabe: Cordes, Metta, b. Behrens, Mudder Cordes . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cordes, mudder |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cordes, metta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bremen city original |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 1905 |
| Place of death | Delmenhorst |