Nickel proles

Nickel (Nicolaus) Proles (also Prolis ) († 1463 in Dresden ) was a Dresden councilor and mayor who lived in the 15th century .

Nickel Proles came from a long-established family, which is already mentioned in the oldest surviving sovereign council confirmation document of January 13, 1399. This year, Nigkel Proles, an ancestor of the Dresden Council, was a member. The family owned large estates in the Dresden area and was also feudal lord of the Ottendorf manor .

In 1441 he is recorded for the first time in the list of council members and took over the office of treasurer . From 1451 until his death in 1463 he was hospital master . Nickel Proles was elected to the office of governing mayor twice (1457 and 1463). During this time he was given the difficult task of settling the conflicts that flared up again and again between the council and the city's craftsmen, ultimately without success. It was not until the council ordinance of 1470 passed seven years after his death that the election of mayors and the composition of the city council were reorganized.

Proles also appears in various files as landowners. In 1444 he sold a vineyard on the Tatzberg to the doctor of medicine and vicar of Meißen, Franciscus Kunze, in order to pay off debts with the proceeds. When he died he left a. a Vorwerk in Altendresden and a vineyard in Loschwitz .

literature

• Sieglinde Richter-Nickel: The venerable council of Dresden , in: Dresdner Geschichtsbuch No. 5, Dresden City Museum (ed.); DZA Verlag for Culture and Science, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-9806602-1-4 .
• Otto Richter: Constitutional and administrative history of the city of Dresden , Volume 1, Verlag W. Baensch, Dresden 1885.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinrich Butte: History of Dresden up to the Reformation , in: Mitteldeutsche Forschungen, Volume 54, Böhlau Verlag, 1967, p. 137
2. ↑ Konrad Sturmhoefel: Illustrated history of the Saxon countries and their rulers, From the beginnings to the death of Frederick the Strict (Volume 1, Part 2), Verlag Hübel & Denck, 1898, p. 197
3. ^ Martin Bernhard Lindau: History of the capital and residence city of Dresden , Volume 1, Verlag R. Kuntze, 1859, p. 271.
4. ↑ Thomas Kübler, Jörg Oberste (ed.): The city books of Dresden (1404-1535) and Altendresdens (1412-1528) , Volume 1, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2007, p. 48, p. 72. ISBN 978-3865832122

predecessor	Office	successor
Hans Kotericzsch (1456, 1459)	Mayor of Dresden 1457 , 1460	Hans Münzmeister (1458) Nickel Schonyrst (1461)