Nickel Seidel

Nickel Seidel ( Seydil ) was a Dresden councilor and mayor living in the 15th century .

Life

Act as city judge

Little is known about his origin and his life. In 1463 he is mentioned for the first time in the list of council members and at that time he held the office of city ​​judge . Already in 1412 the city of Dresden was of Elector Frederick the Low jurisdiction has been transferred. The city judge, usually a younger member of the council, was responsible for settling minor disputes. He also had police duties and supervision of the prison and the city guard. In 1468 Seidel was named again as a judge. With the introduction of the new council order of 1470, this function was passed on to three council members elected for life, whereby the exercise was always incumbent on a councilor who did not belong to the ruling council. Although Seidel was no longer in office at that time, he continued to appear as an attesting witness in various legal transactions.

Act as councilor

In addition to his work as a judge, Nickel Seidel also held various other council functions. In 1464 he is named as the lord of the lords and was thus responsible for collecting the inheritance and capital interest , various city taxes and the market place money. In 1469 he took over the management of the defeat and shot office. With the granting of the right of residence on September 17, 1455, all goods going to Bohemia by sea ​​or land had to be offered for sale in Dresden for a certain period of time. The defeat office was given the task of controlling the entire movement of goods, observing compliance with this provision and administering the funds that the city received from this right. The beer grist office was connected to the defeat office. This administered the shot money to be paid to the council when selling beer to the farmers in the area .

At the same time as the defeat and shot office, Seidel was also given the pan office in 1469. As a pan master, he had to organize the allocation of the council's own brewing pans to the citizens entitled to brew and collect the fees to be paid for them. The proceeds of the Pfannenamt were used to purchase new brewing equipment or were used to benefit the Maternihospital . From 1481 to 1487, Nickel Seidel was his hospital master. In 1470, Nickel Seidel was appointed treasurer, but at the same time remained pan lord. In 1481 he was named as a master builder in the council register and was thus responsible for the administration of the town's buildings and construction projects.

Act as mayor

In 1486 he was elected governing mayor for the first time and held this office in the usual three-year cycle until 1495. This year he can be found among the council members for the last time.

Nothing is known about his professional activity in addition to his public duties. However, he seems to have had considerable income, as he was one of the richest men in Dresden in 1488 with a fortune of 900 guilders . In 1481 Seidel owned a house on the Ring ( Altmarkt ) and in 1486 acquired several properties outside the city, such as a field on Striesener Weg 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. ↑ ^{a b} Thomas Kübler, Jörg Oberste (ed.): The city books of Dresden (1404–1535) and Altendresdens (1412–1528) , Volume 2, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2007, p. 160, ISBN 978-3-86583-212- 2 .
2. ^ Heinrich Butte: History of Dresden up to the Reformation , in: Mitteldeutsche Forschungen, Volume 54, Böhlau Verlag, 1967, p. 131

predecessor	Office	successor
Lucas Feist (1485) Symon Werchaw (1488, 1491, 1494)	Mayor of Dresden 1486 , 1489 , 1492 , 1495	Johannes Huffener (1487, 1490) Hans von Carlowitz (1493) Hans Schmeißer (1496)