Nicol Römer

Nicol Römer , also called Nicolaus , Nickel , Niklas (* around 1435 in Chemnitz ; † November 7, 1493 in Zwickau ) was a Saxon merchant, tradesman and councilor in Zwickau.

Life

Coat of arms of the Romans (Meißen)

Dünnebierhaus from 1480

He came from the Meißnischen family Römer , and was the son of the Chemnitz merchant Hans Romer (also: Römer; around 1400–1481), and his wife Catharina . His brother was the Zwickau merchant and governor Martin Römer (around 1432–1483).

On February 5, 1470 the brothers Martin and Nicol Römer by Friedrich III. awarded an imperial nobility letter , d. H. Nicol Römer was raised to the nobility that year. The electoral and ducal Saxon enfeoffment with Steinpleis and Niederalbertsdorf in today's district of Zwickau followed on February 6, 1476.

Nicol and Martin Römer were involved in the Schneeberg silver mining. Due to the high silver production of the Schneeberger pits, the Zwickau Mint was reopened in 1475. In 1480, Römer had the building, later known as the Dünnebierhaus, built in Zwickau .

After the death of his brother Martin, who died childless, Nicol Römer was also the lord of the manor at Unter-Steinpleis, Marienthal , Nieder-Albertsdorf and the Werführung Stadtgut.

Before 1460, Römer married Catharina Wermann (* around 1437 in Zwickau; † November 9, 1506 there), the daughter of the Zwickau merchant Nicol Wermann. With her he had four children: Nicolaus, Anna, Martin (ancestor of the younger Steinpleiser line) and Wolf Hans Georg (ancestor of the older Neumark-Rauensteiner line). He thus became the progenitor of the von Römer family .

His grave, like that of his brother Martin, is in the Roman chapel of St. Mary's Church in Zwickau .

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility . Noble houses B 1954. CA Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 1954, p. 361 .