Nicolaus (Provost)

The deed of the sale of the village of Heist, Anno 1361 (German translation in the picture description)

Nicolaus (also: Nikolaus) (* around 1310; † around 1365) was provost of the Uetersen monastery .

Life

Nicolaus was Albert's successor and was first mentioned in a document from the Count of Holstein in 1361. In this the knight Hartwich von Heest sells the village of Heist with the Curia (a noble farm surrounded by a moat and rampart) Bothop to the Uetersen monastery for 700 marks . Further documents confirm him in the same year for donations and land acquisitions near Ersfleth on the Elbe. In February 1362 he acquired his Neuenhoff Curia near Heist, the A-Kamp with the pieces of land Hogenroth, Schwellingen and Siderrath for the monastery of Wolder von Damme. The monastery took over the administration, jurisdiction and "rights of use" in the village of Heist. Provost Nicolaus died around 1365, Johann was his successor .

Literature and Sources

• Johann Friedrich Camerer : Mixed historical-political news in letters from some strange areas of the duchies Schleßwig and Hollstein, their natural history and other rare antiquities. Flensburg / Leipzig 1758–1762, p. 201.
• Hans Ferdinand Bubbe : Attempt of a chronicle of the city and the monastery Uetersen. Volume 1, 1932, Chapter I, pp. 39 and 56.
• Erwin Freytag: List of the provosts and priories at the Cistercian nunnery and later noble monastery at Uetersen. Yearbook for the Pinneberg district 1970.
• Magarete and Jörg Eichborm: The village HEIST. Part 2, 1996, p. 21.
• Elsa Plath-Langheinrich: The monastery at the Uetersten End. CDC Heydorns Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-934816-04-6 .
• Elsa Plath-Langheinrich: Uetersen Monastery in Holstein. Wachholtz Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-529-02813-7 .
• Uetersen monastery archive

predecessor	Office	successor
Albert	Provost of the Uetersen monastery 1350–1362	Johann