Nicolaus Eck

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Half-length portrait with the inscription Nicolaus Ecke aet. 60

Nicolaus Eck (* 1541 in Riga ; † August 28, 1623 ibid) was the mayor and burgrave of Riga.

Life

Nicolaus Eck was a son of Eck Claus, * (* approx. 1505; † approx. 1557) and the NN Borgentreich.

In the years 1570 to 1580 he was mentioned in a document through various property and real estate matters in Riga, but had also been a councilor since 1576. In 1581 Eck became mayor and in 1583 also burgrave in Riga.

The introduction of the new calendar , sponsored by Eck, led to civil unrest in Riga on January 2, 1585 . It was u. a. devastated his apartment. Only after 14 days could the tumult be settled and, after a general amnesty was issued, Eck was also offered compensation. In March, however, the unrest broke out again and Eck had to exile from the city . In 1586, after the matter had come before the king to investigate and suppress the unrest in Riga , Eck returned to his offices and was awarded 10,000 guilders in damages .

However, the matter did not settle under the Catholic-Polish rule over the city. So he got involved in the dispute between Jakob Godemann and David Hilchen and was hated by the citizens because he stuck to Severin's contract . As a result, there were new accusations and accusations against Eck as well as further riots, so that he went into exile again in 1605. On royal orders he was restituted in 1612 and returned with his two equally escaped sons-in-law Rörtger to Horst and Thomas Ramme . Subsequently, the administration ran smoothly under his leadership. Eck donated a poor house for citizen widows, which continued under the name Ecks Konvent for a long time. After his death, Ecks was buried in the Riga Cathedral .

family

Nicolaus Eck is the ancestor of the later noble family von Ekesparre , his first marriage to Elisabeth Breul, daughter of the Rigian council secretary Bernt Breul and the NN Linden, his second marriage to Anna Schultze (* 1573; † 1618), daughter of the Rigian mayor Michael Schultze and Elisabeth von Romberg, married.

Children:

  1. Elisabeth, ⚭ before 1605 Rötger thor Horst († 1632)
  2. Anna († before 1627), ⚭ 1606 Thomas Ramm , 1621 mayor of Riga
  3. Bernhard, ⚭ Anna von Zwirnbach
  4. Clara, ⚭ Gotthard (Gerd) Maneken († 1610)
  5. Katharina, ⚭ Joachim Welling (* 1587; † 1636), 1620 elder of the Great Guild

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ downside: his coat of arms with the inscription oderint dum bene faciam Ao 1601
  2. ↑ Reinhard Wittram : Baltic history. The Baltic countries of Livonia, Estonia, Courland 1180–1918 . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1973. ISBN 3-534-06475-5 . P. 82.
  3. ^ Rigic city contract, named after Severin's day of honor , October 23rd , which regulates the relationship between council and guild more than it clarifies the calendar issue related to the contract.
  4. ^ Conrad Jacob Hiltebrandt: Conrad Jacob Hiltebrandt's Triple Swedish Legation Trip to Siebenburgen, the Ukraine and Constantinople (1656-1658) , p. 28
personal data
SURNAME Eck, Nicolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eck, Claves; Corner, Nicolaus von; Eke, Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor and Burgrave of Riga
DATE OF BIRTH 1541
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1623
Place of death Riga