Nicholas Krage

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Nikolaus Krage (also Nicolaus Crage , Danish also Niels Crage ; * around 1500 in Lüchow ; † 1559 in Salzwedel ) was a Protestant theologian and the reformer of the East Westphalian city ​​of Minden in today's North Rhine-Westphalia .

Life

Krage probably studied in Wittenberg like his younger brother Tilemann as a student of Martin Luther . Krage then worked as a Protestant preacher from 1523 and from 1526 as court preacher of Count Erich IV of the Upper County of Hoya-Stolzenau in Stolzenau . After lengthy negotiations, the count agreed that the citizens of Minden should bring Krage to their city in December 1529. Apparently they knew him from his sermons. Krage began preaching in every church in the city with the exception of the cathedral . In addition, he worked out the Christlike ordeninge of the Erlyken city of Mynden , which he announced on February 13, 1530 in the Minden council church of St. Martini and which was printed in Lübeck in February 1530 . The adoption of the church order meant the implementation of the Reformation.

The old believing clergy had to leave the city. The canons withdrew, but began a process at the Imperial Court of Justice that ultimately led to the declaration of imperial ban on Minden in 1538 . After the church ordinance was announced, which was the first Protestant church ordinance in Westphalia , Krage drew up 19 theses, which he posted on all church doors on March 21, 1530. Nobody volunteered for a dispute, so he was considered the winner.

The meetings he instituted after the sermon made him suspicious of enthusiasm. His quick temper made the council separate from him. His behavior made him wrong. Since he got the lower classes behind him, he was considered a rebel . For a while he stayed on the Fischerkietz. But when he tried to seize the city from there, he was expelled in 1535 and brought back to Stolzenau.

He couldn't hold himself there either. He probably went to Emden around the turn of the year 1535/36 , in 1539 he is named as dean in Münsterdorf , but he was unable to gain a firm foothold anywhere. In 1543 he succeeded in becoming German court preacher Christian III. to be in Copenhagen . There he was promoted to Dr. theol. PhD. In 1545 he demanded outstanding funds and a promised pension from the city of Minden, and King Christian wrote a corresponding letter to the city. In the reply letter, the earlier rejection of such demands and the special way of life Krage was pointed out in detail. In 1547, however, Krage had to leave Copenhagen and was assigned a canon position in Schleswig . In 1549 he entered the service of King Christian's brother, Duke Adolf von Gottorf , who appointed Krage provost for Gottorf and Husum . In February 1553, Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg appointed Krage, apparently against the will of the citizens, as pastor and superintendent at St. Marien in Salzwedel. In 1555, the elector gave him the Dechaneihaus des Großer Kaland zu Salzwedel with an annex and all fairnesses as free inheritance, which Krage's heirs sold to the city council after his death and which still houses the superintendent in 1555. Krage's widow married the Mayor of Salzwedel, Rademin.

On November 12, 2017, in Minden, a memorial plaque was placed near the west portal of the St. Martini Church in the presence of a direct descendant in memory of the Minden reformer Nikolaus Krage .

literature

  • HF Rørdam: Crage, Nicolaus, -1543-, Hofpræst . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 4 : Clemens – Eynden . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1890, p. 97-98 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  • Robert Stupperich : Development of the grammar schools in Minden. In: Serving the country and its people. A reader on the history of the school in Minden. Minden 1980.
  • Martin Krieg: The Chronicon domesticum et gentile of Heinrich Piel. Münster 1981.
  • Hans Nordsiek: From Lüchow to Salzwedel - on the trail of the Minden reformer Nicolaus Krage. In: Messages from the Minden History Society. 53, 1981, pp. 51-106.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicolaus Krage: Christlike ordeninge of the Erlyken city of Mynden tho denste dem hilgen Evangelio / Ock denn Christliken frede and enicheit belangende with sampt ytliker vormaninge in front of the common Dorch Nicolaum collar erwelten and geescheden predicantenn tho Minden. MDXXX (Christian order of the honorable city of Minden in the service of the holy gospel. Together with several admonitions to the congregation. By Nicolaus Krage, chosen and appointed preacher in Minden. 1530). Ed. Stadt Minden, Verlag JCC Bruns, Minden 1980.
  2. ^ Mindener Tageblatt: Memory of Nikolaus Krage | Minden Current . In: Minden Aktuell . ( mt.de [accessed on November 13, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Krage, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crage, Nicholas; Crage, Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and reformer von Minden
DATE OF BIRTH around 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Lüchow
DATE OF DEATH 1559
Place of death Salzwedel