Nikolaus van der Molen

Grave slab of Nikolaus van der Molen in Lübeck Cathedral (1464)

Nikolaus van der Molen , also von der Molen (* approx. 1400 in Lüneburg , † July 4, 1464 in Lübeck ) was a Roman Catholic clergyman and canon.

Life

Nikolaus von der Molen was the son of Lüneburg councilor Johann van der Molen († 1423) from a family of the Lüneburg patriciate , which Büttner named and described in his Genealogiae after their family coat of arms, the von der Mohlen with the wheels . The coat of arms shows three mill wheels on a sloping beam . Nikolaus von der Molen studied from October 1420 at the University of Rostock and at the University of Erfurt . As a licentiate of canon law ( licentiatus in decretis ) pastor ( pleban ) of Lübeck's Marienkirche , documented in 1442, as canon and cathedral dean of the cathedral chapter at Lübeck cathedral . In Lübeck he acted as the representative of the Chancellor of the University of Rostock during the move of the University of Rostock to Greifswald until the resumption of lectures in Rostock in 1443. Nikolaus van der Molen donated the north-eastern choir chapel of the cathedral , which was built from 1464 to 1471 , today called the Dechanten-Kapelle . He died in 1464 just like his brother Johannes († June 21, 1464) shortly before from the plague that was rampant in Lübeck . Johannes van der Molen was an accolitus at the cathedral. Both were buried under a common figural grave plate showing the cathedral dean with a chalice in the north-eastern choir chapel of the cathedral. The grave slab shows the family coats of arms of the parents of the brothers buried here in the quatrefoil medallions in the corners of the grave slab. The tombstone is now erected in the north ambulatory.

literature

• Johan Henricus Büttner: Genealogiae or stem and gender registers of the noblest Lüneburg noble patrician families. Lüneburg: GF Schultze 1704
• Rudolf Struck : On the knowledge of families in Lübeck and their relationships to local and foreign art monuments in: Museum for Art and Cultural History in Lübeck. Yearbook 1914 • 1915 (Volume II. – III.), HG Rahtgens, Lübeck 1915, p. 41–73 (p. 59 ff.)
• Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns : The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck . Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Publisher by Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, p. 245
• Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 623/624 LÜDO172

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ^ Klaus Wriedt: University or theological cathedral lectures in Lübeck? in: School and university: educational conditions in northern German cities of the late Middle Ages; Collected articles , Leiden: Brill 2005 ISBN 90-04-14687-3 , p. 241
3. ^ Klaus Wriedt: University or theological cathedral lectures in Lübeck? in: School and university: educational conditions in northern German cities of the late Middle Ages; Collected articles , Leiden: Brill 2005 ISBN 90-04-14687-3 , p. 241
4. ↑ Christian von Geren reports on the history of the plague in Lübeck in his Chronicle of the Mountain Riders for the 1450s and 1460s:

   “Anno 51 [1451] was grote pstilencie to Lubeke; anno 52 to Bergen, there storven 200 Dudesche in 1/2 year; ok annao 59 to Bergen. Unde to Lubeke was pestilencie anno 64 ... "

   - Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck mountain drivers and their chronicle. Hansische Geschichtsquellen, New Series, 2, Berlin (1900.) p. 353.