Otbert (faith healer)

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The faith healer Otbert. Woodcut from the Saxon Chronicle of 1492.

Otbert (effective around 1218) was a German faith healer of the 13th century.

Otbert, also Otbrecht according to the chronicle of Reimar Kock , was a farmer in Bockel near Bremervörde-Bevern . According to tradition, he discussed diseases, gave baths, and prophesied. He was among the rural population of the Elbe-Weser triangle accepted consistently and received from these significant donations he with the Palatine Vogt at the castle Bremervörde Heinrich von Ochtenhausen as his patron informed. Before disputes in the course of which the Archbishop of Bremen Gerhard II took Bremervörde Castle in 1219 in order to come into possession of the County of Stade, Otbert fled to Lübeck. From there his track is lost. It is possible that he traveled from Lübeck to Riga .

Several times, although not uncontested, Bokel's treasure trove , which was raised in 1929 not far from the Bokel or Bockel farm, which was associated with Otbert, was identified as the property of the miracle healer left behind on the run.

The stories about Otbert run through the entire north German chronicle from Albert von Stade to the Saxon chronicle to Detmar and Reimar Kock. Peter von Kobbe supplements the tradition in his history and description of the country of the duchies of Bremen and Verden .

Otbert is not listed in any register of saints. But he made it into the Middle Low German Passional of the city of Lübeck, printed by Steffen Arndes in 1492, and is thus also portrayed by Reimar Kock as a respected saint.

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  1. ^ Volume I, 1824, p. 115 ( digitized in the Google book search)
  2. ^ Passionael , 1492 ( digitized version of the 1507 edition, copy from the Bavarian State Library (formerly duplicate of the library of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck ))