Otia Jersbecensia

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The Otia Jersbecensia or historical news from the Holstein noble maiden monastery Uetersen, in which the same antiquity, goods, rights, privileges, information and customs were described and proven with many watch customers; prepared by Jürgen Grube, a royal Danish chancellery, government and higher court advocate in the Duchy of Holstein in the Pinneberg lordship and the Ranzau county. 1738. is a ready-to-print 432-page handwritten treatise on the Uetersen monastery by Jürgen Grube, acquired around 1738 . It is one of the most important handwritten records in history in Schleswig-Holstein. Although Jürgen Grube calls his work on the cover a historical message from the Holstein noble maiden monastery Uetersen , only a smaller part of the writing is dedicated to the history of the Uetersen monastery, rather it deals generally with the period from 1600 to 1738.

The manuscript was considered lost for years and was found again in Wandsbek in 1822 at the instigation of the Patriotic Society in a widowed daughter-in-law of the author . Around 1825 the Otia Jersbecensia became the property of Friedrich Seestern-Pauly and after his death it was sold at an auction in Frankfurt as the most important manuscript from his possession, along with other books and manuscripts. It later became the property of the Uetersen Monastery.

history

At that time, Benedikt von Ahlefeldt had over 100 documents and writings compiled from the monastery archive, which were brought to his Jersbek estate by several messengers . Many important documents got lost or were misplaced by his secretary Jürgen Grube. Some of these were later returned to the monastery by the widow Grube. In one of the missing written documents it is said to have been confirmed that there was another monastery around 1220, which was inaugurated under Gerhard I and Gebhard II and there was also a settlement. This document has not yet been found again, so that today's city of Uetersen has no historically verifiable year of foundation. The documents were selected by the monastery steward Friedrich Heinrich Voigt (1725–1795), to whom Jürgen Grube also sent his manuscript for review. Voigt had a copy made at the time, which was in the monastery archives at the time when the original manuscript was considered lost.

The work and assessment at the time

Through the report in Johann Friedrich Camerer's book Mixed historical-political news in letters from some strange areas of the duchies Schleßwig and Hollstein, their natural history and other rare antiquities , the "Central Administration" of the Schleswig-Holstein Patriotic Society became aware of this work had this “important manuscript for the history of the fatherland” searched for with the still living family members of the author and found it with the widow of one of the author's sons, who gave this manuscript to society.

The title and dedication of Otia Jersbecensia were written by Grube himself, as were some corrections and additions that became necessary over time. The preface comes from another hand. Johann Friedrich Camerer remarked about the work: "About the fact that no publisher has been willing to communicate Grube's valuable work to the public through printing ... that if the bookkeepers wanted to understand their craft properly, they would write publications which correspond to the exact one Contribute something to the history of the country, rather hang up than when every little ghost has razed a few odes and amourettes together on several sheets. Even the bookkeeper acts according to fashion. - the Otia Jersbecensia is a beautiful work, which is certainly worthwhile to be known to posterity. "

Friedrich Seestern-Pauly noted in his book contributions to the history as well as the state and private law of the Duchy of Holstein. Volume 2 (Schleswig 1825) about the work: “That Grube has deserved that excellent praise, the content of the work provides complete evidence. A reprint of the manuscript is not to be expected, and so a more detailed indication of the arrangement of the whole and the sources that the author used should be appropriate because such a representation will convince the knowledgeable that Grube worked with thoroughness, according to which because the sure conclusion about the value of the delivered results comes about "

content

The Otia Jersbecensia consists of two parts, the first of which contains 29 chapters and 228 folio pages (40–45 cm) depicting the history and constitution of the Uetersen monastery around 1738. Although only 28 chapters are listed in Grube's preface and he mentions the title of the 28th chapter “From the Güthern of the two noble monasteries in Holstein Itzehoe and Preetz”, it was overlined in the manuscript and the two chapters “From which to Mild things gewittmenten money ”and“ From which fall houses in monasteries and their condition ”used and then changed the chapter count. The two chapters (17 and 20) are not in the manuscript. Grube presumably wrote them on loosely inlaid sheets of paper that were later lost. The chapter on the Preetz and Itzeho monastery estates is also missing, the importance of which Grube draws attention in the preface by saying that these could serve as the basis for further research.

The second part forms, as Grube puts it, the “Codex probationum” of the first part. On 204 folio pages it contains 74 documents from the oldest and from the period up to approx. 1735; It is remarkable that the second manuscript lacks 14 documents. Some of these are less important, others come from other document collections. These documents are more important, however, because the text of the first part contains a large number of documents, in particular the purchase letters and other documents about the acquisition of the monastery properties, in "extenso".

Jürgen Grube himself gives information about the sources used in the preface: “Most of this book is confirmed with well over a hundred documents and writings, which Sr. Excellenz (Benedikt von Ahlefeldt) painstakingly collects and lets select ... More reliable sources are certain not even the worst rigorist ask for such works ”. As the provost's secretary, Grube was able to get a comprehensive overview of the monastery affairs. The use of the entire monastery archive was not possible for Grube, as he was staying at Gut Jersbek at the time, because the monastery provost had third parties look up and select the documents to be used, etc. The work would probably have been even more extensive if Grube had had unrestricted access to the monastery archive.

The work was later corrected and supplemented in places by the Uetersen monastery clerk Heinrich Rost (* 1795). Rust served as the basis for his work: Contributions to the history and constitution of the Uetersen monastery and related parts. 1826.

Effects on Today

The Otia Jersbecensia still serves as a reliable source today . They used or cited well-known chroniclers and local researchers such as Friedrich Seestern-Pauly (1825), Hans Ferdinand Bubbe (1932–1939), Wilhelm Ehlers (1922), Doris Meyn (various treatises in the 1970s), Erwin Freytag , (various papers in the 1970s) and Elsa Plath-Langheinrich (various papers in the 1980s as well as in books in 1989, 2009 and 2010). Only the local researcher Detlef Detlefsen was not able to use the work. In his introduction to the double volume History of the Holstein Elbmarschen (Glückstadt 1891 and 1892), he wrote: “... I can only name the chancellery Jürgen Grube († 1776) who wrote Otia Jersbecensia in 1738 or historical news from the Holstein noble maiden monastery Uetersen etc. has fasted. It was not available to me, but I believe I had the essential material in the documents that Grube worked with, and some of the correct impressions ... "

Literature and Sources

  • Johann Friedrich Camerer : Mixed historical-political news in letters from some remarkable areas of the duchies Schleßwig and Hollstein, their natural history and other rare antiquities (Part 2. News from the Stift and Flecken Uetersen) . Flensburg / Leipzig 1762.
  • Wilhelm Ernst Christiani : History of the duchies Schleswig and Hollstein under the king Christian IV. And the dukes Friedrich II., Philipp, Johann Adolf and Friedrich III. or from 1588-1648. Flensburg / Leipzig 1775.
  • Friedrich Seestern-Pauly: Contributions to the history as well as the state and private law of the Duchy of Holstein. Volume 2 (Article I: Some material on the history of the Uetersen monastery, in particular regarding its foundation, with a preceding message about Grube's re-found “Otia Jersbecensia.” ) Schleswig 1825.
  • Christian Daniel Beck: General repertory of the latest domestic and foreign literature for 1825. Third volume, Leipzig 1825. (Google Books)
  • Detlef Detlefsen : History of the Holstein Elbmarschen. Volume 1, Glückstadt 1891.
  • Friedrich Christoph Karl Schunck: Yearbooks of the entire German legal literature. Volume 4, first issue, Erlangen 1827. (Google Books)
  • Wilhelm Ehlers: History and folklore of the Pinneberg district . Verlag JM Groth, Elmshorn 1922.
  • Hans Ferdinand Bubbe : Attempt of a chronicle of the city and the monastery Uetersen . Book 1, CDC Heydorns, Uetersen 1932.
  • Doris Meyn: The two castles of Uetersen. In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History. (ZSHG) 93, 1968, p. 17ff.
  • Elsa Plath-Langheinrich: Uetersen Monastery in Holstein. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2009, ISBN 978-3-529-02813-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Seestern-Pauly: Contributions to the history as well as the state and private law of the Duchy of Holstein. Volume 2, Schleswig 1825, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Hans Ferdinand Bubbe: Attempt of a chronicle of the city and the monastery Uetersen . Book 1, CDC Heydorns, Uetersen 1932, p. 8.
  3. ^ Heinrich Rost: Contributions to the history and constitution of the Uetersen monastery and related parts. Uetersen 1826.
  4. ^ Friedrich Seestern-Pauly: Contributions to the history as well as the state and private law of the Duchy of Holstein. Volume 2, Schleswig 1825, p. 13.
  5. ↑ Detlef Detlefsen: History of the Holstein Elbmarschen. Volume 1, Glückstadt 1891, p. 21.
  6. ^ Writings of the University of Kiel. Volume 20, CF Mohr, 1874.
  7. ^ Doris Meyn: The two castles of Uetersen. In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History. 93, 1968, p. 19.
  8. ^ 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. 1762, p. 177.
  9. ^ Friedrich Seestern-Pauly: Contributions to the history as well as the state and private law of the Duchy of Holstein. Volume 2, Schleswig 1825, p. 5.
  10. ^ 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. 1762, part 1, p. 169.
  11. ^ 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. 1762, part 1, p. 202.
  12. ^ Friedrich Seestern-Pauly: Contributions to the history as well as the state and private law of the Duchy of Holstein. Volume 2, Schleswig 1825, p. 9.
  13. ^ Friedrich Seestern-Pauly: Contributions to the history as well as the state and private law of the Duchy of Holstein. Volume 2, Schleswig 1825, p. 14.