Otto Lochmann

Coat of arms on the - today's - epitaph of Otto Lochmann at the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis in the Calenberger Neustadt in Hanover

Otto Lochmann (also: Otto Lockmann ; * around 1650; † 1704 in Hanover ) was an electoral Hanoverian court - Fourier and is considered "[...] one of the first ' taxi entrepreneurs ' in Hanover" and the progenitor of the Lower Saxon noble family Lochmann from Königsfeld .

Life

Otto Lochmann, born in what would later become Lower Saxony at the time of the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , was mentioned in a document in 1682 as Hofourier of the royal seat of Hanover, when he and his wife Anna Elsabeth , née Altmann († 1725), later on August 6, 1682 as Ernst August Samuel Lochmann baptized son ennobled by Konigsfeld .

As the old and quickly overcrowded city of Hanover for up to 400 heads counted court of the country's sovereignty had offered too little space, has already served during the Thirty Years' War from 1636 on the other side of the line developed and the fortification of Hanover included Calenberger Neustadt as a new Location of both the sovereign authorities and the residence of the duke's servants and soldiers. Rich merchants and nobles also now settled in the Calenberger Neustadt. For this new city Otto Lochmann also applied for a building permit from 1690 , specifically titled as "Approval for the development of a free space on the Brande in the Neustadt near Hanover and a corresponding freedom concession for the chamber registrar Balthasar Oswald Otto and the chamber fourier Otto Lochmann".

Around the time of the survey of the Duchy of electorate of Hanover in 1692 issued Elector Ernst August 's bustling Hofkurier Lochmann the so-called "Portechaisenprivileg": With this privilege , litters offer services, was Otto Lochmann both entitled and "[...] committed to have five sedan chairs with ten porters ready for the distinguished public from eight in the morning to midnight in front of the court kitchen room in Schlossstrasse [at the Leineschloss ] ”. The tax of up to one thaler per day was paid for by wealthy people who did not want to cross the city on foot due to the lack of sewers . For the common people, however, Lochmann's services remained unaffordable, as even a master bricklayer only earned around seven Mariengroschen a day.

In connection with the so-called "Königsmark Affair" and ten days after the "disappearance" of Philipp Christoph von Königsmarck , Otto Lochmann - together with the Guard Lieutenant von Spörcken - arrested Eleonore von dem Knesebeck on July 22, 1694 and initially put her in the Room of the Leineschloss, in which the delinquent Otto-Friedrich von Moltke was facing his execution. Von dem Knesebeck was Sophie-Dorothea's maid , Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg ; The latter would go down in history as the exiled Princess von Ahlden .

After Otto Lochmann died in 1704, he was buried - like many privileged court officials of his time - in the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis . His tombstone - damaged but still protected - can be found today as an epitaph and a preserved coat of arms on the church's outer wall.

The Secret Council Andreas Gottlieb von Bernstorff then asked for a building permit for himself, his wife and his children for the garden square in Calenberger Neustadt, which had previously been granted to Otto Lochmann's family .

Archival material

Archives by and about Otto Lochmann can be found, for example

• from the period from 1690 to 1708 in the Lower Saxony State Archives (Hanover location) , old archive signature Cal. Br. 15 L No. 181 as
  • Approval for building a free space on the Brande in Neustadt near Hanover and a corresponding freedom concession for the chamber registrar Balthasar Oswald Otto and the chamber fourier Otto Lochmann ;
  • as well as the subsequent approval to the Privy Councilor Andreas Gottlieb von Bernstorff, his wife and children for the development of the garden area granted to the Lochmann family

Remarks

1. ↑ Auf dem Brande was also the first name of - today's - Brandstrasse , which leads from Archivstrasse to Kommandanturstrasse . It was in 1698 on the fire were called to 1750 Second Street Fire , 1818 Fire Road , 1829 Great Fire Road and finally received its current name in 1860 after the fire , the area between today Calenberger Street and Waterloo Place ; compare Helmut Zimmermann : Brandstrasse , in this: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 47

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Annette v. Boetticher : Gravestones, epithaphs and memorial plaques of the Evangelical Lutheran. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis in Hanover , brochure DIN A5 (20 pages, some with illustrations), publisher. from the church council of the ev.-luth. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis, Hanover: 2002, p. 6, especially p. 17
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volumes 92–111, ed. from the German Aristocratic Archive Foundation , Limburg an der Lahn: CA Starke, 1989, p. 430; Preview over google books
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Klaus Mlynek : Capital (function). In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 274.
4. ↑ NN : Driessen: Ernst August Samuel Lochmann von Kinigsfeldt ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on genealogieonline.nl , last accessed on June 11, 2016 
5. ^ ^{A b c} Heinrich Thies : Princely splendor and pathetic stench , in which: The banished princess: The life of Sophie Dorothea. Biography of a novel , 2nd edition, Jump: zu Klampen, 2014, ISBN 9783866743403 , (without page numbers); online through google books
6. ↑ ^{a b c} NLA HA Cal. Br. 15 no.2478
7. ^ Publications of the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen , Volume 3, Göttingen: August Lax, 1968, p. 133; Preview over google books
8. ↑ Dörte von Westernhagen: "I am well aware of my Unterganck ..." / A lived novel: The wonderful story of Sophie Dorothea and Count Königsmarck. In: Die Zeit of February 17, 1989; Digitized