Otto von Thienen

Otto von Thienen (* 1514 ; † March 10, 1582 in Itzehoe Monastery ), knight , war councilor , Lord von Kühren and Ellgaard , was bailiff zu Tondern and Bitter zu Itzehoe from the Thienen family . He fought against the Dithmarschers in some of the battles of what became known as the last feud .

family

Otto von Thienen was born in 1514 as the son of Klaus von Thienen zu Wahlstorf and Kühren and Dorothea zu Rantzau from the Wittenberg family. He was married to Bertha von Pogwisch from the House of Fresenburg, they are considered to be the founders of the older Wahlstorf line of the von Thienen family. They had three sons Heinrich von Thienen, Hans von Thienen zu Wahlstorf, Klein-Grünholz and Nehmten and Detlev von Thienen.

Life

From 1554 to 1560 Thienen was bailiff at Tondern, just at this time there were some unrest and battles, as these were the last years of Dithmarschen's independence . On March 17, 1559, Thienen received the order from Duke Johann II to put Tondern Castle in a state of defense.

On April 28, 1559 Thienen was raised to the council of war . In an open mandate on May 19, 1559, Duke Johann II ordered the North Frisians to send 300 men, the residents of the Karharde, Harde Mariager and Horsbüllharde 250 men to war against Dithmarschen and to obey the orders of the bailiff Otto von Thienen . On June 4, the latter reported to the Duke from Süderstapel that he had moved from Eiderstedt to Stapelholm , where the military men under him had united with the Hattstedter Fähnlein.

At the Tiler Schanze there was a battle in which about 600 men stood on his side. After they had taken the entrenchment, a division had gone too far against his express orders and had been stabbed to death by the Dithmarschers or driven into the Eider , in which they drowned. In this last victory of the Dithmarscher 400 men fell on the Holstein side, 62 of them were from Thienens 600 soldiers. This battle took place a few days before the decisive battle near Meldorf, where the armed forces of the peasant republic were smashed.

Otto von Thienen had been the owner of Elgaard in the Flensburg office since 1565, at the same time he became bitter at the Itzehoe monastery , where he lived and died on March 10, 1582 at the age of 68.

literature

• Woldemar Freiherr Weber von Rosekrantz: Contributions to the history of the nobility 2. The von Thienen family, in: ZSHG 37, 1907
• Dithmarscher document book, pp. 180–201