Otto von Wackerbarth (Provost)

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Otto von Wackerbarth (born March 9, 1540 in Kogel, now part of Sterley , † March 20, 1599 in Schwerin ) was a German canon and the last regular provost of the cathedral in Schwerin.

Life

Otto von Wackerbarth came from the Saxon-Lauenburg noble family von Wackerbarth . He was the second son of Nikolaus von Wackerbarth auf Kogel and his wife Hippolita (Polita), geb. from Schack . His uncle Georg von Wackerbarth (1506–1586) was captain of the Ratzeburg cathedral monastery and captain of the Schwerin cathedral monastery in Bützow .

After initially attending the Ratzeburg Cathedral School , he was sent to Lübeck in 1550 , where Vicar Johannes Schlueter taught him. In 1555 he came to the Stiftschule in Bützow . From June 1557 he studied at the University of Rostock and from 1561 at the University of Wittenberg . He then went on a grand tour that took him to France, Italy, Holland and England.

In 1567 he was appointed assessor at the Princely Mecklenburg Regional and Court Court in Schwerin. Soon afterwards he received a prebend as canon at Schwerin Cathedral . In 1582 he accompanied Duke Ulrich to the Reichstag in Augsburg . In 1584 he became cathedral dean and in 1591 cathedral provost . Since the Reformation , these dignities were purely preambles with no spiritual duties, but still had the right to elect the bishop or administrator. As provost of the cathedral, Wackerbarth was keen to assert the independence and jurisdiction of the chapter vis-à-vis the duke, who was also the administrator of the Schwerin diocese . Therefore, in 1585 he prevented appeals from the monastery to the ducal regional and court court (of which he was assessor). His attempt to secure the right of jurisdiction of an imperial estate for the pen led to a lengthy process with the duke before the imperial court , which dragged on into the 1620s and became irrelevant due to the events of the Thirty Years' War . However, the legal process in pen matters remained separate for a long time.

From 1578 onwards, Wackerbarth leased the Medewege estate with its properties, including the Bischofsmühle in Schwerin, from the (not very large) property owned by the cathedral chapter . To this end, in 1584 he acquired the yard from the chapter on the building yard on the shelf and had a curia built here on the site of today's Schleswig-Holstein House , of which a wooden column is still preserved in the hall of the current building his wife's coat of arms can be seen. In 1590 he established the Wackerbarth scholarship for the cathedral school in Schwerin.

Wackerbarth also remained active in his home town of Saxony-Lauenburg, where he was the district administrator. After Duke Franz II came to power, a conflict broke out because the Wackerbarths did not request any feudal letters from the sovereign, which, however, could be enclosed after obtaining legal opinions. In the 1590s Otto Wackerbarth was considered "the leading head in the corporate finance committee".

He was married to Anna, geb. von Sperling (1550–1590). The couple had eight children; the son Ulrich von Wackerbarth succeeded his father in his offices. Presumably Otto and Anna von Wackerbarth were born in the Schwerin Cathedral in the v. Wackerbarth's funeral is buried in the north transept .

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 10464 .
  • Michael Scheftel: The new house of the cathedral provost Otto von Wackerbarth on the shelf at Schwerin. An attempt to reconstruct the structural shape of a half-timbered building from 1590 using preserved construction timbers. In: Maike Kozok (ed.): Architecture - Structure - Symbol: Forays into architectural history from antiquity to the present; Festschrift for Cord Meckseper on his 65th birthday. Petersberg: Imhof 1999 ISBN 978-3-932526-52-7 , pp. 345-355

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Peter von Kobbe : History and land description of the Duchy of Lauenburg. Volume 2, Altona: Hammerich 1836, p. 376
  3. ↑ 1573 after Grewolls (Lit); However, he already appears on the table of donors in the cathedral pulpit from 1570 as a canon, see Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume II: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. Schwerin, 1898 ( digitized version  - Internet Archive ), p. 553
  4. ↑ In detail on the conflict Franz Schildt: The diocese Schwerin in the evangelical time (3rd part). in: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology 51 (1886), pp. 103-189 ( full text )
  5. ↑ See Joachim Christoph Ungnade: Amoenitates diplomatico-historico-juridicae. 1749, p. 482
  6. ^ Franz Schildt: The diocese Schwerin in the evangelical time (I. part). In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology 47 (1882), pp. 146–241, here p. 199 ( digitized version )
  7. ^ Peter von Kobbe : History and land description of the Duchy of Lauenburg. Volume 2, Altona: Hammerich 1836, p. 376f
  8. Jump up ↑ Armgard von Reden: State Constitution and Princely Regiment in Sachsen-Lauenburg (1543–1689). (= Publications of the Max Planck Institute for History ISSN  0436-1180 41) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1974 ISBN 9783525353509 , p. 98
  9. ^ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : The cathedral to Schwerin. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity 36 (1871), pp. 147–203 ( full text ), here p. 161
personal data
SURNAME Wackerbarth, Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Canon and Provost in Schwerin
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1540
PLACE OF BIRTH Kogel, now part of Sterley
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1599
Place of death Schwerin