Otto von Wolmeringhausen

Epitaph of Otto von Wolmeringhausen in the Kilian Church in Korbach

Otto von Wolmeringhausen (also Wolmerinkhausen , Wolmerghusen , Wolmerckhusen ; * 1530 - † October 18, 1591 in Korbach ) was a German ministerial . In the course of his life he served various gentlemen, including the Landgraves of Hessen-Marburg , Hessen-Darmstadt and Hessen-Kassel as well as the Counts of Waldeck . He became known as a councilor and one of the leading supporters of the Archbishop of Cologne , Elector and Duke of Westphalia , Gebhard I, who was converting to Protestantism .

Life

Otto came from the original in eastern Westphalia -based ritterbürtigen dynasty of Wolmeringhausen . He was one of at least four sons of Hermann II von Wolmeringhausen († around 1562) and his wife Anna geb. von Meschede , one of the two heiress of Godert von Meschede and thereby heiress of Ober-Alme . His father was court master of Count Philip III. (1486–1539) and Wolrad II. (1509–1578) von Waldeck-Eisenberg. His brothers were Gobert (Göbert, Gebhard; † 1586), Johann († 1577) and Hermann III. († 1616). His sister Zeitlose († around 1598) married Christoph von Meschede zu Niederalme in 1559 .

Only fragments are known about his career. In 1550 he was a student in Marburg . After that, he obviously embarked on a military career that made him change employers several times:

In 1573 he is said to have been a clerk in the Rüsselsheim office when it belonged to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt; It is not known whether he held this office before the Hesse inheritance was divided in 1567.
In 1578/79 he was declared captain of a flag of German riders in the regiment of Marquis Charles Philippe de Croÿ (1549–1613) in the Netherlands .
He is later mentioned as a war councilor and Rittmeister in Gießen , which after the Hessian inheritance belonged to Hessen-Marburg.
After all, he is named as a Hessian-Kassel cavalry officer and war councilor in Kassel and as a lieutenant colonel of the Upper Rhine Empire .

He gained particular fame as the Westphalian councilor in the service of the Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Westphalia, Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg, in the years 1582 and 1583, when he planned and carried out his marriage and his conversion to Protestantism and also implemented the change of denomination in his territory tried. Wolmeringhausen was involved in the capture of Bonn in November 1582 . He brought Protestant preachers from Hesse and Waldeck to Westphalia and traveled to many Westphalian cities himself to persuade them to change their denominations; This endeavor was particularly successful in the cities of the eastern border areas ( Winterberg , Hallenberg , Stadtberge , Volkmarsen ). At the decisive state parliament in Arnsberg on 12-14 March 1583 there was almost an armed confrontation between Otto von Wolmeringhausen and Neveling von der Recke , the Landkomtur of the Deutschordensballei Westphalia and one of the leading opponents of the denomination change. A few days after the Arnsberg state parliament, the elector Wolmeringhausen and Werler Drosten and castle commanders appointed Walter von Karthaus as (secular) church commissioners in the Duchy of Westphalia in order to enforce the Reformation there.

After Gebhard, who had meanwhile been deposed as Archbishop, withdrew to the Netherlands in 1584 , Wolmeringhausen also left Westphalia and went to the neighboring county of Waldeck, where he owned, among other things, Meineringhausen Castle as a Corveyian fief and Waldeck's after fief. It is not known exactly when he left Gebhard's service. In the year of death in 1588 of Count Josias I von Waldeck-Eisenberg, he is declared his court master, but he may have assumed this office earlier. In 1589 he was appointed head scholar of the three Waldeck schools.

possession

Otto von Wolmeringhausen inherited his father's property in Meineringhausen near Korbach after his father's death around 1562, as well as the Oberalme near Brilon property acquired by his father in 1533, half through marriage and half through purchase . The later disputes there between Gerhard von Meschede on the one hand and Otto von Wolmeringhausen and Wilke von Bodenhausen (who had inherited half of his property through his marriage to the second heir daughter of Godert von Meschede in 1533, including the Bruch house near Oberalme) on the other settled in May and September 1571 by a settlement . When Meineringhausen Castle fell victim to a fire in 1570, Wolmeringhausen had a new castle with a moat , palisades and drawbridge built there. In addition, he inherited three courtyards to Neerdar that since 1338 arnsbergisches , from 1369 kurkölnisches fief of those were from Wolmeringen and 1586 and the Good Malberg in Upper Waroldern that had come to his father in the year 1533rd In the city of Korbach, he and his brother Johann owned the stone house at Kirchplatz 2, which was probably built in the early 14th century as a fire-proof warehouse and is still preserved today, which the two of them had converted into a representative city apartment that could be heated with a fireplace . The house has been a central part of the Korbach Local History Museum since 1925 .

Otto von Wolmeringhausen died on October 18, 1591 in Korbach and was buried on October 22, 1591 in the Kilian's Church there. His widow Mechtilde had an epitaph set for him there . It shows the coats of arms of those from Wolmeringhausen, von Dalwig , von Rhena , von Meysenbug , von Meschede, von der Malsburg , von Brenken and von Schachten , obviously his ancestors.

family

Otto was born in his first marriage to Anna. von Landsberg married, widow of Jost von Schorlemer . The marriage resulted in the daughter Anna († after 1611) and two sons who died early. In his second marriage he was married to Mechtilde von Viermund zu Oeding , daughter of Ambrosius IV von Viermund , who was still living on the Malberg estate in 1624. From this marriage came the son Josias (* around 1585; † after 1619), who inherited Oberalme, Meineringhausen and Gut Malberg and in 1606 bought the Bruch house into his possession.

Footnotes

^ Hermann Steinmetz: The Waldeck officials from the Middle Ages to the time of the Wars of Liberation. In: History sheets for Waldeck. 47th Volume, 1955, pp. 5-112 (here pp. 57-58.).
↑ On February 25, 1579 Archduke Matthias , who as governor in the Netherlands supported the uprising against King Philip II of Spain, certified that he would give the Goddert von Wolmeringhausen as colonel of 1,100 German Reisigern 179,028 guilders for services in the Netherlands and Otto von Wolmeringhausen owed 47,550 guilders as captain of a flag of German riders in the regiment of Prince Carl Philipp von Croy ( Anton Fahne: Die Dynasten, Freiherren and current Counts of Bocholtz. Heberle, Cologne, 1863, pp. 107-109 (here 107) ).
↑ A. Leiß: studied Waldecker from the 13th to the 19th century. In: History Association for Waldeck and Pyrmont (ed.): History sheets for Waldeck and Pyrmont. 4th volume, Mengeringhausen 1904, pp. 1-78 (here p. 41). (books.google.com)
↑ Bernd Kirschbaum: Gerhard Kleinsorgen (1530–1591): A historian in Westphalia in the early modern period. Dissertation, University of Paderborn. BoD, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2423-0 , p. 45.
↑ A. Leiß: studied Waldecker from the 13th to the 19th century. In: History Association for Waldeck and Pyrmont (ed.): History sheets for Waldeck and Pyrmont. 4th volume, Mengeringhausen 1904, pp. 1-78 (here pp. 40-41). (books.google.com)
↑ August Heldmann: About the headquarters of the Wolmeringhausen family. In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity. 46th volume, Münster, 1888, pp. 96-106 (here p. 96). (books.google.com)
↑ J. Kleus: The Reformation in the Sauerland in the Electorate of Cologne. In: Heimatblätter. 8th year, issue 6, June 1931, p. 85. (olpe.de)
^ Hermann Steinmetz: The Waldeck officials from the Middle Ages to the time of the Wars of Liberation. In: History sheets for Waldeck. 47th volume, 1955, pp. 5–112 (here pp. 57f.)
^ Carl Curtze: The high school in Corbach. In: Waldeckische non-profit journal. First volume, third issue, Arolsen 1837, pp. 413–458 (here p. 447). (books.google.com)
↑ August Heldmann: About the headquarters of the Wolmeringhausen family. In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity. 46th volume, Münster 1888, pp. 96-106 (here p. 101). (books.google.com)
^ Anton Fahne: Document book of the family Meschede (= chronicles and document books of outstanding families, donors and monasteries. Volume I). Heberle, Cologne 1862, pp. 198–201. (books.google.com)
^ Hermann Thomas (arrangement): The houses in Alt-Korbach and their owners. Issue 6: Kirchplatz - Marktplatz - Enser Straße - Katthagen - Kleine Gasse . Korbach City Archives, Korbach 1960, p. 44.
↑ A. Leiß: studied Waldecker from the 13th to the 19th century. In: History Association for Waldeck and Pyrmont (ed.): History sheets for Waldeck and Pyrmont. 4th volume, Mengeringhausen 1904, pp. 1-78 (here pp. 40-41). (books.google.com)

personal data
SURNAME	Wolmeringhausen, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wolmerinkhausen, Otto von; Wolmerghusen, Otto von; Wolmerckhusen, Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hessian, Westphalian and Waldeck council
DATE OF BIRTH	1530
DATE OF DEATH	October 18, 1591
Place of death	Korbach

[1] Hermann Steinmetz: The Waldeck officials from the Middle Ages to the time of the Wars of Liberation. In: History sheets for Waldeck. 47th Volume, 1955, pp. 5-112 (here pp. 57-58.).

[2] On February 25, 1579 Archduke Matthias , who as governor in the Netherlands supported the uprising against King Philip II of Spain, certified that he would give the Goddert von Wolmeringhausen as colonel of 1,100 German Reisigern 179,028 guilders for services in the Netherlands and Otto von Wolmeringhausen owed 47,550 guilders as captain of a flag of German riders in the regiment of Prince Carl Philipp von Croy ( Anton Fahne: Die Dynasten, Freiherren and current Counts of Bocholtz. Heberle, Cologne, 1863, pp. 107-109 (here 107) ).

[3] A. Leiß: studied Waldecker from the 13th to the 19th century. In: History Association for Waldeck and Pyrmont (ed.): History sheets for Waldeck and Pyrmont. 4th volume, Mengeringhausen 1904, pp. 1-78 (here p. 41). (books.google.com)

[4] Bernd Kirschbaum: Gerhard Kleinsorgen (1530–1591): A historian in Westphalia in the early modern period. Dissertation, University of Paderborn. BoD, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2423-0 , p. 45.

[5] A. Leiß: studied Waldecker from the 13th to the 19th century. In: History Association for Waldeck and Pyrmont (ed.): History sheets for Waldeck and Pyrmont. 4th volume, Mengeringhausen 1904, pp. 1-78 (here pp. 40-41). (books.google.com)

[6] August Heldmann: About the headquarters of the Wolmeringhausen family. In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity. 46th volume, Münster, 1888, pp. 96-106 (here p. 96). (books.google.com)

[7] J. Kleus: The Reformation in the Sauerland in the Electorate of Cologne. In: Heimatblätter. 8th year, issue 6, June 1931, p. 85. (olpe.de)

[8] Hermann Steinmetz: The Waldeck officials from the Middle Ages to the time of the Wars of Liberation. In: History sheets for Waldeck. 47th volume, 1955, pp. 5–112 (here pp. 57f.)

[9] Carl Curtze: The high school in Corbach. In: Waldeckische non-profit journal. First volume, third issue, Arolsen 1837, pp. 413–458 (here p. 447). (books.google.com)

[10] August Heldmann: About the headquarters of the Wolmeringhausen family. In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity. 46th volume, Münster 1888, pp. 96-106 (here p. 101). (books.google.com)

[11] Anton Fahne: Document book of the family Meschede (= chronicles and document books of outstanding families, donors and monasteries. Volume I). Heberle, Cologne 1862, pp. 198–201. (books.google.com)

[12] Hermann Thomas (arrangement): The houses in Alt-Korbach and their owners. Issue 6: Kirchplatz - Marktplatz - Enser Straße - Katthagen - Kleine Gasse . Korbach City Archives, Korbach 1960, p. 44.

[13] A. Leiß: studied Waldecker from the 13th to the 19th century. In: History Association for Waldeck and Pyrmont (ed.): History sheets for Waldeck and Pyrmont. 4th volume, Mengeringhausen 1904, pp. 1-78 (here pp. 40-41). (books.google.com)