Peter Fliesteden

Memorial stone for Adolf Clarenbach and Peter Fliesteden on the Melaten cemetery

Peter Fliesteden (* unknown, in the homonymous place Fliesteden between Pulheim and Bergheim ; † September 28, 1529 in Cologne ) was executed at the Melaten execution site near Cologne. He died as one of the first Protestant martyrs on the Lower Rhine due to his work as a Protestant Christian .

Life

Peter Fliesteden was noticed in December 1527 in Cologne Cathedral because he is said to have covered his head during the elevation of the host during mass , turned around and spat out. A Catholic clergyman immediately arranged for Fliesteden to be arrested right in front of the cathedral and taken to the prison in the Frankenturm . After long interrogations, he was condemned as a "radical Protestant" because he is "the Church's obligatory confession , the vows, the priesthood and especially the presence of Christ in the sacraments of the Eucharist was discarded and the worship of the sacrament." (→ Cologne judiciary from the Middle Ages to the modern era )

Fliesteden died before he could be attached to the fire stake because the hangman had tightened the chain too tightly around his neck to keep him silent.

Commemoration

A memorial stone for him and Adolf Clarenbach was erected at the execution site in Cologne . There is a street named after him in Cologne-Braunsfeld .

source

• JF Gerhard Goeters: Studies on the history of the Lower Rhine Reformation. Series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History 153, Habelt, Pulheim 2002, ISBN 978-3-7927-1830-8 .

literature

• Heinz Andermahr, Cornelia Breuer, Dieter Kempkens: Peter von Fliesteden , catalog accompanying the exhibition "Peter von Fliesteden" in the hometown of Fliesteden, Bergheim 2017
• Hermann Keussen :  Vliesteden, Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 90 f.
• Wilhelm Rahe:  Fliesteden, Peter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 247 ( digitized version ).
• August Ernst Rauschenbusch : Adolf Clarenbach's and Peter Fleisteden's martyrdom, as they were burned on Sept. 28, 1529 in Cologne . Schwelm 1845.
• Rainer Sommer: The heretic trial against Adolf Clarenbach and Peter Fliesteden (1528–1529) . In: Hermann von Wied: Archbishop and Elector of Cologne , Part I. 1477–1539 (series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History 142). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 2000, p. 177ff.
• Karl Krafft: The story of the two martyrs of the Protestant Church Adolf Clarenbach and Peter Fliesteden, executed in Cologne on the Rhine, September 28, 1529; Narrated from simultaneous municipal and sovereign documents and from pamphlets found again . Evang. Ges., Elberfeld 1886 ( digitized edition ).