Peter Rantzau
Peter Rantzau (* 1535 ; † September 27, 1602 in Ahrensburg ) was advisor to the Danish King Friedrich II and bailiff in Flensburg .
Peter was the brother of the Danish general Daniel Rantzau . After his death in 1569, he inherited his property together with Tönnies' third brother. Tönnies received the goods Deutsch-Nienhof , Emkendorf and Schierensee and Peter the Troiburg Castle near Tondern and the Ahrensburg Castle with the associated four villages Woldenhorn (today's Ahrensburg ), Ahrensfelde, Meilsdorf and Bünningstedt, which his brother had acquired only two years earlier. He had both old castles torn down and stately moated castles built instead . In Ahrensburg he also built the castle church from 1594 to 1596. He had 24 so-called God's booths for the poor added to the church and left a foundation for their maintenance.
Rantzau married the bride Katharina von Damme , left behind by his brother , with whom he had a son named Daniel († 1590). His second wife Margaretha von Siggen, who outlived him by 27 years, went down in history as a cruel mistress of the formerly free monastery farmers who had become serfs .
Web links
Ahrensburg ( Memento from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christa Reichhardt u. a .: The Ahrensburg Castle . In: City of Ahrensburg (ed.), Ahrensburg: Counts, teachers and pastors. 400 years of the castle and church . Husum 1995. pp. 7-141, p. 14
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rantzau, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish advisor to the Danish king |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1535 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1602 |
| Place of death | Ahrensburg |