Peter Wimars

Peter Wimars , also called Peter Wym (m) ar, Peter de Ercelens or Peter von Erkelenz (* in Erkelenz , † 16th February 1494 in Kues on the Mosel ) secretary was the Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa and pen Dechant in Aachen .

Life

Peter Wimars' birthday is not known, nor where he spent his student years. Before he was accepted as a canon in the Aachen Marienstift in 1457 , he was secretary to Cardinal Nikolaus von Cues, whom he had accompanied on his legation trips through Germany in 1451/52 and to whom he remained in close friendship throughout his life. The dying Nikolaus von Cues dictated his will in 1464.

When the then dean of the Aachen Marienstift died in 1466, Peter Wimars apparently stayed in Rome for a long time . There, Pope Paul II , to whom the award of these official dignities was reserved, gave him the influential office of monastery dean at the Marienstift in Aachen, which owned all the land in Erkelenz. In the following year, 1467, he stayed at the court of King Casimir IV of Poland on behalf of the Pope in order to persuade him to embark on a crusade against the exiled King of Bohemia, George of Podebrady . From 1471 on, he held his office as a collegiate dean in Aachen and, as such, took part in 1486 at the coronation meal of the Roman-German King Maximilian I in the imperial hall of the Aachen city hall .

Due to the long-standing friendship with Nikolaus von Kues, he also became rector of the St. Nikolaus Hospital, which he founded in 1458 in Kues on the Moselle . But only two years later he gave up this office and in 1491 renounced his position as dean in Aachen in favor of his relative Wimar Wimars from Erkelenz. He retired to the hospital in Kues, where he died on February 16, 1494 and is also buried in the churchyard there. His red sandstone tombstone is still walled in on the outside of the cloister .

In 1490 he had donated an altar church to the parish church of Erkelenz in honor of Mary , which was connected with a considerable donation for the poor for 13 poor people and amounted to 60 guilders and 19 Malter rye . The foundation letter of dean Peter Wimars explicitly stated that rye should be given to the poor for baking bread. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen had a silver-gilt table bell with the engraving: "Petrus Wimari de Ercklens, decanus Aquensis, 1485" .

Honor

The Peter-Wimar-Weg in Erkelenz is named after him. (Erroneously omitting the s from the family name)

literature

• R. Pick: The monastery dean Peter Wimars from Erkelenz , in: From Aachen's past, Aachen 1895
• Josef Gaspers, Leo Sels u. a .: History of the city of Erkelenz , Erkelenz 1926
• Josef Lennartz, Theo Görtz: Erkelenzer Streets , publications of the Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande, Volume 3, Erkelenz 1982
• Ralf Georg Czapla : Nicolaus Cusanus, Sebastian Brant and the Erkelenzer family Wymar. Spiritual and spiritual friendships on the threshold of modern times. In: Analecta Coloniensia. Yearbook of the Diocesan and Cathedral Library Cologne 10–11 (2010–2011), pp. 151–186.
• Ralf Georg Czapla : Friendship beyond death. Peter Wymar as secretary and trustee of Nikolaus von Kues. In: District yearbook Bernkastel-Wittlich 2013, pp. 303–307.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. DI 32, City of Aachen, No. 41 (Helga Giersiepen), in: www.inschriften.net , urn: nbn: de: 0238-di032d002k0004106 .