Adam Poelmann

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Adam Poelmann (* 1567 in Hallenberg ; † 1625 ) was a Catholic pastor and author of sacred plays.

Life

He was a son of Claes Poelmann. At the age of twenty-two, in 1589, he became a Catholic pastor in his native Hallenberg. Before that he worked here as a schoolmaster. As a pastor he was the owner of the historic parish library of St. Heribert . His wife Sybilla has been documented since 1606. In 1611 he wrote his will in favor of his wife Sibilla and his four sons and two daughters. In 1613, in connection with a visitation from the electoral commissioner Conrad Lutter, he was forced to separate from his wife and was transferred to Hüsten as pastor. In 1615 he had to undergo spiritual exercises with the Jesuits in Paderborn. In 1619 he can be traced back to Sundern as a pastor. When asked, he states that he lives without a family.

He wrote a spiritual drama with the time-typical cumbersome title “A beautiful spiritual and Christian game or Comoedia from the 12th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles by HI. Apostle Petri prison and settlement and King Herodias' tyranny and Hoffarth and downfall, as it was in Hallenberg in the praiseworthy Erz-Stift Köllen by a citizenry the first Sunday after Trinity of the 1600th year by Adam Poelmann. "

The piece was performed in Hallenberg, a small agricultural town in the Sauerland , in 1600 . Poelmann published it in 1602 with the publisher and printer Hermann Hoberg in Cologne. From the preface of the print it becomes clear that he had previously written other pieces about the life of Josef and Tobias and had them performed with the help of local boys. These pieces have not survived.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Suibert Seibertz wrongly gave significantly different life dates from 1624 to around 1700 (Johann Suibert Seibertz: Westphalian contributions to German history, Volume 2 Darmstadt, 1823 p. 69)
  2. ↑ Bruns p. 91
  3. ↑ St. Heribert Parish Library in Hallenberg
  4. ↑ Bruns p. 181f no. 484
  5. ↑ Bruns p. 257f no.836
  6. ↑ Bruns p. 292f No. 1026
  7. ↑ Wolf P. 62, No. 163
  8. ↑ Wolf p. 95f no. 255

Fonts

  • “A beautiful spiritual and Christian game or Comoedia from the 12th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles by HI. Apostle Petri prison and settlement and King Herodias' tyranny and Hoffarth and downfall, as it was in Hallenberg in the praiseworthy Erz-Stift Köllen by a citizenry the first Sunday after Trinity of the 1600th year by Adam Poelmann. “Cologne, 1602

literature

  • Alfred Bruns: Hallenberger sources and archive directories , Münster 1991.
  • Johann Peter Eichhoff: Materials on the spiritual and secular statistics of the Lower Rhine and Westphalian districts and the neighboring countries, along with news on their older history. 1.Jg. 1st piece . Erlangen, 1781 p. 254f.
  • Sauerlandruf 1/1964 p. 17
  • Johann Suibert Seibertz: Westphalian contributions to German history, Volume 2 Darmstadt, 1823 P. 69f.
  • Manfred Wolf: Visitations in the Duchy of Westphalia in the Early Modern Age , Paderborn 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Poelmann, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic pastor and author of sacred plays
DATE OF BIRTH 1567
PLACE OF BIRTH Hallenberg
DATE OF DEATH 1625