Röhrentruper recess
The Röhrentruper Rezess is a comparison of August 22, 1617 between Simon VII , Count zur Lippe , and the city of Lemgo . This recession was preceded by years of religious disputes that almost sparked war. It is named after Gut Röhrentrup , where the decisive negotiations took place.
Historical background
At that time Lemgo developed into a center of the Reformation in Westphalia, alongside Lippstadt . As early as 1518, Luther's theses were read from the pulpit by the later mayor Ernst von Wipper, the priest Heinrich Tönjesing and the vice-principal Heinrich von Hameln, and a few years later German instead of Latin songs were sung before and after the mass. In 1526 even Lent was disregarded and the believers violated the commandment with an untimely meal of meat .
These events prompted the indignant Simon V to warn the insubordinate citizens of Lemgo against further crimes. He also demanded that 24 evangelical men be dismissed from the Lemgo city council, but this demand was rejected. There were riots and acts of violence, and Catholic clergy were insulted and even mistreated on the streets. The magistrate personally warned the chaplain to leave the monastery or he would be beaten to death . Protestants took several pictures and candlesticks from the Nikolaikirche in 1532 and destroyed them on the market square out of contempt for the Papist atrocities of image worship . There were also attacks on the Franciscan monastery .
The sovereign, who tended to be lenient and reconciled, lost patience and now wanted to take military action against the rebels, a plan that was thwarted by the guardian government under the feudal lord Philip I of Hesse . In 1536 Simon V died and his minor successor, Bernhard VIII , had Philip educated in the Protestant sense at the Marburg court. The Reformation had thus prevailed in Lippe.
Luther or Calvin
No sooner had the Protestants abolished the Catholic ceremonies in worship than there were new arguments among themselves about the church order. In the county of Lippe, Simon VI tried . to introduce the Calvinist faith and met with fierce resistance, especially from the citizens of Lemgo, which led to a ten-year dispute between the sovereign and the then largest city in Lippe. The count had come to the conclusion that a number of Catholic rituals adhered to the Lutheran worship service . There were tumults and violent attacks on the pastors who held the services according to the new teaching. The Lemgoers were determined to enforce the Lutheran faith, even by force of arms, against the sovereign. Simon, on the other hand, made use of the episcopal law Cuius regio, eius religio , according to which the subjects had to follow him in questions of faith.
Up to the year 1613 ten trials had been carried out by the city of Lemgo against the sovereign before the Reich Chamber of Commerce. Simon VI. Traffic bans imposed over Lemgo, which paralyzed trade in the city. Eventually the stubborn city gave in and in the so-called Pentecost Treaty of 1609 all Lutheran preachers were obliged to Christian Reformation and arranged ceremonies under threat of dismissal. There was a festival of reconciliation in front of the Lemgo town hall, to which Count Simon, along with his family and entourage, also appeared.
But the peace lasted only a short time and on September 3, 1609, there were wild tumults and riots that were disapproved of by level-headed citizens. Lemgo was expecting a military action by the Count, as a precaution the ramparts and bastions of the city were reinforced and the five largest cannons aimed at Brake Castle , in which the Count resided. The city militia were also strengthened with recruited mercenaries. The count had a total of 750 soldiers and about 700 additionally recruited troops available. He had cannons brought to Brake from Detmold and was determined to defeat the rebellious city by force of arms. In the city, however, there were count officials with their families whom he would have put in danger. He also shied away from breaking the peace in the country that was proclaimed by the emperor .
The comparison
What he had not been able to achieve with armed force, Simon VI tried. now with an action before the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Speyer . Lemgo also sued the Count for roadblocks, threatened sieges and breaches of the peace. Lemgo won the process and on August 22, 1617 negotiations between the two parties took place at Meierhof Röhrentrup , in which the disputes were settled. Lemgo retained the free exercise of religion according to the church order of 1571, the free choice of clergy and its own consistory , which was equal to the Detmold consistory. In addition, the city was expressly confirmed the Ius gladii , which the city council abused soon after for the Lemgo witch trials .
See also
literature
- Karl Meier-Lemgo: History of the city of Lemgo. Verlag FL Wagener, Lemgo 1952.
- Christian Kuhnke: Lippe Lexicon. Boken Verlag, Detmold 2000, ISBN 3-935454-00-7 .
- Johannes Stüer: The Röhrentruper Rezess of 1617 - Religion and Politics in Lippe on the eve of the Thirty Years War (= Paderborn Contributions to History . Volume 18 ). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-7395-1138-2 .
Web links
- Röhrentruper Rezess ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )