Simon of Utrecht

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Monument with a statue of Simon von Utrecht on a pedestal of the Kersten Miles Bridge in Hamburg-Neustadt, which was inaugurated in 1897 .

Simon von Utrecht , also Simon van Utrecht , (* around 1370 in Haarlem ( Netherlands ); † October 14, 1437 ) was a Hamburg ship captain. In many cases he is seen as the supreme conqueror of the vitality brothers , but this does not correspond to the facts. The ship formations against those pirates were led by others.

biography

Simon (von Utrecht) probably came from Utrecht in the Netherlands and had immigrated to Hamburg before 1400; in 1400 he received citizenship.
On April 22, 1401, he took part in the last fight against Klaus Störtebeker near Heligoland as the commander of a Hamburg ship of peace .

In 1425, Simon von Utrecht was elected to the City Council of Hamburg. In 1428 he took part in the Hanseatic maritime campaign against the Danish islands and Flensburg . From 1432 to 1433 he commanded the Hamburg fleet against pirates in the North Sea. He struck the beach friezes at sea, between the Weser and Ems , and then also on the mainland. He destroyed their headquarters, the Sibetsburg , and after further victories at Norden and Lütetsburg took the capital Emden .

In 1433 he was appointed Hamburg's only honorary mayor for his services .
It is said that Simon von Utrecht lived on Rödingsmarkt in his later years .

He was buried in the former St. Nikolai Church in Hamburg .
In 1566 the St. Nicolai church authorities wanted to sell his grave as there were no certain descendants of Utrecht. The grave was sold to Hinrich Rheder . However, this deal was canceled again by the Hamburg Senate, as the services of Utrecht were still remembered.
Almost a hundred years later, in 1661, the grave was sold to Jürgen Kellinghusen , the then Jurat of the church, for 150 marks on the condition that he had to withdraw from the purchase as soon as someone objected.

Honors

The monument on the Kersten Miles Bridge, "beheaded" on June 5, 1985.
  • At the Kersten Miles Bridge in Hamburg-Neustadt , which was inaugurated in 1897, a statue of Simon von Utrecht was erected on a bridge base as one of four statues of former Hamburg personalities ⊙ . This monument was damaged by vandalism in 1985 when the top half of the statue was knocked off.
  • A street in Hamburg-St. Pauli was named after him as well
  • 1936 in Cuxhaven between Lehfeldstrasse and Vor dem Flecken
  • and in the Rostock harbor with the spelling van Utrecht .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Pagel: Die Hanse , Georg Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig 1965, p. 139
  2. ↑ Matthias Puhle: The Vitality Brothers. Klaus Störtebeker and the pirates of the Hanseatic era. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-593-34525-0 ; P. 176 ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Simon of Utrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg ship captain and mayor in the Middle Ages
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1437
Place of death Hamburg