St. Antonii Brotherhood of Stade

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The St. Antonii Brotherhood is the second oldest of the four still existing Stader Brotherhoods . It was founded in 1439 in honor of God and Saints Anthony , Cosmas and Damian .

St. Antonii Brotherhood
purpose local charity and cultural promotion
Chair: Christian Feneis (Senior)
Establishment date: 1439
Seat : Stade

history

The donors were nine citizens of Stader . They undertook to give eight poor people a loaf of bread, a pound of bacon and a penny of Lübisch every Tuesday in the Church of St. Cosmae . The number of members was limited to 24. It included members of the state administration as well as the knighthood . During the Swedish era, senior officials were mainly represented in the fraternity. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the brotherhood had more than 24 brothers, most of whom were civil servants , military officers and lawyers .

The brotherhood was not limited to direct gifts. In the 17th century she supported the common city poor. The foundation's purposes , such as handing out alms , grants and support, are still there today.

In the 18th century the brotherhood, which was financed mainly by interest, lease and rental income, like the other brotherhoods, had considerable problems. The number of members decreased from 30 (1706) through 19 (1721) to only 10 brothers (1730). This meant that the annual foundation festival, which lasted 2 days in 1728 and cost 4 thalers per brother, was shortened to one day in 1732 and only 2 thalers were demanded from the brothers. There is still one special feature of the foundation festival today: the St. Antonii Brotherhood celebrates its foundation festival every Tuesday after Laetare , but only every 50 years with the wives of the brothers.

The brotherhood has a historically grown inventory of silver goblets, the oldest of which, the so-called Renaissance goblet, comes from the workshop of the Stade goldsmith Joachim Ruge, who died in 1611. The so-called Buckel-Pokkal was probably donated in 1649 by Field Marshal Carl Gustav Wrangel . Another cup made in Hamburg in 1703 was donated by the Governor General Nicolaus Gyldenstern , who was accepted into the brotherhood in 1699. The youngest cup is a bowl and tray from 1989, donated for the 550th Foundation Festival, by the Lilienthal silversmith Christoph Diemer. All in all, the brotherhood's silver has an extraordinarily high cultural, historical and artistic value.

In 1989, 14.8% of the brothers were in the state administration and judiciary, 2.8% were in the military, 10.2% were landowners and 40.7% were lawyers, teachers and doctors, 3.7% belonged to the municipal administration, 15.7% were merchants and 10.2% clergy.

Seniors

  • 1754–1763 Christian Benten, mayor
  • 1763–1773 Johann Hinrich von der Betten called open
  • 1773–1791 Johann Hinrich Pratje , general superintendent
  • 1791–1800 JN Haltermann, Councilor
  • 1800–1806 JC Ecks, Government Secretary
  • 1806–1809 AA Watermeyer, Konsistorialrat
  • 1809-1815 EF v. Willich, Counselor
  • 1815-1816 D. v. Wehner, council
  • 1816–1839 JF Müller, lieutenant colonel
  • 1839–1844 G. Haltermann, member of the government
  • 1844–1849 FF v. Angel breakers, Counselor
  • 1851–1870 Wedekind, Konsistorialrat
  • 1870–1875 EWG Schlueter, senior court attorney
  • 1875–1877 Heinrich Wilhelm Hagedorn, Medical Councilor
  • 1877–1895 Karl Ludwig Neubourg , mayor, honorary citizen of the city of Stade
  • 1895–1897 Eduard Brackmann, State Legal Counsel
  • 1897–1904 A. Woltmann, pastor
  • 1904–1910 J. Christian Kerstens, brickworks owner
  • 1901–1912 Robert Stecher, pharmacist
  • 1913–1915 Bernhard Bahr, district court director
  • 1915–1936 Eduard Ruckert, Medical Council
  • 1936–1947 Friedrich Tiedemann, Medical Councilor
  • 1950–1960 Otto Cornelsen, wine merchant
  • 1960–1968 Hans Wohltmann , senior director of studies at the Athenaeum Stade
  • 1968–1977 Kurt Siegel, gynecologist
  • 1977–1990 Thassilo von der Betten , senior district director a. D. of the district of Stade
  • 1990–1994 Friedmann Koller, bookseller
  • 1994–2003 Ulrich Römer, tax advisor
  • 2003–2009 Kurt Tielmann, pharmacist
  • since 2009 Christian Feneis, Director of Studies

Famous members

literature

  • Connected to help. 550 Years of the St. Antonii Brotherhood in Stade 1439–1989 , publications from the Stade City Archives, Volume 11. Published by the City of Stade, Stade, 1989.
  • Jürgen Bohmbach : Stader Stadtlexikon , Stade 1994.
  • Hans Wohltmann: The members of the St. Antonii Brotherhood in Stade from 1439–1954, Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein 1954

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt : Paper battle for a good cause , accessed on February 11, 2011
  2. ↑ Helmut Speyer: The silver devices of the St. Antonii Brotherhood in Stade , in: Zur Hilfe haben , Stade 1989, p. 124 ff.
  3. ↑ Hans-Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics. Lichtenberg's listener. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0015-6 , p. 570, limited preview in the Google book search.