Statz von Segraedt († around 1460)

Statz von Segraedt (Statz = Eustachius; in some sources also written Segroide or Segraide; * 14th century in Aachen ; † around 1460 ibid) was aldermen and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .

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The son of the mayor Statz von Segraedt, senior and the Titzel von Hochkirchen as well as the brother of Gottschalk and Peter von Segraedt followed his father into the college of lay judges and is mentioned as such for the first time in 1444. It is certain that Segraedt was mayor of the Free Imperial City of Aachen in 1456 . It is not absolutely certain whether he also served as mayor alongside lay judge Fetschin Colyn († 1472) in 1450, as shown by Luise Coels von der Brügghen in her work " The Aachen Mayors from 1251 to 1798 " . According to the Aachener Chronik published by Hugo Loersch and written in 1513, a certain Peter Juris was originally supposed to become mayor that year. But this was immediately deposed by the people. The residents of Jakobstorgrafschaft then chose Statz von Segraedt. According to the Aachen chronicler Karl Franz Meyer , this controversial election may also have taken place a year or two earlier, because at that time the unrest surrounding the reform of the Aachen city government and the associated introduction of the Aachen gaff letter in 1450 had come to a head and with it the records were also not always carried out correctly. The local historian Christian Quix names the jury Gerhard von Haren, the younger one, as mayor , based on the documents available to him for 1450 .

Statz von Segraedt inherited the Segraedtsmühle on Johannisbach in Aachen, also known as the Plattenbauchmühle, which was mentioned in 1390 from his father . It was on the edge of the Carlsweiher on the site of what would later become the van Houtem cloth factory between Karlsgraben and Lochnerstraße and was used for the fulling mill and dye works there until 1817 . Statz von Segraedt transferred this to his brother Gottschalk, as he himself only had two daughters and one son from two marriages, who obviously could not be considered as heirs.

On September 10, 1460, Statz von Segraedt wrote his will "to syme lesten ende syns levens", which suggests that he must have died a few months later. He found his final resting place in the church of St. Paul in the Dominican monastery in Aachen .

Literature and Sources

• Luise Freiin von Coels von der Brügghen: The lay judges of the Royal See of Aachen from the earliest times until the final repeal of the imperial city constitution in 1798 . In: Journal of the Aachen History Association . tape 50 , 1928, ISSN  0065-0137 , pp. 189/190 , No. 170 ( freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com and freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com ).
• Luise Freiin von Coels von der Brügghen: The Aachen mayors from 1251 to 1798 . In: Journal of the Aachen History Association . tape 55, 1933/34 , pp. 54 ( aachener-geschichtsverein.de [PDF; 1.7 MB ]).
• Hugo Loersch: Aachener Chronik from a manuscript of the royal library in Berlin . In: Annals of the historical association for the Lower Rhine . tape 17 , 1866, pp. 11/12 ( wikisource ).