Stefan Frankewitz

Stefan Frankewitz (born October 16, 1952 in Straelen ; † September 26, 2013 ) was a German historian and archivist . From 1986 until his death he headed the archive of the city of Geldern .

Life

Stefan Antonius Theophil Frankewitz was born in Straelen on the Lower Rhine in 1952 as the son of former Lieutenant General Bruno Frankewitz and his wife Mariagnes von Kempis from East Prussia . He grew up on Haus Eyll in Straelen, whose owner he was from 1969. After graduating from the Friedrich-Spee-Gymnasium in Geldern in 1973, he studied history, prehistory and early history , art history and folklore in Marburg and Bonn . In November 1984 he did his doctorate with Georg Droege at the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn with the thesis The Geldrische Ämter Geldern, Goch and Straelen in the late Middle Ages , which was published as a book in 1986.

From 1985 Frankewitz worked for twelve months in the historical city archive of Goch . During this time he not only created a Goch bibliography, but also researched the Goch city rights and privileges, about which he published a publication in 1985 entitled Privileges of the Counts and Dukes of Geldern for the city of Goch . In September 1986 he moved to the city archive of Geldern, where he took over the management. In the following year Frankewitz was one of two scholarship recipients of the Albert Steeger Prize , with which scientific work on topics related to Rhenish cultural studies is promoted.

Frankewitz published numerous publications on cultural-historical and folklore topics. His focus was on the national history of the former Duchy of Geldern and the regional history of the Lower Rhine. He was also the managing director of MESPILVS, the society for the promotion of the city archive of Geldern e. V., of which he was one of the founding members in 1994, and was a member of the board of the Lower Rhine Regional Association of the Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection. He died after a serious illness in September 2013.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• 1985: Privileges of the Counts and Dukes of Geldern for the city of Goch
• 1986: The Geldern offices of Geldern, Goch and Straelen in the late Middle Ages
• 1991: From above. Historical aerial photographs tell the story of Geldern
• 1993: Flight over the Lower Rhine (together with Corneel Voigt )
• 1996: Flight over the Rhineland. Between Aachen and Bonn, Düsseldorf and Cologne (together with Corneel Voigt )
• 2001: The monuments of the city of Geldern
• 2007: State castles, castles, palaces and fortress houses up to 1500 (= Historical Atlas of the Rhineland . IV.12)
• 2010: Goch on the Lower Rhine
• 2011: The Lower Rhine and its castles, palaces, mansions along the Niers

Book contributions

• 1990: The Krickenbeck office and the city of Venlo in the late Middle Ages. In: Venlo's mozaïek: Hoofdstukken uit zeven eeuwen stadsgeschiedenis
• 1994: Geldern, Arcen, Venlo. Common law versus city law. In: Historical regional studies of the Rhineland. Regional findings and cross-spatial perspectives. Georg Droege in memory
• 1996: Castle, house and palace as reflected in documents from the Lower Rhine region. In: Middeleeuwse kastelen in Limburg. Verschijningsvormen van het kasteel, zijn adellijke bewoners en hun personeel
• 2001: Geldrische regional castles from the 13th to the end of the 15th century. In: Gelre, Geldern, Gelderland. History and culture of the Duchy of Geldern
• 2009: About the effort to destroy a castle. Notes on the destruction of castles in the 14th century in the Rhineland. In: The Contested Place - from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
• 2010: City and country fortifications on the Lower Rhine in the late Middle Ages. In: "Vmbringt mit starcken turnen, murn". Site fortifications in the Middle Ages
• 2013: Farms in the office of Geldern - From the Middle Ages to the present. In: "Farmers, farms and their names on the Lower Rhine".

Essays

• 1984: The Mecklenburg. A "new" ground monument in Wachtendonk. In: Geldrischer Heimatkalender 1984
• 1987: "hus te Stralen". Contributions to the archeology of the Middle Ages from Straelen. In: Geldrischer Heimatkalender 1987
• 1997: House Hoest near Weeze. In: Geldrischer Heimatkalender 1997
• 2006: Nobility and territorialization in the county of Geldern in the 13th century. In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter . Volume 70
• 2007: Castles and splendors on the Lower Rhine in the late Middle Ages. In: Castles and Palaces . Issue 1/2007

literature

• Guido von Büren: Obituary Stefan Frankewitz. In: Wartburg society for research into castles and palaces (ed.): Animals on castles and early palaces (= research into castles and palaces. Volume 16). Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7319-0048-1 , pp. 9-10.
• Udo Oerding, Bert Thissen: Dr. Stefan Frankewitz (1952–2013) - a picture of life. In: Rien van den Brand, Frans Hermans, Wolfgang Löhr, Udo Oerding, Bert Tuissen (eds.): Epitaph for Stefan Frankewitz. A memorial book for friends and colleagues (= Geldrisches Archiv. Volume 16). Pagina, Goch 2015, ISBN 978-3-944146-89-8 , p. 11 ff.

Web links

• Literature by and about Stefan Frankewitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Stefan Frankewitz  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stefan Frankewitz: Castles, palaces, mansions on the banks of the Niers . 1st edition. Boss, Kleve 1997, ISBN 3-9805931-0-X , p. 336.
2. ^ PND dataset on Stefan Frankewitz in the catalog of the German National Library , accessed on October 23, 2011.
3. ^ Adolf Kaul: Geldrische castles, palaces and mansions . Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 1977, ISBN 3-7666-8952-5 , p. 37.
4. ^ Stefan Frankewitz: The Lower Rhine and its castles, mansions mansions along the Niers . Boss, Geldern 2011, ISBN 978-3-941559-13-4 , p. 359.
5. ↑ Stefan Frankewitz in the Kevelaerer Encyclopedia by Martin Willing , accessed on October 30, 2013.
6. ^ Manfred Groten, Andreas Rutz: Rheinische Landesgeschichte at the University of Bonn. Traditions, developments, perspectives . V&R unipress, Bonn 2007, ISBN 9783899714104 , p. 279.
7. ^ The History of the Goch City Archives , accessed on October 23, 2011.
8. ^ Obituary for Stefan Frankewitz . In: Rheinische Post . Issued October 1, 2013.
9. ↑ mespilvs.de ( Memento from August 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )