Thomas Fredenhagen

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Thomas Fredenhagen, marble bust from the Fredenhagen Altar, today in the St. Annen Museum
Thomas Fredenhagen (portrait made during his lifetime)
The high altar of the Marienkirche donated by Fredenhagen in 1697 (picture from 1906)

Thomas Fredenhagen (born October 25, 1627 in Lübeck , † April 20, 1709 ibid) was a Lübeck merchant, councilor and patron of the late Renaissance .

Life

He gained great wealth as a shipowner and businessman in trade with Spain , Portugal and the summer voyage to Greenland . In 1692 he became councilor and in 1695 lender of the city with an "advance" of 100,000 Lübische Marks .

Since 1680 mayor of the Marienkirche , Fredenhagen donated in 1697 the baroque high altar made of marble known as the Fredenhagen Altar , which was created by Thomas Quellinus from Antwerp , badly damaged in the Second World War and dismantled in 1959. It was at that time the largest donation to a Lübeck Church since the Reformation ; the marble required for this had to be procured twice by Fredenhagen, as the first cargo was lost in a shipwreck. Thanks to a crypt built into the base, the altar also served as Fredenhagen's tomb.

Portraits of Thomas Fredenhagen and his first wife Katharina, b. Millies, used Hasenkrug († 1693), painted in 1675 by Godfrey Kneller, are in the St. Annen Museum . In 1696 he married Elisabeth Hopmann, the widow of the preacher at St. Aegidien and daughter of the superintendent Samuel Pomarius . She died on November 27, 1708.

Fredenhagen room

The paneling of the town house he had acquired was taken over in 1839 as the “Fredenhagenzimmer” in the house of the merchants in Breiten Straße 6-8 . The coffered ceiling and paneling were made as richly decorated carvings by the carver and sculptor Hans Drege (also Trege) in 1572–83 for the client Klaus von Berken.

The name is a bit misleading because Fredenhagen had already taken over the room when buying the house (corner Schüsselbuden / Fischstrasse ).

literature

  • Susanne Hecht: The Fredenhagen Altar in Lübeck's Marienkirche , Master's thesis, Berlin 2004
also in: ZVLGA 88 (2008), pp. 149–199
  • Heike Barth: The Fredenhagen Altar of Thomas Quellinus in the Marienkirche in Lübeck. Marburg 1996
  • Ahasver von Brandt :  Fredenhagen, Thomas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 387 ( digitized version ).
  • Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lückeck families from earlier times , Dittmer, 1859, p. 33/34 ( digitized version )
  • Theodor Gaedertz : Councilor Thomas Friedenhagen and the high altar donated by him in the St. Mary's Church in Lübeck , in: Ders: Kunststreifzüge. Collected essays from the field of fine arts and art history. Lübeck: Max Schmidt 1889, pp. 213–223 ( digitized version )
  • Cornelia Meyer-Stoll: The Lübeck merchants of the 17th century under economic and social-historical aspects. (European university publications, series 3: History and its auxiliary sciences, volume 399), Frankfurt / M., Bern, New York, Paris: Peter Lang ISBN 978-3-631-41905-2
  • Heinrich Christian Zietz : Views of the Free Hanseatic City of Lübeck and its surroundings. Frankfurt a. M. 1822 ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Thomas Fredenhagen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zietz, p. 74.
  2. ↑ Picture gallery , accessed on December 29, 2012
  3. ^ Fredenhagensche Zimmer in Lübeck , in the Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 19, May 14, 1884, p. 192., accessed on December 28, 2012; Hartwig Beseler : Art-Topography Schleswig-Holstein . Neumünster 1974, pp. 116/117
personal data
SURNAME Fredenhagen, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedenhagen, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lübeck merchant, councilor and patron of the baroque era
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1627
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1709
Place of death Lübeck