Thomas von Wickede (1646-1716)

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Thomas von Wickede
Epitaph in St. Aegidia
Wickede coat of arms with the sign of the circle society at Wickedestift Glockengießerstraße 8 in Lübeck's old town

Thomas von Wickede (born August 22, 1646 , † December 18, 1716 in Lübeck ) was mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .

Life

Thomas von Wickede came from the old Lübeck council family von Wickede . The councilor Thomas von Wickede († 1626) was his grandfather. From 1666 to 1671 he studied at the universities of Rostock, Heidelberg and Basel. On the way back to his homeland he visited Vienna. Thomas von Wickede became a member of the influential circle society in 1673 and acquired the Graben estate in Mecklenburg in 1685 . In 1692 he was elected to the city council and in 1708 appointed one of the city's mayors in the Lübeck council .

During his tenure, the city felt threatened more often by units of troops from the parties of the Great Northern War . In the summer of 1716, the Russian troops asked Lübeck to provide a fleet with which they crossed to the main Danish island of Zealand.

Thomas von Wickede was married to a daughter of councilor Heinrich Wedemhof. He was buried in the Marienkirche in Lübeck . In the Aegidienkirche , of which he was head, a baroque epitaph by the sculptor Hieronymus Hassenberg commemorates him. His portrait is held in this epitaph by an allegorical Lubeca , a putto holds the bundle of lictors , which stands for the mayor's office. He was the fifth Lübeck mayor from the von Wickede family and also the twelfth councilor.

literature

  • Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Bernhard Nöhring's publishing house: Lübeck 1920, p. 522 ff. Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, no.815.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal .
  2. ↑ To Fehling, but location not clearly identifiable: perhaps Grabenau (OT von Teldau , Ksp. Boizenburg; 1912: Erbpachthof, DA Boizenburg) or Grapen Stieten (OT von Beidendorf , Ksp. Ibid .; 1912: Lehngut, RA Grevesmühlen)
  3. ↑ Latin inscription text with explanation and translation by: Adolf Clasen : Verhabene Schätze - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, p. 152 ff. ISBN 3795004756
  4. ↑ According to the epitaph.
personal data
SURNAME Wickede, Thomas von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1646
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1716
Place of death Lübeck