Tobias von Hebborn

Master Matthias Tobias von Hebborn

Residential house Flachsberg 14 in Paffrath around 1900, today the Lob bakery is located here

Tobias von Hebborn (born September 14, 1778 in Malberg near Kyllburg , † October 18, 1849 in Bergisch Gladbach ) was a German shoemaker (dialect shoemaker) and a well-known original from Bergisch Gladbach. In the title of his book, Vincent von Zuccalmaglio mentions him as Master Mathias Tobias von Hebborn . His real name was Mathias Debos .

Life

Debos married in church on January 27, 1823 in Paffrath and four days later in a civil ceremony before the Mayor of Bergisch Gladbach Johann Anton Kolter, Helena Christina Buschhorn from Paffrath. She was born on October 3rd, 1791 in Flachsberg , which is now a street name in Paffrath, as the daughter of the tailor Heinrich Buschhorn and his wife Gertrud Kaiz. They lived in the house of the tailor Buschhorn on the Flachsberg, where the Lob bakery is today. Ms. Helena Debos brought two children into the marriage, and three more children were added during their marriage. In the last years of Helena's life, Mathias Debos hadn't taken care of her anymore. She died on September 19, 1848. Her husband is said not to have attended the funeral.

Tobias von Hebborn's no other residence than that in Paffrath is known. The fact that he had left his family implies that at some point in his life he began to move around as a non-resident vagabond. Proof of this is the fact that he was found dead on the day of his death in the hayloft of the old Gronauer tavern (better known as the Gronauer Hof ) in Gronau .

The liar

Vinzenz von Zuccalmaglio, called Montanus, anonymously wrote a folk book in 1849 under the author's indication of a friend of the people , in which not only owls are reflected, but also ravens, magpies, nest killers, barrels, geese, bullfinches, hoopoes, sheepfolds and other loose birds such as they have names . The title of the book is Der neue Eulenspiegel, that is: the life, deeds, opinions and forgiveness of master Mathias Tobias von Hebborn. The book reports on 31 rogue pieces by the cobbler Tobias . Why he gave him the name Tobias with the addition of Hebborn is not known. He first performed his so-called heroic deeds in the vicinity of his birthplace in the Eifel . After he came to the Bergisches Land , he played his numerous pranks in the Bergisch Gladbach area, in Leverkusen , Cologne-Mülheim , Altenberg and even in Much . The stories are extremely cheerful and, in a folklore way, reflect backgrounds about life, especially during and shortly after the so-called French period .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Hans Leonhard Brenner The new Eulenspiegel / Vinzenz von Zuccalmaglio, with a comment by Hans Leonhard Brenner, Bergisch Gladbach 1998, ISBN 3-932326-21-0
2. ^ Anton Jux: The house of the Lügschumacher von Hebborn in Our Bergische Heimat , bulletin of the mountain. History Association from May 1956 as PDF accessed February 3, 2016 ( Memento from April 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Herbert Stahl (editor): "Gronau", Bergisch Gladbach 2007, p. 80f ISBN 978-3-932326-51-6

literature

• From a friend of the people (that is Vinzenz von Zuccalmaglio ), The new Eulenspiegel, that is: life, deeds, opinions and dedications of the master Mathias Tobias von Hebborn , published by C. Ed. Küster Opladen 1849
• Walther Schulte vom Brühl , Der Bergische Eulenspiegel, life, deeds and opinions of the master Tobias von Hebborn , a folk book by Montanus, published by JH Born Elberfeld in 1908
• Willi Schäferdiek , Matthias Tobias, a Rhenish picaresque novel , (1st edition Leipzig 1933, J. Bohn and Son) Heider-Verlag Bergisch Gladbach 1949
• Paul Weitershagen, Der Lügschuster, an Eulenspiegel called Matthias , Greven Verlag Cologne 1954
• Stephan Nuding, Der Bergische Schelm or Life and Deeds of the Liar Shoe Maker Mathias Tobias von Hebborn , Heider Verlag Bergisch Gladbach 1991

Web links

• The new Eulenspiegel