Tresekammer (Lübeck)

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The heavily barred windows of the bar above the mayor's chapel on the ground floor
View into the mayor's chapel

The Tresekammer or Trese for short (from ancient Greek thesaurus 'treasure' or Latin tresecamere or Old High German treserye 'treasure chamber') was the old treasury of the council of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck for the storage of documents and valuables. It has been a secular structure in Lübeck's Marienkirche since 1298 .

History of the bar room

The Marienkirche was built in Lübeck by the council in competition with the episcopal Lübeck Cathedral right next to the town hall. In the 13th century, the city council built its own chapel, the mayor's chapel, on the south-east corner of the ambulatory next to the south hall, which is now used as the main entrance, which can be clearly recognized in the exterior masonry by the alternation of black glazed and unglazed red brick. According to Walter Paatz , construction began as early as 1289. The newly elected council was installed in its office in the Gothic pews from the 15th century that were still preserved. The carvings, especially on the cheeks of these chairs, point to the humor of the time.

On the upper floor of this chapel is the Trese , the specially secured place of storage of the city privileges, documents, festivals and the contracts of the Lübeck council and documents of the Hanseatic League . It was first mentioned in a document in 1298. The bar can be easily recognized by the strong grilles that secure the window of the mayor's chapel below. The Trese is accessed via a Wendelstein . This part of the church is still in the municipal ownership of the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , which began its organizational structure here in 1854 under the first state archivist Carl Friedrich Wehrmann . The city's ownership of the rooms in the church was replaced in 1971 by a corresponding usufruct of the city on the church property . Inside the bar, behind seven locks and two heavy doors on the walls all around, there are built-in cupboards and chests for storing valuables, which have not been kept here since the relocation due to the Second World War in 1940. Due to the separation from the church, the bar itself, like the mayor's chapel below, was not affected by the fire in the church as a result of the air raid on Lübeck in March 1942 . After an inspection by representatives of the archive and the preservation of monuments in 2009, a splint used to lock the archive cabinets was identified as Lübeck's oldest mint mark from 1250.

In the period from 1469 to 1496, the Danish crown jewels pledged to Lübeck by King Christian I were locked away in the Trese. In the Trese, the council under Mayor Jürgen Wullenwever also collected the Lübeck church silver that was confiscated in 1531. It was more than 96 quintals of silver, which was melted down in 1533 to finance the count's feud and a pirate war against the surrounding drivers from the Netherlands .

The eastern extension of the younger pier chapel , also known as the gloomy chapel, to the mayor's chapel did not take place until 1395.

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  1. ^ A b Walter Paatz: Die Marienkirche zu Lübeck , p. 20, with reference to a certificate from Nikolaus Vrowedhe.
  2. ↑ Rusty door bolt turns out to be Lübeck's oldest coin mark (PDF; 1.8 MB), Lübeckische Blätter , accessed on December 14, 2009.
  3. ↑ Lübeckische Geschichte, p. 396.

Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 4.8 ″  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 5.6 ″  E