Wäskenbok

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The so-called Wäskenbok is a collection of genealogical notes published for the first time in 1553 by Eberhard von Berckhusen , the son of the Hanoverian mayor Anton von Berckhusen, on the origins and relationships of "politically dominant sexes" of the city of Hanover , in particular the patrician and merchant family von / van Ber (c) khusen . Wäsken is a diminutive for the term wash or base .

News from the Hanoverian patrician families

The notes written by Everd von Berkhusen in 1553 and the Wäskenbok published from them by Georg Nahnsen have only been preserved in copies from the 17th and 18th centuries and received "probably later the title" messages from the Hanoverian patrician families .

According to a more recent interpretation, von Berckhusens Nachrichten ... is a systematic genealogical representation of the "[...] relations of his family against the background of the changes in the social structure of the city [Hanover]" forced by the Reformation . As a common ancestor , Berckhusen named a "so perhaps invented Johann von der Yme ( Ihme ) " from around 1300 but not yet proven by other sources .

Since the author, on the one hand, did not want to or could not access the official city records such as the house and exit books or the lap books for his notes and, on the other hand, no information about the aim and purpose of his messages has been passed on, "only those [information] for the [at that time] younger generations are considered to be relatively reliable. "

literature

  • Helmut Zimmermann : The origin of the Hanoverian mayors from 1534 to 1820. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Episode 21 (1967), pp. 197-233
  • Irmtraud Schneider: The Wäskenbok families and their property from 1428-1555. Sociological-typographical study on the history of the old town of Hanover. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 24 (1970), pp. 35–80
  • Karljosef Kreter : Urban history culture and historiography. The image of the city of Hanover in the mirror of its histories from the beginnings to the loss of urban autonomy , also dissertation in 1996 at the University of Hanover, in the online edition Städtische Geschichtskultur und Historiographie , Hanover: 1996, p. 143ff. and 171ff.
  • Klaus Mlynek : Wäskenbok. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 651f.

further reading

  • Harald Deckwirth: The house and exit book of the old town of Hanover from 1428 to 1533/40 , at the same time dissertation in 1972 at the University of Göttingen, in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 26, Issue 1/2 (1971)
  • Karl Friedrich Leonhardt: The house and leaving book of the old town Hanover. 1428-1533. 1428-1477. In: Publications of the capital Hanover , the Lord Mayor, Volume 1 (part of the edition was published by Verlag Schaper , Hanover), 1941

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d Klaus Mlynek: Wäskenbok (see literature )
  2. ^ Siegfried Müller : Around 1550. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 40; online through google books
  3. ↑ see Sabine Wehking : Sources and Literature: City of Hannover on the page inschriften.net , Deutsche Insschriften Online , accessed on June 6, 2013
  4. ↑ Note: This assumption contradicts the earlier statement after von Berckhusen called the news ... as early as 1533; compare Klaus Mlynek: BERCKHUSEN, from (van), (2) Eberhard. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 50; online through google books