Walter Renzelmann

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Walter Renzelmann († 1560 or earlier in Switzerland ) was an Oldenburg priest and pastor of the first Protestant parish in Oldenburg .

Life

Walter Renzelmann came into the light of history in 1527 when he introduced the German Mass , created by Martin Luther a year earlier, in the function of a mass priest (sacellanus) at St. Lamberti in Oldenburg . The Oldenburg chronicler Hermann Hamelmann reports that he began to sing German psalms and the Luther songs. Now we ask the Holy Spirit and we all believe in one God . This action marked the first appearance of the Reformation in the county of Oldenburg . The action took place at the time of rivalries over the succession of Count Johann V von Oldenburg, who died in 1526 . Two of his four sons, Johann and Christoph , laid claim to the succession, with Johann being supported by his brother Georg and their mother Anna (von Anhalt-Zerbst). Christoph, however, received support from Anton . The different attitudes towards the Reformation in the camps of the heirs could have played a role in fueling the conflict.

The dean of the canons ' monastery at that time tried to put a stop to the actions of the mass priest Renzelmann by addressing the counts' rule. According to Hamelmann, he had "violently" complained about Renzelmann. Thereupon Renzelmann was removed from St. Lamberti and sent to the newly founded parish of Schwei as a pastor. There he is said to have continued to teach the "pure gospel" and married in 1635. Renzelmann died shortly before his successor Johannes Hixen was appointed in 1560.

Reception history

The transfer of Renzelmann to Schwei was interpreted differently in research.

Gustav Rüthning and Hermann Goens rated the situation as a punitive transfer, with Goens even using the term “banishment”. Heinrich Schmidt emphasized how gracious the verdict was, considering that Renzelmann was accused of heresy. He assumed that the countess did not want to offend her youngest son Anton, because Renzelmann felt connected. In their Oldenburg church history, Joachim Kuropka , Reinhard Rittner and Heinrich Schmidt assess the situation very differently. You see the "enormous increase in rank" from a mass priest to a pastor and see the creation of a parish by the countess especially for Renzelmann as a promotion for him. You interpret this as an indication of a political defeat of John VI. and his mother, whose power was apparently only enough to keep Renzelmann away from St. Lamberti.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Hamelmann: Oldenburgisch Chronicon. This is description of the praiseworthy clock old counts of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst [et] c. From which the current kings of Dennemarck and Hertzog zu Holstein sprang: Sampt of your family's first arrival, deeds, government, life and end, adorned with artificial busts and coats of arms. Oldenburg 1599, p. 363.
  2. ^ A b c Joachim Kuropka, Reinhard Rittner, Heinrich Schmidt: Oldenburg Church History . Ed .: Rolf Schäfer . Oldenburg 1999, p. 204 f .
  3. ↑ Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg. Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 595f.
  4. ↑ Gustav Rüthning: Oldenburgische history . Bremen 1911, p. 258 .
  5. ↑ H. Goens: The farms of the Moormarsch and the desert country . In: Oldenburg Yearbook . tape 33 . Oldenburg 1929, p. 10, 49 f., 61 .
  6. ↑ Heinrich Schmidt: History of the City of Oldenburg From the Beginnings to 1830 . Oldenburg, S. 298 f .
personal data
SURNAME Renzelmann, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Oldenburg priest
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH before 1560
Place of death Sweat