Westerhausischer farewell
As Westerhausischer farewell that will result from negotiations between the city of Magdeburg and the stands of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg and the Bishopric of Halberstadt during schmalkaldic war called. The negotiations took place in 1548 and 1550 in the Westerhüsen district , which today belongs to Magdeburg , which was referred to as Westerhausen in the relevant documents , from which the name is derived.
history
After the defeat of the Protestant side in the Battle of Mühlberg on April 24, 1547, on August 25, 1548 the Catholic estates of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg and the Halberstadt diocese paid homage to Archbishop Johann Albrecht in the state parliament in Halle (Saale) . The Schmalkaldic War was effectively over, only a few Protestant cities, first and foremost Magdeburg, were not already subject to the Catholic Emperor. The estates asked the Protestant city of Magdeburg to pay homage to him as well and to be reconciled. On April 27, 1547, the emperor had put the city in reserve. Magdeburg was requested to send two deputies to Staßfurt on September 15, 1548 in order to enter into appropriate negotiations. In fact, the first negotiations took place there. The Magdeburg delegates sent councilor Hans Sivert and city secretary Heinrich Merkel . However, the two were accompanied by 34 horses and 8 to 9 wagons with hookers . The Magdeburg embassy was housed in Neugattersleben Castle, which belongs to the city .
The negotiations then continued on December 15, 1548 in Westerhüsen, south of Magdeburg. The location of the conference is not the St. Stephen's Church , which is rather cold at the time of the year , but the village jug. Three ambassadors from the knighthood and ten deputies from the cities of Halle (Saale) , Halberstadt , Aschersleben , Salze and Staßfurt took part in the stand . Magdeburg was represented by three mayors, the ruling, the old and the senior, namely Heine Alemann , Hans Alemann and Thomas Keller . In addition, the Syndic Dr. Levin von Emden , Ludwig Alemann as well as two other council members and a secretary of the Magdeburg delegation.
The class deputies demanded from Magdeburg the handover of the castles and offices of the archbishop, which were largely occupied by the city. The Magdeburg citizens declared that they were ready to do this, provided that they were granted acceptable articles from the emperor, which guaranteed them freedom of religion and their urban privileges. In addition, the Magdeburgians demanded that they can act and walk freely in the areas of the monasteries, they then wanted to behave against their authorities with all cheap obedience and on Christian, tolerable and affordable terms whatever the fee. In a narrower sense, this negotiation result and its written documentation from December 16, 1548, still available in the State Archives under the signature Rep. A2, N. 618 , is referred to as Westerhausischer Farewell.
The council of the city of Magdeburg was then invited to Neugattersleben by the archbishop captain of Alsleben , Heinrich von Krosigk, on March 25, 1549 , so that he could respond to the proposals made in Westerhüsen. Magdeburg sent the city secretary. He apologized for the delay with the necessary important consultations on religious matters and at the same time referred to changes in the composition of the council chair. He declared that Magdeburg could not accept the articles of religion handed over to the Leipzig state parliament on December 21, 1548, the Leipzig Interim . They are not in accordance with the Scriptures and human statutes are mixed in with it. The people would thereby be seduced into papacy .
In the following time the city of Magdeburg, which was ostracized by the emperor, was often attacked by enemies, whereupon the city reacted with retaliatory measures in the surrounding area belonging to the monasteries. The archbishop's pens wanted to end the war. Count Johann Georg von Mansfeld and Heinrich von Krosigk invited the Magdeburgers to Westerhüsen on the Wednesday of Holy Week 1550, April 9, 1550. The Magdeburger arrived in Westerhüsen with strong military escort. The positions turned out to be largely unchanged compared to the first negotiation in Westerhüsen. As a condition for the return of the archbishop's castles and offices, the Magdeburg citizens demanded that the city be helped out of eight, that it be reconciled with the emperor and that it be allowed to practice religion freely and undisturbed. In particular, she should not be forced to accept the interim and must retain all of her freedoms and rights. The two class deputies found the demand not unreasonable and wanted to appeal to the archbishop. The parties agreed that the negotiations in Magdeburg should continue. However, due to the surprising death of the archbishop on May 17, 1550, the negotiations could not be continued.
From September 1550 the city was besieged by Georg zu Mecklenburg and Moritz von Sachsen , which lasted until November 1551 and then ended on favorable terms for Magdeburg.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Westerhüsen in the Schmalkaldic War. , Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt Magdeburg-Westerhüsen, Volume 16, Number 11, November 1939