Wichboldt von Ancken

Wichboldt von Ancken (* around 1574 in Krempe ; † before July 23, 1629 ) was a German politician and the first mayor of Glückstadt Fortress .

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Epitaph in the town church of Glückstadt

Wichboldt von Ancken was probably the son or grandson of a man of the same name, whose name is recorded in 1557 and 1566. This ancestor had a house on Kremper Markt. His mother, named Alheit, was a sister of the Wilster mayor Albert Pranger. She had a younger sister named Ilsabe Pranger, who married the then famous humanist and medicin Martinus Fabricius in 1620 .

Wichboldt von Ancken married twice, although the names of his wives are not documented. Both marriages produced children. The daughter Katrine was presumably the wife of the captain and march captain Hinrich von Dringenberg. Another daughter named Margaretha married the widowed brewer Carsten Breide in Wilster in 1641.

The name Wichboldt von Anckens can be found in reports on a visit by King Christian IV in 1599 to Krempe. On April 14, 1604, he had leased a farm in Wewelsfleth and two acres of church fields. In 1609 he bought a house with seven acres of land, which a court awarded him on September 2nd of the same year. In 1616 he and Mayor Görries Maas paid ten marks and four shillings for each rod of land. The money was used to re-dike the royal share of the wilderness in front of Glückstadt.

On March 6, 1619, the authorities named von Ancken for the first time as an appointed judge in Glückstadt. At this time he presumably took over the mayor's office. On September 25, 1619, three of his daughters were given a ducat each by King Christian IV, who was staying in Glückstadt. On February 3, 1620 von Ancken took the Glückstadt citizen oath and sold one of his houses on December 15 of the same year. On September 1, 1623 he took out a loan of 2000 marks from Christoph Vordtmeier, the bailiff of Glücksburg. He needed this to buy a house from the king for 5,000 marks.

Von Ancken was first documented as mayor of Glückstadt on February 13, 1623. As the builder and patron of the town church there , he donated two large chandeliers made of measurements with inscriptions, which were intended for the altar. He also donated a "red scarlet sheet" that was ten cubits tall and bore his name in beaten silver. There was also a large brass crown that broke during the Holstein natural disaster in 1648. He donated several pensions for the needy, 264 marks for the wax light on the altar and another 150 marks for wine and wafers.

Von Ancken owned an epitaph in the Glückstadt church, which he had redesigned according to the inscription in 1625. As mayor, he himself completed the first church bill of November 9, 1625. On March 6, 1626, he leased the so-called “Rethhövel”, which consisted of four paddocks, to the later town bailiff Johann Thode. Von Ancken received 470 marks a year for this, combined with the permit to graze cattle there.

Wichboldt von Anckens' death must have been before July 23, 1629. It is known that on December 11, 1633, the court awarded his heirs a house in Krempe am Markt that belonged to Margarethe von Ahlefeldt.

literature

• Nicoline Still: von Ancken, Wichboldt . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1970, pp. 33-34