Wilhelm Karl Stolle

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Wilhelm Karl Stolle (born April 3, 1704 in Lindenberg ; † September 6, 1779 in Demmin ) was pastor in Demmin. He wrote the oldest known chronicle of the Hanseatic city of Demmin.

Life

Wilhelm Karl Stolle was the son of the Lindenberg pastor Franz (also Franziskus ) Stolle , who came from a Stralsund merchant family, and his wife Christine Grensing. He attended the Sundisches Gymnasium in Stralsund's Katharinenkloster . In his youth, the Swedes withdrew from Demmin. The city and the area south of the Peene officially became part of Prussia in 1720 . Stolle studied theology at the University of Halle and then worked as a private tutor in Berlin .

In early 1737 Stolle became archdeacon at the St. Bartholomew Church in Demmin. At the same time he became pastor (afternoon preacher) of the Demminer St. Marien parish . On October 18, 1740 he married the Demmin merchant daughter Johanne Sophie Lobeck († 1783). The son Karl Wilhelm and four daughters came from the marriage.

As a contemporary witness , Stolle experienced the Seven Years' War , during which Demmin was conquered several times and alternately by Sweden and Prussia. During this time he worked as a pastor both for the community and for the hospitals established in the city and fell ill himself from one of the epidemics that broke out in the city.

During the last siege of Demmin in 1759, he and 26 other people stayed in a house that was believed to be safe. After the roof was destroyed by the heavy bombardment, they were able to save themselves in a granary on the south wall.

In 1766, Stolle began collecting material on Demmin's history. His life's work was published under the title: "Description and history of the ancient, formerly solid, large and famous Hanseatic city of Demmin, as well as the attached and famous castle Haus Demmin" , by Wilhelm Carl Stolle, Archidiacono at the St. Bartholomäikirche and pastor St. Marien in Demmin, with the support of Johann Carl Dähnert in 1772 in Greifswald .

For his writing, he had the walls of the Demmin city fortifications measured before they were razed . He also recorded the dimensions of ruins, foundation walls and other remains of historical buildings in the city.

The rector of the Demmin boys' school, Karl Goetze, used Stolle's work as one of the main sources for his book on the "History of the City of Demmin", published at the beginning of the 20th century, and critically examined Stolle's statements.

plant

  • Description and history of the ancient, formerly solid, large and famous Hanseatic City of Demmin, as well as the attached and famous castle called Haus Demmin. Greifswald 1772. 850 pages ( digitized )

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Karl Schlösser : Demmin - the other chronicle. Local history footnotes . Demmin 2001, pp. 23-24

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personal data
SURNAME Stolle, Wilhelm Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stolle, Wilhelm Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran clergyman and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1704
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindenberg
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1779
Place of death Demmin