Wolf Adam Pachelbel from Gehag

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Wolf Adam Pachelbel von Gehag (born March 28, 1599 in Eger , Bohemia ; † June 16, 1649 in Wunsiedel , Upper Franconia ) was a member of a patrician dynasty in Eger in western Bohemia and was mayor there from 1624 to 1629. As a representative of the Protestant exiles from the city of Eger at the end of the Thirty Years War , he was an advocate of the imperial immediacy of the imperial city of Eger and the Egerland in the Westphalian peace negotiations.

origin

The Pachelbel come from the village of Oschwitz near Arzberg - Schirnding , were named "Bachelbel" (= Alberich (Elbel) Bach) in 1395 in the pattern book of the Egerland peasantry and in the city of Eger's book of slogans for the year 1440, volume 43, with " Hans Pachelbel's children ”and were also based in Wunsiedel and Nuremberg . They came to prosperity by processing tin and trading tin sheet . At the Reichstag in Speyer , Wolfgang Pachelbel (* 1470 in Eger), mayor of Wunsiedel, received a letter of arms from Emperor Charles V on July 23, 1527 . The coat of arms shows a pelican with open flight, which opens its chest with its beak. His successor as a mining entrepreneur was his son Alexander Pachelbel (* 1500 in Wunsiedel; † 1568 ibid), his first marriage to Magdalena Engelschall from Ölsnitz and his second marriage to Katharina Eck from Wunsiedel.

Pachelbelhaus in Eger

Since Erasmus Pachelbel, between 1420 and 1440 Magister and Rector of the Latin School in Eger, the family was one of the patrician families of the city. On June 18, 1610, Wolfgang Pachelbel (since 1610) von Gehag, (born September 30, 1545 in Wunsiedel; † April 3, 1620 in Eger), became mayor of Eger, as the owner of the castle buildings and the associated large estates in Harlas (Lesinka) , in Zettendorf and Gehaag with his brother Alexander Pachelbel by Emperor Rudolf II of Habsburg with the predicate "von Gehag" to the hereditary-Austrian nobility. At a young age he was the representative of Archduke Charles II. Abroad and as far as the Orient .

From 1619 to 1631, the Pachelbel owned the Pachelbelhaus in Eger , a building complex between the market square and Schulgasse, the later town house and museum of Cheb , in which Generalissimo Albrecht von Wallenstein was murdered on February 25, 1634 while staying in the quarter . The house belonged to a relative of Wolf Adams, with whom Wallenstein had stayed on an earlier visit. In Schiller's Wallenstein , “Mayor Pachhälbel” has an appearance in the 3rd part ( Wallenstein's death ), 4th and 5th act. Schiller visited the house on a trip to Karlsbad in 1791.

Life

Wolf Adam Pachelbel von Gehag (1599–1649) was a son of the couple Wolfgang Pachelbel (since 1610) von Gehag (1545–1620), in 1600 one of the four mayors of the city of Eger, wealthy landowner in Egerland and Ursula, née Juncker von Oberkunreuth. His brother Alexander came from this marriage. Wolf Adam was a grandson of Alexander Pachelbel (* 1500 in Wunsiedel; † 1568 there), owner of tin mines , trader for tin and sheet metal and mayor of Wunsiedel . From 1624 to 1629 Wolf Adam Pachelbel von Gehag was one of the four mayors of the city of Eger and defender of the Evangelical Lutheran creed in the city. During the recatholization of the city of Eger and the surrounding Egerland under Emperor Ferdinand II of Habsburg , the citizens of the city of Eger, who had been Evangelical-Lutheran since 1550 and the Peace of Augsburg , were forced to leave their property behind leave or convert and consent to a public baptism according to Roman Catholic rite.

Wolf Adam Pachelbel von Gehag left the city of Eger with the exiles in 1629 and went to Wunsiedel in Franconia. With the help of Protestant troops from neighboring Saxony, he returned in 1631 for a few months to Eger back, was sold again and is following the failure of plans for a return to the year 1631, the castle and Gutsbesitzungen in Gehaag in Harlas (Lesinka) and Zettendorf sold and bought the Bernstein estate near Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge for the proceeds .

After 1631, Wolf Adam Pachelbel-Gehag received the title of “High Princely Landscape Councilor ” from Margrave Christian and was appointed Vice Governor of Wunsiedel and the Sechsämterland . Until 1648 he remained an advocate for the imperial immediacy of the imperial city of Eger, which had existed since 1149 , which was not extinguished when the city and a large part of the Egerland were pledged to Bohemia in 1322. In this matter he represented the interests of the city of Eger in the negotiations at the end of the Thirty Years War, which led to the Peace of Westphalia . In 1648 he wrote a memorandum on these peace negotiations and is said to have committed suicide on June 16, 1649 after his unsuccessful effort to regain the imperial immediacy of the city of Eger ( Cheb ) and the Egerland and thus the delimitation as a separate territory .

Relatives

Wolf Adam Pachelbel von Gehag was married three times, his first marriage in 1619 to Barbara Flenz († 1620), who brought the Pachelbel house on the market square of Eger into the marriage status as a marriage property, and his second marriage to Anna Rößler († 1635), one of them Daughter of the mayor Sebastian Rößler in Wunsiedel, whose four children did not survive their father, and in third marriage with Anna Katharina Kotz von Metzenhofen. As far as is known, he left three sons, the daughters are not known:

  • Julius Heinrich (born November 10, 1639; †?)
  • Johann Christoph (* 1642; † 1691) lawyer and deputy governor in Wunsiedel, owner of a house on the pottery market in Wunsiedel;
  • Wolfgang Gabriel (born April 10, 1649 in Wunsiedel; † November 26, 1728 in "Onolzbach", today Ansbach ), doctor of law, privy councilor from Brandenburg-Kulmbach and court president of the imperial district court of the burgrave office of Nuremberg in Ansbach, first marriage in 1684 with Anna Euphrosina Hammerschmid, a daughter of Superintendent General Caspar Hammerschmid (* 1613 in Eger, † 1675 in Ansbach) married.

literature

  • Hermann Hallwich :  Pachelbel v. Gehag, Wolf Adam . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 48-58.
  • Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon . With selected people from the former administrative district of Eger. Volume 2 (N-Z). Männedorf / ZH 1987, ISBN 3-922808-12-3 .
    • Note: Contains the biographies with further references to: Alexander Pachelbel (1500–1568); Erasmus Pachelbel, Rector of the Latin School in Eger; Johann Christoph Pachelbel († 1691); Wolf Adam Pachelbel (1599-1649); Wolfgang Pachelbel (* 1470); Wolfgang Pachelbel (1545-1620); Wolfgang Gabriel Pachelbel (1649-1726).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual reports on the kk state high school in Eger for the school year 1901 and 1902.
  2. ↑ cf. Georg Ulrich Juncker from Oberkunreuth
personal data
SURNAME Pachelbel von Gehag, Wolf Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pachelbel-Gehag, Wolf Adam von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION West Bohemian patrician and mayor of the city of Eger, exile
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1599
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheb (Eger), Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1649
Place of death Wunsiedel , Upper Franconia