Wolf Hünerkopf

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Testimony to Wolf Hünerkopf's construction activity: Neukirchen Castle

Wolf Hünerkopf (* around 1494 in Elterlein ; † spring 1566 in Neukirchen / Erzgeb. ) Was a German mint master, mountain master and landowner.

Life

Wolf Hünerkopf came from the Saxon Ore Mountains , where he was born and grew up in Elterlein around 1494. At first he worked as a mountain master and Münzwardein.

In Annaberg-Buchholz , the most important town in the Saxon Upper Ore Mountains, he worked from 1533 to 1539 as the ducal Saxon mint master in the Annaberger Mint ( mint mark Morgenstern) for the Albertine Wettins . Subsequently, as an extra-official mint master with the privilege of Duke Moritz von Sachsen, he was allowed to strike coins from silver that he extracted from his own mines, and affix his own mint master's mark, a six-pointed star. Numerous coins from his official and private activities as a mint master have survived to this day. However, the coins he minted after his tenure are extremely rare.

As a citizen of Annaberg from Duke Moritz von Sachsen, he acquired the three secularized Chemnitz monastery villages of Klaffenbach , Burkhardtsdorf and Neukirchen, south of Chemnitz , for 6,000 guilders in 1543 . From the purchase money, Duke Moritz gave 2000 guilders earmarked for the hometown of Hünerkopf, Annaberg, 2000 guilders for Marienberg , 1200 guilders for the city of Zschopau , 200 guilders for Ehrenfriedersdorf and the remaining 600 guilders to the glassworks to support the Protestant church and school system. In this way, Hünerkopf also indirectly supported his home in the Ore Mountains. In any case, Wolf Hünerkopf had relatively close ties to the Elector of Saxony, as he was friends with his secretary Johann Faust. So it is not surprising that Hünerkopf was last General oradein of the Upper Saxon Empire.

Wolfgang Hünerkopf retired in Neukirchen, where he built the castle around 1545 . He donated a Renaissance altar and a baptismal font to the Neukirchen church, of which he was the patron saint. After his death in the spring of 1566, he was buried in the local church.

His son Daniel Hünerkopf became a mint master in Magdeburg .

literature

  • Business leaders in the Middle Ages and Modern Times, 1350-1850 , Volume 1, 1973, p. 93.
  • Andrea Kramarczyk: On the personality of the Annaberg mint master Wolf Hünerkopf . In: Götz Altmann , Rainer Gebhardt (ed.): Personalities of the mining industry in the Saxon-Bohemian Ore Mountains (= writings of the Adam-Ries-Bund eV Annaberg-Buchholz, 15), Annaberg-Buchholz 2003, pp. 99–112. ISBN 3-930430-61-4

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl August Limmer: Library of Saxon History , Volume 2, 2nd Part, Verlag Weber, Ronneburg and Gera 1831 p. 756 digitized
personal data
SURNAME Hünerkopf, wolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chicken head, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German miner, mint master and landowner
DATE OF BIRTH around 1494
PLACE OF BIRTH Parents
DATE OF DEATH between March 1566 and June 1566
Place of death Neukirchen / Erzgeb.