1242 Founding of the city (the authenticity of the founding documents is disputed) (Willert, 1990, Hill, 2019, p. 13).
1257 Gerhard II – Archbishop of Bremen – confirms the foundation of a (Holy Spirit) hospital in the city of Kiel (Kieler Urkundenbuch – Volume 1, 2020).
Location: near the Holsten Gate.
1245/1246 Adolf IV moves from the Franciscan monastery in Hamburg to the Franciscan monastery in Kiel.
1261 Siege by Duke Albrecht I of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
1283 Erich V – King of Denmark – grants Kiel a plot of land on the Schonic Markets (Kiel Charter Book – Volume 1, 2020).
1301 Construction of the city wall until 1329
1317 Mention of a “small mill in front of the city” (Kiel Charter Book – Volume 1, 2020).
1318 Kiel receives the right to mint coins (Kieler Urkundenbuch – Band 1, 2020).
1318 Johann II – Count of Holstein – grants the city of Kiel all jurisdictions (Kieler Urkundenbuch – Volume 1, 2020).
1320 Mention of a school in Kiel (Kieler Urkundenbuch – Band 1, 2020).
1328 Burchard – Archbishop of Bremen – promises a forty-day indulgence (from purgatory) to all those who donate to the construction of a chapel for the Holy Spirit Hospital, pray there or participate in the service (Kieler Urkundenbuch – Volume 1, 2020).
1327 Mention of the St. Jürgen Hospital (Kieler Urkundenbuch – Band 1, 2020).
Location: today Sophienblatt, near the main station.
1334 Foundation deed with the rules for the priest caland (a kind of professional representation) (Kiel Charter Book – Volume 1, 2020).
1345 “The notary Herbord Ruffi records an armed attack by about twenty people under the leadership of the priest and notary of the Kiel council Hinrich Beringeri on the vicarage (dos), in which the Bordesholm and Neumünster canon Hinrich Manegoldi, who was present there, was seriously wounded, the present familiares of the monastery were thrown out, their belongings were confiscated and the house was occupied, with the addition that Hinrich Beringeri had testified before the Kiel council the following day that they had acted in the name of Ludolf Michaelis.
” (Kieler Urkundenbuch – Band 1, 2020).
1346 Otto (I.) – Archbishop of Bremen – excommunicated the perpetrators because of the armed attack of Kiel clergy and laymen on the vicarage (dos), the acts of violence committed against the canons and family members of the Neumünster monastery, the killing of the Neumünster canon Hinrich Manegoldi and the desecration of the cemetery and imposes the interdict on the city (Kiel Charter Book – Volume 1, 2020).
1350 Magister Hinrich von Culmin, Schwerin scholaster, agrees with the Kiel council that he will build a school at Hinrich’s expense, the establishment of which he leaves to him.
In order to be able to take over the school, his successor must pay the building money to the council according to the value of the building and according to the estimate of honest men.
The council should also continue to leave the space in front of the entrance to the school until further notice (Kieler Urkundenbuch – Volume 1, 2020).
1350 John (III) – Count of Holstein – confirms the transfer of a plot of land in the village of Brunswik by the knight Nikolaus Split to the Kiel council for the establishment of a cemetery and allows the construction of a wooden chapel in honour of the Apostle James, Saints Fabian and Sebastian as well as Gertrude. (Kieler Urkundenbuch – Volume 1, 2020).
1350 First wave of plague.
At the request of the Kiel Council, because in view of the present mortality the cemeteries of the city no longer hold the corpses, Gottfried – Archbishop of Bremen – gives permission to create a new cemetery near the city and to erect a chapel of Saints Fabian and Sebastian, Anthony and Gertrude in this cemetery, and he grants to all who contribute to the construction of the chapel, visit the cemetery and pray for the dead there or take part in the service on the feast days,
forty-day indulgence (Kiel Charter Book – Volume 1, 2020).
1361 Magnus (VII / II) and Håkon (VI), kings of Norway and Sweden, conclude an alliance with the cities of Lübeck, Hamburg, Wismar, Rostock, Stralsund, Greifswald, Anklam, Stettin, Kolberg, Bremen and Kiel against King Waldemar (IV, Atterdag) of Denmark (Kiel Charter Book – Volume 1, 2020).
1367 Evidence of a malt mill in Kiel: Wulfhard Pogwisch the Elder, his son Wulfhard the Younger and Hartwig von Ow confirm that they received five hundred marks from Gerhard Hoke (Huke) in the name of Count Adolf (VII) for the repurchase of the half malt mill in Kiel that had been pledged to them until now (Kieler Urkundenbuch – Volume 1, 2020).
1371 Stephan, provost, Simon of Stettin, Eilard of Wismar and Reiner of Vleminchude (Flemhude), canons of Neumünster and Bordesholm respectively, demand the payment of the fourth part of the funerals (Kieler Urkundenbuch – Band 1, 2020).
1416-1426 Kiel grants the Victual Brothers – buccaneers on behalf of the Holstein counts, pirates from the point of view of Lübeck and those of other Hanseatic cities – a safe harbor (Hill, 2019, p. 40ff.).
1460 Privilege of Ripen
1496 Court of Four Cities
To be continued …..
