Twice ToldBraunschweigische Anzeigen, 94. Stuck, November 1756: the query about Hackelnberg's stone
- Language
- German
- Reading
- transcribed from the page image
- Translation
- ours
- Retrieved
- 10 October 2026
Spelling as printed (Fraktur and roman mixed; the date is set in roman). Line breaks are not kept.
Aufgabe.
Im Hildesheimischen bey dem Dorfe, Wiedela, in dem so genannten Adlerkruge trift man einen alten Helm an, welchen die dasige Einwohner einem Hrn von Hackelnberg zueignen, und auf den dabey befindlichen Kirchhof ist ein Leichenstein, worunter dieser Mann soll begraben seyn. Was ist dieses für einer gewesen, und weis man sonst keine Nachricht von demselben? Auf dem Leichenstein stehet ein Reuter zu Pferde, nebst zween neben her laufenden Hunden mit der Ueberschrift: Anno Domini 1581. die 3 marcii.
Translation
Ours.
A question for readers. In the Hildesheim territory, by the village of Wiedela, in the inn called the Adlerkrug, one finds an old helmet, which the people there attribute to a Herr von Hackelnberg, and in the churchyard next to it there is a gravestone under which this man is said to be buried. Who was he, and is nothing else known of him? On the gravestone stands a rider on a horse, with two dogs running beside him, and the inscription: Anno Domini 1581, the 3rd of March.
Notes
What it is. A reader’s query in a Brunswick newspaper of public notices and learned contributions, printed in the “Aufgabe” slot after a medical piece by J. B. Hoffmann. The writer is not named. The page is headed “94. Stuck. November. 1756.” and the columns are 1585 and 1586.
What it gives. The earliest printed text we have read that quotes the wording on the stone. “die 3 marcii” is Latin for the 3rd of March (“marcii” is printed so; the “3” is a clear figure in the scan). The dog count is two here; the 1747 query (quoted by Grimm in 1835) speaks of a mule and a hunting dog, and Nachtigal (1800) of an armoured knight on a mule.
Place names. “Wiedela” is the village now called Wiedelah, about 2 km south of Wulperode; the Adlerkrug stood on the Halberstadt side of the border, according to Heise and Mischke (2020, p. 11, note 11).
The newspaper answered this query in 1757 (62. Stuck, col. 1059 ff.); we read that reply only as Heise and Mischke quote it.