Peter Fliesteden

Peter Fliesteden (* unknown, at the same place Fliesteden between Pulheim and Bergheim, † September 28, 1529 in Cologne) was executed on the execution site Melaten before Cologne. He died as one of the first Protestant martyr in the Lower Rhine due to his work as a Protestant Christian.

He was arrested in December 1527 in Cologne Cathedral, because he covered during the exhibition at the elevation of the Host, the principal should have spit and vice versa. A Catholic clergyman immediately ordered that Fliesteden was arrested in front of the Cathedral and discharged to the prison in Frankenturm. After a long interrogation, he was condemned as a "radical Protestant" because he was " the church Beichtpflicht, the vows, the priesthood, and especially the presence of Christ in the sacraments of the Eucharist and the veneration of the sacrament " have rejected. (→ Cologne judiciary from the Middle Ages to modern times )

Commemoration

At the place of execution in Cologne, a memorial stone for him and Clarenbachstift was built. In Cologne - Brown field, there is a street named after him.

Source

• JF Gerhard Goeters: Studies of the Lower Rhine Reformation history. Series of the Association for Rhenish Church History 153, Habelt, Pulheim 2002, ISBN 978-3-7927-1830-8.