Gravestone of Felicitas von Gemmingen
The tombstone of Felicitas von Gemmingen is a tombstone handed down in the “Thesaurus Palatinus” by Johann Franz Capellini von Wickenburg , which was once walled up in a house in the Heidelberg suburb. The whereabouts of the stone are unknown.
history
The Thesaurus Palatinus was created around 1750 as a handwritten work in two volumes with a total of around 1000 pages. The work tries to describe the art treasures of the Electoral Palatinate and above all Heidelberg and was compiled by the Electoral Palatinate Privy Councilor Johann Franz Capellini von Wickenburg. The work contains numerous hand drawings by various well-known and unknown draftsmen with views of the city as well as drawings of art monuments. On fol. 83r is the tombstone of Felicitas von Gemmingen, who died on Maria Magdalenentag in 1492 and was walled up on a house on Brunnengasse at the time of the photo. The author of the thesaurus suspects that the stone was transferred there. The art historian Adolf von Oechelhäuser refused a transfer, for example from the nearby cemetery at St. Anna , and rather suspects that the house where the stone was located was a court of the Barons of Gemmingen . In the late 19th century, when the Theasaurus Palatinus was described and evaluated by Oechelhäuser, the whereabouts of the tombstone were already unknown.
description
According to the drawing in the Thesaurus Palatinus, it was a tall rectangular stone with a depiction of a young woman kneeling in prayer in the middle panel, with the coat of arms of the von Gemmingen family at the bottom left. The inscription read: Anno Domini MCCCCCXCII uff / Maria Magdalena day has died Die / Noble Frau Felicita von Gemmingen / Der Gott Barmhertzig Sey.
literature
- Thesaurus Palatinus, fol. 83r
- Adolf von Oechelhäuser: The Thesaurus Palatinus in Munich , in: Heidelberger Schlossverein (Hrsg.): Mitteilungen zur Geschichte des Heidelberger Schlosses 3, 1896, pp. 89–90.
- Renate Neumüllers-Klauser (arr.): The inscriptions of the city and the district of Heidelberg . (= The German inscriptions 12th Heidelberg Row 4). Stuttgart 1970, No. 159.