Katharina Förtsch from Thurnau

Katharina Förtsch von Thurnau was abbess of the Himmelkron monastery from 1409 to 1410 .

Katharina came from the von Förtsch von Thurnau family . Two other family members are known as nuns of the monastery, including Margarethe, the abbess's niece. Monastery property around Thurnau indicates gifts from the family. The family began as the ministerial family of the Counts of Orlamünde . A tombstone in the collegiate church in Himmelkron with the family coat of arms was dated before 1300 and indicates a further early connection between the family and the monastery. The family coat of arms is divided diagonally to the right in the top cut of red and silver. The crest is a bear's trunk , later reduced to a pair of paws .

literature

Theodor Zinck: Himmelkron - Description of his past and present . Bayreuth 1925. p. 19.

Individual evidence

↑ Helmuth Meißner: Himmelkron . History and stories, names and dates. Himmelkron 1979, p. 23 .
^ Helmuth Meißner: Coats of arms in and around the former Himmelkron monastery . In: Historischer Verein für Oberfranken eV (Hrsg.): Archive for the history of Upper Franconia . tape 83 , 2003, ISSN 0066-6335 , p. 229 f .

predecessor	Office	successor
Agnes von Wallenroth	Abbess of Himmelkron Monastery 1409–1410	Katharina Rieter

personal data
SURNAME	Katharina Förtsch from Thurnau
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German abbess
DATE OF BIRTH	14th Century
DATE OF DEATH	15th century

[1] Helmuth Meißner: Himmelkron . History and stories, names and dates. Himmelkron 1979, p. 23 .

[2] Helmuth Meißner: Coats of arms in and around the former Himmelkron monastery . In: Historischer Verein für Oberfranken eV (Hrsg.): Archive for the history of Upper Franconia . tape 83 , 2003, ISSN 0066-6335 , p. 229 f .