Adelheid Brömse

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Adelheid Brömse with her mother and her sisters (1515)

Adelheid Brömse , in Low German Taleke Brömse (* 1471 in Lübeck ; † October 20, 1538 ibid) was a German Cistercian and abbess .

Life

Adelheid Brömse was the eldest daughter of Lübeck's mayor Heinrich Brömse and his wife Elisabeth Westfal († 1495). The mayor of Lübeck, Nikolaus Brömse, was one of her brothers and became the most important representative of the conservative council party during the turmoil of the Reformation and an opponent of Jürgen Wullenwever .

Before 1496, Adelheid Brömse entered the St. John's monastery in Lübeck as a nun . The right wing of the altar of the Brömsen altar in Lübeck's Jakobikirche , dated 1515, shows her as a nun with her mother and her sisters in the white-and-red pre-Reformation costume with ermine trimmings of the ladies of the Lübeck patriciate, which has been customary since the return of the Old Council from exile in 1416 . In 1517 she was elected abbess of the monastery. With the support of her brothers Nikolaus from his exile at the court of Emperor Charles V and the lawyer and imperial councilor Heinrich , citing the imperial immediacy of the monastery during the Reformation, she succeeded in its abolition and secularization by the Lübeck council by means of an imperial letter of protection from 1532 averted, so that the Johanniskloster (in contrast to the three other Lübeck monasteries) remained imperial and independent as a women's monastery until the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 . The status quo was confirmed in 1555; however, the monastery was reorganized as a Protestant in 1569 by a resolution of the Lübeck Council and in 1574 as a Protestant. The grave slab of Adelheid Brömse, which has not been preserved, with a five-line Latin inscription, was originally in the ambulatory of the church of the Johanniskloster.

literature

  • Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : History of the St. Johannis Jungfrauenkloster zu Lübeck. Lübeck 1825, p. 92 ff. ( Digitized version )
  • Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns : The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Publishing house by Bernhard Nöhring: Lübeck 1920, pp. 305-449, (351 ff.). Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
  • Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 798 ( LÜJO * 46 ) ISBN 3-7995-5940-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BuK III, p 359, citing Albert Krantz : Wandalia , lib. 10 cap.12 for the period from 1416 to 1510. Further contemporary representations of this costume in the Lübeck panel painting: The Spanish court costume of the empress in the Lübeck dance of death by Bernt Notke (around 1463) as a possible model and Ida Plönnies on the right side wing of the Annunciation altar Jacob van Utrecht (1520/1522)
  2. ↑ Dittmer, p. 208, Appendix No. VIII.
  3. ↑ Dittmer, p. 94 ff.
  4. ↑ Krüger, p. 798 ( LÜJO * 46 )
personal data
SURNAME Brömse, Adelheid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brömse, Taleke; Brömse, Tale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Cistercian and abbess
DATE OF BIRTH 1471
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1538
Place of death Lübeck