Adelheid von Bortfeld

Adelheid von Bortfeld (* before 1451; † around 1477) was prioress of the monastery in Heiningen from 1454 to 1477 .

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Adelheid was the daughter of Heinrich von Bortfeld from the Lower Saxon noble family von Bortfeld . Her mother's name was Elisabeth and she was born from Saldern . It is documented that in 1451 she belonged to the Augustinian Choir Women's Monastery in Heiningen , where she campaigned for the provost Berthold Ziegenmeier (also Segenmeyer or Semeyer) to carry out a monastery reform based on the model of the Windesheim monastery . From 1454 to 1477 she was installed there as prioress. Her successor was Adelheid Müller in 1478, who held the office until 1480.

A valuable hunting or coat of arms carpet that was given to her by her parents and was probably made for their wedding shows, in addition to hunting and mermaid scenes, the coats of arms of her parents' families as well as those of the houses in Steinberg and von Haus . This carpet is in the collection of the St. Marienberg Monastery in Helmstedt and is dated to 1430.

literature

August Fink: The coat of arms of Adelheid von Bortfeld. In: F. Stuttmann (Ed.): Low German contributions to art history. 1, 1961, ISSN 0078-0537 , pp. 169-186.
Gerhard Taddey: Heiningen Monastery from its foundation to its dissolution. Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, Göttingen 1966, OCLC 25436626 .
Annette von Boetticher : Adelheid von Bortfeld. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 27 . ( online )

Web links

Ulrich Brömmling: Parament Treasure ( PDF, p. 48. )

Individual evidence

^ Adelheid von Bortfeld. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 27 .
↑ Eckart Conrad Lutz: Working on Identity. On the mediality of the “cura monialium” in the compendium of the rector of a reformed women's choir monastery: with edition and illustration of a Windesheimer “Forma investiendi sanctimonialium” and its notations. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-110-22715-4 , p. 16, note 32.
↑ Miriam Gepp: Tradition with a future Textile restoration in the parament workshop of the von Veltheim Foundation at St. Marienberg Monastery, Helmstedt. Appelhans Verlag , Braunschweig 2008, ISBN 978-3-937-66493-4 , pp. 28/29. ( Reading sample )

personal data
SURNAME	Bortfeld, Adelheid von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prioress of the Heiningen Monastery
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1451
DATE OF DEATH	around 1477
Place of death	unsure: Heiningen

[1] Adelheid von Bortfeld. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 27 .

[2] Eckart Conrad Lutz: Working on Identity. On the mediality of the “cura monialium” in the compendium of the rector of a reformed women's choir monastery: with edition and illustration of a Windesheimer “Forma investiendi sanctimonialium” and its notations. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-110-22715-4 , p. 16, note 32.

[3] Miriam Gepp: Tradition with a future Textile restoration in the parament workshop of the von Veltheim Foundation at St. Marienberg Monastery, Helmstedt. Appelhans Verlag , Braunschweig 2008, ISBN 978-3-937-66493-4 , pp. 28/29. ( Reading sample )