Adelheid von Sulmetingen

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Adelheid von Sulmetingen , née Nieß (born in Ulm in 1330 ; died in 1400 ) was a German donor and philanthropist .

Life

Adelheid Nieß came from the house of a wealthy bourgeois family from Ulm; her parents were Christian and Adelheid Nieß. Her first marriage was with the nobleman Rudolf von Sulmetingen. After his death, she married the Ulm patrician Heinrich Krafft, a brother of Ludwig Krafft , who was mayor of Ulm.

social commitment

Adelheid von Sulmetingen had numerous social and business relationships. She was generously and socially committed, as can be proven by numerous foundations: after the death of her father, she donated the so-called Sulmeting Altar for the Ulm Minster in 1386, which was located on the fourth north pillar of the central aisle, but in the course of the Reformation iconoclasm in the year 1531 was removed.

A year later, in 1387, the clergy of Ulm Minster received a valuable choir cloak as part of an Adelheid von Sulmetingen foundation . In 1393 she donated the “Sulmetinger Seelhaus” to the Ulm beguines to care for the sick, which later housed the sisters of the Franciscan Order until the Reformation in 1531 . In 1398 she and her second husband gave the village of Machtolsheim to the Blaubeuren monastery . In a collection of Ulm private foundations published in 1848, 13 documents prove the generous and socially committed foundations of Adelheid von Sulmetingen.

Commemoration

In 2002, the city of Ulm began erecting memorial steles for important women in Ulm's city history. The stele for Adelheid von Sulmetingen is located on the blue bridge on Lautenberg in Ulm.

literature

  • Ilse Schulz : Blown away tracks . Women in the city's history. Ulm 2008, pp. 77-80.
  • Handbook of Ulmer Foundations , Ulmer Bürgerstiftung, 2nd, revised edition 2007, pp. 18–19.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ilse Schulz: Blown Traces . Women in the city's history. Ulm 2008, pp. 77-80.
  2. ↑ a b City of Ulm: Women in the history of the city of Ulm. ( Memento from August 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) ulm.de, accessed on August 8, 2017 (PDF)
  3. ↑ a b Eva Noller, Ilse Schulz: Adelheid von Sulmetingen - Generous Donor , State Gazette Baden-Württemberg, October 18, 2010, staatsanzeiger.de, accessed on August 8, 2017.
  4. ↑ Frank Kressing: concept of a city tour guide for the former free imperial city of Ulm. philhist.uni-augsburg.de, accessed on August 8, 2017.
  5. ^ Gudrun Litz: Examples from the Ulm foundation system. In: Giving and shaping: do we need a new culture of gift? Edited by Udo Hahn. LIT Verlag Münster, 2008, p. 70.
personal data
SURNAME Sulmetingen, Adelheid von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nieß, Adelheid (maiden name); Krafft, Adelheid (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German founder and philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH 1330
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH 1400