Agnese Maria von Hohnhorst

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Agnese Maria von Hohnhorst (also: Agnesa Maria von Honhorst and Agnes Maria von Hohnhorst as well as name variants and Anna von Hohnhorst ; born April 17, 1672 ; died December 14, 1755 in Wienhausen near Celle ) was abbess of the Wienhausen monastery .

Life

Under the roof ridge on the nuns choir with the weather vane from 1727 is the new bell cast by Justus Andreas Meyfeld in 1739 with the name of the Abbess von Hohnhorst

Agnese Maria von Hohnhorst came from the noble von Hohnhorst family and entered the Wienhausen monastery at the end of the 17th century, where she was dressed in 1689 at the age of about 17 and then worked for about 66 years in the women's community. 1696 it was Domina - Bridesmaid , 1711 Prioress and 1722 first co adjutorin . Also in 1722 she was elected abbess of the monastery - according to another source in the following year 1723.

In 1739 von Hohnhorst had an older bell melted down by the bell caster Justus Andreas Meyfeld, who worked in Hanover , and the re -casting of the bronze casting, then known as the bell of Agnes Maria von Hohnhorst , which can now be found in the small roof turret of the small Cistercian monastery and is protected as a cultural monument .

In the panels of the southern prieche of the choir stalls of the nuns' choir, there is a painted coat of arms of the von Hohnhorst family; under the crowned cartouche the crowned Christ monogram IHS , underneath the year "AN - 1734 - NO", additionally the inscription "ANNA V. HOHNHORST ABBATISSIN".

Ansa Maria von Hohnhorst died in 1755 and was buried in the All Saints Chapel. In the red corridor you will find the coffin fittings, also protected as a cultural monument, with lines of inscriptions and two coats of arms .

See also

Web links

Commons : Agnese Maria von Hohnhorst  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Dietrich Schmidtsdorff: The old bells and their history / Wienhausen monastery (2) , in Michael Misgeiski-Wegner (ed.): The bells of the parish Wienhausen and the new bell tower of St. Alexander in Eicklingen (= Series of publications by the Heimatverein “Altes Amt Eicklingen” , issue 3/2008), ed. in cooperation with the Ev.-luth. Kirchengemeinde Wienhausen, 2008, p. 6ff .; as a PDF document on heimatverein-eicklingen.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Joachim Bühring (arrangement): Coat of arms of the abbess Agnese Maria v. Hohnhorst , as well as bells and stalls and paneling along with Priechen on the nuns choir , in this: The art monuments of Lower Saxony , Volume 34: The art monuments of the district of Celle in the administrative district of Lüneburg . Text volume, ed. by Oskar Karpa , Hanover: Lower Saxony State Administration Office; Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1970, pp. 149, 150f., 168f.
personal data
SURNAME Hohnhorst, Agnese Maria von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohnhorst, Agnes Maria von; Honhorst, Agnesa Maria von; Hohnhorst, Anna von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German abbess
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1672
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1755
Place of death Wienhausen Monastery