Amalie von Hirschberg
Amalie von Hirschberg († May 23, 1564 ) was the last abbess of the Hof monastery from 1549 to 1564 .
Amalie came from the knightly noble von Hirschberg family . The monastery of the Poor Clares in Hof had outlived the Reformation , but increasingly lost its importance. Amalie von Hirschberg succeeded Abbess Veronika von Dölau, who died in 1549 . During the siege of the city of Hof in 1553 in the Second Margrave War , the nuns fled to Eger , today Cheb. When Amalie herself finally died in 1564, Protestants invaded the monastery and devastated the inventory, the church and the archive and even the tombs were plundered. Margrave Georg Friedrich secularized the monastery and used the income for foundations and grants. Since then, the monastery buildings have had very different uses.
literature
- E. Dietlein: The city of Hof in the dawn of the Reformation . Hof 1929. p. 59.
- Friedrich Ebert : Chronicle of the city court . Volume VI., Hof 1966. p. 319.
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Veronika von Dölau |
Abbess of the Poor Clare Monastery 1549–1564 |
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Amalie von Hirschberg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Amaley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Abbess of the Poor Clare Monastery |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century or 16th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1564 |