Anna Adriana Wolff von Metternich to the canal

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Family coat of arms on a cope of her brother Johann Wilhelm in the Speyer Cathedral Treasure (around 1690)
Epitaph of the Abbess Anna Adriana Wolff von Metternich zur Gracht (1621–1698), St. Maria im Kapitol, Cologne

Anna Adriana Wolff von Metternich zur Gracht (born November 9, 1621 in Erftstadt - Liblar , Schloss Gracht ; † June 9, 1698 in Cologne ) was a noble canoness and abbess from the family of Barons Wolff von Metternich zur Gracht .

origin

She was one of 16 children of the married couple Johann Adolf Wolff Metternich zur Gracht (1592–1669) and Maria Catharina geb. from Hall . Her father acted as Privy Councilor and confidante of Duke Wolfgang Wilhelm von Jülich-Berg , Archbishop of Cologne Ferdinand of Bavaria and the Bavarian Electors Maximilian I and Ferdinand Maria . The father was in turn raised by his uncles, cathedral dean Adolph Wolff von Metternich zur Gracht (1553-1619) and Jesuit priest Wilhelm Wolff von Metternich zur Gracht (1563-1636). Both are considered outstanding Tridentine reformers in what was then the Principality of Speyer .

Life

Anna Adriana Wolff von Metternich zur Gracht entered the clergy. In 1626, at the age of five, she was sworn in by a preamble at the St. Maria monastery in Cologne , where she later became canoness. She spent most of her life there. In 1660 she appears as a cellar , in 1693 she was elected abbess here, as the successor to the late Anna Salome von Berghe zu Trips.

After her death in 1698, Anna Adriana Wolff von Metternich was buried in the collegiate church of St. Maria in the Capitol , where she received a beautiful epitaph that is still there.

Her brother Hermann Werner Wolff von Metternich zur Gracht (1625–1704) officiated as Prince-Bishop of Paderborn from 1684 , the brother Johann Wilhelm Wolff von Metternich zur Gracht (1624–1694) was dean of the cathedral in Mainz, as well as provost in Paderborn , Mainz and Münster .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Stommel: Johann Adolf Freiherr Wolff called Metternich zur Gracht: from Landritter to Landhofmeister, a career in the 17th century , Rheinland-Verlag, 1986, p. 104, ISBN 3792709198 ; (Detail scan)
  2. ^ Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine, especially the Old Archdiocese of Cologne , Volume 83, 1907, p. 110; (Detail scan)