Anna Margarete of Braunschweig-Harburg

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Anna Margarete von Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Harburg (born March 25, 1567 in Harburg , † August 22, 1646 in Quedlinburg ) was a princess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg- Harburg and from 1601 until her death provess in the Quedlinburg monastery .

Life

Anna Margarete was a daughter of Duke Otto II of Braunschweig-Harburg (1528–1603) from his second marriage to Hedwig (1535–1616), daughter of Count Enno II of East Friesland .

Anna Margarete was to be introduced as coadjutor in the Quedlinburg Abbey in 1596 , making her the designated successor of Anna von Stolberg as abbess . The guardian of the monastery, Friedrich Wilhelm von Sachsen-Weimar , pushed through the election of his sister Maria as abbess. The matter was finally "settled in Guete " and Anna Margarete was appointed provess of the monastery on June 22, 1601, which office she held for 44 years until her death. The provostess was considered a passionate rider and when she visited her hometown Harburg in 1601, the council honored her with a horse worth 25 thalers.

Anna Margerete was buried in the St. Servatii collegiate church in Quedlinburg . Its epitaph was removed by Heinrich Himmler in 1938 when the church was converted into a "consecration place" . In her will, Anna Margarete bequeathed 600 thalers to the monastery, the interest of which was to be paid once a year to the poor.

Anna Margarete was a member of the Virtuous Society under the name of the Merciful .

literature

  • Clemens Bley (Ed.): Kayserlich - frey - weltlich , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle, 2009, p. 54
  • Patriotic archive for Hanoverian-Braunschweigische history , Herold & Wahlstab, 1835, p. 128 digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Ferdinand Ranke, Franz Kugler, WC Fricke: Description and history of the castle church in Quedlinburg and the antiquities present in it , Gropius, 1838, p. 158
  2. ↑ Erika Alma Metzger, Richard E. Schade: Linguistic Societies , galante Poetinnen , Rodopi, 1989, p. 617
personal data
SURNAME Anna Margarete of Braunschweig-Harburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anna Margarete of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Provost in the Quedlinburg Abbey
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1567
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Harburg
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1646
Place of death Quedlinburg