Anna Reinhart
Anna Reinhart (* around 1484 in Zurich ; † December 24, 1538 there ) was the wife of the Zurich reformer Ulrich Zwingli .
Life
Anna Reinhart was born around 1484 as the daughter of the Zurich host couple Oswald and Elisabeth Reinhart. She is said to have been "an overly beautiful syn". In 1504 she married the Junker Hans Meyer von Knonau against the will of his father, who disinherited his son. The young family had three children: Margaretha (* 1505), Agathe (* 1507) and Gerold (* 1509). After 13 years of marriage, her first husband died in 1517 after being wounded on a military campaign. Her son Gerold was taken in by the von Knonau family in 1512. She continued to live in the «Höfli», not far from Zurich's Grossmünster .
From 1522 she lived in secret marriage with the people priest Ulrich Zwingli, whom she had fostered in 1519 after he fell ill with the plague . This was probably one of the reasons that Zwingli and several other co-signers wrote a petition to the Bishop of Constance in 1522 so that he could be freed from celibacy . The marriage was officially concluded on April 2, 1524, shortly before the birth of their child Regula (* July 31, 1524). Other children followed: Wilhelm (born January 29, 1526), Huldrich (born January 6, 1528) and Anna (born May 4, 1530, died in the same year). Seven years after the public marriage, Anna was widowed again.
Her husband died on October 11, 1531 in the second battle near Kappel . With him she also lost her first son Gerold, Anton Wirz, the husband of the eldest daughter Margaretha, her brother Bernhard and a brother-in-law. After this loss, Anna and two of her children were accepted by Zwingli's successor, Heinrich Bullinger . Anna Reinhart died in the winter of 1538.
progeny
Regula, her eldest daughter from her marriage to Zwingli, married Rudolf Gwalter in 1541 , who later became Bullinger's successor as Antistes . A portrait by Hans Asper has survived of her and her daughter Anna . She died of the plague in 1565. The youngest son Huldrich married the eldest daughter Heinrich Bullinger in 1549. He died in 1571. None of Anna Reinhart's children were older than 45 years.
Reception in the film
Anna Reinhart can be seen in the films Zwinglis Erbe from Eutychus Production (2018, played by Mirjam Nef) and Zwingli from C-Films AG (2019, played by Sarah Sophia Meyer ).
Honor
Anna Zwingli-Reinhart was honored by the Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster on Sechseläuten in 1999 . Your roll of honor can be found at Schifflände 30 in Zurich.
literature
- Roland H. Bainton: Women of the Reformation. From Katharina von Bora to Anna Zwingli. Gütersloh 1996, ISBN 3-579-01442-0 .
- Edward J. Furcha: Women in Zwingli's World. In: Zwingliana. Volume 19, No. 1, 1992, pp. 131-142.
- Verena Bodmer-Gessner: The Zurich women. A brief cultural history of Zurich women. Zurich 1966, OCLC 1086744402 .
- Otto Farner: Anna Reinhart. In: Zwingliana. Volume 3, No. 7, 1916, pp. 197-211 (zwingliana.ch) and Volume 3, No. 8, 1916, pp. 229-245. (zwingliana.ch)
- Gerold Meyer von Knonau : Features from the life of Anna Reinhard, wife of the Swiss reformer Ulrich Zwingli. Erlangen 1835. (books.google.com)
- Salomon Hess: Anna Reinhard, wife and widow of Ulrich Zwingli. Zurich 1820. (books.google.com)
- Susann L. Pflüger: New Year's Gazette of the Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster for the year 2008, Edition Gutenberg, Volume 2, No. 2, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-9523176-2-4 .
Web links
- Martin Sallmann : Reinhart, Anna. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Rea Rother: Anna Reinhart, Zwingli's wife ( memento from October 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich .
- Merete Nielsen: Anna Zwingli - a pastor's wife from the very beginning . In: Evangelical women in Germany eV (EFiD) (Ed.): Women and Reformation .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursula Koch : Mocked, respected, loved - the women of the reformers. Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7615-6214-7 , p. 230.
- ↑ From an old family chronicle. Farner 1916.
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SURNAME | Reinhart, Anna |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zwingli, Anna; Reinhard Anna |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Wife of Ulrich Zwingli |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1484 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1538 |
Place of death | Zurich |