Anna Reinhart

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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

The daughter Regula Gwalther-Zwingli with her daughter Anna Gwalther; Painting by Hans Asper 1549

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 ).

Memorial plaque from Anna Zwingli-Reinhart at Schifflände 30, Zurich
Memorial plaque from Anna Zwingli-Reinhart at Schifflände 30, Zurich

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.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Koch : Mocked, respected, loved - the women of the reformers. Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7615-6214-7 , p. 230.
  2. ↑ From an old family chronicle. Farner 1916.
personal data
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