Anna von Rothenstein

Anna von Rothenstein (* 15th century; † March 31, 1557 , the name is mentioned in various forms in the literature, such as "Rotenstein", "Rotenstain" or "Rottenstein") was abbess in the Cistercian convent of Wald, in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden -Wuerttemberg . She came from the Swabian noble family of the Rothensteiner from the sideline to the falcon.

Life

Anna was the daughter of Acharius or Eucharist von Rotenstein and his wife Appolonia von Burggraf. As early as 1501 she can be traced as a nun in the Wald monastery . In addition to Anna, her sister Agatha from 1501 to 1548 and her more distant cousin Helena von Hinwil from 1543 to 1568 are named as nuns in the monastery. On November 7, 1516 and January 25, 1519 Anna was referred to as "Bursierin". In the position of abbess of the monastery, she was named on May 8, 1505 and from April 29, 1529 to the last on January 28, 1557. The lack of evidence from 1505 to 1529 may be due to the fact that Anna resigned as abbess and was later re-elected abbess. In 1530, she divided the monastic territory into five judicial and administrative districts with a far-reaching administrative reform. In 1533 Anna had the articles of the Waldische court statute summarized and recorded in a corrected form. In these court rules, the monastery is designated as a lower court and local authority. The abbess is named as the lower court authority. At that time, the Wald monastery had 18 hamlets and individual farms . Up to 1806 the statute formed the legally binding version of the monastic court order. In the 30s of the 16th century, she initiated the renovation of the west wing of the monastery, the so-called Jenners, which was built around 1500. In a room around 2 meters below the cloister, on the keystone of the reticulated vault, next to the coat of arms of the Cistercian order, the monastery founder of Weckenstein and the patron , the Counts of Werdenberg, there is also the coat of arms of the abbess Anna von Rotenstein. In 1540 she invested 600 florins in memory of her and her ancestors from the monastery property with 30 florins interest. It stipulated that every abbess in the future had to distribute 3 florins to every “dressed” and “mantled” convent woman on May Day, and sisters and benefactors should not receive anything. In the same year it regulated that every abbess had to slaughter three fattened pigs for the New Year and the best ox from the monastery property for martini every year, and that the meat was to be given exclusively to the convent women "in veils and cloaks".

Anna von Rotenstein died on March 31, 1557. Her cousin Helena von Hinwil donated an anniversary for Anna and her sister Agatha in the Wald monastery.

Possessions

As early as the first half of the 14th century, private property of the nuns had prevailed, and monastery life subsequently took on more and more pen-like features. In the 16th century the convent finally gave up personal poverty and seclusion. Anna and her sister bought three pieces of vines in Bermatingen in 1501 and in 1515 bought an estate in Hippetsweiler for 260 florins. In 1521 a vineyard was added in Bermatingen and in 1543 a mill near Zell am Andelsbach was added together with her sister Agatha and Helena von Hinwil . 1544 received "perpetual interest" from a Pfullendorfer mill of 390 florins.

Others

The abbesses are represented in pictures on wooden panels in the Wald monastery, although the order, names and dates of the elections differed from the archival sources and were based on monastic tradition until the end of the 15th century. On the second wooden panel, made towards the end of the 16th century, with a height of 70 cm and a width of 285 cm, 17 abbesses are painted in oil. Anna von Rotenstein is shown between Barbara von Hausen and Helena von Reischach.

South view of the forest monastery with the monastery pond
"Jenner"

annotation

Anna von Rothenstein, the daughter of Acharius von Rothenstein and his wife Apollonia Burggraf von Burtenbach, is historically and statistically named by Alfred Schröder in Das Bischum Augsburg - Das Landkapitel Oberdorf from 1906–1910 as the wife of Christoph von Bollstadt, during the Max Planck -Institute for History in Germania Sacra - Historical-statistical description of the Church of the Old Kingdom - The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz - The Diocese of Constance - The Cistercian convent Wald from 1992 lists her as abbess of the Wald monastery It is not clear whether it is the same person or two sisters with the same name.

literature

Walter de Gruyter: Germania Sacra - historical-statistical description of the church of the old empire - the dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz - the diocese of Constance - the Cistercian convent forest . Ed .: Max Planck Institute for History. tape 3 . Berlin, New York 1992, pp. 469-470 ( germania-sacra.de ).

Individual evidence

↑ Walter de Gruyter: Germania Sacra - Historical and statistical description of the Church of the Old Kingdom - The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz - The Diocese of Konstanz - The Cistercian monastery forest . Ed .: Max Planck Institute for History. tape 3 . Berlin, New York 1992, pp. 153, 154 .
↑ Walter de Gruyter: Germania Sacra - Historical and statistical description of the Church of the Old Kingdom - The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz - The Diocese of Konstanz - The Cistercian monastery forest . Ed .: Max Planck Institute for History. tape 3 . Berlin, New York 1992, pp. 74 .
↑ Walter de Gruyter: Germania Sacra - Historical and statistical description of the Church of the Old Kingdom - The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz - The Diocese of Konstanz - The Cistercian monastery forest . Ed .: Max Planck Institute for History. tape 3 . Berlin, New York 1992, pp. 49, 50 .
↑ Walter de Gruyter: Germania Sacra - Historical and statistical description of the Church of the Old Kingdom - The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz - The Diocese of Konstanz - The Cistercian monastery forest . Ed .: Max Planck Institute for History. tape 3 . Berlin, New York 1992, pp. 267 .
↑ Walter de Gruyter: Germania Sacra - Historical and statistical description of the Church of the Old Kingdom - The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz - The Diocese of Konstanz - The Cistercian monastery forest . Ed .: Max Planck Institute for History. tape 3 . Berlin, New York 1992, pp. 36, 37 .

personal data
SURNAME	Rothenstein, Anna von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Abbess in the Wald monastery
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century
DATE OF DEATH	March 31, 1557

[1] Walter de Gruyter: Germania Sacra - Historical and statistical description of the Church of the Old Kingdom - The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz - The Diocese of Konstanz - The Cistercian monastery forest . Ed .: Max Planck Institute for History. tape 3 . Berlin, New York 1992, pp. 153, 154 .

[2] Walter de Gruyter: Germania Sacra - Historical and statistical description of the Church of the Old Kingdom - The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz - The Diocese of Konstanz - The Cistercian monastery forest . Ed .: Max Planck Institute for History. tape 3 . Berlin, New York 1992, pp. 74 .

[3] Walter de Gruyter: Germania Sacra - Historical and statistical description of the Church of the Old Kingdom - The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz - The Diocese of Konstanz - The Cistercian monastery forest . Ed .: Max Planck Institute for History. tape 3 . Berlin, New York 1992, pp. 49, 50 .

[4] Walter de Gruyter: Germania Sacra - Historical and statistical description of the Church of the Old Kingdom - The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz - The Diocese of Konstanz - The Cistercian monastery forest . Ed .: Max Planck Institute for History. tape 3 . Berlin, New York 1992, pp. 267 .

[5] Walter de Gruyter: Germania Sacra - Historical and statistical description of the Church of the Old Kingdom - The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz - The Diocese of Konstanz - The Cistercian monastery forest . Ed .: Max Planck Institute for History. tape 3 . Berlin, New York 1992, pp. 36, 37 .