Anna von Weinburg

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Anna von Weinburg (* before 1303 ; † 1353 ) was an abbess of the free worldly Buchau women's monastery in what is now Bad Buchau am Federsee .

Anna von Weinburg came from the noble family of the Lords of Stöffeln. A ruin of Stöffeln is located in the district of Metzingen . Anna's election as abbess was confirmed on April 14, 1303 in a certificate from the St. Stephan monastery in Konstanz . The following actions can be documented during her tenure as abbess:

In 1347 the abbess was referred to as imperial duchess for the first time . Anna died in the year 1353. The tradition of the monastery and older literature reports from an abbess Katharina von Stöffeln. This cannot be confirmed according to the more recent literature.

literature

  • Bernhard Theil: The free worldly women's monastery Buchau am Federsee . Ed .: Max Planck Institute for History (=  Germania Sacra . NF 32). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1994, ISBN 3-11-014214-7 , pp. 221-222 .

Individual evidence

  1. Bernhard Theil: The free worldly women's monastery Buchau am Federsee . Germania Sacra , Vol. NF 32, 1994, p. 221.
predecessor Office Successor
Adelheid von Markdorf Abbess of Buchau
1303–1353
Adelhaid von Lupfen