Barbara Göler from Ravensburg

Abbess Barbara Göler von Ravensburg, detail from her grave slab in the Rosenthal monastery

Barbara Göler von Ravensburg († March 16, 1535 in Kerzenheim , Rosenthalerhof ) was a noblewoman from the Göler family of Ravensburg and an abbess of the Cistercian monastery in Rosenthal (Pfalz) .

Parentage and family

She was the daughter of the Palatine bailiff in Bretten , George I Göler Ravensburg (1440-1502) and his wife Anna nee Calf from Reinheim . Barbara still had four brothers and three sisters. The brothers Wolff II (1460–1527), David (1463–1539) and Georg II. (1465–1558) chose the clergy. Sister Scholastika (1466–1533) became abbess of the Frauenalb monastery . The secular brother Bernhard I. Göler von Ravensburg (1480–1554) worked as an advisor to the Speyer bishop Georg von der Pfalz , but later joined the Reformation . The grandfather Martin Göler von Ravensburg was originally canon in Speyer, but was released from the ministry as the last male member of his family by Pope Eugene IV .

Live and act

Grave slab in the Rosenthal church ruins

Barbara Göler von Ravensburg went to the Rosenthal Abbey near Grünstadt as a Cistercian . In 1505 she was elected abbess there, as the successor to Margaretha von Venningen , who had renovated the monastery. She continued the reform course of her predecessor and was able to record the entry of various nuns from noble families. In 1508 a. a. two sisters and four daughters of the regional nobleman Veltin von der Hauben taken up in Rosenthal, who brought the entire village of Breunigweiler into the monastery property. In 1512 Anna and Johannette von Nassau-Saarbrücken, the daughters of the patron Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Saarbrücken, joined the company . Barbara Göler von Ravensburg experienced the plundering of her monastery in 1525 during the Palatinate Peasants' War and tried as best she could to remedy this damage. The Reformation began to take hold in the area around the convent, although Nassau-Saarbrücken still faithfully adhered to the old faith.

The abbess died in 1535 and was buried in Rosenthal. Your qualitative tombstone has been preserved in the church ruins. The historian Franz Xaver Remling writes that for 30 years she presided over the convent "in the most difficult circumstances, with dignity, loyalty and firm faith" .

Albrecht V. Göler von Ravensburg († 1503) was her uncle. Barbara von Heppenheim called vom Saal was chosen as her successor .

literature

• Franz Xaver Remling : Documented history of the former abbeys and monasteries in what is now Rhine Bavaria , Volume 1, Neustadt an der Haardt, 1836, pp. 288–290; (Digital scan)
• Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal Bavarian Rhine district , Volume 1, Speyer, 1837, p. 204; (Digital scan)
• Norbert Kreiselmayer : Abatissa vallis rosarum: Barbara Goler von Ravensburg - Abbess in the monastery Rosenthal , Donnersberg-Jahrbuch Nr. 35, 2012, pp. 91–96, (Finding advice)
• Johann Gottfried Biedermann : Gender register of the laudable knighthood in Voigtlande , Kulmbach, 1752, plate CLXXX; (Digital scan)

Web links

• Genealogical page about the person
• Gravestone of Abbess Barbara Göler von Ravensburg  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website on the history of the Göler von Ravensburg
2. ↑ Website of the Protestant Church Sulzfeld with information on the family history of the Göler von Ravensburg ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.