Barbara von Gützkow

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Barbara von Gützkow († 1326 ) was an unmarried Countess von Gützkow and abbess of the Krummin Monastery .

Krummin Monastery Church

Life and family

The dates of life are not known, only to be guessed, no documentary mentions are known. Since an abbess is unlikely to be younger than about 30 years, a birth around 1270 would be possible. Count Konrad I or Count Jaczo II come into question as a father. Her term of service as abbess ends in 1326 - it usually ends with death, so we can assume that she died in 1326.

Activity in Krummin Monastery

Information board for the Krummin monastery church

The monastery was built in 1302 and 1303 as a branch of the Cistercian monastery in Wollin . Duke Bogislaw IV of Pomerania had given the land of Bukow with the Gnitz , which fell to him in the partition contract of 1295, to his then ten-year-old daughter Jutta and the other nuns of the Wollin monastery in May 1302 and set it up as a branch of Krummin on Usedom . Jutta, the duke's daughter, entered the new Krummin monastery at a very young age, after having lived in the Wollin monastery for three years.

The first abbess of the monastery was Countess Barbara von Gützkow from 1302 to 1326. The information on the year on the parish board is controversial because the source is not given. Today there is no longer a document with her name, but in the documents of division between the Wollin monastery and Krummin in 1302 a Johannes de Gutzecowe nobilis appears, who is also mentioned elsewhere and suggests that between the Wolgastern and the Counts of Gützkow had a close cooperation regarding the founding of the monastery. It is therefore quite likely that a countess from the Gützkow family was the first abbess to lead the Krummin monastery as a transition to the then still young nun Jutta as abbess. It was known that Krummin was endowed as a monastery property in view of the social position of the duke's daughter Jutta, daughter of Bogislaw IV. The term of office of the abbess, who was educated in the Wollin monastery and trained in the monastery school there, was roughly between the years 1323 and 1336. As a nun of the Krummin monastery, Jutta had a special position, which was probably connected with her widely existing duties as a Pomeranian princess. The ducal house took care of her status as a nun until she was 20.

In the negotiations of 1303, the Krummin monastery achieved the division of the properties and then in 1305 the final separation from the mother monastery Wollin. Krummin became independent and received all possessions west of the Swine .

Why the period of service of Abbess Countess Barbara von Gützkow, according to the table, went from 1302 to 1326 beyond the period of office of Abbess Jutta, Duchess of Pommern-Wolgast, 1323 to 1336, can probably be explained by Jutta's training period.

Through his ducal foundations, Krummin had a wealth of equipment, e.g. B. Krummin, Mölschow , Tzis , Ziemitz and Bannemin - but often only the tenth of them. Uplifts are also known on the mainland.

literature

  • 700 years Krummin Monastery - a search for traces . Brochure for the monastery anniversary 2005, publisher: Dirk Zache, Evangelical Church Community Krummin / Karlshagen. In it: Harald Reuter, Joachim Wächter, Helga Müller, Friedrich Bartels: Abbesses / Prioresses and clergy at the St. Michaelis monastery church in Krummin Anno Domini post Christum natum. Pp. 45-46.
  • Karla Bilang: Cistercian monastery and Church of St. Michael in Krummin on Usedom. Ed .: Martina Gehlhaar, Evangelical Church Community Krummin / Karlshagen 2008 ISBN 978-3-00-023843-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schleinert: The history of the island of Usedom. P. 41.
  2. ^ A b c Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part II, Volume 1, Anklam 1865, p. 485 ( online )
  3. ↑ Johann Joachim Steinbrück : History of the monasteries in Pomerania and the neighboring provinces, as far as the previous ones were in connection with the former, from their foundation to their abolition or continuation, as far as the sources used lead. Stettin 1796, p. 65
  4. ^ Wilhelm Ferdinand Gadebusch: Chronicle of the island of Usedom . Anklam 1863, p. 63
  5. ↑ Information board in the monastery church of the parish Krummin / Karlshagen
  6. ↑ Karla Bilang: The women's monastery. Abbesses, prioresses, nuns. in: Monastery of the Cistercians and Church of St. Michael in Krummin on Usedom. 2008, p. 86.
  7. ↑ Karla Bilang: The women's monastery. Abbesses, prioresses, nuns. In: Monastery of the Cistercians and Church of St. Michael in Krummin on Usedom. 2008, p. 86.
  8. ↑ PUB IV. No. 2462.
  9. ↑ Certificate of March 19, 1305, PUB 4/1 No. 2211 and 2212; Abbess Barbara Countess von Gützkow or others are not named

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personal data
SURNAME Barbara von Gützkow
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbess of the Krummin Monastery
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1326