Berta von Boll

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Staufer column in Bad Boll (2013)

Berta von Boll (* around 1089 , † around 1142 in Boll ) was Countess of Elchingen .

Their origin is unclear. She is said to have been a daughter of Duke Friedrich I of Swabia and would then have been an aunt of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa . This Staufer ancestry constructed by Heinz Bühler is speculative and is no longer supported by recent research.

Berta's first marriage was to Adalbert von Ravenstein , Count of Elchingen († around 1121). Before 1120, the two are said to have donated the Elchingen monastery, which was located in the valley near the Danube. Her daughter Liutgard von Ravenstein (* around 1104, † around 1145), Countess von Elchingen, one of the twelve children from this marriage, married the margrave Konrad von Wettin . Dukes, electors and kings of Saxony later emerged from the house of the Wettins .

In her second marriage, Berta was married to Count Heinrich II von Berg (near Schelklingen ), who had died before 1138 . As a widow, she is said to have moved to Landseer Castle , also called Burg Landsöhr or Bertaburg , which no longer exists today , on the 739 meter high northern spur of the Kornberg , two kilometers southeast of Bad Boll .

Berta to 1155 mentioned in a document provost established as canons in Boll and the diocese of Konstanz have bequeathed and his was later buried in the St. Cyriakus. Furthermore, she is said to have donated the Bertamahl , an annual flour and bread donation of about twenty kilograms for each Boller family, which is why she was venerated as a saint in Boll until the 16th century .

In 2005, on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of the first mention of the place in a document from Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa , people in Bad Boll were made aware of his supposed aunt Berta von Boll. In the same year the play Ms. Berta auf dem Bollen was performed by Claus Anshof and since 2010 October 3rd has been celebrated in Bad Boll as Berta Day . In 2010, the Boller sculptor Alois Wild created a Berta column , which has been set up every year on Berta Day at the town hall since then . On October 3, 2013, a Staufer stele in memory of Berta von Boll was unveiled in front of the St. Cyriakus collegiate church in Bad Boll .

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Stauferstele Bad Boll on stauferstelen.net. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  2. ↑ Heinz Bühler: On the history of the early Staufer , in: Walter Ziegler (Hrsg.): Hohenstaufen. Staufer research in the Staufer district Göppingen , Göppingen 1977, p. 30 ff. - Taken over from Hansmartin Decker-Hauff : Das Staufische Haus . In: Württembergisches Landesmuseum (Hrsg.): The time of the Staufer. History - art - culture . Stuttgart 1977, Volume III, pp. 339-374, here: p. 349.
  3. ↑ Tobias Weller: On the way to the 'Staufer House' , in: Hubertus Seibert / Bernd Schneidmüller (eds.): Counts, dukes, kings. The Rise of the Early Staufer and the Empire (1079–1152), Ostfildern 2005, p. 58 ff, ISBN 978-3-7995-4269-2 .
  4. ↑ Odilo Engels : Die Staufer , Stuttgart 2010 (9th edition), no page number after p. 250. Berta von Boll has not been mentioned in the Staufer genealogical table of this stand work since the 7th edition (1998). The family tree of the 6th edition (1994) still kept to the information from Hansmartin Decker-Hauff's genealogy, who had taken over the information from Heinz Bühler.
  5. ^ Ms Berta auf dem Bollen , accessed on October 6, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Berta von Boll
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of Friedrich I. von Schwaben and Agnes von Waiblingen
DATE OF BIRTH around 1089
DATE OF DEATH around 1142
Place of death Bad Boll