Brigitta von Stiebar

Brigitta von Stiebar (* 1480 ; † 1557 in Bamberg ) was the last abbess of the Schluesselau monastery from 1526 to 1554 .

Brigitta came from the knightly noble von Stiebar family . She was a daughter of Albrecht Stiebar zu Buttenheim, Aisch and Wachenroth and Elisabeth, a born von Grumbach . The von Stiebar family provided several nuns and abbesses from Schlüsselau and St. Theodor in Bamberg .

Brigitta succeeded Ursula von Truppach in 1526 , who had died in exile in Bamberg as a result of the Peasants' War . She campaigned for the reconstruction of the destroyed monastery, had a new land registry created and borrowed money, for example from the Bishop of Bamberg. In 1528 the convent building was habitable again. Their efforts, such as the request to confirm the monastery privileges from Emperor Charles V , were thwarted by the incursion of Margrave Albrecht Alcibiades in the Second Margrave War , who set the monastery on fire on April 22, 1553. As a result of the Reformation , the number of nuns fell dramatically. On August 1st, 1554, the Bamberg Bishop Weigand von Redwitz sealed the final dissolution of the monastery. The ruinous monastery complex remained unchanged, the goods of the monastery were confiscated and placed under the administration of the prince-bishop. The abbess Brigitta, who had been blind since 1550, was released from her duties as abbess due to her state of health. She died three years later at the age of 77, the few remaining nuns had died earlier. She was buried in the family's grave in Buttenheim . Its epitaph has been preserved. It shows roughly the abbess with her hands clasped in prayer.

literature

• Joachim Hotz : Cistercian monasteries in Upper Franconia . In: Great Art Guides . tape 98 . Schnell and Steiner, Munich, Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-7954-0842-3 , pp. 81.86 .
• Stefan Nöth: Abbess Brigitta von Stiebar (1480-1557) . In: Inge Meidinger-Geise (ed.): Frauengestalten in Franken . Würzburg 1985. pp. 62-67.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Paschke: The Giechburg in its heyday under Prince Bishop Johann Philipp von Gebsattel (1599-1609) and the reconstruction of the Schlüsselau Monastery . In: 111th report of the historical association for the maintenance of the history of the former prince-bishopric of Bamberg . Bamberg 1975. p. 333.

predecessor	Office	successor
Ursula von Truppach	Abbess of the monastery in Schluesselau 1526–1554	---