Catharina von Platen

Catharina (Catharine) von Platen (* in Mecklenburg ; † 1632 probably in Uetersen ) was the prioress of the Uetersen monastery .

Life

She came from the von Platen noble family in Brandenburg . Catharina von Platen was elected head of the Uetersen monastery on July 16, 1614 and was prioress there from 1614 to 1632. She was the successor of her antagonistic predecessor Catrine von Gadendorp , a relative of Sievert von Pogwisch . Their respective annexes in the Convention were also antagonistic to one another. She was a contentious and generally unpopular prioress and made life difficult for the monastery provost Dietrich von Ahlefeldt . Just four months after taking office, Catharina von Platen was involved in major difficulties as " the native Mecklenburg woman who has been in the monastery for 20 years or more ". The widowed Katharina Wedemeier filed a lawsuit " because of rape by the monastery ". She was also accused of having charged the Kurzenmoor farmers with more haulage services and " then arrested and imprisoned the stubborn ". In a protocol in Elmshorn on May 30, 1615, Count Ernst stated that “ he felt the priory was doing something badly ” against him, but he did not know “how he was to blame ”. Further rumors and suspicions followed and Catharina von Platen was accused of " child murder ". On July 5, 1615, von Platen was finally kidnapped from her house in the monastery by two " Claudither " hired by the Kurzenmoor farmers . Shouting " mean swear words against her, " they dragged the prioress out of the house, bumped her into horse-drawn wagons and drove away with her without taking anyone from her servants. They took her, only with the bare essentials, " to a large heath in the Frürsentumb Sachsen " ( Sachsenwald ). A few days later, with the support of her relatives, she returned to the monastery, completely disturbed. Thereupon she brought an action before the ducal Holstein regional court and the Kurzenmoor residents were sentenced to pay 1000 Reichstaler " Satisfaction ". The kidnapping caused a sensation in the country and aroused much ridicule. Her successor was Magdalena von Ucken, she was the last prioress under the Count von Schaumburg.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to Catharina von Platen's statement, Catrine von Gadendorp is related to him (LAS 65.1, no. 468)
2. ↑ Catrine von Gadendorp, "former priest" is still in the monastery; both priests and their respective appendices in the convent are enemies with each other (LAS 3, NR. 337, 338 and 341)
3. ↑ Notarial instrument of November 3, 1617 (LAS Urk. D. No. 317 a)
4. ↑ Protocol of May 30, 1615 in Elmshorn (LAS 3, No. 338, f. 40)
5. ^ Shares in the German law firm re aldl. Koster, spec. Catharina von Platen is accused of having an illegitimate child (LAS 7, no. 1413 and LAS 65.1, no. 469)
6. ^ Testimony of Catharina von Platen (LAS 65.1, No. 468)

literature

• Peter von Kobbe : History and description of the country of the duchies of Bremen and Verden. First part. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1824.
• Wilhelm Ehlers: History and folklore of the Pinneberg district. Groth, Elmshorn 1922.
• Hans Ferdinand Bubbe Attempt to chronicle the city and the Uetersen monastery. Volume 1, Chapter I. Heydorns, Uetersen 1932.
• Wolfgang Teuchert , Arnold Lühning: Art monuments of the state Schleswig-Holstein, district Pinneberg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 1961.
• Erwin Freytag : List of the provosts and priories at the Cistercian nunnery and later Adlid monastery at Uetersen. Yearbook for the Pinneberg district . Beig, Pinneberg 1970.
• Lothar Mosler : Uetersen focus. History and Stories 1234–1984. Heydorns, Uetersen 1985.
• Elsa Plath-Langheinrich : When Goethe wrote to Uetersen: The life of the Conventual Augusta Louise Countess zu Stolberg-Stolberg. Wachholtz, 1989.
• Elsa Plath-Langheinrich: The monastery at the Uetersten End. Heydorns, 2008.
• Elsa Plath-Langheinrich: Uetersen Monastery in Holstein. Wachholtz, 2009.