Edmunda von Kolb
Edmunda von Kolb (born June 20, 1734 in Haigerloch ; † January 22, 1799 ) was the abbess of the Wald monastery .
Life
Edmunda von Kolb was born in Haigerloch as the daughter of Chamber Director Karl Ferdinand von Kolb. She entered the Wald monastery in 1750, where she can be traced back as a bursar from 1768 to 1772. On February 20, 1772 she was elected abbess and headed the monastery until her death in 1799.
After her brother Josef Ernst von Kolb, pastor of the Dietershofen monastery parish , reported her to the government for waste, mismanagement and the suppression of monastery subjects, in 1785 she was temporarily deprived of economic management of the monastery and transferred to a sovereign administrator. In 1790, with a petition written jointly with the abbesses of Heiligkreuztal and Urspring , she successfully defended herself against the conversion of her monasteries into secular women's monasteries desired by the government in Vienna.
She died in 1799 and was buried in the monastery church, where her tombstone has been preserved to this day (on the eastern wall of the nave).
literature
- Maren Kuhn-Rehfus: The Cistercian convent forest (= Germania Sacra, new part 30, the dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz. The diocese of Constance, volume 3). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin & New York 1992
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kolb, Edmunda from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Abbess of the Wald monastery |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1734 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haigerloch |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1799 |