Epitaph of Clara Eleonora von Ilten

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The epitaph of Clara Eleonora von Ilten in Marienwerder near Hanover is a baroque tombstone created in the 17th century for Clara Eleonora von Ilten (1647–1711), a member of the noble family von Ilten and since 1664 prioress of the Marienwerder monastery . The epitaph , carved in stone in 1694 , presumably by the hand of the sculptor Hans Jakob Uhle , is considered the most beautiful and largest cultural monument in a whole series of gravestones that can be found today on the north and tower walls of the monastery church in Marienwerder .

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General and inscription

The epitaph is now on the south side of the monastery church on the staircase to the choir aisle . It is carved from a 12 centimeter sandstone slab with a height of 3.30 meters and a width of 2.10 meters. Under a relief depicting the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the year 1694, framed by ornamental decorative elements such as flowers and putti with quotations from certain books of the Bible , such as

  1. the Revelation of John , often equated with verses from the Apocalypse ;
  2. the saying “ So God loved the world ” from the Gospel of John ;
  3. the quote “I lie and sleep in peace” from Psalm 4
  4. or “I know that my Redeemer lives” from the Book of Job in the Jewish Tanach and the Christian Old Testament .

The central inscription with reference to the virginity of the deceased nun reads as follows:

“Clara Eleonora von Ilten, who was once venerable and well-born, highly honorable and virtuous, was born in Gestorff in 1647, before a conventual was elected a prioress in 1664 and confirmed in 1677, in her Savior and souls groom Christ Jesus blissfully asleep in 1711 26 Jan , age 64, 1 Mon, 7 days "

Coats of arms, relatives and places

With its numerous relief images , coats of arms and inscriptions, the epitaph illustrates in particular the noble ancestry and social origin , the many-sided kinship relationships of Klara Eleonora von Ilten with other noble families, which have their origins far beyond the area of ​​today's Lower Saxony and often also with precisely localized Places are connected. Around the central inscription there are - in a double sense - sublime documented related noble families, viewed from the top center in a clockwise direction :

  1. Upper center left the coat of arms of the von Ilten family;
  2. to the right the bucks from Wülfing ;
  3. that of Lathause ;
  4. that of mirror ;
  5. the goats of Northolz ;
  6. that of Bennigsen ;
  7. that of Querenheim ;
  8. that of Rommel ;
  9. that of Rumschötteln
  10. the coat of arms of those of Ankum ;
  11. and those of Skåne ;
  12. those of Honefeldt ;
  13. that of pitchers ;
  14. that of Mandelslauw
  15. as well as that of Rohlandt .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 750 years of Marienwerder monastery church , anniversary publication for the 750th anniversary, ed. from the parish of Marienwerder-Stöcken. Printer H. Osterwald, Hanover 1946, p. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marienwerder.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e Uwe Großmann (Red.): Die Grabdenkmale ... (see under the section Web Links )

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 22.1 ″  N , 9 ° 37 ′ 41 ″  E