Francisca Lucia von Korff on Harkotten and Störmede

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Francisca Lucia von Korff zu Harkotten and Störmede (* 1722 - † February 4, 1799 ) was abbess at Freckenhorst Abbey .

Life

Origin and family

Francisca Lucia grew up as the daughter of Wilhelm Friedrich Anton von Korff zu Harkotten (* 1688, † 1727) and his wife Katharina Bernhardina Francisca von Westphalen in a Westphalian aristocratic family . After the early death of her father, her mother married Alexander Dietrich Anton von Ketteler zu Harkotten in 1731 . Her older sister Bernhardine married Goswin Lubbert von Ketteler, son of her stepfather, in 1748. Her daughter Anna Franziska was her successor as abbess in Freckenhorst.

Career and work

After the resignation of Marianne von Donop, Francisca Lucia came into the possession of a prebende on March 5, 1729 . On October 18, 1763, she was unanimously elected abbess. The Ordinary's confirmation came ten days later. Her term of office was marked by a broken financial situation. So she renounced the usual ceremonial entrance. She submitted to a pressure to save and no longer exposed any prebends that were freed. Lastly, four benefices were saved. She sold real estate and from the proceeds she donated 5,000 Reichstaler to the women's chapter . This sum was used for the severance payment to the treasurer of Galen, who was entitled to 21,000 thalers from a lawsuit. In 1793 Francisca Lucia offered shelter to 22 French priests who had fled their homes and paid for the hospitality. Two years later she was busy saving the monastery archives from the approaching French army. She made numerous sacred gifts to the church and established foundations. Their conduct of office showed a new deepening of the spiritual life, which has been missed in the past centuries.

Others

During the time of Francisca Lucia, one of her canons was Therese Louise von Haxthausen (noble family) , the mother of the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , who distinguished herself through charity and who also granted asylum in Hülshoff Castle in 1793 to an émigré family expelled by the French Revolution .

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  1. ↑ Wilderich von Droste zu Hülshoff : "900 years Droste zu Hülshoff", LPV Hortense von Gelmini, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Korff zu Harkotten and Störmede, Francisca Lucia von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbess in Freckenhorst Abbey
DATE OF BIRTH 1722
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1799