Laced Virgin
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As Laced Virgin one is the tomb from the early 18th century, respectively. It stands in Hannover on the New Town Cemetery , showing a semi- plastic , larger than life picture of Anna Margareta Borcherding (1701-1716).
history
Anna Margareta was born in 1701 in what was then the seat of the Electorate of Hanover as the youngest daughter of the equine doctor Johann Albrecht Borcherding .
According to legend, in order to look more beautiful , the maiden from Calenberger Neustadt tied a narrow waist out of vanity and ended up dead as a result, barely 15 years old. As a warning sign for all vain and slimness-obsessed women, the image of the deceased in elegant clothes and with an extremely narrow waist was carved in stone.
The vernacular:
“Who has
the most beautiful waist in our city on the Linen ?
It is a girl, blond with hair,
she is now on the bier,
why? This will serve you as a lesson:
She laced the corset too tight! "
The Laced Virgin stands face to face across from the tomb of Tall Christoff .
literature
- Helmut Zimmermann : The Hanoverian portraits second series , illustrated by Rainer Osswald, Harenberg, Hanover 1984, ISBN 3-89042-008-7 , p. 21f.
- Dirk Böttcher : Laced Virgin. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 218.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Dirk Böttcher: Laced virgin. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 218
- ↑ Dirk Böttcher: Borcherding, Anna Margareta. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 64f.
- ↑ see this photo with the back of the tomb of the Virgin
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 41 ″ N , 9 ° 43 ′ 30.1 ″ E