Heilwig von der Lippe
Heilwig zur Lippe (* around 1200; † between 1248 and 1250), also Heilwig von der Lippe or Heilwig von Schaumburg , was a German Cistercian nun and founder of the Herwardeshude monastery .
family
She was the daughter of Hermann II. Von der Lippe and Oda von Tecklenburg and married to Count Adolf IV. Von Schauenburg and Holstein-Kiel . Johann I Graf von Holstein-Kiel was their eldest son, Gerhard I the second son, and Mechthild von Holstein their daughter.
Life
On February 24, 1246, she founded a Cistercian convent in Herwardeshude, a spot at the confluence of the Pepermölenbek with the Elbe , between what would later become Hamburg-St. Pauli and Altona . In 1247 the monastery was confirmed by Pope Innocent IV .
The later monastery In Valle Virginum (Hervardeshude Monastery) on Harvestehuder Weg and, after the Reformation in 1530, the St. Johannis Monastery , which still exists today as the Evangelical Ladies Monastery of St. Johannis , emerged from the founding .
aftermath
Heilwigstrasse in Hamburg-Eppendorf and Harvestehude has been named after her since 1870 .
ancestry
literature
- Ariane Knuth: Heilwig . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 176-177 .
- Silke Urbanski : History of the Harvestehude Monastery “In valle virginum”. Economic, social and political development of a nunnery near Hamburg 1245–1530 (dissertation), Münster 1996, ISBN 3-8258-2758-5 .
Web links
- Homepage St. Johannis Monastery , accessed on October 1, 2010
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SURNAME | Heilwig von der Lippe |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heilwig zur Lippe; Heilwig von Schaumburg |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Cistercian nun, founder of the monastery |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1200 |
DATE OF DEATH | between 1248 and 1250 |