Helene von Beichlingen

Helene von Beichlingen , née Burgrave of Meißen (* 1360 at Hartenstein Castle ; † July 13, 1393 in Kölleda ) was the daughter of Burgrave Meinher V. von Meißen and Countess Sophie von Schwarzburg . She married Count Friedrich XIV. Von Beichlingen -Wiehe (around 1350 in Beichlingen , Thuringia; † June 15, 1426 in Aussig , Bohemia ) at Hartenstein Castle in 1389 , son of Count Heinrich IV. Von Beichlingen (1313-1386) and the Countess Sophia von Regenstein (1324-1366). Both son Friedrich was born around 1390 and died in the battle of Aussig exactly three days before his father on June 12, 1426.

Funerary monument

Helene's grave slab with a stone, figural bas-relief can still be found in Kölleda today. The inscription says u. a .: "Anno domini MCCCXCIII ... obiit Domina Helena comitissa in Bichlingen et .. filia dominus Maynhardi Borggraf de Missena" (see "Inscription text " in: Wäß, vol. 2, p. 349, 2nd column, no. 482) / "In 1493 ... Mrs. Helena Countess died in Beichlingen and ... daughter of Mr. Maynhard Burggraf von Meißen " . Next to the countess there are coats of arms and two small praying figures, these are two children who were buried with their mother in the Johanneskirche in Kölleda. A grave opening in 1828 confirmed this assumption (described in the inventory: Architectural and artistic monuments of Saxony and adjacent areas, vol. 9, 1883, p. 22 and note 1)

literature

• Architectural and art monuments of Saxony and neighboring areas , vol. 9, 1883, p. 22 and note 1
• Christiane Greska: Got Genad. Studies on the form and function of figural women's tombs of the Middle Ages in Germany , 1996, p. 87 and note 316.
• Helga Wäß: Form and Perception of Central German Memory Sculpture in the 14th Century . Two volumes. Volume 2: Catalog of selected objects from the High Middle Ages to the beginning of the 15th century, Bristol a. a. 2006, No. 482, p. 349 f. and notes 118 and 119. - ISBN 3-86504-159-0