Hildegard Meixner

Maria Anna Hildegard Meixner (born June 30, 1649 in Augsburg , † March 24, 1722 in Gessertshausen ) was a Bavarian Cistercian and abbess .

Life

Meixner was born in Augsburg as the daughter of the citizen and wine payer Simon Meixner, who was in Fugger service and came from Freiberg in Meissen and his wife Justina, nee. Scheifelin was born. The family also wrote to Meitzner . It was at the parish church of St. Moritz in the name of Maria Anna baptized and grew up in Augsburg on wine market (now Maximilianstrasse on). Of her eight siblings, five died when they were young. In 1666 she entered the Oberschönenfeld monastery , where her older sister (Anna Maria * 1643) had died as a novice, and took the religious name Hildegard (after Hildegard von Bingen ). She was sub- priorin and novice master when she was elected abbess at the age of 36 to succeed Anna Maria Weinhart (1685), an office that she held for 37 years. From November 1703 to August 1704, she and parts of the convent fled to Augsburg from the threat of the War of the Spanish Succession . In the history of the monastery, she is best known for her building work. Abbess Meixner commissioned Franz Beer to rebuild the monastery buildings still standing today and then the monastery church, which she did not see to be completed. Before that (1691) she had already realized the stately building of the Pfisterei. In addition, she was responsible for furnishing the pilgrimage church of Violau belonging to the monastery with high altar, pulpit and figures. Your epitaph is in the cloister of the monastery.

literature

Walter Pötzl : Pictures of life to pictures from life. Biographies of important personalities and common people from five centuries . Augsburg 1991, pp. 110-130.
Sebastian Brunner (Ed.): A book of Cistercians . Wien, Woerl, 1881 / Paderborn, Salzwasser, 2013, pp. 702–703.

Web links

Image of an ostensorium commissioned by Abbess Hildegard

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Neu, Frank Otten: Landkreis Augsburg: by Wilhelm Neu and Frank Otten . Kunstverlag, 1970 ( google.de [accessed October 25, 2017]).
^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments: pt.1-5 Bavaria: Franconia. Lower Bavaria. Swabia. Munich and Upper Bavaria. Regensberg and the Upper Palatinate . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1989 ( google.de [accessed October 25, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Meixner, Hildegard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Meitzner, Maria Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bavarian Cistercian and abbess
DATE OF BIRTH	June 30, 1649
PLACE OF BIRTH	augsburg
DATE OF DEATH	March 24, 1722
Place of death	Gessertshausen

[1] Wilhelm Neu, Frank Otten: Landkreis Augsburg: by Wilhelm Neu and Frank Otten . Kunstverlag, 1970 ( google.de [accessed October 25, 2017]).

[2] Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments: pt.1-5 Bavaria: Franconia. Lower Bavaria. Swabia. Munich and Upper Bavaria. Regensberg and the Upper Palatinate . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1989 ( google.de [accessed October 25, 2017]).