Ida Hedwig von Brockdorff

Ida Hedwig von Brockdorff (born October 1, 1639 , † August 18, 1713 in Uetersen ) was a German benefactress , conventual and prioress of the Uetersen monastery .

Life

Ida Hedwig von Brockdorff came from the Danish-Holstein noble family Brockdorff that to the Holstein nobility counts. Ida Hedwig von Brockdorff was prioress of the Uetersen monastery from 1709 to 1713. She was the successor to Metta von Schwaben (1636–1709) and was elected head of the monastery in 1709 with an overwhelming majority. As a conventual, she took on a little girl, around ten years old, who had been left behind by traveling people after a fair in Uetersen, and had her baptized on September 23, 1690 under the name Gottliebin . According to the church book , the child was " a born Turkish woman from the city of Belgrade , the father was called Attales, the mother Salpe, her Turkish name was Rede ". The two conventuals Beate von der Wisch († 1693) and Margarethe Hedwig von Wackerbarth († around 1700) became patrons. Ida Hedwig von Brockdorff had the young girl trained as prioress and employed her as a maid .

As the prioress, she donated a now important cultural monument to the monastery, a Bible, the book cover of which is made of oak wood and is covered with pigskin. The nailed-on fittings are hollow relief castings made of sheet silver and inside there is an elaborately designed name of the founder, which is still clearly visible today. This Bible was brought to safety in May 1789 because of feared unrest and danger of war and later reached the monastery safely. In the church book it was noted: “ A Bible with silver fittings ... returned safely, bequeathed by Priörin von Brocktorff” . Today the Bible is in the State Museum in Gottorf Castle .

The former rector's school, as the first town hall around 1900

Ida Hedwig von Brockdorff left another important legacy for posterity. On April 21, 1712 she wrote her will with the following decree: “ ... of the few funds that the Most High had given me, so much to give me dispensable ... namely 650 Reichshalers to set up a new school. The building should be a comfortable house, in which the students are constantly kept, which ... should be as close as possible to the church. “The later“ Rector School ”had such an excellent reputation throughout the country that students like Johannes Rehmke or the nephews of Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke visited it. This school was later replaced by a rector's office, which became Uetersen's first town hall in 1871 and was demolished in 1982 in favor of a new building integrated into the historic building complex in the old town.

Ida Hedwig von Brockdorff died on August 18, 1713 in the Uetersen monastery and was buried in the "Jungfernfriedhof". Her burial is a half-buried trapezoidal sandstone sarcophagus, which she had made while she was still alive. Her stepbrother Christian Albrecht von Brockdorff took over and paid for the funeral, but forgot to have the stonemason add Ida Hedwig's date of death.

literature

• Johann Friedrich Camerer : Mixed historical-political news in letters from some strange areas of the duchies Schleßwig and Hollstein, their natural history and other rare antiquities. Flensburg and Leipzig 1758–1762.
• Wilhelm Ehlers: History and folklore of the Pinneberg district. Groth, Elmshorn 1922.
• Hans Ferdinand Bubbe : Attempt of a chronicle of the city and the monastery Uetersen. Volume 1, Chapter I. Heydorns, Uetersen 1932, pages 39 and 56.
• Wolfgang Teuchert , Arnold Lühning: Art monuments of the state Schleswig-Holstein, district Pinneberg. German art publisher. 1961.
• Erwin Freytag: List of the provosts and priories at the Cistercian nunnery and later Adlid monastery at Uetersen. Yearbook for the Pinneberg district . Beig, Pinneberg 1970.
• Lothar Mosler: Treasures of the Uetersener monastery church. Yearbook for the Pinneberg district. Beig, Pinneberg 1973.
• Doris Meyn: List of the provosts and priories of the Uetersen monastery up to the end of the 17th century. ZSHG 1976.
• Lothar Mosler : Uetersen focus. History and Stories 1234–1984. Heydorns, 1985.
• Elsa Plath-Langheinrich : The monastery at the Uetersten End. Heydorns, 2008.
• Elsa Plath-Langheinrich: Uetersen Monastery in Holstein. Wachholtz, 2009.