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Imma I. (also Ymma ) was the abbess of the Herford Abbey immediately after the Hungarian invasion of 926. She had the monastery rebuilt.

Life

Her name and her noble descent are handed down in a report about the Herford vision of Mary . It is not mentioned in a document. The older research brought it in connection with a certificate from Otto I , in which it is not mentioned by name. She is to be distinguished from an abbess of the same name Imma / Ymma II from the Billunger house , who lived a few decades later. It is unclear whether and in what relation she was to her future successor Imma II, who held the office around 970.

She witnessed the destruction of the monastery and the collegiate church by the Hungarians. Imma succeeded the abbess Hatheburg / Haburga, who died shortly after the destruction. The reconstruction of the monastery and the church began under her abbiat.

According to a legend, Mary, the Mother of God, appeared to a poor man and told the abbess about it. This and the whole convent were inspired by it to renew the life of the monastery. Since that time, a pilgrimage to the place where the apparition is said to have taken place began. There, at the time of Abbess Godesdiu, after the turn of the millennium, the monastery was founded on the mountain . Imma is also mentioned in a miracle report at the tomb of St. Pusinna . The historical background could be related to the destruction of the collegiate church and the associated change in the storage of the relics.

Individual evidence

  1. Nathalie Kruppa: The Billunger and their monasteries. Example of the extensive connections in early medieval Saxony. In: Concilium Medii Aevi 12 (2009), p. 290.

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