Johanna Friesen (founder)

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Epitaph in the Marktkirche Hannover for Katharina and Johanna Rommel (Frisians)

Johanna Friesen (also: Friese, Frese; born von Rommel , also Romel; * in the 14th or 15th century ; † August 20, 1579 in Hanover ) was a German donor .

Life

Johanna Friesen was the wife of Claus Friese, also written to Klaus Frese. After the death of her husband, she set up the Friesen and Semmern Foundation together with her widowed sister Katharina Semmern . Katharina (also Catarina) was the widow of Christoph von Semmern or - according to the inscription on the preserved epitaph - Cristoff van Szemere (n).

The foundation, established in the year of Sister Catarina's death in 1570 (or earlier), was a legacy to the Hanoverian market church for the benefit of the churches, schools and the poor in the city. Johanna Friesen spent a lot of time for the foundation as well as in her everyday life for poor and needy people, many of whom she caringly supported.

The epitaph of the two sisters, who kneel and pray to Jesus Christ , who was nailed to the cross , has been preserved on the south wall of the Marktkirche .

Honors

Literature and archival material

  • R. Hartmann: History of the royal city of Hanover: from the oldest times to the present , Hanover 1880, p. 265 (reprint 2013) limited preview
  • Archives from and about Johanna Friesen can be found in the “Register of the Friesen and Semmer legate [...] from the years 1593–1833” in the Hannover City Archives

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ The historian Georg Hilmar Ising is said to have given the different date of death “1578” in his Chronica of the City of Hanover , which was written since 1702 ; Compare Sabine Wehking: DI 36, City of Hanover, No. 126 on the inschriften.net page [undated], last accessed on July 23, 2018

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Helmut Zimmermann : Friesenstrasse , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 85
  2. ↑ a b c d e Sabine Wehking: DI 36, City of Hanover, No. 126 on the inschriften.net page [undated], last accessed on July 23, 2018
  3. ↑ a b o. V .: History of the school , article on the page johanna-friesen-schule.de [ undated ], last accessed on July 23, 2018
  4. ↑ Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter, Volume 52, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1998, p. 434 [1]
personal data
SURNAME Friesen, Johanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friese, Johanna; Frese, Johanna; Romel, Johanna; Rommel, Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanoverian founder
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1579