Josepha Maria Anna Antonia Nepomucena from Salm-Reifferscheidt-Bedburg

Josepha Maria Anna Antonia Nepomucena von Salm-Reifferscheidt-Bedburg (born July 15, 1731 in Vienna , † June 23, 1796 in Essen ) was a spiritual dignitary from the Salm-Reifferscheidt family . She held preambles and offices in the Elten , Vreden and Essen monasteries .

Josepha von Salm-Reifferscheidt-Bedburg was the daughter of former count Karl Anton Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Bedburg and his wife Countess Maria Franziska de Paula Eleonora Esterhazy. She grew up in Vienna. After the death of her father in 1755, her uncle Leopold von Salm-Reifferscheidt picked her up with her brother in Vienna to bring her to the Elten Abbey and to continue the gentleman's journey with her brother . Josepha completed part of the trip with them, together they visited Dresden , Meißen , Hubertusburg , Bautzen , Naumburg (Saale) and other places. In addition to the prebend in Elten, she also received a prebend in the Vreden Abbeywho, as blood donors, was tied to the family of the old counts of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Bedburg. From this prebende, whose previous owner Anna Maria Luise von Salm-Reifferscheidt-Bedburg had already married in 1735, she took possession on February 3, 1756, but stayed mainly in Elten. In March 1763 Josepha had not yet completed the prescribed time of attendance (residence) in Vreden, although she was supposed to be employed there as a sexton . She took the oath as canoness in Vreden on April 29, 1765, after she had been released from the residence.

In Elten Josepha became a sexton in 1766, in the same year she also asked for admission to the Essen monastery , which as an imperial-free-worldly monastery was considered more elegant than the high-counts-free-worldly monastery Vreden and the princely-free-worldly monastery Elten. In Essen the revolt was presented on August 11, 1766 and accepted by the chapter of the canonesses, Josepha took possession of her prebend on September 26, 1766. In Essen, she was released from the residence early on July 1, 1767, but not yet to the chapter authorized. The attendance bills for the choir service in Essen Abbey are available for Josepha from 1767 until her death.

From 1778 Josepha accumulated offices in all of the monasteries in which she had prebends: on March 10, 1778 she was elected sexton in Essen, in Vreden she swore the oath of office as dean on December 1, 1779. On January 1, 1782, she was also elected dean by the canons of Essen, in 1784 she also achieved this position in Elten, but failed there in the same year in the election of abbess . The reason for the failure was that Prussia supported her competitor Walburga Maria Truchseß von Waldburg-Zeil -Wurzach, although Josepha had been certified by the Essen official that she was pious, God-fearing and of good understanding. Josepha Maria Anna Antonia Nepomucena von Salm-Reifferscheidt-Bedburg nevertheless achieved the position of Abbess of Elten, since on January 1, 1790 she succeeded her rival from 1784. On January 12, she was also elected abbess in Vreden, this election was confirmed by the Archbishop of Cologne on April 3, 1790.

Josepha Maria Anna Antonia Nepomucena von Salm-Reifferscheidt-Bedburg died on June 25, 1796 in Essen.

literature

• Ute Küppers-Braun: women of the high nobility in the imperial-free-worldly ladies' monastery Essen (1605-1803). A constitutional and socio-historical study. At the same time a contribution to the history of the Thorn, Elten, Vreden and St. Ursula monasteries in Cologne. Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-402-06247-X ( sources and studies 8), (also: Essen, Univ., Diss., 1995).

Web links

• Josepha (B.10) within the family of the old counts of Salm