Jutta von Oesede

Jutta von Oesede was the abbess of the free secular monastery of Gernrode and Frose from 1324 to 1333 . Before being elected as the successor to Abbess Gertrud II , she was the provost of the monastery.

Life

Seal of the abbess Jutta von Oesede

Jutta von Oesede came from the noble von Oesede family in Lower Saxony . These were the founders of the monastery in Oesede . An Oda von Oesede was already a canon in Gernrode in 1299 . The family relationships with the nobles von Büren may have encouraged entry into the von Gernrode monastery, as it is very far from the family seat.

When she was appointed provess under Abbess Irmingard II of Ummendorf , problems seem to have arisen because the entire chapter was excommunicated on August 11, 1299 by Abbot Johannes of the monastery of Ballenstedt , because he refused to recognize her as provess. How the whole thing was settled is not documented, but Jutta von Oesede was elected abbess in 1324. The confirmation of her election as abbess by Pope John XXII. took place on January 28, 1325.

On January 7, 1330, Jutta von Oesede and other people founded a Calendar Brotherhood , the members of which consisted of clerics and canonies of the monastery, who were to meet four times a year in Gernrode for common prayer .

The last known document from her dates back to September 1333 and is a comparison between the monastery and Bishop Albrecht II of Halberstadt about the right to visit the parishes belonging to the monastery. She got through the confirmation of the pastors appointed by her and the convent .

Jutta probably died at the end of the year 1333 or in the first weeks of the year 1334, because her successor Gertrud III. von Everstein received the papal confirmation according to a papal letter dated August 3, 1334. On the basis of this letter, an abbess Hildeburg named in Popperod's Annales Gernrodensis and her successor, a mistress of Wunstorf , can be excluded. At Otto von Heinemann , the two people were then brought together to become the abbess Hildeburg von Wunstorf.

literature

• Andreas Popperodt: Historia Ecclesiae Gerenrodenses 1560, first version by Johann Christoph Beckmann in Accesiones Historia Anhaltinae 1716 as Annales Gernrodensis .
• Otto von Heinemann : History of the abbey and description of the collegiate church at Gernrode . HC Huch, Quedlinburg 1877.
• Hans Hartung: On the past of Gernrode . Carl Mittag, Gernrode 1912.
• Hans K. Schulze : The Gernrode Abbey . Using a manuscript by Reinhold Specht. With an art history contribution by Günther W. Vorbrodt. (Central German Research Vol. 38), Böhlau, Cologne 1965.

Web links

Commons : Jutta, Abbess of Gernrode  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Documentation of the exhibition SchleierHaft

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Hans K. Schulze: Das Stift Gernrode (...), Böhlau, Cologne 1965, p. 47.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Otto von Heinemann: History of the Abbey and Description of the Collegiate Church in Gernrode , HC Huch, Quedlinburg 1877, p. 21.