Jutta von Sangerhausen

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Jutta von Sangerhausen

Jutta von Sangerhausen (* around 1200; † May 5, 1260 in Culmsee ) was a benefactress and hermit.

Statue of Jutta von Sangerhausen in the Ulrich Church

After the death of her husband, Jutta von Sangerhausen lived in the vicinity of the Ulrich Church in Sangerhausen . She dedicated herself to nursing after the model of Elisabeth of Thuringia and was in contact with Mechthild von Magdeburg . Jutta wanted to follow Christ in apostolic poverty , but without entering an order. She then decided to go to the Teutonic Order area in the area of ​​Culmsee in Prussia with her relative Anno von Sangerhausen , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order . In 1256 she donated the St. George Church.

There Jutta settled  as a hermit in Bildön - today's Bielczyny . At the cathedral of Culmsee she met her patron and confessor, Johannes Lobedau . His successor, the Provincial of the Dominicans , Heidenreich von Kulm (who was previously Archbishop of Armagh in Ireland), had Jutta buried at her request in the Basilica of the Holy Trinity in Culmsee, which is currently under construction .

The process of the canonization of Jutta by the local bishop was already carried out 15 years after her death. There was no canonization in Rome, so she is considered blessed . May 5th is their Catholic feast day.

In 1520, Simon Grunau described the life of Jutta von Sangerhausen in his Prussian Chronicle. He describes Carolo Karl von Sangerhausen as her deceased husband, and (H) anno as one of their sons who took his mother with him to Colmensee in Prussia.

In 1605/9 a Polish scribe Martin Baronius , a priest from Jarosław, wrote about Jutta von Pruthenia for the first time and declared her as Haec nata in Prussia anno domini 1220 born in Prussia from a Thuringian family and married to Johann Konopacki, libero baroni in Bielczany .

When their bones were supposed to be lifted in 1637, they were lost, but the Jutta Chapel has been preserved to this day. Pretty soon became the destination of pilgrims. In Sangerhausen today the Jutta-von-Sangerhausen-Platz commemorates them. On May 2, 2010 the Catholic parish was established under the name Parish St. Jutta .

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SURNAME Jutta von Sangerhausen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Benefactress and hermit
DATE OF BIRTH around 1200
PLACE OF BIRTH Sangerhausen , Saxony-Anhalt
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1260
Place of death Kulmsee , Poland