Katharina von Gemmingen

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Katharina von Dalberg on her epitaph in the Katharinenkirche Oppenheim
Double epitaph of the couple in the Katharinenkirche Oppenheim

Katharina von Gemmingen (* before 1467, † February 19, 1517 ), married von Dalberg , was a German noblewoman and with Friedrich VI. von Dalberg († 1506) married. The couple's tomb is one of the most important grave monuments in the Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim .

Life

Katharina was the daughter of Dieter von Gemmingen († 1467) and Anna von Venningen . Her grandparents on the paternal side were the Palatinate Marshal Hans der Reiche von Gemmingen († 1490) and Katharina Landschad von Steinach , on the maternal side the Palatine court master Dietrich von Venningen († 1454) and Margaretha von Handschuhsheim . Your husband, Friedrich VI. von Dalberg, was mayor of Oppenheim.

Katharina had a large fortune and in 1510 lent 1000 guilders to the Bishop of Speyer.

She died on the Thursday after St. Valentin 1517 (February 19, 1517) and, like her husband, was buried in the Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim, where, in addition to the couple's tomb, numerous other grave monuments of the chamberlain of Worms and the von Dalberg family have been preserved. The stone tomb shows the couple as semi-sculptural figures with their coats of arms above their heads and animals at their feet. Art historians assume that the couple's tomb was created during Friedrich's lifetime, as it is based on the Gothic pictorial tradition and only echoes the Renaissance , which was already common in the area at the time of Katharina's death.

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

  • Friedrich Battenberg : Dalberg documents. Regesta on the documents of the treasurers of Worms called von Dalberg and the barons of Dalberg 1165–1843 Volume 14/3: Corrigenda, indices and family tables (by Dalberg and Ulner von Dieburg) = Repertories of the Hessian State Archives Darmstadt 14/3. Darmstadt 1987. ISBN 3-88443-238-9
  • Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen , Mingolsheim 1895.
  • Walther Möller : The grave monuments of the eunuchs of Worms called von Dalberg in the Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim . In: Volk and Scholle 11, 1933, pp. 189–191.
  • Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables. Family tables on the history of the European states . New series, vol. 9: Families from the Middle and Upper Rhine and from Burgundy . Marburg 1986. Without ISBN, plate 56.
  • Friedrich Weber : The grave monuments of the Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim , Oppenheim 1985.
  • Friedrich Weber : St. Katharinen zu Oppenheim. A small guide to windows, grave monuments and the organ . Alzey 1990.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Schwennicke, plate 56, against: February 19, 1507.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bollinger, p. 38; Battenberg: Repertories 14/3, plate V.
  2. ↑ Stocker 1895, p. 52f.
  3. ↑ Stocker 1895, p. 52f.
  4. ^ Paul Kautzsch : The workshop and school of the sculptor Hans Backoffen in Mainz (dissertation), Halle adS 1909, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Gemmingen, Katharina von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dahlberg, Katharina von (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobles
DATE OF BIRTH before 1467
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1517