Poor Clare Monastery Cheb
The Poor Clares Monastery Eger was a monastery of the Poor Clares in Eger, today's Czech city of Cheb .
history
The settlement of Poor Clares goes back to the years immediately before 1270, but a town fire in that year led to chroniclers reporting that the monastery was rebuilt in 1288. The first reliable documentary evidence is a donation from King Ottokar II in 1273. The monastery belonged to the diocese of Regensburg , and its location in the Egerland within the privileged city also gave it a special position. The preserved Salbuch was examined by the former Eger city archivist Karl Siegl , it contains copies of important documents.
As early as the beginning of the 14th century, the monastery included numerous properties in the surrounding villages, for example in Rohr, Kornau, Ensenbruck, Ulrichsgrün, Pilmersreut, Stabnitz, Hartessenreut, Triesenhof, Ober- and Unterpilmersreut, Oberndorf, Sirmitz and property zu Gehag. Further acquisitions followed. Including the village of Grün in 1347, which later took the name of Nonnengrün (today Hluboká , Milhostov municipality ). Purchases or donations from the monastery are related to the von Notthracht family , especially the family branch at Wildstein Castle .
In addition to the property, the nuns provided other sources of income. They made frames for relics and images of saints from silver and gold wire, as well as wax candles. Furthermore, they worked in a sugar and gingerbread bakery and produced specialties such as Nun Griefen or Masch Ellen, Nun Kräpfchen, Nun Kolaches or nuns rusk. They also sold whipped water, stomach water and mithridate as remedies . The Eger antependium made by the nuns is a Romanesque embroidery that can be viewed in the Eger District Museum.
List of Abbesses
The first abbesses of the monastery can only be proven by individual documents:
- Adelheid von Lobhaus, 1270
- Margaretha, 1313, 1317
- Mechthilde, 1347
- Catherine, 1351
- Agnes, 1372, 1374
- Margaretha von Kornbühl, 1391, 1392, 1395
- Katharina Ebran, 1436
From 1465 the sequence of abbesses up to the dissolution of the monastery is known:
- Felizitas Trautmann, 1465-1470
- Ursula Pirk, 1470-1474
- Barbara Brumann, 1474-1489
- Kunigunde Gradl, 1489–1499
- Katharina von Seeberg, 1499–1531
- Countess Ursula Schlick, 1531–1554
- Margaretha von Au, 1554–1559
- Anna Beyl, 1559-1565
- Apollonia Funk, 1565-1579
- Magdalena Lochner, 1579–1593
- Ursula Helm, 1593-1606
- Katharina Rudisch, 1606–1636
- Margaretha Schmölz, 1637–1638 / 39
- Helene Imer, 1638 / 39-1641
- Klara Mayer, 1641-1652
- Euphrosine Moser von Öttingen, 1652–1671
- Caecilia Walther, 1671–1679
- Johanna Pentz, 1679-1688
- Bernhardina Betterle von Wildenbrunn, 1688–1723
- Angela Friesel, 1723-1731
- Praxedis Brusch, 1731-1741
- Maria Katharina Nonner, 1741–1768
- Maria Lucia Zemsch, 1768–1782
literature
- Karl Siegl : The Salbuch of the Egerer Poor Clares from 1476 . Reprint of the magazine Mitteilungen of the Association of the History of Germans in Bohemia. Prague 1905.
