List of the abbesses of Hof

The list of abbesses of Hof presents the sequence of abbesses of the Hof monastery .

The monastery of the Poor Clares in Hof was directly adjacent to the Franciscan monastery . It was founded at the end of the 13th century by local nobles and supported by the ruling Counts of Orlamünde and the Nuremberg burgraves or margraves from the house of the Franconian Hohenzollern family . The abbesses came from these two families and from well-known local noble families. The history of the monastery shows parallels in these points to the nearby Himmelkron monastery , a settlement of Cistercian women . Both monasteries were dissolved as a result of the Reformation .

The succession of abbesses has already been examined by various Hofer historians, including Kaspar Brusch , Enoch Widmann , Johann Christoph Weiß , Georg Wilhelm Kirsch and Dietlein and Jäger. Recent research has not been able to confirm all the traditions, but has also brought further findings to light. For this reason there are several older versions of lists. In particular, Agnes von Orlamünde , daughter of Otto VIII († 1334), Lord of Lauenstein Castle and Anna von Orlamünde appear in earlier lists .

List of the abbesses of Hof

No.	Surname	Term of office	annotation	coat of arms
01	Gertrud von Uttenhofen	from 1348	Gertrud came from the von Uttenhofen family . She was born by Murring . As a widow, she founded the monastery together with her sisters Margarethe and Thecla († February 24, 1378) and daughter Katharina. Heinrich von Kotzau was among the witnesses .
02	Thecla of Murring	until 1378	Thecla († February 24, 1378) came from the von Murring family and was a sister of Gertrud von Uttenhofen.
03	Heilnisch (Adelheid) from Wiedersberg	1378 to before 1385
04th	Elisabeth Sunterin from Eger	1385-1392
05	Catherine of Nuremberg	1391-1409	Katharina came from the house of the Franconian Hohenzollern family and was a daughter of the Nuremberg burgrave Friedrich V and Elisabeth von Meißen . Similar to the development in the Himmelkron monastery with Anna of Nuremberg , the office of abbess was filled with daughters of the Nuremberg burgraves.
06th	Agnes of Nuremberg	1409-1430 or 1431	Agnes came from the house of the Franconian Hohenzollern family and was the sister of her predecessor Katharina von Nürnberg . In 1430 the threat from the Hussites led the nuns to flee to Eger , today Cheb.
07th	Elisabeth Zugenreuther	1432-1435
08th	Helene von Weimar-Orlamünde	1435-1465	Helene von Weimar-Orlamünde came from a late sideline of the Counts of Weimar-Orlamünde and was one of the last namesake of the family. She was a daughter of Count Otto X. at Lauenstein Castle and Lukardis, née von Gera . In the list of the counts of Orlamünde according to Reitzenstein, Helene is mentioned in 1415 as a nun in Hof and she also had a sister Anna, who stayed as a nun in Ilm and Hof.
09	Katharina von Kotzau	1467-1476	After the genealogist Alban von Dobenck, Katharina came from the main line of the knightly noble von Kotzau family with their ancestral seat in today's Oberkotzau . Longa von Kotzau was another abbess of the family, she was in the nearby Himmelkron monastery of the Cistercians .
10	Margaretha of Brandenburg	1476-1490	Margarete came from the house of the Franconian Hohenzollern as the daughter of Albrecht Achilles . She was initially intended to marry Kaspar von Zweibrücken , but decided to go to the monastery. As abbess she had an arable land laid out.
11	Agnes von Hirschberg	1490-1519	Agnes came from the von Hirschberg family .
12	Ursula von Dorbenck	1519 / 20-1535	Ursula came from the von Dobenck family .
13	Veronika von Dölau	1541-1549	Veronika came from the Vogtland and Meissen noble family of the von Dölau . The family presented almost simultaneously at the nearby monastery Himmelkron with Margarethe von Döhlau that previously resided in the convent Hofer, the last abbess of the local Cistercian . The monastery of the Poor Clares in Hof survived the Reformation in a room that had become Protestant , but lost its importance. Nevertheless, in 1542 Veronica, as abbess, built a new administrator's house.
14th	Amalie von Hirschberg	1549-1564	Amalie came from the von Hirschberg family . The monastery of the Poor Clares in Hof had outlived the Reformation , but increasingly lost its importance. During the siege of the city of Hof in 1553 in the Second Margrave War , the nuns fled to Eger , today Cheb. When Amalie herself finally died in 1564, Protestants invaded the monastery and devastated the inventory, the church and the archive and even the tombs were plundered. Margrave Georg Friedrich secularized the monastery and used the income for foundations and grants. Since then, the monastery buildings have had very different uses.

literature

• Friedrich Ebert : Chronicle of the city court . Volume VI., Hof 1966. pp. 314-319.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ z. B. also with Alban von Dorbenck : History of the von Dobeck family . Schöneberg-Berlin 1906. p. 374.
2. ↑ C. Chl. Freiherr von Reitzenstein : Regests of the Counts of Orlamuende from Babenberger and Ascan tribe . Historical association for Upper Franconia in Bayreuth. 1871.
3. ^ History of the monastery at the HdBG
4. ↑ C. Chl. Freiherr von Reitzenstein : Regesta of the Counts of Orlamuende (...) . Historical association for Upper Franconia . Bayreuth 1871.
5. ^ History of the monastery at the HdBG
6. ↑ E. Dietlein: The city court in the dawn of the Reformation . Hof 1929. p. 59.
7. ^ History of the monastery at the HdBG