Liutbirg

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Liutbirg († around 870 ) was a highly respected Klausnerin who had a decisive influence on the Christianization of the Saxons in the north-east Harz in the 9th century.

Life

Around the time from 850 to 870 Liutbirg lived in a hermitage that was suspected to be in the Volkmarskeller near Blankenburg / Harz until the 1930s . Walther Grosse proved in 1940 that the hermitage was not located in the Volkmarskeller, but that it meant the later Wendhusen monastery near Thale .

A few years after her death, the Vita Liutbirgae was written, from which it emerges, among other things, that the Klausner Liutbirg was a close confidante of the bishops Haimo von Halberstadt and Ansgar von Bremen .

literature

  • Albert Reinicke: The life of the holy Liutbirg. A contribution to the criticism of the oldest source history of the Christianization of the Northeast Harz. In: Zeitschrift des Harz-Verein für Geschichte und Alterthumskunde 30 (1897), pp. 1–34.
  • Paul Höfer: Ertfelde, Michaelskirche, Liutbirgsklause. A study on Vita Liutbirgae. In: Festschrift for Paul Zimmermann (sources and research on Braunschweigerischen history, 6), Wolfenbüttel 1914, pp. 159-175.
  • Ottokar Menzel (Ed.): The life of the Liutbirg (Vita Liutbirgae virginis). A source on the history of the Saxons in Carolingian times. Leipzig, Hiersemann, 1937.
  • Ottokar Menzel: The life of the Liutbirg. In: Saxony and Anhalt 13 (1937), pp. 78–89.
  • Ottokar Menzel: The "holy" Liutbirg. In: German Archive for the History of the Middle Ages 2 (1938), pp. 189–193.
  • Walther Grosse : The Wendhausen Monastery, its donor family and its clergy. In: Sachsen and Anhalt 16 (1940), pp. 45–76.
  • Ernst Witte (translator): The life of the Liutbirg. Leipzig 1944 (historian of the German prehistoric times, complete edition 3, vol. 97) Evidence in the KVK .
  • Dieter Lent: Liutbirg . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, p. 450f. ISBN 978-3937664460
  • Frederick S. Paxton: Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-Century Saxony: The Lives of Liutbirga of Wendhausen and Hathumoda of Gandersheim. Catholic University of America Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0813215693
personal data
SURNAME Liutbirg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Retired
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century
DATE OF DEATH around 870