Maria Anna Margaretha of Gemmingen

Anna Margaretha of Gemmingen

Anna Margaretha von Gemmingen, Princess Abbess of Lindau

Maria Anna Margaretha von Gemmingen (born April 15, 1711 in Abensberg (?); † January 25, 1771 in Lindau (Lake Constance) ) was abbess of the Lindau Canon Church from 1730 to 1743 and from 1757 to 1771 .

Life

Anna Margaretha came from the first branch of the (Catholic) second branch of the Steinegg line of the Barons of Gemmingen . She was the daughter of the prince-bishop-Eichstättischen privy councilor Wolf Dietrich von Gemmingen (1680-1738) from his first marriage with Maria Elisabetha Freiin von Freyberg († 1718). In March 1725, the Constance prince-bishop Johann Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg arranged for her to be eligible for admission to the imperial-free worldly women's monastery in Lindau . After the death of Abbess Anna Maria Humpiß von Waltrams, the 19-year-old Baroness von Gemmingen was elected her successor on November 13, 1730. The most urgent task for the new abbess was to rebuild the monastery, including the monastery church, which had been destroyed in a city fire on the night of September 17, 1728. When the widowed Countess Therese Wilhelmine von Pollheim-Winkelhausen offered the Canonical Monastery to contribute her fortune, Maria Anna Margaretha von Gemmingen resigned from her position in April 1743 and moved to the Franciscan convent in Möggingen near Bodmann. After the death of the abbess von Pollheim-Winkelhausen, Freiin von Gemmingen was re-elected princess abbess of the Lindau women's foundation on June 20, 1757, which she headed until her death.

literature

• Walter von Hueck: Lineage of the Barons von Gemmingen , special print from the Genealogical Handbook of the Adels Volume 37 (Freiherrliche Häuser A, Volume VI), CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1966
• Hans Frei / Barbara Beck: Pictures of Life. History and Art in Portraits from Swabia, Oberschönenfeld 2002, pp. 146–147