Maria Franziska of Eptingen

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Maria Franziska von Eptingen , actually Franziska von Eptingen (* 1631 in Oberhagenthal , † April 27, 1707 in Olsberg ) was an abbess in Upper Austria .

Life

Maria Franziska von Eptingen, baptized Franziska, came from the Basel nobility and was the daughter of Hermann von Eptingen († January 27, 1655), Lord of Neuweiler, Nieder- and Oberhagental and Oberdorf, and his wife Cleophe († September 25, 1641) , Daughter of Johann Christoph Truchsess von Rheinfelden and Martha Zündt von Kenzingen. After the early death of her mother, her father married Katharina von Eptingen for the second time, and she subsequently had eight step-siblings.

In 1650 she made her religious vows in the Cistercian monastery of Olsberg , which at that time still belonged to Austria, and received her first name Maria. She later became prioress and novice mistress; In 1670 she was elected abbess of the monastery. She proved herself during her tenure as administrator of the monastery property and, after the end of the Thirty Years' War, as the builder of the devastated monastery. It was largely responsible for the baroque appearance of the monastery church. It was not until fifty years after the invasion of Sweden that the largely uninhabitable buildings could be restored and, between 1683 and 1689, were essentially given their present-day appearance of impressive grandeur, structured solely by the rows of windows.

Because the house of the monastery in Wettingen did not prove to be sufficiently secure during the Thirty Years' War , in 1674 she acquired the house built in 1571 in nearby Liestal , which until then served as the seat of the mayor , as a refuge for times of war; the building was named Olsbergerhof.

In 1688, with the help of Father Joachim from Einsiedeln Monastery and his brother, the Papal Swiss Guard Conrad Pfyffer, and with the permission of Pope Innocent XI. , transfer the bones of the Roman catacomb saint Viktor to the monastery church .

Shortly before her death in 1704, the abbess set up a memorial near the ancestral seat of her family, in Diegten , whose parish had been donated to the Olsberg monastery in the Middle Ages by Mathias von Eptingen. She had the rectory rebuilt, which is still remembered today by an inscription.

literature

  • Maria Franziska von Eptingen in Gottlieb Wyss: Franziska von Eptingen, Abbess of Olsberg . Basel magazine for history and archeology. Volume 30. Basel 1931.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olsberg Monastery: Abbess Maria Franziska von Eptingen, 1684. Accessed March 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Eptingen, Maria Franziska von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eptingen, Franziska von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbess in Austria
DATE OF BIRTH 1631
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhagenthal
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1707
Place of death Olsberg Abbey , Olsberg