Mechtildis Sinsteden

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Mechtildis Sinsteden (born January 4, 1782 in Gustorf , † October 23, 1881 in Deutz ), married Neuhoff , emerged in the 19th century as a benefactress and benefactress of the poor. She has made a particular contribution to her place of birth, Gustorf.

Childhood and marriage

Mechtildis Sinsteden was the daughter of the miller Adam Sinsteden and his wife Anna Sibilla, nee Schiller. In 1818 she married Johann Kaspar Heinrich Neuhoff from Deutz, who was three years her junior and who died in 1845. The marriage remained childless.

Mechtildis Sinsteden as a benefactor

In 1881 Mechtildis Neuhoff left each of her nephews and nieces 250,000 gold marks . She bequeathed the Templerhof in Deutz, which she had lived in with her husband, to the local Catholic parish on the condition that a new church should be built on the property no later than 10 years after her death. In 1891 the construction of the St. Heribert Basilica began.

She had also done charitable work beforehand and donated over 30,000 thalers with her brothers Josef and Johann-Adolf for the new building of the Catholic parish church of St. Mary's Assumption in Gustorf. The monstrance of the Gustorfer Church was also decorated with funds from your donation.

The Sinsteden siblings donated the Gustorfer Mühle and their lands for the construction of the former St. Joseph Hospital in Gustorf. She herself supported the new building of the Catholic St. Cyriakus Church in Neuenhausen with 9,000 gold marks.

Mechtildis Neuhoff was buried in the old Deutz cemetery on Deutz-Kalker-Strasse in 1881 . She is depicted as the donor in the Knechtsteden monastery church on the second window on the right in the choir.

Mathildenstrasse near the St. Heribert Church in Cologne-Deutz (since 1888) is named after Mechtildis.

literature

  • Friedrich Schmitz: Famous women in Grevenbroich. In: Festschrift for the shooting festival from August 31 to September 3, 2002. Published by the Bürgererschützenverein 1849 Grevenbroich e. V. Grevenbroich 2002, pp. 146-161.
  • Bremer, Dr. Jacob. 1930. The Electoral Cologne office of Liedberg. Publishing house cooling. Mönchengladbach. S. 188 ff: The Gustorfer Bannmühle.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Citizens' Association Deutz: Mathildenstrasse. www.buergervereinigung-deutz.de. accessed: November 21, 2018.
  2. ↑ The Good Deeds of the Temple Madam. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  3. ^ A b Daniela Buschkamp: High Mass forever for the church donors. In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper. March 4, 2015, p. C3.
personal data
SURNAME Sinsteden, Mechtildis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Founder
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Gustorf
DATE OF DEATH 1881
Place of death Deutz