Ottilia Schenk from Siemau

Ottilia Schenk von Siemau († July 10, 1529 ) was abbess of the Himmelkron Monastery from 1522 to 1529.

Ottilia came from the family of the Schenk von Siemau . During her time as abbess, the peasants' war raged in the Franconian region . The so-called Oberland was less affected. In Bayreuth rallied apparently some rebels who handed damage of the monastery, such as the theft of a silver cross, but remained manageable and people took no harm.

Its heavily worn epitaph is behind the altar . At first it was in the choir room at the point where a door was later added. Tradition established that her stone and that of another abbess were the children's tombstones in connection with the legend of the White Woman . As early as 1701 this prompted Margrave Christian Ernst to investigate. The opening of the tomb revealed that women's clothing and a jawbone were evidence of the burial of an adult woman. The last certainty was a decipherment of the fragments of the inscription in the 19th century.

literature

• Ernst Kießkalt: The sculptures of the former Cistercian convent Himmelkron . Bayreuth 1909. p. 10f.
• Theodor Zinck: Himmelkron - Description of his past and present . Bayreuth 1925. pp. 23f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Magdalena von Wirsberg	Abbess of Himmelkron Monastery 1522–1529	Apollonia von Waldenfels