Rosamunde Juliane von der Asseburg

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Rosamunde Juliane von der Asseburg (* 1672 in Eggenstedt ; † November 8, 1712 in Jahnishausen ) was a religious visionary whose prophetic gift may be associated with the incipient pietism .

family

Von der Asseburg belongs to the noble family of the same name. Her parents were Christian Christoph von der Asseburg and Gertrud Margarete von Alvensleben . The father fell in 1675 and left the mother with seven survivors of ten children in financial need. The property in Eggenstedt was auctioned despite a six-year delay. The widow probably moved to Magdeburg with her children in 1682 .

Life

The Asseburg is said to have had visions of Christ and the devil since she was seven . At the age of ten or twelve she experienced a calling similar to that of the prophet Samuel (1 Sam 3: 9). The reason for the prophetic and visionary experiences can no longer be clarified, as too little is known about their psychological constitution, their dealings and their reading. In 1691 the impoverished family moved to Lüneburg . The local superintendent Johann Wilhelm Petersen , who was later deposed from office, believed that he felt the blessing in the presence of the young enthusiast:

" How then some time ago from several witnesses who are so godly as not silly, often received news from a certain place about a noble house, since a widow and three daughters live in great silence and solitude, since one has astonishing revelations, because with open eyes and full senses her Savior appears to her several times, that she is as if outside of herself and one hears nothing but Hallelujah, Hosanna and words of joy from her. "

"Von der Asseburg had a remarkable edifying and pastoral effect on some people with her testimonies." Her revelations did not testify to anything new and usually only gave the biblical word in different variations. It was a proclamation "in a somewhat strange guise". With von der Asseburg, Superintendent Petersen believed the grace and presence of the Lord in his house: "Rosamunde's face is said to have shone so [...] that it even shone through the cracks in the wall ." Von der Asseburg became Marie Sophie von Reichenbach known, which she took on her property in Jahnishausen near Dresden and finally granted her a final resting place in the Frisian hereditary burial in Schönfeld near Pillnitz.

literature

  • Gustav Frank :  Asseburg, Rosamunde von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 622.
  • Max Trippenbach: Rosamunde Juliane von der Asseburg. The prophetess and saint of Pietism. Schneider, Sangerhausen 1914 (preprint of pp. 304–329 from Max Trippenbach: Asseburger Familiengeschichte. News about the Wolfenbüttel-Asseburg family and their possessions. Hahn, Hanover 1915).
  • Markus Matthias: Johann Wilhelm and Johann Eleonora Petersen. A biography until Petersen's impeachment in 1692. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-55814-7 ( work on the history of Pietism 30), (also: Erlangen, Nürnberg, Univ., Diss., 1988).
  • Ruth Albrecht (Ed.): Enthusiastic maids. Dreams, Visions and Revelations of Women of Early Pietism, Ev. Verlagsanstalt Leipzig 2018, Rosamunde Juliane von der Asseburg pp. 34–40.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petersen's letter quoted from Markus Matthias, Johann Wilhelm and Johanna Eleonora Petersen: A biography until Petersen's impeachment in 1692 , 1993, ISBN 3525558147 , p. 260
  2. ^ Matthias p. 262
  3. ^ Matthias p. 264
  4. ^ Matthias p. 267
personal data
SURNAME Asseburg, Rosamunde Juliane from the
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visionary and prophetess
DATE OF BIRTH 1672
PLACE OF BIRTH Eggenstedt
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1712
Place of death Jahnishausen