Scholastica by Manteuffel

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Maria Kunigunde Scholastica von Manteuffel (* ~ 1630 ; † 1692 in the Eibingen monastery near Rüdesheim ) was abbess of St. Ruppertsberg and Eibingen .

Parentage and family

Scholastica von Manteuffel came from the Broitz family of the Manteuffel noble family in the Pomerania region . She was the daughter of Ventz (Vincenz) von Manteuffel (* ~ 1595; † 1642), Royal Swedish Rittmeister , and the Kunigunde Juliane Albertine Freiin Thüngen (* May 3, 1600; † 1675 in Würzburg). Her nephew was the Steward and kurbayerische chamberlain Franz Joseph von Manteuffel .

Life

St. Hildegard Abbey (Rüdesheim am Rhein) , successor to the former monasteries Rupertsberg and Eibingen.

Scholastica's father, a Protestant from Western Pomerania, left his father's estate during the Thirty Years' War and went into Swedish service. He later moved to Franconia and in 1630 married Juliane Albertine Spät von Zwiefalten, widowed Freiin Thüngen. On April 2, 1640, he accepted the Catholic faith in Mainz , when Scholastica entered the Eibingen monastery, whose abbess she was from 1669 until her death in 1692. Scholastica's successor, Maria Antonetta Mühl zu Ulmen , noted her first editions after her election as abbess. They concerned the costs for the burial of the Scholastica for the coffin, hearse, death slip, ink, pens and sealing wax.

As a nun and administrator of the monastic lands and vineyards , Scholastica attracted attention in a special way. From her records of the third part of the vineyards in Bingen from 7th and 8th October 1667 have come down to us. There, the individual vineyards were listed in 92 items with details of the location, borders and names of the tenants with short comments such as 'Bene!' 'Is still too young!', 'Is cleared in 1660' or 'Should have another year free'. In 1667 she also noted the start of the grape harvest on October 15th on the Rupertsberg in the so-called 'Conventgarten', which lasted until October 30th.

Historical meaning

St. Hildegard (Eibingen) , new building after the fire of 1932

As abbess of Rupertsberg and Eibingen , thanks to her economic fortunes and the associated prosperous financial situation of the monastery, she began in 1681 with the construction of a large part of the dilapidated monastery and the construction of a new church in the monastery , which was completed by Giovanni Angelo Barella from Mainz in 1684. In the so-called 'Small Hall' of the old Eibingen monastery, 43 families once adorned the coat of arms of the ceiling painting from 1739 (under Johann Valentin Thomann ); one of them was their coat of arms. The ceiling was almost completely destroyed by fire on September 4, 1932. The baroque building was replaced by a new building by 1935.

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literature

  • Scévole de Sainte-Marthe, Barthélemy Hauréau: Gallia christiana, in provincias ecclesiasticas distributa: qua series et historia archiepiscoporum, episcoporum et abbatum Franciæ vicinarumque ditionum from origine ecclesiarum from [!] Nostra tempora ad calcemis appaturis appaturis instrument authentic. Volume 5, 1731, p. 654 ( digitized version ).
  • Leopold Nedopil: German nobility samples from the Teutonic Order Central Archive. 1868, p. 596 ( digitized version ).
  • Archive for Middle Rhine Church History. Volume 36, Jaegerschen Buchdruckerei, 1984.
  • Archabbey of Beuron : Heritage and Mission , Volume 39. 1963.
  • Anton Philipp Brück (Ed.): Hildegard von Bingen, 1179-1979. 1979.
  • Ernst Heinrich Kmeschke: New general German nobility lexicon . Leipzig, 1865.
  • Werner von Schulmann: Population register of Western Pomerania after the tax surveys of 1655 a. 1666. Cologne, 1966.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JF Schannat, G. Bärsch: Eiflia illustrata or geogr. u. Description d. Eifel. 1844, page 25 online .
  2. ↑ Archive for Middle Rhine Church History. Volume 36, Jaegerschen Buchdruckerei, 1984, page 106 online .
  3. ^ Regina Elisabeth Schwerdtfeger et al .: The Benedictine monastery and nunnery in Hesse. 2004, page 139.
  4. ↑ Saint Hildegard, St. Hildegard Abbey: Hildegard von Bingen: Prophetess through the times. 1997, page 505 online .
personal data
SURNAME Manteuffel, Scholastica by
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manteufel, Maria Kunigunde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Noblewoman, Benedictine, abbess of the monasteries Rupertsberg and Eibingen
DATE OF BIRTH 1630
DATE OF DEATH 1692
Place of death Eibingen