Sela Jude

Sela (Syardis) Jew (around 1180 - after 1230)

Sela Jude (* around 1180 in Cologne ; † after 1230 there ) was the widow of the Cologne patrician Daniel Jude († around 1227). Sela, also known as Syardis, became the founder of one of the first documented beginner's convents in Cologne due to her earmarked foundation .

history

The family of Jews (also Judden, Jüdden) belonged to the patrician or city families of Cologne that was documented as early as the beginning of the 12th century.

The family of the archbishop Theolonarius (customs officer) Werner lived in the street called platea reni and Rheingasse, which is still called Rheingasse in high medieval Latin documents , and acquired extensive property there. She chose the Zum Juden property there as her ancestral home. Its name later became the family's surname, as it was first used by Werner's grandson, Daniel Jude, as “fil. Brunonis “mentioned in a document in 1178/83, appeared. Daniel, also documented for 1218, was a member of the aldermen's college and husband of Sela (Syardis), as evidenced by the following shrine entry from 1230: "domina Syardis, uxor domini Danielis dicti Judei".

Widow and founder

After the death of her husband, Sela Jude bought a property in Cologne's Stolkgasse in 1227. This, a house with a plot of land next to the Dominican monastery that was built in 1220 , gave it to the cathedral scholaster Magister Bonifatius in 1230 on the condition that a convent for pious virgins or widows be established in it.

Bonifatius complied with the founder's request and set up a beguinage there, which was one of the first of many Cologne beguinages to be built and was named "ver selen" or the house of Mrs. Sela / Sele after its founder. Sela Jude's foundation existed until the end of the 14th century.

End of the convention

The convention of this first community consisting of only fourteen beguines in 1398 was abolished in the same year. He was united with the twenty beguines of the "Lörshaus" convent that was established in 1295 by the Lyskirchen family . From this convent, also located in Stolkgasse, the later monastery of St. Ignatius with a chapel of the same name arose.

Commemoration of the city

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After the work to repair the war damage to the historic town hall tower, which was completed in the mid-1970s, according to an old tradition, it was again decorated with figurines after important people in the town's history . The first floor of the tower, formerly solely with representatives of gender domination equipped, now has again some of these personalities. Among these is Sela, a member of the Cologne patrician family of Jews. The sculpture is a work by the artist Petra Astrid Kroll.

literature

• Ernst von Oidtman , inventory of the court of the mayor Johann Wilhelm von Judden on Neumarkt in Cologne , in: Jahrbuch des Kölner Geschichtsverein e. V., Cologne 1935. Volume 17
• Wolfgang Peters, On the age of the Cologne Richerzeche , in: Yearbook of the Cologne History Association. V., Volume 59, Cologne 1988
• Ulrich S. Soénius, Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon . Greven, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 .
• Hermann Keussen : Topography of the City of Cologne in the Middle Ages , in 2 volumes. Cologne 1910. ISBN 978-3-7700-7560-7 and ISBN 978-3-7700-7561-4
• Paul Clemen (Hrsg.): The art monuments of the Rhine province. Volume 6, 7: The art monuments of the city of Cologne. Volume 7, section 3, supplementary volume = volume 2, section 3, supplementary volume: Ludwig Arntz , Heinrich Neu, Hans Vogts : The former churches, monasteries, hospitals and school buildings of the city of Cologne. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1937 (reprint: ibid 1980, ISBN 3-590-32107-5 ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Ulrich Soénius, Jürgen Wilhelm: Kölner Personen-Lexikon , p. 270
2. ^ Ernst von Oidtman, in: Yearbook of the Kölner Geschichtsverein eV, Cologne 1935. Volume 17, p. 129 ff
3. ↑ Pedigree of Judes / Quetting  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Hermann Keussen, Topography of the City of Cologne in the Middle Ages , Volume I, S. Martin Shrine District, p. 69
5. ↑ Wolfgang Peters, Zum Alter der Kölner Richerzeche , p. 12 f, with reference to: Document book of the Eberbach Abbey 200 No. 105
6. ↑ Franziskanerinnenkloster St. Ignatius, p. 289 f in: Ludwig Arntz, Heinrich Neu, Hans Vogts: The former churches, monasteries, hospitals and school buildings of the city of Cologne.