Sibilla Egen

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Sibilla Egen (* 1470 in Dinkelsbühl ; † September 28, 1538 in Schwäbisch Hall ) was a patron of the city ​​nobility of Schwäbisch Hall.

Career

Sibilla was the youngest daughter of Hans Egen and Barbara Langmantel, who was born in Ulm . The father came from Hall, but had moved to Dinkelsbühl in 1452 , where he was mayor for many years, co-founded the Swabian Federation and became a confidante of Margrave Albrecht Achilles . Daughter Sibilla married Hans von Rindenbach in Hall in 1493. The child from the marriage died while she was still in childbed . Hans von Rindenbach passed away on January 14, 1500. As a wealthy widow, Sibilla now lived in a house in Schwäbisch Hall between Schuppach and Fischmarkt, which also housed the nobility's drinking room. 1517 she married twenty years younger Anton Hofmeister , son of the mayor of Wimpfen , the Stättmeister in Hall was and as a friend of Johannes Brenz promoted the Reformation in the city. The marriage remained childless. Hofmeister died on August 20, 1532.

After a long illness, she died on September 28, 1538. In the church of St. Michael in Schwäbisch Hall, a grave memorial commemorates her on the wall of the left nave .

Foundation, endowment

In 1505 she established a charity foundation for the first time. Together with her brother, the Eichstätter Canons Jeremias Egen († 1509), she donated 620 guilders on July 23, 1509 for the benefit of law students from the ranks of the Hall bourgeoisie for eight years of study.

In her will of May 2, 1533, she has the following annual foundation purposes:

  • Eight-year scholarship of 31 guilders annually to a student born in Hall (increase in the foundation from 1509)
  • Three pious virgins, journeyman or widows 12 guilders annually for dowry get
  • 8 guilders a year to three boys to learn a trade
  • 8 guilders per year to two midwives who are supposed to do their duty day and night in Bibersfeld, Michelfeld and Lorenzzimmer
  • The surplus is to be used to support poor people , the sick, the elderly and child-prayer women inside and outside the city

Appreciation

Her widow's residence at Markt 8 in Schwäbisch Hall was destroyed in the Hall fire. The successor building at that point was named Sibilla-Egen-Haus on May 26, 1976 . The Schwäbisch Hall home economics school was named in her honor on March 23, 2001 and has been called the Sibilla Egen School since then .

literature

  • Gerd Wunder: Die Bürger von Hall , Sigmaringen 1980, pp. 21, 68, 74, 92, 116, 179, 294 and Fig. 16.
  • Gerd Wunder: Sibilla Egen . In: Life pictures from Swabia and Franconia . Volume 15. 1983, pp. 29-38
  • Gerd Wunder: Sibilla Egen . In: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (Ed.): Baden-Württemberg portraits . Stuttgart 1999, pp. 9-15

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Wunder: Sibilla Egen. In: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (Ed.): Baden-Württembergische Portraits, 1999, p. 9
personal data
SURNAME Egen, Sibilla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German donor
DATE OF BIRTH 1470
PLACE OF BIRTH Dinkelsbühl
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1538
Place of death Schwäbisch Hall