Uta von Schauenburg

Uta von Schauenburg

Uta von Schauenburg (* approx. 1115 or 1120; † approx. 1197) was the founder of the All Saints Monastery in the Black Forest and the wife of Welf VI.

She was a daughter of the Count Palatine of the Rhine Godfrey of Calw and therefore as Uta von Calw known. Gottfried had no male offspring, but had rich possessions, which made Uta a coveted party. At the age of about six she became Welf VI. promised as a wife who had already been built up by the Guelphs as a later opponent of the Staufer in Swabia and should be strengthened by the Calw legacy. The marriage was consummated perhaps five years later. This marriage was concluded for purely political and territorial reasons. But this made Uta von Schauenburg the dynastic aunt of the later Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa and Henry the Lion, the representative of the most important noble houses of the time. Around 1140 Welf VII , their only (surviving) son, was born.

In the reports on the disputes over Uta's legacy, which her husband Welf VI. with her cousin Count Adalbert von Calw , Uta herself was never mentioned, although her rights were disputed. Only decades later, after the death of their son in 1167, they were reported again. The Historia Welforum writes Welf VI, who could expect no more heirs of her. I, turned away from her and the marketing of other women have preferred her. Not until 1180 did he remorsefully call her back to him. Whether he had rejected her before or whether she left by herself and where she lived during those years is not mentioned. One of the properties that Welf inherited from his father-in-law was the Schauenburg castle near Oberkirch in the Ortenau region . They were also fought over in the course of the inheritance disputes. Welf was able to assert himself, kept the castle and assigned it to his wife, who therefore also entered the tradition as the Duchess of Schauenburg , which indicates that Uta lived there for a long time.

After the death of Welf VI. In 1191 Uta founded the Allerheiligen monastery in the Lierbachtal near Oppenau . A statue from around 1300 comes from there, showing her as the founder of the monastery with the church model in her hand. Uta died soon after the founding of All Saints' Day in 1196. She did not live to see the completion of the monastery. Her statue can be seen today above the portal of the prince chapel of the Lichtenthal monastery .

literature

• Hansmartin Schwarzmaier : Uta von Schauenburg, the wife of Welf VI. In: Rainer Jehl (Ed.): Welf VI. Scientific colloquium for the 800th year of death from October 5 to 8, 1991 in the Swabian Education Center Irsee (= Irseer Schriften. Vol. 3). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-4173-X , pp. 29-42.
• Josef Bader : Mrs. Uta, Duchess of Schauenburg. In: Badenia or the Baden region and people. Jg. 1, 1839, ZDB -ID 531249-8 , pp. 114-118, digitized .

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