Wichburg (Lurngau)

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Wichburg (also Wichpurg, Wigburg, Wichpurch; * around 960; † around 1030) was (the only?) Daughter of Count Palatine Hartwig I of Bavaria and Wichburg of Bavaria , daughter of Duke Eberhard of Bavaria. She founded the St. Georgen Abbey in Sankt Georgen am Längsee in Carinthia , Austria.

Life

Wichburg married Ottwin von Sonnenburg , Graf im Pustertal and Lurngau (Upper Carinthia). Before 1002 she renewed the dilapidated Georgskirche on her estate on the Längsee in Carinthia, where she wanted to found a women's monastery . Ottwin donated his inheritance in the Puster Valley ( Dietenheim ) to the monastery to be built and went on a pilgrimage; he only came back after 17 years and died on January 6, 1019 at his Sonnenburg castle . Wichburg's brother Hartwig , Archbishop of Salzburg , consecrated the collegiate church in 1018.

St. Georgen Abbey

The St. Georgen Abbey was the first high medieval monastery in Carinthia. After the death of her husband, Wichburg, with the consent of her children, furnished it with inherited property in the Jauntal , around Sankt Veit an der Glan and in the Pustertal and placed it under the protection of her brother, Archbishop Hartwig, and his successors, with the stipulation that their heirs, if the archbishops wanted to confiscate its property after the abolition of the monastery, had the right to buy the monastery back for five coins. The monastery was guaranteed free choice of the abbess and the bailiff . Wichburg's eldest daughter, Hiltburg, moved from the Benedictine monastery Nonnberg in Salzburg as the first abbess to St. Georgen; she was followed by her sister Perchkund as second abbess.

progeny

The children came from Wichburg's marriage to Ottwin:

  • Volchold (Volkhold), Count, heir of the rest of the Pustertal property of his father; donated Sonnenburg Castle to the Benedictine nuns in 1039 to build a monastery
  • Wichburg von Sonnenburg , with her husband Aribo († after 1022) co-founder of the Sonnenburg monastery , whose first abbess her daughter Wichburg was
  • Odalrich (Ulrich) , 1022–1055 Bishop of Trient, from 1027 first Prince-Bishop of Trento
  • Hiltburg, around 1006 nun of Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg, first abbess of St. Georgen
  • Perchkint (Perchkund, Perchunt, Perchtigund), nun in Nonnberg , after Hiltburg second abbess of St. Georgen
  • Hartwig, probably a monk in Seeon
  • Gerloch († before 1029), Count
  • Heinrich, around 1029

literature

  • Johannes Sacherer: 1000 years of St. Georgen Abbey on the Längsee - Festschrift; Women between the Benedictine ideal and monastic reality; Contributions to the symposium on the history of the former Benedictine convent St. Georgen am Längsee on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary from May 29th to 31st, 2003, self-published by the Bildungshaus Stift St. Georgen am Längsee, 2003.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On her tombstone in St. Georgen see Peter Günther Tropper: Hemma von Gurk. Catalog of the exhibition at Strasbourg Castle / Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1988, p. 343.
  2. ↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Vol. 1: Up to the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 142 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Gottlieb von Ankershofen: Kärntner Regesten No. 1029, in: Archive for Austrian History 1849, p. 317 ( digitized in the Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Wichburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wichburg of Bavaria; Wigburg; Wichpurg; Wichpurch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Countess in Pustertal and Lurngau
DATE OF BIRTH around 960
DATE OF DEATH around 1030