Anna II, Abbess of Quedlinburg

Anna of Stolberg ( born January 28, 1504 Stolberg (Harz ); † March 4, 1574 ) served as the 28th Abbess Anna II of the Reich pin of Quedlinburg.

Life

Anna was the eldest daughter of Count Botho zu Stolberg and his wife Anna of Eppstein - Königstein. She was the older sister of Juliana of Stolberg. At the beginning of the 16th century it was barely thirteen years old after her predecessor Magdalene was renounced the Abbey of Quedlinburg and died at Gander Home, elected by the Chapter, on February 10, 1515 by Pope Leo X. and on October 3, 1516 from Emperor Maximilian I confirmed and ceremoniously introduced on 5 November.

She was the first abbess of Quedlinburg, which adopted the Lutheran doctrine. The first attempts to spread the Reformation in the city and convent of Quedlinburg, the Catholic Duke George of Saxony presented energetically opposed as the protector of the pen. Those monks of the Augustinian monastery and parish priest of the town church, which preached in the sense of Luther, were persecuted and their places filled with resolute Catholics. Anna, who had initially occupied the opposite Reformation a wait and see position, decided only after the death of Duke George ( 1539), and as his successor, Henry himself turned to the new faith for the Lutheran doctrine. The Catholic clergy were removed and Protestant. The Superintendent Tilemann Plathner (1490-1551) from Stolberg, who was appointed by her for a long time to Quedlinburg, she did assist in the implementation of the Reformation work, but also lack of precise data. The remuneration of the clergy and teachers a common treasury was built from the goods of the city churches. The number of pins women and Canonici was limited, the monastery service in the collegiate church repealed entirely.

During her reign the first detectable visitation of the churches in the town of Quedlinburg was held in 1540, the minutes of which one of the main sources for the quedlinburgische Reformation history is .. On Luther and Melanchthon's advice, the two schools of the Old and New Town were combined into a single and abbess Anna gave to the Council for this new school the abandoned Franciscan monastery, it was in these rooms there until very recently.

Anna II von Stolberg died on March 4, 1574 at the age of 70 years, after she had been 58 years in pen abbess of Quedlinburg. As 29 Abbess followed her Elizabeth, her niece, the daughter of Count Ulrich von Regenstein.

Swell

  • Karl Janicke: Anna ( Abbess of Quedlinburg ). In: General German Biography (ADB ). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, pp. 469 f (main source)
  • Friedrich Ernst Kettner: Churches and Reformation history of the Kayserl. Freyen worldly Quedlinburg, 1710, Quedlinburg, pp. 121 ff
  • Otto Plathner: Tileman Plathner in the Journal of the Association resin, Jahrg 1868, pp. 289-292
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