Emma of Lesum

Countess Emma of Lesum, and Imma of Stiepelmann, (c. 975/980; † December 3, 1038 in Lesum ), daughter of Adela of Hamaland, a benevolent landowner was worshiped as a saint after her death. She is the first name detectable Bremerin.

Life

Emma, the name means in Old High German " the sublime " comes by far predominant opinion from the Saxon noble family of Immedinger. Since she was a sister of the Bishop of Paderborn My work according to the testimony of Adam of Bremen, take as their father to Count Immed from the diocese of Utrecht. Paul Derks 1998 pointed out that was not included in the original version of Adam to 1070, the reference to the relationship with Bishop my work, but this is an insert from the 13th century. He holds the origin of Emma therefore no longer indetectable.

She married Liudger, a son of the Saxon Margrave Hermann Billung and brother Duke Bernhard I of Saxony, the Count in Westfalengau and most likely was enfeoffed with the 700 big hooves Reichslehen Lesum. King Otto III. gave the pair in 1001 the royal court in Stiepelmann on which Emma supposedly 1008, the present church was built Stiepeler village in honor of St. Mary, which was a much frequented place of pilgrimage. However, the deed of 1008 is a fake.

In some cases it is assumed that Bishop Imad from Paderborn was a son of the Earl and Emma Liudger. Besides the fact that this assumption was based solely on the question Sibling Relationships between Emma and Bishop My work, Bishop Imad was more like a son of Bishop My sister plant Glismod.

Adam of Bremen tells of a unnamed daughter of Emma, ​​who could not be invested with Lesum because of him allegedly unknown trespasses, that the fief fell back to the Reich. While Derks holds this daughter of a contemporary invention Adams, they could be equated for other considerations with a pen lady Rikquur that their genetic material in Stade and Dithmar the archbishopric of Hamburg -Bremen, leaving 1059.

After the early death of her husband in 1011, Emma moved to the Good Lesum back, supported by their wealth generously the Cathedral Bremen, whose archbishop Unwan was also one of her relatives, and gave the cathedral chapter to her own property and church in Stiepelmann. It was represented as a great benefactor of the Church, but their care was especially the poor. Later, Emma was venerated as a saint, but whether it was ever blessed - or canonized, is not historically proven. My grave should still have been available in the 16th century in the Bremen Cathedral, but could not be located during the archaeological excavations in the years 1973 to 1976.

In the Catholic Church of St. Johann in Bremen Schnoor Quarter Emma is depicted on a stained glass window in the choir. In the St. Mary's Church in Stiepelmann monastery there is also a Imma -up window that shows how Archbishop Heribert Emma permission to build a church presented.

Count seat

It is likely that Emma's residence on the steep bank of the Lesum lay there in St. Magnus, where today stands the Villa Lesmona. A larger basement room of the villa has a floor made of large stone tiles that are considered to be medieval. Was the so-called " Meyerhof ," the later Good meantime between the putative Castle Hill or the Villa Lesmona and today Meierhofstrasse. It may well have been the members of the Grafenburg farmyard, who belonged to a 860 Count Hermann, perhaps the grandfather of Hermann Billung. The former harbor road called Meierhofstrasse led by a map of 1860 to a natural harbor in the Lesum, its eastern foothills zoom reaching to the castle hill.

Legend

To the Foundation a pasture in 1032, it goes in one of the legends of the Bremer History. The Countess was approached by a delegation of the Bremen state to the lack of grazing land. So she wanted to give the citizens a meadow of the surface that could circumnavigate in one hour man. The accompanying them brother and heir, Duke Bernhard I of Saxony, was worried about his inheritance and asked sarcastically, "Why an hour why not a day," as the Countess agreed asked to be allowed Benno choose the man and chose cunning a man without legs, on which the Company had previously passed. The " cripple " but developed unexpected powers and circled in a day an area larger than the present Bürgerweide.

The folk tale has been formulated and demonstrated in various forms since the early 18th century, the donation of the Bürgerweide but is not occupied. So also the " cripple " at the feet of the Bremen Roland probably has a very different meaning. Finally, her brother in law can Duke Bernhard I have 1032 not supported, because he was, like her husband already passed away in 1011. Historically only would his son Duke Bernhard II into consideration.

Commemoration

In Bremen are named after Countess Emma: The Emmasee and a cafe in the public park and roads in the districts Lesum (Emma Berg, Upper and Lower Emmatal ) and Schwachhausen (Emma Street ), where a monument to their historic ride recalls. Another Countess Emma Monument located on the Lesumer marketplace.

In Bochum - Stiepelmann there is a Countess Imma Street, a Countess Imma Church, a Countess Imma Primary School and a Countess Imma Kindergarten.

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