Katharina von Bora was the daughter of a Jan von Bora auf Lippendorf and his wife Margarete, whose family name has not been established. Both were only specifically mentioned in the year 1505. It is certain that her father sent the five-year-old Katharina to the Benedictine cloister in Brehna in 1504 for education. This is documented in a letter from Laurentius Zoch to Martin Luther, written on October 30, 1531. This letter is the only evidence for Katharina von Bora's time spent within the monastery. At the age of nine she moved to the Cistercian monastery of Marienthron (Mary's Throne) in Nimbschen, near
Bora (wind) Bora (wind) The bora is a northern to north-eastern katabatic wind in the Adriatic Sea. Similar nomenclature is used for north-eastern winds in other littoral areas of eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea basins. It is known in Greek as ("mpóra", pronounced "bora") and Italian as . In English, the name "bora" is used. The Serbo-Croatian name (бура) and Slovene are not etymologically related to "bora"; they derive from Common Slavic "burja" 'storm' (from the verb "*burĭti") and the meaning 'bora' developed later. The same root as "bora" is found in the name of the Greek mythological figure of Boreas (Βορέας),