Edmund Rustige

Edmund Rustige OSB (born February 14, 1746 in Erwitte ; † June 21, 1816 in Warstein ) was the last abbot of the Grafschaft monastery .

Life

He entered in 1767 into the monastery and laid a year later, the profession from. In 1772 he was ordained a subdeacon , then a deacon and finally a priest. From 1777 he was novice master in the county. In 1782 he was appointed prior and pastor of the lower church. Rustige was elected abbot in 1786 and confirmed as such by Archbishop Maximilian Franz of Austria . The Cologne auxiliary bishop Karl Aloys von Königsegg-Aulendorf consecrated him abbot.

The monastery was heavily burdened by the coalition wars. French and German troops were billeted there and monks were taken hostage to enforce war contributions. The abbot had to flee temporarily to the tithe courtyard of the monastery in Warstein.

On February 16, 1804, Rustige was informed of the decision to abolish the monastery by the new Hesse-Darmstadt government . In addition to clothing, bed and breviary , the abbot was allowed to take the furnishings of his living room with him. The abbot stayed with the monks in the monastery until March 21st and at the end celebrated the feast of St. Benedict of Nursia .

As a pension he received 2000 guilders per year. He was allowed to keep his regalia as abbot until his death. Rustige lived on the Klosterzehnthof near Warstein, where the Belecke provost was also located. After his death, his insignia was transferred to the provost in Belecke. He is buried in Belecke church. In 1843 his body was moved from the crypt to the sacristy.

literature

• Lea Steinrücke, Michael Hermes: Directory of the abbots and monks of the St. Alexander monastery in Grafschaft (1598-1853) . In: Südwestfalenarchiv, 2004 p. 94f.
• General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts. First section, part 38. Leipzig, 1864 p. 226

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich Kreilmann	Abbot of Kloster Grafschaft 1786–1804	Abolition of the monastery