Wolfgang II. Griesstätter zu Haslach

Griestätters grave monument in the Franciscan Church ( Berchtesgaden )

Wolfgang Griesstätter to Haslach : (also Gries Stetter , Gries Teter * 1490 †, 14. July 1567 was 1522 to 1541) provost of the monastery pin Höglwörth next interim administrator of Baumburg Abbey , then he was from 1541 to 1559 as Wolfgang II. First provost in the rank of imperial prelate , then from 1559 to 1567 first prince provost of the prince provostie Berchtesgaden as well as from 1561 administrator of the Stiftspropstei Altötting .

Life

Wolfgang Griesstätter zu Haslach came from a noble family in Lower Bavaria. As a canon he studied in Ingolstadt from 1514 , and from 1522 he became prelate or provost of the Augustinian Canons ' Abbey in Höglwörth . He held this office until 1541 and was meanwhile also administrator of the Baumburg monastery . From 1541 until his death in 1567 he was promoted to provost in the rank of imperial prelate , from 1559 - as the first to be officially "prince" - to the rank of "prince provost of Berchtesgaden" and thus a voting imperial prince . In addition, acting under the 1561 Duke Albrecht of Bavaria in addition the pin provost Ötting .

At his express request, after his death he was not buried in the Berchtesgaden collegiate church , but in the “ church on the Anger, which he loved ” in Berchtesgaden .

Act

Debut as provost of Berchtesgaden

As Wolfgang II, he headed a chapter of eleven Bavarian and Salzburg nobles from 1541. From these canons he later called on Jakob Pütrich as coadjutor in order to build him up as his successor.

The annual income of the monastery country at that time comprised 900 guilders interest payments from the farmers (see land letter from his predecessor Ulrich I. Wulp (1377-1382)) as well as their tenth of their harvest yields with 90 sheep of grain and 7000 large cheeses for the monastery monastery’s own household and for Alms were used. After the loss of profitable areas in the Upper Palatinate and Franconia, only the income from other possessions in the Bavarian and Austrian regions remained with a total of 550 guilders and 340 shepherds of grain.

New salt spring and construction of a new salt works

After a salt spring was discovered in Bischofswiesen an der Tann and rock salt was discovered at the Gmünd Bridge , Griesstätter was able to conclude an advantageous contract for the Berchtesgadener Land with Duke Albrecht of Bavaria in 1555. After that, all of the salt mined at these two places was to go exclusively to Bavaria at a fixed price - the hem to 14 kreuzers and customs duties of one white pfennig . This secured the sale and sale of the salt for a long time. The transport routes and the bridges needed for them had to be built and maintained by the Berchtesgaden Propstei alone, and Bavaria in return to protect these salt deposits from the Archbishopric of Salzburg . The transport of the salt and the resulting income were in turn reserved for the residents of Berchtesgadener Land alone.

As a result, a saltworks was built in the village of Berchtesgaden on Gut Frauenreut (also Fronreut ; today Salinenplatz , previously Am Güterbahnhof ), which was also withdrawn from Salzburg's access and created new jobs. And this, although the two Bischofswieser salt sites did not prove to be worthwhile. Instead, brought the Griesstätter 1517 by Gregor Rainer whipped Petersberg and 1558 in the Salt Mine newly whipped Fraunberg into the contract with the Duchy of Bavaria.

Payment of debts to Salzburg

1556 is also the year in which Griesstätter was able to pay off the remainder of a 167-year debt burden and thus was able to free Schellenberg from the Salzburg pledge. The contract signed for this purpose with the participation of the Bishop of Eichstätt is known as the "Eichstätter Compromise" and was also understood as a peace treaty with Salzburg.

Base with inscription from Griestätters grave monument

Nevertheless, Griesstätter had financial worries, as he was obliged, as imperial prince, to make a considerable contribution to armaments and the Turkish tax . According Reichsmatrikel the Diet of Worms (1521) , he had to provide two men on horseback and 34 men on foot. (For comparison: The entire Bavarian contingent, like Salzburg, comprised 60 knights and 272 foot soldiers.) Ten years later, twice as many mercenaries were to be held.

Closure of the women's monastery on the Anger

In 1564 Griesstätter closed the now meaningless and almost orphaned convent on the Anger . However, he was unable to implement his plan to build a hospital for the poor there.

Establishment of the Griesstätter Fund

Shortly before his death, he established the Griesstätter Fund as a foundation with the motto: "Be rich and superfluous in all good works." In it he gave 10,000 guilders for the "poor, sick and crippled" as well as for scholarships for "two young men of moral character." and change ”, which can be“ learned ”with it in“ Universali Studio catholico Germaniae ”in Ingolstadt, Freiburg or Vienna. Furthermore, they were to be given to "three born country daughters", who, as "virtuous Junck women", were to be granted twenty guilders each for entering into marriage.

Family and family name

The first mentioned members of this family line are Friedrich, Heinrich, Sibold von Griesstetten alias Grietzenstetten. The “ministerial” addition “zu Haslach” was added to their family names around 1160 or 1170. The commonly used "new" spelling, such as for a street name in Berchtesgaden , is "Griesstätter" or "Griesstätter zu Haslach". Some historians, on the other hand, use the spelling “Griesstetter” or “Griesstetter zu Haslach”, as can still be read on the tombs of subsequent family members.

• Urban Griesstätter zu Haslach and Herrnfelden (–1514), from 1493 to 1514 ducal keeper of Vilsbiburg and Geisenhausen ∞ Margaretha Greul von Greulsberg (near Bayerbach near Ergoldsbach , LK Landshut) on Vatersham (near Aspertsham)
  • Wolfgang Griesstätter zu Haslach (1490–1567), from 1522 to 1541 provost of the Augustinian canons monastery Höglwörth, in between from 1536 to 1538 administrator of the Baumburg monastery, from 1541 to 1567 first monastery, then prince provost of Berchtesgaden and from 1561 administrator of Stiftspropstei Ötting.
  • Johann Griesstätter von Haslach, provost judge in Berchtesgaden from 1541 to 1551 ∞ Anna Anicher from Tyrol
  • Thomas I. Griesstätter zu Haslach, Herrnfelden and Thalham (–31 January 1580), princely keeper of Biburg
  • Thomas II. Griesstätter zu Haslach, Herrnfelden and Thalham, district judge in Berchtesgaden 1551 to 1558 ∞ Regina Hinterskirchner (from Hinterskirchen near Velden) ∞ Anna Goder von Kriesdorf

Posthumous appreciations

• He is the only one of all Berchtesgaden monastery and prince provosts who has been honored with the naming of a street within the market center. Because of his charity, the road connecting Maximilianstrasse and Ludwig-Ganghoferstrasse (formerly Berghofstrasse) was named Griesstätterstrasse after him.
• The Griesstätterberg in the Berchtesgaden salt mine is also named in his honor.

literature

• Walter Brugger , Heinz Dopsch , Peter F. Kramml: History of Berchtesgaden: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594) . Plenk, Berchtesgaden 1991, p. 939.
• Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Berchtesgadener Anzeiger publishing house , Berchtesgaden 1986 ISBN 3-925647-00-7 , pp. 87-103.
• A. Helm , Hellmut Schöner (ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time . Reprint from 1929. Association for local history d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1973. pp. 100, 106-116, 261-262.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ To study a. a. in: Walter Brugger, Heinz Dopsch , Peter F. Kramml (eds.): History of Berchtesgaden. P. 560.
2. ↑ On offices in Altötting, Baumburg, Berchtesgaden and date of death in: Walter Brugger, Heinz Dopsch, Peter F. Kramml (eds.): History of Berchtesgaden. P. 939.
3. ↑ ^{a b} On family and surnames as well as a survey of provost in Ötting by Duke Albrecht in: Max Fhr. V. Freyberg: Collection of historical writings and documents. Created from manuscripts. Volume 3. Cotta, Stuttgart et al. 1830, pp. 339 and 340.
4. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden. History of the country and its people. P. 103.
5. ^ ^{A b} Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden. History of the country and its people. P. 101.
6. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden. History of the country and its people. Pp. 87-88.
7. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden. History of the country and its people. P. 88.
8. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden. History of the country and its people. Pp. 75, 92, 93 ( see also his predecessors: Konrad Torer von Törlein and Eberhard III. Von Neuhaus ).
9. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden. History of the country and its people. Pp. 100-101.
10. ^ Wikisource.org Imperial register of 1521
11. ↑ wikisource.org Old book listing from 1532 on Reich register.
12. ↑ datenmatrix.de To: Berchtesgaden, Chorherrenstift in "House of Bavarian History".
13. ^ ^{A b} Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden. History of the country and its people. Pp. 102-103.
14. ↑ ^{a b c} A. Helm : Berchtesgaden through the ages. P. 116: Keyword: "Griesstätterstraße" and "Griesstätter zu Haslach, Thomas".
15. ↑ Google Maps city ​​map of Berchtesgaden with Griesstätterstraße .
16. ↑ opus-bayern.de For the spelling “Griesstetter”, see the quotation from Walter Brugger et al. in Bamberg historical studies ed. from the Institute for History of the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg , p. 255 PDF file; in contrast, the spelling “Griesstätter” u. a. with Feulner and A. Helm.