Adalbert von Harstall
Wilhelm Adolf Heinrich Adalbert von Harstall OSB (born March 18, 1737 in Treffurt , † October 8, 1814 in Fulda ) was named Adalbert III. last prince-bishop of Fulda.
Life
He was the youngest son of the privy councilor Hartmann Ernst von Harstall and his wife Theresia von Redwitz. His godparents were the then Prince Abbot of Fulda Adolf von Dalberg and Duke Wilhelm Heinrich von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach .
Around 1758 he entered the Order of Saint Benedict (OSB). On September 19, 1761 he was ordained a religious priest. From 1773 he was a member of the cathedral chapter and in 1778 took over the Thulba Provostry , on whose church he carried out major construction work. On November 18, 1788 he was named Adalbert III. elected Bishop of Fulda and on March 30, 1789 by Pope Pius VI. approved. It was consecrated on May 15, 1789 by the later Archbishop of Mainz , Karl Theodor von Dalberg . On November 27, 1791, the regalia were enfeoffed by Emperor Leopold II as Imperial Prince .
Adalbert's tenure, which was characterized in particular by a pastoral view, fell between the outbreak of the French Revolution and the Congress of Vienna. With him the bishopric or prince-bishopric of Fulda ended , which was secularized at the urging of Napoleon in 1803 by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . Secular rule first went to Prince Wilhelm V of Orange-Nassau . He passed it on to his son Prince Wilhelm Friedrich of Orange , son-in-law of the Prussian King and, after Napoleon's defeat, later King Wilhelm I of the Netherlands. But Adalbert von Harstall remained Bishop of Fulda. He lived to see the end of the brief Orange rule and had the Fulda Cathedral set up as a transit camp for Prussian prisoners of war (approx. 42,000).
In 1810 the area of the former bishopric became part of the Fulda department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt . After his dismissal as sovereign, Adalbert had to leave the castle and lived across the street until his death in the Palais Buseck, since 1832 the free aristocratic monastery of Wallenstein Abbey . Napoleon also visited him there. On October 8, 1814, the last Prince-Bishop of Fulda died and was buried in front of the Sturmius Altar in the Baroque cathedral, but his heart was embedded in the wall in a silver capsule next to the Boniface grave.
With Adalbert, the diocese of Fulda also ended de facto as an ecclesiastical jurisdiction . It was not until 1821 that it was rewritten with the bull Provida solersque .
literature
- Josef Leinweber: The Fulda abbots and bishops . Frankfurt, 1989
- Martin Hartung: Adalbert von Harstall. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL), Volume 39, Bautz, Nordhausen 2018, ISBN 978-3-95948-350-6 , Sp. 567-577.
- Michael Mott : Fulda Heads or People of Our Homeland Volume II, Fulda, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7900-0442-7 , pp. 326–329.
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Heinrich von Bibra |
Prince-Bishop and Abbot of Fulda 1789 - 1814 |
Johann Adam Rieger |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Harstall, Adalbert von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harstall, Wilhelm Adolf Heinrich Adalbert von; Adalbert III. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prince-Bishop of Fulda |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1737 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hit |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1814 |
| Place of death | Fulda |