Adalbert von Neipperg
Adalbert von Neipperg OSB (born March 31, 1890 in Meran as Karl von Neipperg ; † December 23, 1948 in Werschetz ) was a German count from the von Neipperg family , Benedictines and first abbot of the Neuburg monastery near Heidelberg . He was also a citizen of the city of Sargans in Switzerland (through the naturalization of his great-grandfather Adam Neipperg in 1822).
Life
Karl von Neipperg, whose full name was Maria Karl Joseph Georg Friedrich Franz von Sales Hubertus Ignaz Felix Amos Graf von Neipperg, was the fifth of six children of Count Reinhard von Neipperg (1856-1919) and his wife Gabriela Countess von Waldstein-Wartenberg (1857 -1948). He grew up at Schwaigern Castle near Heilbronn. on, the family seat of the Neipperg family . He first studied art history in Munich.
In 1926 he entered the Abbey Beuron the Congregation of Benedictines in and took the religious name of Adalbert on. After his philosophical and theological training in Maria Laach and Seckau , he was ordained a priest on August 10, 1920. He was prefect of clergy and lecturer for moral theology in Beuron. In 1928 he took over the position of prior of Benediktsberg Abbey in Vaals, Holland. On May 9, 1929, he was elected abbot of the re-established Neuburg Abbey , which was taken over by the Beuron Archabbey. The abbot's benediction took place on June 16, 1929. He was also involved in management positions at the Bund New Germany .
For political, economic and health reasons, he resigned from the office of abbot in 1934 and emigrated from Germany. He first lived in the Austrian Seckau Abbey , then as a spiritual in the Benedictine convent of St. Gabriel , the first convent of the Beuron congregation , at Bertholdstein Castle near Fehring in Eastern Styria. In 1938, after persecution by the Gestapo, he became a pastor in the parish of his cousin Ferdinand von Attems in Windisch-Freistritz, Slovenia .
At Maribor he was taken as a medic in Yugoslavia as a prisoner of war in 1945. Because of his Swiss passport, he was offered to go several times. However, he stayed with the more than 1,000 partially wounded soldiers of the camp in Werschetz , where he was tortured to death or murdered in 1948. He was buried in Werschetz. 1989 was transferred to his bones into the monastery Neuburg , Heidelberg .
The Catholic Church accepted Adalbert von Neipperg as a witness of faith in the German martyrology of the 20th century . In the St. Jakob an der Straße cemetery in Klagenfurt , a plaque commemorates him, identifying him as the martyr of Werschetz . A memorial plaque on the war memorial next to the Benedictine monastery in Seckau in Upper Styria also reminds of him. In June 2015 it became known that Abbot Francis had suggested the beatification of Adalbert and that this project is supported by the Archbishop of the responsible diocese of Freiburg.
Michaela von Neipperg (1885–1957), Adalbert's sister, was also a Benedictine and worked as a superior in Constance .
Adalbert von Neipperg was an honorary member of the Scientific Catholic Student Association Unitas Ruperto Carola zu Heidelberg in the UV .
literature
- Immo Eberl : The Lords and Counts of Neipperg . In: Heimatbuch der Stadt Schwaigern . City administration Schwaigern, Schwaigern 1994.
- Helmut Moll (publisher on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference), witnesses for Christ. Das deutsche Martyrologium des 20. Jahrhundert , Paderborn et al. 1999, 7th revised and updated edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78012-6 , Volume II, pp. 1093-1096.
- Benedikt Pahl: Abbot Adalbert Graf von Neipperg (1890–1948) and the founding and development history of the Benedictine Abbey in Neuburg near Heidelberg until 1949 . Aschendorff, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-402-03980-X .
- Benedikt Pahl: Neipperg, Adalbert (baptized name Karl) Graf v .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 50 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Adalbert von Neipperg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Adalbert von Neipperg on Orden online (with photo)
- Biographical page with a detailed description of the circumstances of death
- Website for the Neipperg monument in Klagenfurt
- Official Facebook page of the Neuburg Abbey for the desired beatification .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Benediktinerlexikon: Adalbert von Neipperg , Biographia Benedictina (Benedictine Biography), version of October 11, 2011, accessed on March 8, 2019
- ↑ Benedikt Pahl OSB: Adalbert von Neipperg , Neue Deutsche Biographie 19 (1999), p. 50 f., Accessed on March 8, 2019
- ↑ Roland Kaltenegger : Der Märtyrer von Werschetz , in: TITOS prisoners of war - torture camps, hunger marches and show trials , Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz-Stuttgart, 2001; ISBN 3-7020-0917-5
- ↑ Documentation Genocide of the Tito Partisans 1944-1948 , publisher: Austrian Historians and Working Group for Carinthia and Styria, Graz, 1990, ISBN 3-925921-08-7
- ↑ Wolfgang Burr (Ed.): Unitas Handbuch I, 1995, p. 77.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neipperg, Adalbert von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Neipperg, Maria Karl Joseph Georg Friedrich Franz von Sales Hubertus Ignaz Felix Amos Count von (baptismal name); Neipperg, Karl von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Benedictine and abbot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Meran |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 23, 1948 |
| Place of death | Werschetz |