Alberich Ebenhöch

Alberich Ebenhöch (* July 2, 1666 in Eibelstadt ; † October 1, 1727 in Würzburg ), actually Johann Gabriel Ebenhöch, was the 45th abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Sankt Stephan in Würzburg and from 1716 to 1720 rector of the Julius Maximilians University Wurzburg .

Origin and relatives

Abbot Alberich Ebenhöch was a son from the 2nd marriage of master butcher Wolfgang Ebenhöch (born March 23, 1631 in Hohenfels in the Upper Palatinate; † November 14, 1695 in Eibelstadt near Würzburg) with the bourgeois daughter Dorothea Vornberger (born February 28, 1637 in Eibelstadt ; † April 4, 1676 ibid). He had two sisters Maria Dorothea (* 1669) and Maria Margaretha (1673–1719), married Ecklein; as well as the four half-brothers, Johann Wolfgang (1660–1695); Johann Wilhelm (1683–1769), privy councilor to the prince-bishop and mayor of the city ​​of Würzburg ; Jeremias (1686–1758), councilor, town builder and mayor in Eibelstadt and Johannes (1688–1758), Dr. phil., 36 years pastor of St. Peter and Paul in Würzburg and Regens of the seminary.

In 1722 Alberich Ebenhöch left the imperial letter of arms with elevation to the knighthood without rating from the year 1645 for the brothers Leonhardt Ebenhöch and Georg Ebenhöch - the grandfather of the abbot Alberich Ebenhöch - electoral Bavarian transfers and mayor in Hohenfels in the Upper Palatinate for descendants of both sexes in Würzburg by notary and procurator Johann Kaspar Haber and thus secured the evidence for the Würzburg and Eibelstädter Ebenhöch.

The coat of arms, which shows a yellow Pegasus in black on a green plane and the same colored Pegasus with a black lance on the helmet with yellow-black blankets and a twisted lance, was preserved on an epitaph in the parish church of St. Nikolaus in Eibelstadt an der Enclosing wall, in the middle of the high altar of the church in Kolitzheim , Gerolzhofen district in Lower Franconia (The art monuments in Bavaria, Gerolzhofen district office, edited by Hans Karlinger, 1913), where the Sankt Stephan monastery was a fief and church lord, in the coat of arms of the city's patrician families Würzburg in the city's silver council book on pages 69, 94 and 96, in a field of the coffered ceiling of the town hall in Würzburg and was published in the German gender book , genealogical manual of bourgeois families, volume 172 in 1975 and volume 220 in 2009, CAStarke Verlag Limburg the Lahn in the family line Ebenhöch, Ebenhöh, Ebenhoch from Hocheneben from Hohenfels in the Upper Palatinate published in print by today's widely branched offspring.

Life

Johann Gabriel Ebenhöch entered the Benedictine monastery of Sankt Stephan in Würzburg at the age of 18, took the monastery name Alberich, took the religious vows in 1686, was ordained a priest, was novice master in Sankt Stephan and confessor of the monastery of the Benedictine nuns of the monastery Sankt Afra in Würzburg and in 1713 became the 45th abbot of Saint Stephen. During his 14-year abbot from 1713 to 1727, Alberich Ebenhöch was rector of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg from 1716 to 1720 and had the monastery church of Sankt Stephan and the convent buildings extensively renovated and furnished. Abbot Alberich Ebenhöch was buried in the crypt in front of the high altar of the St. Stephan monastery church in Würzburg.

literature

• Richard Redelberger: Families from old Würzburg , in: “The Mainlande”, supplement to the Main Post, Würzburg 1960, no. 20 and 21; 1962, No. 17; and old Eibelstädter families, ibid. 1966, no.24.
• Hellmuth Rössler: German patriciate, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg an der Lahn, 1968, page 244.
• German gender book , genealogical handbook of bourgeois families , volume 172 (45th general volume), lineage Ebenhöch, Ebenhöh, Ebenhoch von Hocheneben from Hohenfels in the Upper Palatinate page 233 - 288, Georgian main line with Abbot Alberich (Johann Gabriel) Ebenhöch pages 241 and 242, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, 1975.

Web links

• Literature by and about Alberich Ebenhöch in the catalog of the German National Library