Alberich Stingel

Alberich Stingel (born September 25, 1723 in Vienna , † January 24, 1801 in Wiener Neustadt ) was an Austrian Cistercian and abbot .

Life

Stingel joined the Cistercian order in 1748 and took the name of the order Alberich (also: Alberikus or Alberik ). In 1750 he was ordained a priest. In the Neukloster monastery he was successively pastor, preacher and administrator, and finally (from 1775 until his death) abbot (as successor to Joseph Stübicher ). He was followed by Anton Michael Wohlfarth .

Stingel had a good relationship with the imperial family, whom he welcomed to the monastery several times. He dried up the swamp area in front of the city and turned it into the monastery garden. He survived the changes forced by Josephinism (establishment of the collegiate parish, a collegiate high school, etc.) without the abolition of the monastery. He enriched the monastery library considerably and had a natural history cabinet set up. He developed a lot of building activity in the parishes. From 1789 to 1790 he was administrator of the property of the abolished (but then restored) Lilienfeld monastery . In 1794 he organized the 350th anniversary of his monastery. A plaque in the collegiate church commemorates him.

literature

• Bernhard Schwindel , Topography of the Archduchy of Austria. 13 (= 1/9). The Cistercian monastery in Neustadt , Vienna, Wenedikt, 1835, pp. 118–128.
• Benedikt Kluge, Das Neukloster in Wiener-Neustadt, in: Sebastian Brunner (Ed.), Ein Cistercienserbuch , Wien, Woerl, 1881 / Paderborn, Salzwasser, 2013, pp. 220–279 (here: 263–268).
• Handbook of the historical book collections. 3. Burgenland - Carinthia - Lower Austria - Upper Austria - Salzburg , Hildesheim, Georg Olms, 1996, pp. 202–203.

Web links

• Alberich Stingel in Biographia Cisterciensis , April 1, 2018