Aloys Brockhoff

Aloys Joseph Wilhelm Brockhoff (born April 19, 1739 in Essen ; † April 17, 1825 there ) was a German canon , Catholic priest and the last official of the Essen monastery .

Live and act

Together with his younger brother, Aloys Brockhoff was accepted into the clergy in 1754. He then completed a theology degree in Cologne , where he received the four minor orders in 1759 . A few years after he returned to Essen, in 1763 he was given an income canon. The subdiaconate , the diaconate , and finally the priestly ordination followed in January 1764. In 1789 he was appointed scholaster and appointed administrator of the St. Crucis altar in the Essen cathedral church .

Brockhoff's appointment as official of the women's monastery in Essen took place on July 22, 1790. He was thus given the ordinary deputy power and was able to exercise the sovereign rights that were due to the then abbess Maria Kunigunde of Saxony . In addition, he received the spiritual jurisdiction of the Rellinghausen Abbey .

Aloys Brockhoff's tasks for more than ten years now included the investiture of altarists, canons and pastors and the writing of public prayers on spiritual, social and state occasions for the parish and monastery churches, the spiritual jurisdiction and the secular jurisdiction of the narrower castle freedom. When secularization took place in 1803 , the last abbess Maria Kunigunde finally lost her sovereignty. However, Aloys Brockhoff remained in office until his death in 1825 in the following changing rulership, as the religious sovereignty was initially not affected.

literature

• Alfred Pothmann, Reimund Haas (ed.): The last Essen collegiate official Aloys Joseph Wilhelm Brockhoff (1739-1825), vol. 1 . Peter Pomp, Bottrop 1998, ISBN 978-3-89355-179-8 , pp. 96-137 .

Web link

• Historical portal Essen: Historical portal Essen