Alphons Kleinhans

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Alphons Kleinhans OSB (* December 10, 1606 in Reute near Feldkirch ; † May 14, 1671 in Ochsenhausen ) was the 18th abbot of the imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen in today's Biberach district in Upper Swabia .

Life

Alphons, originally Johann Baptist, took his religious vows on September 8, 1622 . To further prepare for the spiritual profession, he attended the Latin school of the monastery in Ummendorf near Biberach. He then studied theology at the University of Salzburg . During the Thirty Years' War in 1632, on behalf of the monastery, he accompanied eleven monks from the Ochsenhausen monastery who were studying at the University of Dillingen to safe Salzburg.

In September 1632 he was ordained a priest in Salzburg. At the end of the year Abbot Wunibald ordered him back to Ochsenhausen to help out with pastoral care.

Alpirsbach, Munster and Buxheim

From 1638 to 1648 he was abbot of the Alpirsbach monastery . In 1653 he was elected abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Gregory in Munster (Haut-Rhin) , but could not take office because the king of France exercised the patronage right of the monastery and the election was therefore void.

In 1658 he wanted to join the Carthusian monastery in Buxheim, before he was finally elected abbot of the Ochsenhausen monastery in the same year.

Act

Imperial Abbey of Ochsenhausen around 1630

When he took office, the war-related liabilities of the monastery amounted to 115,896 guilders. He was able to reduce this to zero. Several buildings in the monastery were threatened with collapse. In the course of his term of office, the following acquisitions and construction work are particularly noteworthy:

  • Construction of today's sacristy
  • today's high altar
  • Renewal of the curtain wall around the monastery
  • Purchase of four new bells
  • Acquisition of a winery on Lake Constance from Isny ​​Abbey
  • Acquisition of the Winkel farm
  • Acquisition of hunting rights from the Counts of Kirchberg and Weißenhorn
  • Acquisition of his parent company and vineyards in Feldkirch.

literature

  • Georg Geisenhof : Brief history of the former Reichsstift Ochsenhausen in Swabia . Ganser, Ottobeuren 1829 ( digitized version )
  • Volker Himmelein (ed.): Old monasteries, new masters. The secularization in the German southwest 1803. Large state exhibition Baden-Württemberg 2003 ; Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2003; ISBN 3-7995-0212-2 (exhibition catalog and essay volume)
  • Hans-Jörg Reiff, Gebhard Spahr, Dieter Hauffe: Ochsenhausen Monastery. History, art, present. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1985, ISBN 3-924489-27-0 .

Web links

Commons : Ochsenhausen Monastery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geisenhof: Brief History ; P. 110.
predecessor Office successor
Wunibald Waibel Abbot of Ochsenhausen
1658–1671 		Balthasar Puolamer
personal data
SURNAME Kleinhans, Alphons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dept
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1606
PLACE OF BIRTH Feldkirch
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1671
Place of death Ochsenhausen