Alram (abbot)

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Alram (or Adalram ) († March 11, 1122 ) was a Benedictine and abbot of Kremsmünster Abbey .

Life

Alram took over the duties of the abbot in Kremsmünster Abbey in 1090. He ruled the monastery with great concern and increased its prosperity through economic skill. At great expense he enlarged the library and the church's equipment. The establishment of the churches in the parishes of Kirchdorf and Windischgarsten is also attributed to him.

In honor of St. Benedict , he had a church built in Pettenbach after the Kremsmünster monastery had received back estates in Pettenbach and Traungau that had previously been withdrawn from the monastery by Passau Bishop Christian . The document signed by Emperor Heinrich IV on April 30, 1099 in Regensburg documents the return of the lands.

In 1120 Alram voluntarily resigned from the office of abbot, either exhausted by old age or discouraged by worries and work. He died on March 11, 1122 and, according to Rettenpacher, was buried near the middle column in the right side chapel of the church at that time.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ P. Simon Rettenpacher: Annales Monasterii Cremifanensis in Austria Superiore . Printer Joannis Baptistae Mayr, Salzburg 1677, p. 148 .
  2. ↑ Certificate 1099 IV April 30, 1099, accessed on January 16, 2015 .
  3. ↑ P. Simon Rettenpacher: Annales Monasterii Cremifanensis in Austria Superiore . Printer Joannis Baptistae Mayr, Salzburg 1677, p. 150 .
personal data
SURNAME Alram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adalram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION 15th Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Kremsmünster
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1122
Place of death uncertain: Kremsmünster