Ambros Becziczka

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Abbot Ambros Becziczka (lithograph by Josef Kriehuber )

Ambros Becziczka OCist (born November 27, 1780 in Holitz , † December 23, 1861 in Lilienfeld ) was a Cistercian and from 1825 to 1861 the 58th  abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Lilienfeld .

Life

Time until the abbot

The son of a hatter born and the name Anton baptized he came by his uncle, the Lilienfelder Subprior Robert Kořiczek as a choirboy into Lilienfeld. He attended the Stiftsgymnasium, entered the novitiate of the Lilienfeld Monastery on September 27, 1799 and took the religious name Ambros . On November 1, 1802, he took his religious vows and studied theology in Lilienfeld and Heiligenkreuz . On September 23, 1804 he was ordained a priest in Vienna .

Then he was a cooperator in Lilienfeld in 1804 , in Annaberg in 1806 and in Türnitz from 1807 to 1816 . In 1810 he also worked as a military chaplain for a few months . From 1816 to 1817 he was parish vicar in Josefsberg , also cellar master , librarian and in 1821 again parish vicar in Annaberg.

On July 6, 1825, he was chaired by Bishop Joseph Chrysostom Pauer of St. Poelten elected abbot and in St. Pölten on 24 July benediziert .

Activity as dept

Soon after his election, Abbot Ambros issued new regulations for civil servants and officials . After the fire damage in 1810 to the medieval components, which had already been removed by Abbot Johann Ladislaus Pyrker , restorations of the chapter house , the cellarium and the church were necessary around 1833 , which was followed by the restoration of the Josefi chapel in 1836.

Ambros Becziczka initiated the expansion of the picture gallery and, in 1826, had a botanical garden with exotic plants, the so-called abbey park, laid out. He also imported exotic plants and trees, such as the then still rare species of ginkgo . In 1843 he sold the glass factory at Gstettenhof in Türnitz because it was unprofitable and in 1837 and 1844, respectively, he bought and remodeled two houses in Vienna.

From 1828 to 1832 he campaigned for the establishment of an improved institute facility at the theological college of Heiligenkreuz for the training of the clergy , and in 1831 initiated the conversion of the Choir Boys Institute in Lilienfeld into a lower grammar school with public rights .

A particular concern of his was the expansion of the road via Annaberg to Mariazell , for which he was particularly committed.

In 1848, the dissolution of the land subservience, the so-called land transfer, brought about a significant change in the administration of the rulership, because the judicial districts of Hainfeld, Lilienfeld, Türnitz and St. Pölten emerged from the Lilienfeld rulership . This restructuring resulted in undue legal and basic demands by former peasants belonging to the ruling class, which disappointed the abbot so much that he increasingly avoided contact with the population.

On the occasion of an attempt to reform the order in 1848 under the Apostolic Delegate Archbishop Cardinal Schwarzenberg of Prague , Lilienfeld was proposed as a model monastery because of its good status and its central location. However, the abbot and the convent opposed the reform idea and the abbot justified the rejection by stating that the previous way of life had found recognition everywhere. The reform commission will have to fail because of the zeitgeist if it is not able to instill a new spirit into the whole thing. Ambros Becziczka should be right.

In other respects, too, Abbot Ambros found it difficult to understand the new era after 1848. After a stroke , he finally died one day before Christmas Eve in 1861 and was buried three days later in the Lilienfeld local cemetery.

Publications

  • Historical and topographical representation of Lilienfeld and its surroundings, in: Historical and topographical representation of the parishes, monasteries, monasteries ... Diocese of St. Pölten. Vienna 1825
  • Historical and topographical representation of the city of Salzburg with the detailed history of the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter in Salzburg, in: Kirchliche Topographie von Österreich, 3rd department, Vienna 1829.
  • On the nature and state of the economy in the district of Lilienfeld, in: Negotiations of the kk Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft, 1829

Awards and memberships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c biography on biographien.ac.at , accessed on August 22, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Ambros Becziczka in the Cistercian Lexicon , accessed on August 22, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Becziczka, Ambros
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beziczka, Ambros; Becziczka, Anton (Christian name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Cistercian and Abbot of Lilienfeld
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Holitz
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1861
Place of death Lily field