Andreas Kindscher

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Andreas Kindscher OSB (* in the 15th century in Biberach ; † 23. September 1541 in Ochsenhausen ) than Andrew I. 8th abbot of ochsenhausen abbey in what is now the district of Biberach in Upper Swabia .

Life

Seventeen conventuals met on September 3, 1508 to elect the new abbot. Also present were two abbots from the neighboring Upper Swabian monasteries, Abbot Georg Piscatoris Vischer from Zwiefalten Monastery and Abbot Johannes from Elchingen Monastery . Andreas was the sixth abbot born in Biberach. In 1515 he was appointed commissioner and arbitrator of the order for the dioceses of Constance and Chur by the Benedictine order of Mainz according to the regulations of the Basel Council . Under him, the monks Johannes Laubacher von Pfullendorf and Vitus Wick belonged to the monastery .

Andreas suspended the fine of 4,000 guilders for disobedience ordered by Abbot Hieronymus I. Biechelberger in 1501 by the Swabian Federation . In 1513, Pope Leo X allowed the monks to eat meat during the forty-day fast in justified exceptional cases . In 1522 Pope Hadrian VI. permission for the priests of the monastery to look after the incorporated parishes of Mittelbuch , Ringschnait , Füramoos and Wain . Bishop Hugo von Landenberg confirmed this favor in 1523.

After 33 years in office, Abbot Andreas I died on September 23, 1541.

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. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2003, ISBN 3-7995-0212-2 (exhibition catalog and essay volume).
  • Volker Himmelein, Franz Quarthal (Ed.): Vorderösterreich, Only the tail feather of the imperial eagle? The Habsburgs in the German southwest. Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Ulm 1999, ISBN 3-88294-277-0 (catalog of the state exhibition).
  • Elmar Kuhn (Ed.): The Peasants' War in Oberschwaben. Tübingen.
  • Heribert Smolinsky : Church history of the modern age. Part 1. 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Geisenhof : Brief history of the former imperial monastery Ochsenhausen in Swabia. Ganser, Ottobeuren 1829 ( digitized version ), p. 76
predecessor Office successor
Hieronymus Biechelberger OSB Abbot of Ochsenhausen
1508–1541 		Georg Müller OSB
personal data
SURNAME Kindscher, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kindscher, Andreas I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION eighth abbot of the imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Biberach
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1541
Place of death Ochsenhausen