Apollo by Vilbel

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Apollos von Vilbel's coat of arms, Limburg Abbey , Bad Dürkheim

Apollo von Vilbel also Apel von Vilbel (* around 1480 ; † August 18, 1536 in Petersberg ) was a Benedictine abbot and chronicler.

Live and act

origin

He came to in the Wetterau based Ministerialengeschlecht the Knights of Vilbel , whose origin in the city of Bad Vilbel should be. These had a heraldic shield divided into squares with a rose in the center, which the later abbot also adopted in his personal coat of arms.

The parents are the Friedberger Burgmann Walter von Vilbel and Gisela born. called by Dorfelden . This also corresponds to the ancestral coat of arms on his preserved grave slab, according to which the grandmother came from the family of the orphans of Fauerbach .

Apollo's brother Wendelin von Vilbel († 1540) officiated as dean of the knightly monastery St. Ferrutius Bleidenstadt and died as the last male offspring of his family according to the grave inscription there; All his life he was a humble and noble friend of charity .

Religious affiliation

Apollo von Vilbel entered the Fulda monastery . As early as 1504 he was recorded as a canon and waiter for the monastery. 1513–1514 and again from 1523 he officiated here as monastery dean . In addition, from 1510 he was provost of the Benedictine convent in Rohr , and from around 1513 also provost of the monastery branch on Petersberg .

Dept

Coat of arms of the Limburg monastery: cross with crown of thorns

After the death of Werner Breder von Hohenstein († 1531), Apollo von Vilbel was elected on November 4, 1531 as his successor as the 57th abbot of the Palatinate Monastery of Limburg , which owned the associated branch convent Naumburg in Apollo's home . At this time he was no longer a Fulda collegiate dean, but held the dignity of the provost at Petersberg for his entire life. His Limburg abbot predecessor Machar Wais von Fauerbach († 1509) may have been related to him through his grandmother .

The local historian Johann Georg Lehmann describes Apollo von Vilbel as a “learned man and enterprising mind”, Franz Xaver Remling praises his knowledge and his impeccable way of life. With the mediation of the Palatinate Elector Ludwig V he succeeded in 1534 in Heidelberg in an advantageous comparison with the Counts of Leiningen , whereby the Limburg Abbey got back many of its estranged rights. He was also active in the reconstruction of the monastery, which burned down in 1504, whereby he had the clergy's apartments and the abbot's apartment restored. In this context, there is a coat of arms of Abbot Apollo on the west gable of the summer refectory .

In 1536 Apollo traveled from Vilbel to the Petersberg Provost , where he fell ill and died in August of that year. He was buried in the associated church. His grave slab is preserved there, but was long lost and was used as an altar stone. The coat of arms depicted on it corresponds to the one in Limburg Abbey and consists of the Limburg abbey coat of arms (cross with crown of thorns) and the Vilbel family coat of arms.

author

Abbot Apollo was interested in history and shortly before his death wrote a Latin abbot catalog for the Fulda Abbey with historical notes. It was translated into German by Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer and published several times into modern times. He also left a handwritten chronicle on the history of the Fulda Abbey and the Petersberg Propstei, in which he a. a. describes their plundering in the Peasants' War . This chronicle is now in the Fulda seminary and was published in 1889 by Joseph Rübsam in the journal for Hessian history and regional studies .

gallery

  • Wappenstein at the summer refectory, status 2015

  • Limburg monastery ruins, outer west wall of the summer refectory with the location of the coat of arms marked

literature

  • Josef Leinweber : The Fulda abbot catalog of the Apollo von Vilbel. On the Fulda history of the 16th century and the chronology of the Fulda abbots . Fulda 1986, ISBN 3-7900-0148-1 .
  • Franz Xaver Remling : Documented history of the former abbeys and monasteries in what is now Rhine Bavaria , Volume 1, p. 144, Neustadt an der Haardt, 1836; (Digital scan)
  • Johann Georg Lehmann : History of the Limburg Monastery near Dürckheim an der Haardt , Frankenthal (Pfalz), 1822, p. 80 u. 81; (Digital scan)
  • Wilhelm Manchot : Limburg Monastery , Mannheimer Altertumsverein, 1892, p. 31

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Philipp Usener: Contributions to the history of knight castles and mountain castles in the area around Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt 1852, p. 104; (Digital scan)
  2. ↑ Heraldic website u. a. to the knights of Vilbel
  3. ↑ Genealogical website about the person
  4. ↑ Yvonne Monsees: The inscriptions of the Rheingau-Taunus district. 1997, ISBN 3-88226969-3 ; P. 349 (detail scan)
  5. ↑ Wendelin von Vilbel 1540, Bleidenstadt. Grave monuments in Hesse until 1650. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  6. ^ Church and theology in Franconia: Festschrift for Theodor Kramer. In: Würzburger Diözesangeschichtsblätter , 1975, p. 543; (Detail scan)
  7. ^ Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies , Volume 42, 1908, p. 169, (detail scan)
  8. ↑ Johann Goswin Widder : Attempt of a complete geographic-historical description of the Electoral Palatinate on the Rhine. Volume 2. Frankfurt 1786, p. 314; (Digital scan)
  9. ↑ PDF document on the history of Limburg Abbey
  10. ^ Website of the grave slab of Apollo von Vilbel
  11. ↑ Bernd Heidenreich : Hessen: History and Politics. Volume 5 of: Writings on the political culture of Hesse. Kohlhammer Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-17016323-X , p. 37; (Detail scan)
  12. ^ Biographical website on Josef Rübsam
  13. ^ Website with mention of the Chronicle of Apollos von Vilbel
  14. ↑ Website with a photo of the chronicle
  15. ↑ Find notice for publication of 1889
personal data
SURNAME Vilbel, Apollo by
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Benedictine abbot, historian and chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH around 1480
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1536
Place of death Petersberg