Augustin Mueller

Augustin Müller (* in Vallendar ; † June 2, 1821 in Koblenz ) was the last abbot of Rommersdorf Abbey .

Life

Augustin Müller from Vallendar was pastor in Heimbach when he was surprisingly elected as a compromise candidate for prelate of the Rommersdorf Abbey on August 6, 1792 . After the death of Abbot Franz Kech, the younger conventuals wanted to elect the 28-year-old canon Wilhelm Arnold Günther , who did not seriously want to do so himself, the older ones could not agree on a common candidate.

Abbot Müller experienced the tribulations of the coalition wars and the abolition of his abbey in favor of the Prince of Nassau-Weilburg in 1802/1803. On November 2, 1802, the Nassau-Weilburg judiciary Carl Hergenhahn began to take provisional possession of the Limburg Abbey and the Rommersdorf and Sayn abbeys. On November 16, he arrived in Rommersdorf and began to inventory the property of the Rommersdorf Abbey. According to the instructions of the electorate government, Müller protested, but took no action. Five days later the electoral councilor Stähler appeared in Rommersdorf, but could not enforce the electoral ban on cooperation with Nassau. After the resolutions of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , any resistance to the transfer of state rule had become pointless. On June 17, 1803, the Nassau court councilor Kayser announced the decision to abolish the abbey. Augustin Müller was retired with a pension of 1500 guilders per year. Originally Kayser had offered a pension of 2000 guilders, but Müller waived 500 guilders in favor of the convent.

After secularization, he retired to Ehrenbreitstein , where he died on June 2, 1821 at an advanced age.

literature

Memorable and Useful Rhenish Antiquarian, Volume 1, 1853
Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine
Analecta Praemonstratensia, Volume 7, 1931
Rheinische Lebensbilder, Volume 8, 1980

Individual evidence

↑ Reinhard Lahr: The Middle Rhine communities Heimbach, Weis and Gladbach between manorial rule and industrialization: (1680 - 1880); rural social and economic structure in transition, Diss., 1995, p. 271 ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Müller, Augustin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Abbot of the Rommersdorf Abbey
DATE OF BIRTH	18th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vallendar
DATE OF DEATH	June 2, 1821
Place of death	Koblenz

[1] Reinhard Lahr: The Middle Rhine communities Heimbach, Weis and Gladbach between manorial rule and industrialization: (1680 - 1880); rural social and economic structure in transition, Diss., 1995, p. 271 ff.