Balthasar Hirschauer

Provost Balthasar Hirschauer ( Berchtesgaden Collegiate Church )

Balthasar Hirschauer († 1508 ) was " Hallinger " from 1491 and from 1496 to 1508 imperial prelate and provost of the Berchtesgaden monastery .

In 1294, the secular independence of the Stiftspropstei, founded around 1100, had already manifested itself through the acquisition of blood jurisdiction for serious offenses. Raised to the scepter fief from 1380 and also represented with a seat and vote in the Reichstag, the power of the pen was increased even further and Pernauer's status was equated with that of an imperial prelate.

Thanks Propst Bernhard Leoprechtinger of the "metropolitan authority" of the since 1455 Fürsterzbistums Salzburg free, Balthasar Hirschauer was also in spiritual things ( Spiritualien subordinated only to the Pope).

And the Berchtesgaden War , whose wooden toys modeled on Ammergau soon found “the most distant parts of the trading world”, meanwhile formed a profitable source of income. The Berchtesgadener had defeats in Antwerp , Cádiz , Genoa , Venice and Nuremberg , and there is "no doubt" that between 1492 and 1498 " Columbus and Amerikus as well as Vasco da Gama brought such toys to the West and East Indies ."

Before he took office as provost, Hirschauer was from 1491 "Hallinger" and thus owner of the highest-rated administrative post with the Salt Office in Schellenberg . As provost, he had to accept the pledge of Schellenberg and its saltworks to Salzburg in order to pay off the monastery's immense debts to the prince-archbishopric. Since the pledge was not sufficient, he, like his predecessors, levied high taxes on the Berchtesgaden farmers. However, they began to complain more and more often and sent a delegation to Innsbruck to the imperial court . Since the representatives of the peasantry were unable to show sufficient power of attorney, the Emperor Maximilian I commissioned his captain von Kufstein Degen Fuchs von Fuchsberg to investigate the process with two imperial councilors on site. The imperial captain presented the result of these investigations in 1506 in the " Fuchsbrief ", which, according to the land letter from Ulrich I. Wulp, was to become the "Basic Law" for the state and tax law of the collegiate prophecy. Even if the farmers' complaints were rejected in all essential points and Hirschauer's position prevailed, it is noteworthy that in this legal dispute the “subjects” appeared as a single entity and the “Fuchsbrief” had the character of a legally binding written contract between the rulers and the “landscape” “Owned. Nevertheless, the debts to Salzburg were not to be fully paid until 1556.

Balthasar Hirschauer's grave is in the Berchtesgaden collegiate church and his high relief - epitaph resembles that of Peter Pinzenauer , which was the model for the tombstones of the Berchtesgadener Stiftspröpste of the 15th century.

literature

• Walter Brugger , Heinz Dopsch , Peter F. Kramml: History of Berchtesgaden: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594) . Plenk, Berchtesgaden 1991, pp. 509, 510, 1112
• Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Berchtesgadener Anzeiger publishing house , Berchtesgaden 1986 ISBN 3-925647-00-7 , pp. 50–51, 79–85, 111.
• A. Helm , Hellmut Schöner (ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time . Reprint from 1929. Association for local history d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1973. pp. 100, 106–111, 261–262.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helm A .: Berchtesgaden in the course of time, keyword: History of the country, pp. 108-109
2. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Pp. 50-51
3. ↑ According to A.Helm, the episcopal insignia received after him in 1254 are already a sign of direct papal suzerainty to which the monastery would have been subject to since then. See Helm A .: Berchtesgaden through the ages , keyword: History of the country, p. 109
4. ↑ Joseph Ernst von Koch-Sternfeld : History of the Principality of Berchtesgaden and its salt works. Volume 2. Joseph Lindauer, Salzburg 1815, p. 144 above ( full text in the Google book search).
5. ^ Walter Brugger, Heinz Dopsch, Peter F. Kramml: History of Berchtesgaden: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594) . Plenk, 1991. pp. 509, 510, 1112
6. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . P. 79
7. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Pp. 79-85
8. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . P. 111