Beda Werner

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Beda Werner OSB (born January 24, 1673 in Hechingen ; † March 9, 1725 in Ochsenhausen ) was the 23rd abbot of the Imperial Abbey of Ochsenhausen in Upper Swabia from 1719 to 1725 .

Life

On October 23, 1695 Beda took the religious vows . He celebrated his first Holy Mass on October 11, 1699. He then studied law and theology at the University of Salzburg . Back at the pen, he was a teacher and novice master . In 1712 he took over the pastor's position in Reinstetten . In 1715 he looked after the parish in Kirchdorf an der Iller . Geisenhof describes Beda Werner in his chronicle as a friend of science and music. He was employed in the administration of the monastery and was elected abbot in 1719. The cost of his election, confirmation, benediction, homage including the annates to the bishop of Constance amounted to 1,600 guilders.

Construction activity

St. Blaise in Bellamont

In 1719 he completed the St. Antons Chapel and furnished it with a marble high altar and had the following church buildings rebuilt:

He changed the exterior of Obersulmetingen Castle and the churches in Laupheim and Achstetten . The small wayside shrine in Zell an der Rot was also erected during his tenure.

In 1725 he fell ill with epilepsy . In the same year he gave up and died on March 9, 1725 in Ochsenhausen. At his death there was an income surplus of 100,000 guilders in the main treasury of the spiritual territory of the imperial abbey.

On July 2, 1720, after a thunderstorm, an hour and a half downpour in Ochsenhausen caused a flood of unprecedented proportions.

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).
  • 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. 175
predecessor Office successor
Hieronymus II. Lindau Abbot of Ochsenhausen
1719–1725 		Celestine Frener
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Beda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman, twenty-third abbot of the Imperial Abbey of Ochsenhausen
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1673
PLACE OF BIRTH Hechingen
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1725
Place of death Ochsenhausen