Benedict Plank

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Portrait photo of Abbot Benedikt Plank

Benedikt Plank OSB (born July 9, 1949 in Mariahof ) is an Austrian Benedictine and since 2013 Abbot of St. Lambrecht Abbey .

Life

Benedikt Plank was born on July 9, 1949 in the then still independent community of Mariahof, not far from the St. Lambrecht Benedictine monastery , which he entered on August 14, 1967. Almost exactly one year to the day after his entry, he made temporary profession on August 15, 1968 , and again three years later on August 15, 1971, perpetual profession. He then studied theology at the University of Salzburg and in Rome . Plank was ordained a priest on July 1, 1973 and then worked as a chaplain in St. Lambrecht and Mariazell . At the same time, under director Heinrich Fichtenau , he attended the archive studies course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research , at that time still a federal institution in Vienna . In 1987 Plank became pastor in Styrian and Carinthian Laßnitz ; from 1997 to 2013 he was also dean of the Murau dean's office . As early as 1983 he was at the side of the then abbot Otto Strohmaier Prior and from 1986 headed the economic area of ​​the monastery. Plank, who, in addition to his work as pastor in St. Lambrecht, Styrian and Carinthian Laßnitz, also works as a pilgrimage pastor in Maria Schönanger as well as archivist , librarian and curator , became abbot of St. Lambrecht elected. He took office on March 16, 2013, was born on April 6, 2013 as abbot ordained .

Publications (selection)

  • Benedikt Plank: History of the St. Lambrecht Abbey. Festschrift for the 900th anniversary of the death of the founder Markward v. Eppenstein, 1076-1976 . Sankt Lambrecht 1976 (published in 2nd edition: 1978)
  • Othmar Wonisch (author), Benedikt Plank (contributor / reviser): Mariazell . 2nd revised edition. Schnell and Steiner, Munich, Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7954-0521-1 .
  • Benedikt Plank (accompanying texts): Mariazell: pilgrimage church, town and surroundings . Kolorit, Vienna 1985.
  • Benedikt Plank (accompanying texts): Mariazell: pilgrimage church, town and surroundings . Kolorit , Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-85142-016-0 .
  • Benedikt Plank and Heidelinde Fell (text), Michael Oberer (photos): Pilgrimage basilica Mariazell . Kunstverlag Hofstetter, Ried im Innkreis 1996.
  • Benedikt Plank: St. Lambrecht . In: The Benedictine monasteries and nunneries in Austria and South Tyrol. Arranged by Ulrich Faust and Waltraud Krassnig ( Germania Benedictina Vol. III / 2) . Sankt Ottilien 2001, p. 318-380 .
  • Benedikt Plank and Gerwig Romirer (text): Benedictine Abbey St. Lambrecht: on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the rebuilding of the monastery by Emperor Franz II in 1802, after the Josephine repeal in 1786 . Kunstverlag Hofstetter, Ried im Innkreis 2002.
  • Benedikt Plank (text), Gregor Peda and Marcel Peda (photos): Benedictine Abbey of St. Lambrecht . Publisher = Art Publishing House Peda. Passau 2010, ISBN 978-3-89643-789-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Announcement of the pen , accessed on September 19, 2018
  2. ^ The Benediction of Abbot Benedikt Plank. , accessed September 19, 2018
predecessor Office successor
Otto Strohmaier Abbot of St. Lambrecht Abbey
since 2013
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