Bernhard Widmann

Bernhard Widmann (born July 15, 1867 in Vorderburg , † October 28, 1934 in Aschaffenburg ) was a German Cistercian and abbot of the monasteries Sittich, Bronnbach and Seligenporten.

Life

Widmann joined the Wettingen-Mehrerau Territorial Abbey in 1885 and became a priest in 1890. He directed the musical training of the monks in Mehrerau and was also involved in the management of the monastery as prior from 1898 to 1912 . Appointed head of the daughter monastery Sittich (Stična) in today's Slovenia in 1912 and elected abbot in 1913, he headed the monastic community during the First World War , the effects of which the monastery also felt (among other things, the school had to cease operations).

In the 1920s, the monks of German and Austrian nationality had to leave the newly founded kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and in 1921 came to the Bronnbach an der Tauber monastery, which was secularized in 1802, and Widmann became abbot in 1922. Since the branch in Bronnbach had no positive future prospects due to the external circumstances, they took over the buildings of the former Seligenporten monastery in Upper Palatinate in 1931 . Abbot Widmann died in 1934 in the Capuchin monastery in Aschaffenburg .

Publications

• P. Alberich Zwyssig as a composer. A memorial sheet for the 50th anniversary of his death . JN Teutsch, Bregenz 1905.
• Johann Nucius, Abbot of Himmelwitz. An old master of classical polyphony . In: Cistercienser Chronik 32, 1920, pp. 1–4, 49–51, 70–74, 113–122 (also published as a separate print).

literature

• Obituary in Cistercienser Chronik 47, 1935, pp. 10-17

Web links

• Widmann, Bernhard in Biographia Cisterciensis , version from February 19, 2014
• Entry to Bernhard Widmann on medals online