Bruno Heinrich

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Bruno Heinrich OCist (born June 30, 1908 in Altstadt in Ostritz ; † February 3, 1992 in Bruck an der Leitha ) was an Austrian Cistercian . From 1968 to 1970 he was the 41st abbot of Stams Abbey in the Tyrolean Oberland .

Life

Richard Heinrich was born the eighth of nine children of the mayor of Altstadt. After leaving school, he trained as a carpenter at the Müller company in Rusdorf. Attracted by an advertising campaign by the Cistercians, he moved to Austria in 1927 to the Horn Aufbaugymnasium, where he graduated and in 1934 joined the Stams Abbey in Tyrol. In 1937 he moved to Lilienfeld Abbey and was ordained a priest in St. Pölten Cathedral in 1939 and became a chaplain at the Abbey Parish Churches of Annaberg and Josefsberg . After serving in the war and being a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union, he returned to Annaberg in 1945. From 1948 to 1960 he was prior in Lilienfeld Abbey and probably also a novice master there for a few years .

In 1960 he returned to Stams Abbey and became prior in Untermais in Merano . In 1968 Bruno Heinrich was elected abbot of the Stams monastery. He gave up voluntarily after only two years. He then worked in the Neukloster monastery parish in Wiener Neustadt . In 1976 he took over the Göttlesbrunn parish church near Bruck an der Leitha, where he also worked with a small wood workshop in the parsonage until his death in 1992.

There is a small Romanesque baroque mausoleum near the parish church of Göttlesbrunn , where he was buried.

Abt-Bruno-Heinrich-Platz, parish church Göttlesbrunn, mausoleum

Awards

  • Honorary citizen of Göttlesbrunn-Arbesthal
  • The square at the Göttlesbrunn parish church was named Abbot-Bruno-Heinrich-Platz .

literature

  • Pastor Michael Dittrich: Well-known personalities from the vicinity of the monastery. Abbot Bruno Heinrich and Prior Eugen Müller - two Cistercians from St. Marienthal. In: Ora et labora. Information sheet from the Friends of St. Marienthal Abbey . No. 44, Christmas 2011, pp. 20–21.
predecessor Office successor
Eugen Fiderer Abbot of Stams Monastery
1968–1970 		Bernhard Slovsa
personal data
SURNAME Heinrich, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Cistercian
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Old town, Ostritz
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1992
Place of death Bruck an der Leitha