Celestine Stoeckl

Cölestin Stöckl OSB, baptismal name: Franz Xaver Stöckl (born January 3, 1743 in Rotthalmünster , † May 27, 1807 in Metten ) was a German Benedictine and abbot of the Benedictine monastery Metten in Lower Bavaria .

Life

After finishing school in Landshut , Franz Xaver Stöckl entered the Benedictine monastery in Metten in 1759. During his profession in 1760 he was given the religious name Celestine. He first completed his philosophical and theological studies in the Metten Monastery. From 1763 he was employed in the monastery as deputy director of the monastery seminary and as teacher of the boys' choir. In 1764 Adalbert Tobiaschu sent him to the Lyceum in Freising to study theology and canon law . In 1767 Coelestin Stöckl was ordained a priest. From 1769 he taught canon law in the monastery 's house studies and from 1772 dogmatics and moral theology . In 1772/73 he was professor and rector at the Lyceum in Freising. From 1773 to 1775 he worked again as a professor of canon law in the house studies of the Metten monastery. Then Abbot Lambert Kraus entrusted him with pastoral care in the monastery parishes Stephansposching and Michaelsbuch.

After the death of Abbot Lambert Kraus, Coelestin Stöckl was elected as its successor by the convent of the Metten Monastery in 1791. As a capable and capable economist, Coelestin Stöckl was able to reduce the debts left by his predecessor and put the finances of the Metten Monastery on a solid footing through a restructuring of the monastic management, despite the constant new taxes and compulsory contributions to the Bavarian state budget . The renewal and expansion of the Metten monastery brewery contributed to the consolidation. However, the reforms carried out by Abbot Coelestin Stöckl also led to tensions with some of the conventuals of the Metten Monastery, who mourned the refined and cultivated lifestyle of the past Rococo period under Abbot Lambert Kraus.

The reform work of Abbot Coelestin Stöckl put an end to the secularization in Bavaria in 1803 , in the course of which the Benedictine abbey of Metten was also dissolved. The abbot, who was in poor health, had to leave the abbey. The summer house of the monastery on the nearby Himmelberg was assigned to him by the state cancellation commission. In the same year the sick abbot was allowed to return to his familiar living quarters in the abolished Metten monastery. It was here that Celestine Stöckl died in 1807, his mental state deteriorating.

Works

• Assertiones ex praelectionibus libri I. et II. Iuris ecclesiastici , Straubing 1770.
• Praelectiones universi iuris eccles. publicae disquisitioni expositae , Straubing 1771.
• Selecta iuris ecclesiatici publici , Freising 1772.

literature

• Wilhelm Fink , History of the Development of the Benedictine Abbey of Metten. Vol. 1: The professorship book of the abbey (studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches. Supplementary booklet 1,1), Munich 1927, p. 56f.
• Maurus Gandershofer , The merits of the Benedictines of Metten for the care of the sciences and the arts. A recollection dedicated to the former residents of this monastery , Landshut 1841, p. 25f.
• Michael Kaufmann, Secularization, Desolation and Restoration in the Benedictine Abbey of Metten (1803-1840) (= history of the development of the Benedictine Abbey of Metten, vol. 4), Metten 1993, pp. 10-14 and 191-194.
• Rupert Mittermüller , The Metten Monastery and its Aebte. An overview of the history of this old Benedictine monastery, Straubing 1856, pp. 249–270.

predecessor	Office	successor
Lambert Kraus	Abbot of Metten Monastery 1790–1803	- (secularized) after the re-establishment of Gregor Scherr