Candidus Hemmerlein

Candidus Hemmerlein (born June 30, 1743 in Kronach , † March 19, 1814 in Lichtenfels ) was the last abbot of the Langheim monastery .

Life

Candidus Hemmerlein, who came from Kronach, took his monastic vows with Johann von Nepomuk Pitius in 1762, became a priest with him in 1767, studied law with him in Prague, and in autumn 1773 became the office director. After the suspension of his predecessor Pitius, he was a member of the three conventual governing body of the abbey and was elected abbot after Pitius' death in 1791.

Acting more cautiously than his predecessor, he knew how to come to an agreement with the convent and the authorities of the surrounding four principalities. When the margraviate of Bayreuth was ceded to Prussia in 1792, Count Wartenberg was the first to pay homage to him and then received confirmation of all privileges. Despite the high war loads, he was able to have a new convent built, but it burned out in 1802. He possessed the rare quality of recognizing and promoting the talents of his subordinates. He left two monks the rights to the University of Würzburgstudy and later present the subject matter in the monastery. The coin and natural history cabinet he set up was dispersed by secularization .

After the abolition of the monastery, he lived partly at Trieb Castle and partly in Lichtenfels, where he died in 1814. The funeral speech was given by the former Langheim conventual Joachim Heinrich Jaeck , who later slandered him because he had not been considered in the will. The funeral speech also appeared in print.

literature

• Alfons Maria Scheglmann: History of secularization in Bavaria on the right bank of the Rhine, Volume 3, J. Habbel, 1908, pp. 182-185

Web links

• Candidus Hemmerlein in Biographia Cisterciensis , June 2018