Christoph Langenmantel

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Family coat of arms on the epitaph

Christoph Langenmantel , also Christoph Langenmantel vom Sparren (* 1488 in Augsburg ; † May 17, 1538 in Ingolstadt ) was an Augsburg patrician son from the family of Langenmantel vom Sparren , Karmelit , Canon of Freising and a supporter of Martin Luther .

Origin and family

He was born as the son of the Mayor of Augsburg (Stadtpfleger) Georg Langenmantel vom Sparren († 1521) and his wife Anna geb. Ilsung . The father was held in high esteem by Emperor Maximilian , whom he also served with his Augsburg horsemen in the war against Venice . He traveled to Bruges with Konrad Peutinger in 1520 to greet the new King Charles V on behalf of the city.

Christoph's brother Sigmund Langenmantel († 1545) officiated as district judge and ducal caretaker in Kelheim , where his epitaph has been preserved in the parish church of the Assumption of Mary . Ulrich († 1570), another brother, was a Bavarian and Baden-Baden councilor, as well as court master and one of the Catholic guardians of Margrave Philibert of Baden .

The sister Maria Langenmantel was a Benedictine in the Holzen Monastery and officiated as abbess (master) between 1538 and 1553 . She is described in the annals as "very capable" .

Charitas Langenmantel, another sister, officiated in 1544 as abbess of the Marienstein monastery and took in the Benedictine nuns from the Bergen monastery near Neuburg an der Donau, who had been expelled by Count Palatine Ottheinrich .

The uncle of the siblings (brother of the father) was the long-time Augsburg mayor and knight of the golden spur , Johann IX. Long coat from the rafter († 1505); Ulrich Langenmantel 1437–1473 provost of Völkermarkt in Carinthia and founder of the first Augsburg study foundation, a great-uncle.

Live and act

Christoph Langenmantel vom Sparren brings Luther to Hohenschwangau. Design by Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Elder for his large fresco at Hohenschwangau Castle, 1835
Epitaph, Franciscan Church Ingolstadt

Christoph Langenmantel studied from October 1500 at the University of Ingolstadt , from May 1506 at the University of Tübingen . From around 1510 he acted as treasurer and cupbearer of Matthäus Lang , the Augsburg bishop of Gurk and later cardinal .

He entered the Carmelite Order and belonged temporarily to the convent of St. Anna in Augsburg , and he had a canons prebend in Freising .

After the Diet of Augsburg in 1518, Martin Luther had to answer for his theses in the Fugger houses before Cardinal Thomas Cajetan commissioned by the Pope . He arrived in town on October 7th and left on the 20th of the month. The negotiations with Cardinal Cajetan took place on October 12th, 13th and 14th. During his stay, Luther lived in the Carmelite Monastery of St. Anna, where Langenmantel also stayed, who looked after him on a friendly basis and advised him. When Martin Luther refused to revoke his theses, there was an acute risk of arrest. Christoph Langenmantel, the son of Augsburg's mayor Georg Langenmantel, who was in office at the time, secretly led him through a secret gate in the city wall on the night of October 19-20, so that he could escape. According to tradition, Langenmantel said to Luther at the gate: "Down there" , which is why this place is still called that today and a commemorative inscription was also embedded there. On November 25, 1518 Luther sent him a letter of thanks from Wittenberg .

The escape assistance by Christoph Langenmantel is historically secured, but a decorative and unproven legend remains the story that he also led him from Augsburg to Hohenschwangau Castle . King Max II had this legend depicted in the Schwangau room in 1835 by the painter Wilhelm Lindenschmit in the form of a romanticizing mural.

Despite his sympathy for Luther and his concerns, Christoph Langenmantel ultimately did not break with the old church. In 1525, as the canon of Freising, he asked the Bavarian chancellor Augustin Lösch and the councilor Leonhard von Eck to arrange for Duke Wilhelm IV to grant the house of the canon of St. Andrä , Wolfgang Wursinger, who was attached to the Reformation and deposed , to an old-believing cleric. In the same year he is named again as Freising Canon and at the same time pastor of Haslach near Traunstein .

He also appears as the pastor of Burghausen and as such, at the express request of Duke Wilhelm, received the parish Feichten an der Alz in 1527 , because he had “made many contributions in Italy and Bavaria” . In 1535 this parish was filled again.

Christoph Langenmantel died on May 17, 1538 in Ingolstadt and was buried in the local Franciscan church. His canon epitaph without any pictorial decoration, but with the psalm verse "Misericordias Domini in aeternum cantabo" (I will sing of the Lord's mercy forever) and the coat of arms of the long coat of rafters and Ilsung, is preserved on the outer wall of the north aisle . According to this he was also the advice of Duke Wilhelm, doctor of rights and at the time of death prefect (educator) of the later Duke Albrecht V , who was studying at the University of Ingolstadt as a young prince.

The humanistic poet Caspar Ursinus Velius († 1539) names Christoph Langenmantel in his epigrams . Both were once in the service of Bishop Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg.

literature

  • Hugo Kögerl: The Epitaphs of the Garrison Church (formerly Minorite Church) in Ingolstadt , Ingolstadt, 1917, p. 71
  • Franz Xaver Ostermair: Genealogical news about various partly still flourishing partly extinct families , Ingolstadt, 1885, p. 103

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ on the Augsburg patrician family Ilsung s. Wilhelm Vogt:  Ilsung . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 33-35.
  2. ^ Johann Michael von Soeltl : Plutarch: Portraits for Germany's and especially Bavaria's youth and people , Regensburg, 1846, p. 348; (Digital scan)
  3. ^ Felix Mader: Die Kunstdenkmäler von Niederbayern: Bezirksamt Kelheim , Oldenbourg Verlag, 1922, p. 172; (Detail scan)
  4. ↑ Freiburg Diocesan Archive: Journal of the Church History Association for the History of Christian Art, Antiquity and Literature of the Archdiocese of Freiburg , Volume 81, pp. 83, 112 u. 144, Verlag Herder, Freiburg, 1961; (Detail scan)
  5. ^ Johann Christian Sachs : Introduction to the history of the Markgravschaft Baden , Volume 3, p. 219, Karlsruhe 1769; (Digital scan)
  6. ^ Johann Seifert : Hoch-Adeliche Stamm-Taffeln , Part 3, Regensburg, 1726, 2. Stammtafel der Langenmantel; (Digital scan)
  7. ^ Walter Pötzl : Kloster Holzen: a jewel of the Swabian Baroque , Konrad Verlag, 2009, ISBN 3874375447 , p. 53; (Detail scan)
  8. ^ Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches , Volume 84, p. 410, Pustet Verlag, 1973; (Detail scan)
  9. ^ Friedrich Kaess: Bergen monastery near Neuburg on the Danube and its frescos by Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner , Konrad Verlag, 1981, p. 21, ISBN 3874371832 ; (Detail scan)
  10. ↑ Joseph Deutsch : Kilian Leib, Prior von Rebdorf: a picture of life from the age of the German Reformation , in: Reformation History Studies and Texts , Issue 15/16, Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1910, p. 96; (Detail scan)
  11. ↑ Luther's works: critical complete edition , correspondence, volume 1, p. 255, Böhlau Verlag, 1930, (detail scan )
  12. ↑ Christopher Spehr : Luther and the Council: on the development of a central topic in the Reformation , Verlag Mohr Siebeck, 2010, p. 77, ISBN 3161504747 ; (Digital scan)
  13. ^ Heinrich Ernst Ferdinand Guericke : Neuere Kirchengeschichte , 6th edition, 3rd volume, p. 48, Leipzig, 1846; (Digital scan)
  14. ^ Gottlob Egelhaaf: German history in the sixteenth century up to the Augsburg Religious Peace , Volume 1, p. 168, BoD - Books on Demand, 2015, ISBN 3734007615 (reprint); (Digital scan)
  15. ^ Website Domradio Augsburg on Luther, Langenmantel and the memorial stone "Da down"
  16. ↑ Alexander Schöppner : Sagenbuch der Bayerischen Lande , Volume 1, Munich 1852, p. 441; (Digital view)
  17. ↑ Close-up of the memorial stone "Da down"
  18. ^ Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette , Johann Karl Seidemann: Dr. Martin Luther's letters, missions and concerns, Volume 6, Berlin, 1856, pp. 6-8; (Digital scan)
  19. ↑ Joseph von Hormayr : The golden chronicle of Hohenschwangau , Munich, 1842, p. 178, (digital scan)
  20. ↑ Website on Luther's escape in the Northern Bavaria portal
  21. ↑ Neue Flora . (Koversationsblatt), No. 13, Augsburg, January 22, 1835 page 49 of the vintage; (Digital scan)
  22. ^ Website of Augustin Lösch
  23. ↑ Vitus Anton Winter: History of the fates of Protestant teaching in and through Bavaria , 1st volume, Munich, 1809, p. 212 u. 213, (digital scan)
  24. ^ City archive Traunstein: files up to 1870 , p. 140 u. 141 PDF View of the Document
  25. ↑ Joseph Klämpfl: Topographical-historical description of the parish Feichten , in: Upper Bavarian Archive for Fatherland History , Volume 14, Munich, 1852, p. 251; (Digital scan)
  26. ^ Doris Wittmann: Epitaphe in der Franziskanerkirche , Part 2, in: Ingolstädter Heimatblätter , Volume 3, No. 16, 2012; (PDF view)
  27. ^ Werner Näf : Vadian studies: investigations and texts , Volume 10, p. 68, Historischer Verein des Kantons St. Gallen, 1980; (Detail scan)
personal data
SURNAME Langenmantel, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langenmantel vom Sparren, Christoph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Augsburg patrician; Carmelite, Freising Canon
DATE OF BIRTH 1488
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1538
Place of death Ingolstadt