Columban Reble

Columban Reble OSB (* 1664 ; † 1738 in Bonndorf ) was a Benedictine monk of the St. Blasien monastery in the Black Forest and author and editor of the monastery chronicle Liber originum monasterii Sancti Blasii ("book about the beginnings of the St. Blasien monastery").

Life

Columban Reble was born after Bader in 1664. Reble joined the St. Blasien monastery at a young age and has been in various positions in the monastery and its peripheral offices since 1696. In 1697 and again in 1713 he was prior of the monastery in St. Blasien. From 1705 to 1713 and from 1718 to 1721 he managed the Blasian castle estate in Gurtweil as provost . From 1721 to 1732 he held the office of chief curator (Sankt-Blasianischer representative for the Bonndorf Paulinerkloster ) in Bonndorf, which was under the rule of the prince abbots of St. Blasien. In 1726 he supervised Franz Joseph Spiegler's work on the Bonndorfer Altarpiece (today in the Catholic Church of Herdwangen ), the value of which he estimated to be around a third of Spiegler's demands. Columban Reble died in Bonndorf in 1738.

In 1716 Columban Reble had Johann Baptist Waltpart in Waldshut print a history of the monastery of St. Blasien, the Liber originum monasterii Sancti Blasii, begun by Abbot Caspar Molitoris and edited by him . The work, which was not finished due to internal discussions in the monastery and was printed in small numbers, is today u. a. in the university libraries Freiburg and Heidelberg University Libraries and of great importance for the regional history of the southern Black Forest.

The printer Waltpart also moved to Bonndorf in 1726, presumably supported by Reble, where he wrote his last known book in 1728, the Historia Almae et Archi-Episcopalis Universitatis Saliburgensis sub Cura PP. Benedictorum of the Benedictine Father Roman Sedlmayr printed.

Fonts

Liber Originum Monasterij Sancti Blasij In Silva Hercynia. That is: An old-written book from the origin of the Gotts-Haus St. Blasien on the Schwartzwald (...) . Waltpart, Waldshut 1716 ( fully digitized from Freiburg University Library )

literature

Leo Beringer: History of the village of Gurtweil , self-published by the municipality of Gurtweil, 1960, here p. 54 f.

Individual evidence

↑ Gerhard Stamm: Cat. No. 87, in: Das Tausendjahres St. Blasien. 200 year cathedral anniversary. Vol. 1 catalog, Karlsruhe 1983, p. 104. Cf. Otto Herding : Martin Gerbert (1720–1793), Prince Abbot of Sankt Blasien 1764–1793, and his history of the Black Forest in its historiographical environment. In: Ders .: Contributions to southwest German historiography. Edited by Dieter Mertens and Hansmartin Schwarzmaier . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005 (Publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg, Series B, Volume 162), pp. 87-105, here especially pp. 96-98.

personal data
SURNAME	Reble, Columban
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Benedictine monk and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	1664
DATE OF DEATH	1738
Place of death	Bonndorf in the Black Forest

[1] Gerhard Stamm: Cat. No. 87, in: Das Tausendjahres St. Blasien. 200 year cathedral anniversary. Vol. 1 catalog, Karlsruhe 1983, p. 104. Cf. Otto Herding : Martin Gerbert (1720–1793), Prince Abbot of Sankt Blasien 1764–1793, and his history of the Black Forest in its historiographical environment. In: Ders .: Contributions to southwest German historiography. Edited by Dieter Mertens and Hansmartin Schwarzmaier . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005 (Publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg, Series B, Volume 162), pp. 87-105, here especially pp. 96-98.