Daniel Paschasius von Osterberg

Daniel Paschasius Osterberg (also Daniel Paskas Osterberg , Czech Daniel Pascasius for Osterberku * 1634 in Opava , † 31 May 1711 in Albendorf ) was a landlord and patron of the shrine Albendorf in the county of Glatz .

Life

Daniel Paschasius von Osterberg came from a former Venetian merchant family who settled in Bohemia around 1600 and became rich there through trade and services for the imperial court. His father Jeremias Paschasius Osterberger was a cloth maker in Troppau , where he was a citizen and was a councilor. Daniel Paschasius was raised by Jesuits together with his brother and studied law at the Charles University in Prague . In 1665 he became imperial councilor and assessor of the royal man's rights in the Principality of Glogau . There he owned the Golgowitz manor until 1695. On July 21, 1674, Emperor Leopold I raised him to the bohemian knighthood in his capacity as King of Bohemia with the title of Osterberg . In 1675, the imperial count Michael Wenzel von Althann auf Mittelwalde , whose court master he was, gave him the Möhlten estate near Niedersteine .

On January 10, 1676 Daniel Paschasius married the Bohemian noblewoman Elisabeth von Zdraziste († 1717) in Prague and acquired the Niederrathen rule the following year, which also included the manor in Albendorf. In 1684 he bought the village of Oberrathen and sold the Möhlten estate a year later. He is said to have owned other goods in Upper Silesia . Like the other Grafschafter nobles ( Herberstein , Götzen , Althann ), Daniel Paschasius stood unreservedly on the side of the Habsburgs and supported their efforts to recatholize the country.

Immediately after acquiring the rule of Niederrathen, Daniel Paschasius tried to promote the place of pilgrimage Albendorf, whose tradition was lost in the turmoil of the Reformation and was only gradually resumed around 1660. In 1677 he turned to the consistory of the responsible Archdiocese of Prague and asked for the reinstatement of a Catholic priest. Since, according to the consistory, the parish income was inadequate, Paschasius donated an arable land, which was assigned to the parish dedication. In this way he achieved that the Prague Archbishop Johann Friedrich von Waldstein raised Albendorf to an independent parish in 1679, which until then belonged to the parish of Wünschelburg . Since the church at that time no longer met the needs of a pilgrimage church, an extension with chapels and walkways was to be tackled in the same year, which, however, would have been technically difficult and associated with high costs.

Daniel Paschasius is said to have made two pilgrimages to Jerusalem. In order to offer a replacement to his subordinates and the Albendorf pilgrims who could not visit the Holy Land , he built a topographical replica of Jerusalem in Albendorf from 1683–1709. For this purpose, in addition to hermitages and hostels for pilgrims, a calvary with several chapels and chapels with representations from the Old Testament were built on the hill “Mount Sinai” to the south . Because of these facilities, Albendorf is still called the “Silesian Jerusalem” today

In 1687 Paschasius founded the Albendorfer Church Musician Foundation and employed six church musicians. He himself wrote and composed the pilgrimage song "Freu dich, du Albendorfische Jungfrau". In 1693 he performed passion plays based on the Oberammergau model , in which the village population participated. To further promote the pilgrimage, he arranged for the printing of the volume “Marianic Gnadenthron Unserer liebe Frau zu Albendorf” in 1695, which contained the legends about the origins of the pilgrimage and the miracles recorded and which he dedicated to Emperor Leopold. The book “Presentation of the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ in Albendorf”, published in 1698, also contributed to Albendorf's fame. Presumably because of financial difficulties, the new building of the three-aisled basilica was not started until 1695, the completion of which took almost 15 years. It was inaugurated on July 12, 1710, but had to be closed due to dilapidation in 1715, four years after Paschasius' death.

Daniel Paschasius died at the age of 77 and was buried in the crypt of the Albendorfer Church. He left the sons Johann Anton and Franz Laubert, who were raised to the baron status after the death of their father, and the daughters Katharina Beatrix, married. 1711 with Vincenti Pillaty von Thassul, Anna Constantia, married. Oppersdorff and Maria Elisabeth, married. Celary. In his will, drawn up on May 17, 1709, he bequeathed several foundations, including for the Albendorfer church building, the parish church in Glatz and the brotherhood of St. Clement in Prague. His older son Johann Anton, who was married to Anna Theresia von Eichholz, inherited the property in Albendorf, Ober- and Niederrathen, and the property in Upper Silesia was inherited by the younger son Franz Laubert. With his grandson Emanuel von Osterberg († 1761 Niederhannsdorf ) the family of the barons von Osterberg went out.

Works

• Marienlied Rejoice, you Albendorf virgin
• Marian mercy seat of Our Lady of Albendorf , Jauer 1695
• Presentation of the suffering and death of Jesus Christ in Albendorf , Glatz 1717
• Pilgrimage song during the visit of the chapels in Mariae Albendorf [All devotees of the bitter suffering of Christ and his painful mother Mary have been promoted to great benefit for souls ], 1780
• Písně pautnické Nawsstěwowánj Kaplich V Milostiwého obrazů Marye Panny w Wambeřicych ... w od Pánu zesnuleho Pána Danihele Pascasia z Osterberku založené, a wystawené sauce: k Wraucnému rozgimánj přehořkého Vmučenj, smrti Krysta Gežjsse .... , printed by Franz Pompey , Glatz 1799 [W Glaczku, Wytisstěno u Frantisska Pompejusa] 1799

literature

• Arno Herzig , Małgorzata Ruchniewicz : History of the Glatzer Land . Hamburg-Wrocław 2006. ISBN 3-934632-12-2 , pp. 171–175.
• Joseph Kögler : The chronicles of the county Glatz . Revised by Dieter Pohl. Volume 5, ISBN 3-927830-19-4 , therein: Documented history and description of the allodial rule Albendorf pp. 21–65.
• Dehio-Handbuch der Kunstdenkmäler in Polen Silesia , Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , pp. 992–994.
• Cosmus Flam : The pilgrimages of Daniel Paschasius von Osterberg and how he built up the Silesian Jerusalem in Albendorf to the glory of God . Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn , Breslau 1935 [historical novel].

Web links

• The nobility of the Glatzer Land 1623–1742 : digitized

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Aloys Bach : Documentary Church History of the Graffschaft Glaz [sic], Breslau 1841, p. 434 online
2. ↑ Golgowitz Manor
3. ↑ The term "Silesian" can, however, only be used for the period after the Peace of Hubertusburg from 1763, since the County of Glatz did not belong to Silesia, but directly to Bohemia.
4. ↑ no typo, but the usual spelling at the time; please do not correct on foundation!
5. ^ Adolf Kettner: Daniel Paschasius von Osterberg . In: Journal of the German Association for the History of Moravia and Silesia. 9th year, issue 1, pp. 194–196
6. ↑ title
7. ↑ Pilgrimage song ...
8. ↑ Pisně pautnické ...
9. ↑ printed by Franz Pompejus, Glatz