Diethelm Blarer from Wartensee

Coat of arms of Abbot Diethelm Blarer von Wartensee

Diethelm Blarer von Wartensee (* 1503 at Schloss Wartensee near Rorschach ; † December 18, 1564 in Rorschach) was abbot of St. Gallen Monastery from 1530 to 1564 .

Life

Diethelms father Jakob von Wartensee was Obervogt zu Rorschach . His mother was Apollonia von Syrgenstein. Diethelm attended Latin school in Lindau . For 1523 he is attested as a conventual in the monastery of St. Gallen . From 1528 he was governor in Rorschach. He was elected abbot on September 19, 1530 in Mehrerau . He received papal confirmation on May 22, 1531 from Clement VII. Before that (October 10, 1530) Emperor Charles V had given him the regalia. After he had secured the support of the five Catholic towns of the Swiss Confederation in Zug , he allowed his subjects to pay homage on December 12, 1531 in Wil and a few days later in Lömmenschwil and Gossau . He was finally consecrated on April 28, 1532 by Auxiliary Bishop Melchior Fattlin .

Act

Abbot Diethelm Blarer von Wartensee succeeded with the Wiler Treaty of 1538, to reintegrate Toggenburg into the territory of the Abbey of St. Gallen. As a prince abbot, he was confronted with the so-called Rorschach putsch in 1559, which was directed against the abbey's body rule. From an ecclesiastical point of view, he strove for a renewal of Catholicism and the restitution of the monastic jurisdiction rights. He also put a hard hand on the Anabaptists among his subjects. On February 28, 1532, the city of St. Gallen restituted the monastery and guaranteed the Catholics the freedom to practice their religion in the demarcated monastery district. During his tenure, the number of conventuals grew steadily. In 1555 the monastery of St. Johann in the Thurtal was incorporated into the monastery of St. Gallen due to a papal decision.

Abbot Diethelm proved to be an avid supporter of Catholic scholarship. On June 6, 1551, he laid the foundation stone for the new library building in the St. Gallen monastery. He sent several of his conventuals to Dillingen to study , and later to Paris . In an effort to renew religious life, he ordered the return of the relics of St. Otmar to St. Gallen after they had been evacuated to Einsiedeln during the turmoil of the Reformation . He also appointed St. Gallen conventuals as reform abbots in Wettingen (Peter Eichhorn) and Fischingen (Markus Schenkli). Probably because of these efforts for Catholic reform , he received invitations to the Council of Trent in 1543 and 1551 , which he did not obey.

Web links

Commons : Diethelm Blarer - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Diethelm Blarer von Wartensee on the website of the St. Gallen Abbey Archives .
Diethelm Blarer von Wartensee in the city lexicon Wil; According to Johannes Duft : The Abbey of St. Gallen .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Werner Vogler: St. Gallen - Abbots: Diethelm Blarer von Wartensee, 1530–1564. In: Helvetia Sacra. Dept. III: The orders with Benedictine rule. 2/1: Early monasteries, the Benedictines in Switzerland. Francke Verlag, Bern 1986, pp. 1326-1328.

predecessor	Office	successor
Kilian Germann	Abbot of St. Gallen 1530–1564	Otmar Kunz

personal data
SURNAME	Blarer von Wartensee, Diethelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Abbot of the St. Gallen Monastery
DATE OF BIRTH	1503
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wartensee Castle near Rorschach
DATE OF DEATH	December 18, 1564
Place of death	Rorschach

[:0-1] Werner Vogler: St. Gallen - Abbots: Diethelm Blarer von Wartensee, 1530–1564. In: Helvetia Sacra. Dept. III: The orders with Benedictine rule. 2/1: Early monasteries, the Benedictines in Switzerland. Francke Verlag, Bern 1986, pp. 1326-1328.