Dietrich von Hohenstein

Dietrich von Hohenstein († around 1289) was a Catholic priest , Benedictine and abbot of the St. Januarius monastery in Murrhardt.

Live and act

Dietrich came from the noble family of the Lords of Hohenstein, who were wealthy with their castle of the same name in today's Hohenstadt suburb of the city of Schwäbisch Hall .

When Dietrich von Hohenstein succeeded Abbot Albrecht around 1280, the Murrhardt Monastery had been under the rule of the Würzburg diocese for a few years , which had also taken over the monastic bailiwick with the acquisition of the Löwenstein County . Bishop Berthold II von Sternberg had to sell the county and the rights to Murrhardt again on August 15, 1281 due to lack of money - King Rudolf von Habsburg took Löwenstein for the empire and enfeoffed his illegitimate son Albrecht with the county the following year . Albrecht I von Löwenstein, unlike the previous lords of the county, exercised his rights as monastery bailiff very vigorously - contemporary sources report serious conflicts between the monastery bailiff and the monastic community in Murrhardt. With the granting of city ​​rights to Murrhardt by Count Albrecht around 1288, the dispute was fueled again - the conventuals feared, not without reason, that the Löwenstein family would exert too much influence on the independence of the monastery. It was only through the mediation of King Rudolf von Habsburg at the beginning of 1289 that a balance between the interests of the abbey and the Count of Löwenstein was made possible at the royal court in Weißenburg in Alsace ; the monastic possessions in the city of Murrhardt - almost all immovable goods came from the monastery to fiefdom - remained untouched by Albrecht I.

The abbot could not see the further development of the relationship with the Löwenstein house for long - Dietrich von Hohenstein died, probably shortly before November 18, 1289, in the Murrhardt monastery and was laid to rest in the east wing of the monastery church. Milo von Weiler succeeded him in the office of abbot .

Others

Dietrich's grave slab was found when the east wing of the monastery retreat was demolished in 1870, but was lost again. The epitaph read:

...] O (BIIT) D (IETERICVS) DE HOHENSTEIN [...

At the same time, the abbot's sarcophagus and his remains were found - these are now in the Carl-Schweizer-Museum in Murrhardt. According to the dimensions of the sarcophagus, Dietrich von Hohenstein was a physically tall man during his lifetime.

literature

• Gerhard Fritz: City and monastery Murrhardt in the late Middle Ages and in the Reformation period (= research from Württemberg-Franconia. Vol. 34). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1990, ISBN 3-7995-7634-7 , p. 326.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]. DI 37, Rems-Murr-Kreis, No. 6 † (Gerhard Fritz), in: www.inschriften.net, urn: nbn: de: 0238-di037h011k0000603 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Albert	Abbot of Murrhardt 1280–1289	Milo von Weiler (1st term)