Dominic I. Conrad

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Dominikus I. Conrad (* as Johannes Simon Conrad on October 1, 1740 in Kärlich ; † November 7, 1819 in Rübenach ) was from 1802 to 1803 the 46th and last abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Marienstatt before it was secularized .

Life

Origin and family

The parents of the future abbot were Johann Conrad jun., Leaseholder of the Elector of Trier and Sophie Conrad, née Zimmermann. The family's house has been preserved to this day on Burgstrasse in Kärlich, a district of Mülheim-Kärlich. Two of the couple's sons later became Catholic clergymen:

Activity as a clergyman

In 1766, Johannes Simon was ordained a priest in Marienstatt. He then worked as a pastor outside the monastery, for example as a chaplain in his home village of Kärlich in 1784 . In January 1802 he was elected abbot under his religious name Dominikus. Due to the political conditions at the time of the Napoleonic Wars , however, he no longer received the benediction . The year before that had Holy Roman Empire of the Peace of Luneville signed. He planned to cede the areas on the left bank of the Rhine, which had already been occupied since 1794, to France and to settle the secular princes who had been expropriated as a result with secularized church property to the right of the Rhine . Abbot Dominic I was only able to exercise his office for a few months. Marienstatt had been awarded to the Protestant Prince Friedrich-Wilhelm von Nassau-Weilburg as compensation. The regulation was not supposed to come into force until 1803, but the prince had the abbey confiscated on October 19, 1802 and dissolved on January 3, 1803. The last 17 members of the convention celebrated their last mass in Marienstatt on April 13, 1803. They were finally awarded pensions by Nassau-Weilburg; Among other things, Abbot Dominic received the relatively high sum of 1200 guilders a year. He first returned to Kärlich and later moved to Rübenach, where he died in 1819 as a result of a stroke.

literature

  • Jörg Ditscheid: The secularization of the Marienstatt Abbey , Cistercienser Chronik 119: 2 (2012), pp. 177–235
  • Christian Hillen: The Cistercian Abbey of Marienstatt , in: Germania Sacra, Third Part Vol. 7 (The Archdiocese of Cologne Vol. 7), De Gruyter Academy Research, Berlin 2016
  • Josef Schmitt: The last abbot of Marienstatt from Kärlich , Cistercienser Chronik 84 (1977), p. 159-160

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Conrad, Dominikus OCist (1740-1819) - Biographia Cisterciensis. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
  2. ^ Conrad, Dominikus OCist (1740-1819) - Biographia Cisterciensis. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Christian Hillen: Die Cisterzienserabtei Marienstatt , in: Germania Sacra, Third Part Vol. 7 (The Archdiocese of Cologne Vol. 7), De Gruyter Academy Research, Berlin 2016, p. 105
  4. ^ Conrad, Dominikus OCist (1740-1819) - Biographia Cisterciensis. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Conrad, Dominic I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Conrad, Johannes Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Cistercian abbot
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim-Kärlich
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1819
Place of death Koblenz-Rübenach