Edmund I. Sinnhuber

Abbot Edmund I. Sinnhuber

Edmund Sinnhuber (born April 13, 1631 in Riedenburg ; † May 21, 1702 in Salzburg ) was abbot of St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg from 1673 to 1702 .

Sinnhuber was the eldest son of the Almkanal (now Sinnhubarm thereof) based mastermind master Wolfgang Sinnhuber († 1668) and the Heuberger born farmer's daughter Rosina forestry Huber. After his godfather, the princely construction scribe Adam Lospichler, a son-in-law of Santino Solaris , he was given the nickname "Adam". Later he was to choose the name "Edmund" as the order name. Only after an argument with his father, in which the son threatened him with the “Last Judgment”, was he allowed to attend the Benedictine high school in Salzburg.

As an inheritance from his son who joined the Salzburg monastery, Wolfgang Sinnhuber left 600 florins for a new altar in the collegiate church. In return, Edmund Sinnhuber waived any further inheritance claims. Abbot Edmund Sinnhuber had the partially dilapidated buildings around the monastery courtyard converted in St. Peter's Abbey. The monastery courtyard was given its current regular shape. In 1696 he had the Edmundsburg rebuilt on the Mönchsberg instead of two smaller buildings as a summer residence and as a boarding school for worthy monastery servants. In 1696 Edmund Sinnhuber laid the foundation stone for the building of the collegiate church. Sinnhuber was appointed by Archbishop Johann Ernst Graf Thun to visit the four nunneries in the Archdiocese of Nonnberg (Salzburg), Gossen (Styria), Längsee (Carinthia) and Chiemsee (Bavaria). At the age of 71, Sinnhuber died in the 29th year of his dignity as abbot and was buried in the collegiate church of St. Peter.

Abbot coat of arms

The alliance coat of arms , as it can be seen under the copper engraving portrait of Philipp Kilian , shows under a miter from which a crook protrudes at an angle , in front the coat of arms of the monastery of St. Peter with the Petri keys and in the back the family coat of arms Sinnhuber, an ostrich , the holds a stone in its beak.

literature

• Adolf Hahnl: Excerpts from the list of abbots of St. Peter , in: Reinhard Rinnerthaler (Ed.): Erzabtei St. Peter in Salzburg , Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1986, p. 47 ff. ISBN 3-900173-48-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Family von Lospichl
2. ↑ Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon : Sinnhuber, Edmund
3. ↑ Johannes Ramharter: "Because the altar is not formally and fluffy due to its age", p. 321 f.