Edmund Komáromy
Edmund Komáromy OCist. (* December 22, 1805 in Güns , Hungary; † April 10, 1877 in Vienna ) was the 61st abbot of the Heiligenkreuz Abbey near Vienna, mayor of the Heiligenkreuz community and the last abbot of the St. Gotthard Abbey .
Life
He stepped on November 12, 1825 Holy Cross and celebrated on August 22, since 1830 First Mass . After assignments as a temporary priest and provisional parish administrator in Guntramsdorf , he continued his studies and in 1835 became professor of dogmatics at the Institutum Theologicum and prefect of the Juniores. In 1841 the convent elected him abbot of the combined monasteries of Heiligenkreuz and St. Gotthard in Hungary .
During his tenure, the Heiligenkreuzer local cemetery was laid out in 1842 and expanded to double the area in 1866. In 1869 the restored wooden chapel in Preinsfeld was consecrated. From 1871 he had the baroque altars in the collegiate church removed, and at the same time the opening and completion of the half-walled glass windows and the regotization of the hall choir began. The work, significantly influenced by the research and persuasion of Father Wilhelm Neumann , came to a conclusion in 1894 under the successor Abbot Heinrich Grünbeck .
On July 18, 1850 he was elected the first mayor of Heiligenkreuz by the electoral committee of the local community of Heiligenkreuz, which was newly constituted according to the Austrian municipal law . After six years in office, Komáromy resigned from the mayor's office in 1856.
Komáromy was imperial and royal councilor, court panelist of the Wieselburg County and, from 1850, first president of the Baden agricultural district association . In 1865 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna .
On the occasion of the General Chapter , he traveled to Rome in 1869 and was on April 9th with other Cistercian abbots in papal audience with Blessed Pius IX. receive.
Paralyzed and very limited in his work, he spent the last years of his life in the Heiligenkreuzerhof (Vienna) , where he died. He was buried in the local cemetery of Heiligenkreuz on the east wall in an earth grave, which is now located below the crypt of the cemetery chapel built in 1889.
literature
- Florian Watzl: The Cistercians of Heiligenkreuz. Graz 1898, p. 226.
- Sebastian Brunner: A Cistercian Book. Würzburg 1881, pp. 105-107.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dedication in: De Sacrificio Missae by Benedikt XIV., Stiftsarchiv Heiligenkreuz 3-61.
Web links
- The mayors of Heiligenkreuz: Edmund Komaromy ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the municipal website
- Entry to Edmund Komáromy on Order online
- Edmund Komáromy in the Biographia Cisterciensis
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Xaver Seidemann |
Abbot of Heiligenkreuz Abbey 1841–1877 |
Heinrich Grünbeck |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Komáromy, Edmund |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Komáromy, Edmund OCist |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mayor, abbot of Heiligenkreuz Abbey |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1805 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guns , Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1877 |
| Place of death | Vienna |