Edmund Zoz

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Edmund Zoz, oil painting around 1700

Edmund Zoz (* 1653 in Schwaz ; † March 17, 1706 in Untermais near Meran ) was a theologian , 29th abbot of the Cistercian monastery Stift Stams in Tyrol and an important patron of the arts.

Life

Zoz was born in 1653 and christened Christoph . Christoph Zoz, who comes from a traditional Tyrolean family also spelled Zotz , made his profession on June 15, 1666 at the age of 16 and joined the order of the Cistercians as a monk , taking the name Edmund . In 1668 he went to study theology at the University of Ingolstadt .

Zoz initially worked as the prior of the Stams monastery. As such, he was involved in a long dispute with the diocese of Brixen, which involved pastoral and economic issues of sovereignty in the region. Zoz concluded on December 10, 1689 a settlement with the diocese. When the abbot Georg Nussbaumer resigned in March 1690, Edmund Zoz was elected prelate on August 7, 1690 and headed the monastery as abbot. He resigned on July 25, 1699, likely due to the monastery's debts.

After his resignation as abbot, Edmund Zoz first came to the Raitenhaslach monastery . Because the electoral clergy in Munich did not tolerate him there, he had to return to Stams in 1701.

He finally moved to Mais (Untermais) and lived - as a member of the Stams monastery - there in the house ("zu Mays in the so-called Thiergarten"), where he died on March 17, 1706; there he was also buried ("BV Ecclesia Mariae").

Art funding

Stams Abbey in the form created mainly under Edmund Zoz

As an abbot, Edmund Zoz did a lot of building work. He created the two distinctive onion domes that give the Stams monastery church its characteristic appearance. For this purpose, Johann Martin Gumpp the Elder (1643–1729) created the plans on his behalf in 1692 , which also involved the redesign of the west wing of the monastery. This new building devoured considerable funds, which led to cuts in execution and probably the abbot's resignation.

Zoz was the discoverer and a patron of the important baroque sculptor Matthias Bernhard Braun (1684–1738). He also employed and promoted the baroque painter Bonaventura Schor .

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Pirmin August Lindner: Monasticon metropolis Salzburgensis antiquae: lists of all abbe and provosts of the monasteries of the old ecclesiastical province of Salzburg . Pustet Verlag 1908, p. 602.
  2. ^ Yearbook of the Association for the History of the Augsburg Diocese 1982, p. 377.
  3. ↑ . Franz Ant sense Acher: Beyträge the history of the Episcopal Church Saeben and Brixen in Tyrol . 4th volume, Brixen 1824, pp. 527-528.
  4. ↑ Edgar Krausen : The Cistercian Abbey Raitenhaslach . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1977, p. 463.
  5. ↑ Gerald Hofer: The tower buildings of the Austrian Cistercian monasteries . University thesis. Vienna 2008, p. 61 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Anneliese Schallmeiner: Matthias Bernhard Braun on his way to Bohemia . Thesis. University of Vienna 2008. p. 18 ( online )
  7. ^ Heinrich Hammer : The development of the baroque ceiling painting in Tyrol . Strasbourg 1912 (= study books on German art history, Volume 159), pp. 131–138.
personal data
SURNAME Zoz, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cistercian abbot
DATE OF BIRTH 1653
PLACE OF BIRTH black
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1706
Place of death Lower corn