Eliland Öttl

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Eliland Öttl (born September 9, 1653 in Obersteinbach (Bad Heilbrunn) , † 1707 ) was abbot of Benediktbeuern during the Bavarian popular uprising .

Tobias (= baptismal name) Öttl graduated from the Jesuit high school in Munich (today: Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich ) in 1675 and then entered the Benedictine monastery in Benediktbeuern. There he was elected abbot in 1690.

Father Karl Meichelbeck reports how Abbot Eliland II learned from the conversations between the Bavarian troops marching back from Tyrol that the military had no idea of ​​protecting the borders against the Tyroleans who pushed in. Christian Probst writes that Abbot Eliland threw himself on his horse and immediately led his country people personally against the Tyrolean invaders in 1703.

In January 1704, the conquest of the monastery by Austrian forces could only just be averted .

The abbots of the monasteries found themselves in a difficult position with the beginning of the uprising in December 1705. The Benediktbeuern monastery was only called to account by the imperial administration in Bavaria in October 1705 for conspiracy and, according to Christian Probst, only narrowly escaped execution. For this reason, Abbot Eliland had to be very careful despite his Bavarian attitude. He had already reported the unrest of his subjects on December 13th and 14th, 1705 to the administration.

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  1. ↑ p. 19 footnote 3 in August Lindner: The writers and the members of the Benedictine order in today's Kingdom of Bavaria from 1750 to the present day. Regensburg, 1880.
  2. ^ Leitschuh, Max: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vols., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 1, p. 224

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SURNAME Öttl, Eliland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot of Benediktbeuern
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1653
PLACE OF BIRTH Obersteinbach (Bad Heilbrunn)
DATE OF DEATH 1707