Emmerich von Stall

Emmerich von Stall (* around 1610 in the county of Nassau ; † January 26, 1669 in Berau ) was a Franciscan hermit, priest and alchemist .

His origin remains a mystery to this day, it is assumed that he was of high aristocratic descent and that he was converted through experiences in the Thirty Years' War . In 1650 he went on a pilgrimage to Rome and received absolution after confession . On the return journey he received on October 26, 1650 in Assisi from Daniel a Dago the permission to live as a hermit . A document, issued on February 21, 1651, contains his request to Abbot Franz Chullot to be allowed to build a hermitage at the provost of Berau , which he was approved. Here he built accommodation and a laboratory for himself. He was ordained a priest in 1656 by the Würzburg auxiliary bishop Johann Melchior Söllner . He then built a small chapel at his own expense in 1657. The chapel received a portable altar from Bishop Johann Philipp von Schönborn . Bishop of Constance Johann Franziskus consecrated the chapel in the presence of numerous nobles, including the Count Palatine Christian August von Sulzbach , the Counts of Geroldseck and Cronberg. The chapel received relics from the church in Magdeburg. His servant was the minorite brother Balthasar Herschler. In a little garden on the Grasbühl he grew herbs from which he made mixtures , extracts , latwerg and medicines in his laboratory . After his death from a stroke, he left a collection of noble u. Semi-precious stones, books and utensils such as mortars and pans. The only bed he used was a leaf sack. The hermitage was sold to Breitenfeld , the attached laboratory was sold to a farmer. The chapel was later demolished, the portable altar came to Todtnau , where it was destroyed with the church in 1689. In Berau, a street named after him commemorates him.

literature

• Hans Matt-Willmatt , Emil Beck: Berau in the southern Black Forest . H. Zimmermann, Waldshut-Tiengen 1969, OCLC 603141135 .