Erasmus Pretschlaiffer

Erasmus Pretschlaiffer (or also: Pretschlaifer , Pretschlaipfer ) was an imperial prelate and provost of the Berchtesgaden monastery from 1473 to 1486 .

In 1294, the secular independence of the Stiftspropstei, founded around 1100, had already manifested itself through the acquisition of blood jurisdiction for serious offenses. From 1380 raised to a scepter fief and also represented with a seat and vote in the Reichstag, the power of the Stiftspröpste had increased even further and their status with Pretschlaiffer's predecessor Bernhard Leoprechtinger was equal to that of a Reich prelate.

Thanks Leoprechtinger since 1455 by the "metropolitan authority" of the Fürsterzbistums Salzburg free, Erasmus Pretschlaiffer was also in spiritual things ( Spiritualien subordinated only to the Pope). However, Pretschlaiffer still had to accept the pledge of Schellenberg and its saltworks to Salzburg in order to pay off the monastery's immense debts to the prince-archbishopric. Since the pledge was not enough, he also sold foreign monastery property and levied high taxes on the Berchtesgaden farmers. Nevertheless, the debts to Salzburg were not to be fully paid until 1556.

After Leoprechtinger, Pretschlaiffer was also involved in the Gothic design of the collegiate church of St. Peter and John the Baptist in Berchtesgaden and had the walls of the side aisles raised and fitted with larger windows.

literature

• Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants. Berchtesgadener Anzeiger Verlag , Berchtesgaden 1986, ISBN 3-925647-00-7 , pp. 50–51, 79–81.
• A. Helm , Hellmut Schöner (ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time . Reprint from 1929. Association for local history d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1973. pp. 100, 106–111, 261–262.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helm A .: Berchtesgaden in the course of time, keyword: History of the country, pp. 108-109
2. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Pp. 50-51
3. ↑ According to A.Helm, the episcopal insignia received after him in 1254 are already a sign of direct papal suzerainty to which the monastery would have been subject to since then. See Helm A .: Berchtesgaden through the ages , keyword: History of the country, p. 109
4. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . P. 79
5. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Pp. 79-81
6. ↑ A. Helm : Berchtesgaden in the course of time, keyword: Geschichte des Landes, pp. 106 to 111, pp. 107–108.
7. ↑ stiftskirche-berchtesgaden.de To the collegiate church: Homepage of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Andreas in Berchtesgaden