Discovered by Minden

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Erkanbert (* in Gollachgau near Würzburg ; † June 7, 830 in Minden ; also: Ercumbert , Herkumbert , Herumbert ) was the first bishop of Minden from 803 to 813.

Meaning of the name

The name Erkanbert comes from Old High German and means "the one who shines in the army and in the clan".

Family of origin

A source reports that three sisters of Bishop Erkanbert lived in Gollachgau . According to Bosl ( Franconia around 800 ), Bishop Erkanbert and his siblings - Abbot Baugulf von Fulda (Abbot from 780 to 802), Count Wilant, Burcswint, Mahtswind and Countess Reginswind with her son Count Perahtold - belong to a large "-peraht" resp. -bert "family association, which had its focus in the Saalegau. Bosl also refers to the close relationships between the Mattones ( Megingaud , Bishop of Würzburg and then abbot of the Neustadt am Main monastery, was a Mattone. Likewise Fastrada, the fourth wife of Charlemagne .) And the "-perathen".

His work as a bishop

Around 790, the Fulda monk Erkanbert was appointed bishop for the mission district between Oberweser and Leine . The Romanus monastery in Hameln was initially the center of his missionary work .

Around 800, Charlemagne founded a diocese in Minden , which was added to the Cologne Metropolitan Association ; the diocese covers the area between Osnabrück and Hanover in the west-east and between Verden on the Aller and Holzminden on the Weser in the north-south direction.

In 803, Erkanbert was named as the first Minden bishop. Around this time, the first cathedral church was built on the site of today's Minden Cathedral ; the main altar of this and all subsequent cathedral churches is erected over a pre-Christian well sanctuary , which is reminiscent of the old name of the city of Minden - Mimthum, Minithum in a document from the year 798.

Erkanbert is venerated as a saint . His feast day is the day of his death, June 7th .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon Erkanbert http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienH/Herkumbert_von_Minden.html on August 23, 2006
  2. ↑ Ekkart Sauser:  Erkanbert (Ercumbert, Herkumbert). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 17, Bautz, Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8 , Sp. 346.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive  on 2007-06-13)
  3. ^ Karl Bosl : Franconia around 800. Structural analysis of a Franconian royal province (= series of publications on Bavarian national history. Vol. 58). Beck, Munich 1959; 2nd, expanded edition. Beck, Munich 1969.
  4. ↑ Lexicon of the Middle Ages Diocese of Minden http://www.manfred-hiebl.de/mittelalter-genealogie/mittelalter/bistuemer/minden/minden_bistum.html on August 5, 2006
  5. ^ Chronicle of the city of Minden http://www.alt-minden.de/klchronik.html ( Memento from March 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on August 5, 2006

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predecessor Office successor
--- Bishop of Minden
803-813 		Hardward
personal data
SURNAME Discovered by Minden
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ercumbert; Herkumbert; Messing around
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Minden
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Gollachgau near Würzburg
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 830
Place of death Minden