Eucharius Weiner

Eucharius Weiner OSB (born February 24, 1634 in Kissingen , Lower Franconia , † April 11, 1701 in Würzburg ) was a German Benedictine abbot .

Life

From 1667 until his death in 1701 Weiner was abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Stephan in Würzburg, rector of the University of Würzburg , prelate and sponsor of the monastery library.

In 1677 he also became Abbot of Banz . He and his successor as Abbot Kilian Düring were the ones who commissioned the builder Leonhard Dientzenhofer (1660–1707) after the Thirty Years' War , and after his death his brother Johann Dientzenhofer (1663–1726) to rebuild the Banz monastery. Construction work on the monastery began in 1698. In 1700 he was also the administrator of the Schottenkloster in Würzburg .

literature

• Jutta Franke: Weiner, Eucharius. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 829 ( digitized version ).
• Rainer Leng : The Benedictine monastery of St. Stephan in Würzburg (= historical studies of the University of Würzburg. Volume 4). Publishing house Marie Leidorf, Rahden (Westphalia) 2006, ISBN 3-89646-836-7 .
• Alfred Wendehorst: Eucharius Weiner . In: Society for Franconian History (Ed.): Franconian Life Pictures. Volume V, Verlag Degener & Co, Naustadt ad Aisch 1973, ISSN  0435-8198 , ISBN 3-86652-705-5 , pp. 176-189. Revised version in: Werner Eberth : P. Ignaz Gropp and other great Benedictines from Bad Kissingen . Theresienbrunnen, Bad Kissingen 2007, OCLC 229907698 , pp. 14-35.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Casp [ar] Ant [on] Schweitzer: Complete extract from the most excellent calendar of the former principality of Bamberg. In: Report on the existence and work of the Historical Association of Bamberg in Upper Franconia in Bavaria. Volume 7. Züberlein [in Komm.], Bamberg 1844, p. 153 ( digitized in the Google book search).