Floridus Leeb

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Floridus Leeb (born May 8, 1731 in Nikolsburg in Moravia , † August 13, 1799 in Klosterneuburg ) was provost in Klosterneuburg Abbey and in 1786 rector of the University of Vienna . The former municipality of Floridsdorf and today's Vienna district of Floridsdorf are named after him.

Life

Leeb attended the Nikolsburg grammar school as the son of a postal executive, entered Klosterneuburg Abbey in 1749, was ordained a priest in 1755, and in 1765 a doctorate in theology. He became a pastor in the parish church of Maria Hietzing , at that time not yet part of the city of Vienna .

From 1766 Leeb was librarian and novice master in the monastery and from 1768 director of the house studies. After Emperor Josef II issued a ban on home studies, the clergy had to attend a state university for their studies, where Leeb was elected rector of the University of Vienna in 1786. Josef II., Who at that time expropriated and sold a lot of land from monasteries, closed monasteries, abolished serfdom of the population, valued Leeb's loyal attitude. Leeb, in turn, increased the pastoral care of the monastery in order to avoid the abolition of the monasteries.

In 1786 Leeb awarded building sites to 30 young men in the area of ​​the current district center of Floridsdorf . He provided a loan of 7,000 guilders for the construction of an inn, which provided an upper floor with refuge for the population when the Danube flooded. As early as 1787, this settlement was destroyed by the All Saints flood . Leeb then waived the house rate for six years to facilitate reconstruction. As a thank you, the settlers named their village Floridusdorf . In 1793 he approved a village school for the Floridsdorf he founded , where the children from Jedlersdorf am Spitz , Schwarzlackenau and Zwischenbrücken were also enrolled.

In 1770 Leeb became a dean of the monastery, and after the death of provost Ambros Lorenz on February 16, 1782 provost of Klosterneuburg monastery. On April 20, 1782, the Klosterneuburg monastery was founded by Pope Pius VI. visited.

Honors

  • 1791: Imperial and royal councilor and colonel hereditary chaplain by Emperor Leopold II.
  • 1900: Floridusgasse in Floridsdorf
  • Floridus-Hof residential complex, Floridsdorfer Hauptstrasse 21

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Bittner: From the village church to the big city parish , Chronicle of the Floridsdorf Parish, Lower Austrian Press House St. Pölten 2001.
  2. ^ Raimund Hinkel, Kurt Landsmann: Floridsdorf from AZ: The 21st district in 1000 key words , Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 1997, page 66, ISBN 3-85447-724-4 .
  3. ↑ Yearbook of Klosterneuburg Monastery Berthold Koy: The Klosterneuburg Monastery under the provost Floridus Leeb (1782–1799) , New Series 11, 1979.
personal data
SURNAME Leeb, Floridus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian priest and provost of Klosterneuburg Abbey
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1731
PLACE OF BIRTH Mikulov , South Moravia
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1799
Place of death Klosterneuburg