Franz Chullot

Sandstone coat of arms Abbot Franz I, Chullot of St. Blasien

Franz I. Chullot (* 1599 in Ensisheim ; † February 21, 1664 in the Wislikofen Propstei ) was abbot of the St. Blasien monastery in the Black Forest from September 10, 1638 to 1664 .

Life

In 1618 he was sent to Salzburg by Abbot Martin Meister I, together with his brothers, to help found the university there. In 1624 he studied in Perugia . In 1637 he stayed with Otto Kübler , who later became his successor, in Milan and in Rome with the composer Girolamo Frescobaldi .

The devastation and looting by the Swedes in the course of the Thirty Years' War fell right at the beginning of his term of office . The first highlight was the battle of Rheinfelden on March 3, 1638. Franz Chullot was already in exile in the Provost of Klingnau and was elected abbot from there. He wrote to Father Otto Kübler in St. Blasien that everything was devastated, the monastery courtyards burned and the Black Forest looted. In Tiengen the Swedish commander, Captain Schlagmann, lived like a tyrant.

In 1640, Chullot had Gutenburg Castle burned down so that it would not be reoccupied by the enemy. In the autumn of 1643, the St. Blasien Monastery had to flee to Switzerland for horses and cattle. He made contributions to the establishment of the Waldshut Capuchin Monastery .

A sandstone coat of arms with the year 1642 from the front Trotte in Bechtersbohl (broken off in 1898) has been preserved and is now walled in (1953) on a house in Bechtersbohl.

Franz Chullot's only secured building activity in St. Blasien was the permanent expansion of the monastery archive in 1653. The churches in Bettmaringen , Höchenschwand , Urberg , Hochemmingen and Boll near Bonndorf , which were destroyed in the war, were rebuilt during his term of office. The old moated castle Gurtweil burned down in his presence on May 13, 1660, whereupon he had the new building begin, but he did not live to see its completion. Chullot was a patron of the sciences and historiography as well as the Hebrew language. He was friends with the alchemist Emmerich von Stall . He died in the Wislikofen priory and was buried there in front of the high altar he had donated.

coat of arms

A brown three-mountain with a green tree on a red shield, above it two gold stars. The crest is a wolf's head with a piglet in its mouth (according to the Blasius legend ) and opposite the abbot's staff.

literature

• Heinrich Heidegger, Hugo Ott (eds.), St. Blasien 200 years of the monastery and parish church. ISBN 3-7954-0445-2 .
• Exhibition catalog 1983, The Thousand Year St. Blasien, 200th anniversary of the cathedral. 2 volumes. ISBN 3-7617-0221-3 .
• Paul Booz, architectural and art history of the St. Blasien Monastery and its domain , Schillinger, Freiburg 2001, ISBN 3-89155-264-5 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Blasius II. Münzer	Abbot of St. Blasien 1638 - 1664	Otto Kübler