Franz Kaspar von Stadion

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Franz Kaspar von Stadion as Canon
Franz Kaspar von Stadion as Prince-Bishop of Lavant

Franz Kaspar von Stadion (born January 16, 1637 ; † February 13, 1704 ) was a German nobleman and from 1673 to 1704 Prince-Bishop of Lavant .

Origin and family

He came from the Alsatian line of the Swabian noble family von Stadion and was born the son of Johann Christoph von Stadion, bishop of Würzburg bailiff zu Trimberg (1610–1666), and his wife Maria Magdalena von Ostein . The father's uncle Johann Caspar von Stadion (1567–1641) served as the 45th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order . The mother was a niece of the Basel prince-bishop Johann Heinrich von Ostein (1579–1646) and the cousin of the Würzburg cathedral provost Franz Ludwig Faust von Stromberg (1605–1673).

Franz Kaspar's brother Georg Heinrich von Stadion (1640–1716) held the office of cathedral dean in Würzburg and has a large epitaph in Kilians cathedral ; the brothers Christoph Rudolf von Stadion (1638–1700) and Johann Philipp von Stadion (1652–1741) lived in Mainz ; the former as dean of the cathedral and chamber president. The latter officiated as Kurmainzer Oberhofmeister and allied himself with Maria Anna von Schönborn-Buchheim, daughter of the Mainz Minister Melchior Friedrich Graf von Schönborn-Buchheim and sister of the later bishops Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn (Würzburg), Friedrich Karl von Schönborn (Würzburg and Bamberg ), Franz Georg von Schönborn (Trier and Worms), and Damian Hugo Philipp von Schönborn-Buchheim (Speyer and Konstanz). Leopold Wilhelm von Stadion, another brother, had married Anna Ursula Greiffenclau zu Vollrads , sister of the Würzburg prince-bishop Johann Philipp von Greiffenclau zu Vollraths (1652-1719).

Live and act

Franz Kaspar von Stadion entered the clergy and became cathedral capitular in the dioceses of Bamberg and Würzburg , and later also in Salzburg . In addition, from 1663 until he took office as bishop, he represented the monasteries of Würzburg, Worms and Speyer as envoy to the Perpetual Diet of Regensburg , which he also chaired from 1666 to 1672 as director. In 1667/68 he stayed in Rome on behalf of Archbishop Johann Philipp von Schönborn .

The Salzburg archbishop Max Gandolf von Kuenburg appointed the canon on October 21, 1673 as bishop of his suffragan diocese Lavant; the papal confirmation took place on March 31, 1674. At that time the Lavant bishopric was still in Sankt Andrä im Lavanttal and owned his cathedral church Sankt Andrä there .

The pilgrimage church of Maria Loreto, built by Bishop Stadion

Bishop Stadion left a report on things he encountered and initiated. It says u. a .:

“ When I entered the diocese, it was my chief concern how I could not only maintain the same thing in the spiritual and in the temporal but also elevate it. I have repaired the bishop's court, which was very damaged, and partly renewed the inner divisions in it and brought them into better shape. In the same there is a prince-bishop's chapel, the Heil. Consecrated to Rupert; this threatened to collapse, which I prevented at my own expense by having it repaired and provided with a protective wall. "

- Karlmann Tangl: Series of the Bishops of Lavant , Klagenfurt, 1841, p. 293

In 1679 Stadion Schloss Thürn acquired for his bishopric. His predecessor Albert von Priamis built a Loreto chapel in St. Andrä in 1647 , which attracted many pilgrims with its miraculous image . Franz Kaspar von Stadion decided to have a mighty baroque church built as a pilgrimage shrine. It is today's pilgrimage church Maria Loreto , which was built between 1683 and 1687 and is one of the largest sacred buildings in Carinthia . Bishop Stadion was subsequently buried in it in 1719 and received a grave monument there after he had originally been buried in the cathedral church. The transfer costs were borne by the brother Johann Philipp.

The historian Karlmann Tangl characterizes Franz Kaspar von Stadion with the following words:

" ... a man full of true fear of God, Christian love and mildness, tireless zeal in the fulfillment of his high pastoral duties in spiritual and worldly respects, everywhere humble and far from self-praise and at the same time a man of taste and love of art, ... he undoubtedly belongs among those bishops who had been an adornment of the episcopal see at Lavant. "

- Karlmann Tangl: Series of the Bishops of Lavant , Klagenfurt, 1841, p. 304

In 1686 the bishop and his brothers were raised to the rank of imperial baron.

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz Kaspar von Stadion  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website on the brother and his epitaph
  2. ^ Genealogical page about the couple
  3. ↑ Lupold von Lehsten: Possibilities and limits of prosopographical research on the perpetual Reichstag in the 18th century , in: Zeitblicke , No. 11, 2013; (Online view, see section 29)
  4. ^ Website of the pilgrimage church with mention of Bishop Stadion
  5. ^ Website on the history of the pilgrimage church
  6. ↑ Clemens Brodkorb, Reinhard Heydenreuter, Erwin Gatz : The coats of arms of the Hochstifte, dioceses and diocesan bishops in the Holy Roman Empire 1648-1803 , Verlag Schnell and Steiner, 2007, p. 313, ISBN 379541637X ; (Detail scan)
personal data
SURNAME Stadium, Franz Kaspar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stadium, Franz I. Kaspar von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman and Prince-Bishop of Lavant (1673–1704)
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1637
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1704