Franz Laurenz Mauermann

Franz Laurenz Mauermann.

Franz Laurenz Mauermann (born January 19, 1780 in Neuzelle ; † October 25, 1845 in Dresden ) was a German Roman Catholic bishop. From 1841 until his death he was apostolic vicar in the Saxon hereditary lands .

Life

The chapel built by Bishop Mauermann on the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden

Franz Laurenz Mauermann's grave at the back of the cemetery chapel

Mauermann attended the Latin school of the Neuzelle monastery and entered the Cistercian order there at the age of 16 . He was ordained a priest in 1804 and then worked for nine years as a chaplain in the pastoral care of his hometown. In 1813 he went to the Cistercian convent Marienstern as a chaplain , which was under the spiritual supervision of Neuzelle. He stayed there until the Prussian government dissolved his monastery in 1817. Mauermann was now a secular priest in the service of the Apostolic Vicariate in the Saxon hereditary lands (responsible for Saxony but excluding Upper Lusatia, Saxony-Altenburg and Reuss older and younger lines ). First he was a chaplain, later a pastor in Leipzig. Appointed court chaplain, Mauermann also received a canonical at the Bautzen Petridom and in 1827 took over the chairmanship of the newly formed Catholic consistory in Dresden.

After the death of his younger brother Ignaz Bernhard , Mauermann was in 1841 at the request of King Friedrich August II. Pope Gregor XVI. the new Vicar Apostolic of Saxony and appointed and elevated to the title of Titular Bishop of Rama . He received his episcopal ordination in March 1842 in the Dresden court church by the Leitmeritz bishop Augustin Hille . During his short term in office, Mauermann had the Catholic church built in Annaberg . His brother left the necessary funds to the Church. He also opened a Catholic school in Grimma and initiated the construction of the Trinity Church in Leipzig , which he did not see to be completed. In his will he donated an amount for the construction of a Catholic church and school in Saxony (the so-called Mauermann Foundation). In 1883 she built the church and school in Radeberg.

Mauermann died on October 25, 1845 and was buried in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden-Friedrichstadt . He had the chapel there built himself in 1842. His successor was Joseph Dittrich .

The bishop was considered a good preacher. He has had some of his sermons published in print. He also wrote canonical treatises and a history of the Neuzelle monastery.

Works

• The princely pen and monastery of the Ciftercienser order Neuzelle near Guben in Niederlausitz. Regensburg 1840. (Reprinted there in 1993 ISBN 3-927841-03-X )
• Frank illumination of the parity between the Protestant and the Catholic Church in Saxony. 1831.
• Sermon at the thanksgiving celebration of the celebrations of the 50 year old government SM of the King of Saxony. 1818.
• Spiritual speeches given at the Oct. In 1844 the newly built Catholic Church in Annaberg was consecrated. 1844.

literature

• Heinrich Meier: The Apostolic Vicariate in the Saxon Hereditary Lands (= studies on the Catholic diocese and monastery history 24). Leipzig 1981.
• Friedrich August Forwerk: History and description of the Königl. Catholic court and parish church in Dresden. In addition to a short history of the Catholic Church in Saxony from the change of religion of Elector Friedrich August I to our day. Dresden 1851, pp. 178-184.
• Anton Weis:  Mauermann, Franz Laurenz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 688.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ At the time, the Catholic jurisdiction in the Bautzen district administration was incumbent on Matthäus Kutschank, the apostolic administrator (of the former Meißnian diocesan area) of Upper Lusatia .
2. ^ Church and school in Radeberg