Franz Ludwig Schenk von Castell (1671–1736)

Franz Ludwig Schenk von Castell

Increased coat of arms of the Prince-Bishop

Baron Franz Ludwig Schenk von Castell (born August 5, 1671 in Arberg ; † September 17, 1736 in Eichstätt ) was a German clergyman and the 64th bishop of the Eichstätt diocese and prince-bishop of the Eichstätt monastery .

Life

Franz Ludwig, from the family of Schenk von Castell , completed his studies in Ingolstadt the Humaniora and theology at the Germanicum in Rome . He must also have stayed in Salzburg , because there he is still listed as a Sodale of the Marian Congregation in 1691 . In 1694 he became canon in Augsburg and from 1709 to 1725 cathedral provost , in 1696 in Eichstätt canon and in 1716 capitular. 1695 he was in Siena enrolled .

According to contemporaries, he was smart, serious and accurate in his speech. He was ordained a priest at the age of 46 and celebrated his primacy on March 28, 1717 in the crypt chapel of the monastery and parish church of St. Walburg in Eichstätt .

On July 3, 1725 he was elected 64th Bishop of Eichstätt by the Eichstätter cathedral chapter and consecrated on December 16, 1725. The 60th and 61st bishops had already emerged from his family: Marquard II Schenk von Castell (officiating 1636–1685) and Johann Euchar Schenk von Castell (1625–1697).

In a very short time he renewed the bishopric administration, which had got into difficulties under his predecessor due to corruption . In his eleven-year reign he had the parishes visited , promoted the veneration of Blessed Gundekar II , had the south wing of the new residence in the city completed in the year of his election by 1727, gave the ministerial and cavalier courts, the canonical houses, the vicariate general and commissioned the court chancellery on Residenzplatz and built a summer residence and court garden in Eichstätt from 1735 to 1737 . In 1735 the city provost was built on the market square as the seat of the city judge. He organized lavish court parties and court hunts; 170 deer, 81 boars, 204 hares, 2 wolves, 19 foxes and 2 badgers were killed in a court hunt in 1710 - not much less in the court hunt of 1730 in honor of the Elector of Mainz near Greding. He consecrated a. a. 1728 the new parish church St. Jakobus d. Ä. in Greding .

In 1731 he had a tomb built for the Castell family crypt in Eichstätter Cathedral , where he was buried five years later.

literature

• Klaus Kreitmeir: The bishops of Eichstätt . Publishing house of the church newspaper. Eichstätt 1992. pp. 83f.
• Peter Zürcher: The bishopric elections in the prince-bishopric of Eichstätt from 1636 to 1790. Election events in the mirror domkapitelscher, dynastic and imperial state and imperial church politics (dissertation Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, 2004/2005). Munich: Verlag CH Beck, 2008 (series of publications on Bavarian national history; 155). ISBN 978-3-406-10770-2 .

Web links

Commons : Franz Ludwig Schenck von Castell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Franz Ludwig Schenk von Castell on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Anton I. Knebel von Katzenelnbogen	Bishop of Eichstaett 1725 - 1736	Johann Anton II Baron von Freyberg