Franz Schächtelin

Franz Schächtelin (copper engraving based on a template by Jacob Carl Stauder )

Franz Schächtelin (* 1680 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † August 7, 1747 in St. Blasien ) was a German Benedictine , abbot and imperial prince .

Life

Schächtelin comes from a Freiburg family. From 1727 he was Franz II. Abbot of the St. Blasien monastery and provost of the Berau provost .

New monastery building

Schächtelin was “forced” to finally carry out the new buildings planned by his predecessors for the St. Blasien monastery in order not to be considered backward after a number of Benedictine monasteries in the wider region had already been renovated. After he found the sick rooms to be inadequate at the beginning of his term of office, he had a Jesuit priest, who had already made plans for a Jesuit college in Freiburg, request them to work out and plan them. He and the convent (including Marquard Herrgott ) presented these plans and ideas to Johann Michael Beer von Bleichten , who was active in Rheinau at the time and whom he had invited to an absente gratioso dinner on October 27, 1727. Father Ignatius Gumpp mentions this in his report. On November 12, 1727, Schächtelin signed the first building contract for the new construction of the cloister with Johann Michael Beer von Bleichten. He had the buildings (with the exception of the minster) completely demolished from 1727 to 1742 and rebuilt from 1740 to 1741 in the Baroque style . The office building and the inn were rebuilt in 1754 by Johann Caspar Bagnato . The view of the new building is preserved in an engraving by Andreas and Joseph Schmutzer and in an ink drawing by Nikolaus Willich from 1746. The buildings were destroyed again in the fire in 1768, the reconstruction was carried out under Martin Gerbert , the builder was Franz Joseph Salzmann , now with the St. Blasien Cathedral .

Further construction activities

He laid the foundation stone for the pilgrimage and monastery church Maria Loreto of the Capuchin monastery in Stühlingen on June 1, 1738. On January 14, 1746, he signed the building contract with Johann Caspar Bagnato for the new building of the Klingnau provost .

Honors

Schächtelin was from Emperor Charles VI. 1733 to the Privy Council, for 1734 inheritance and ore chaplain and in 1746 by Emperor Franz I. to princes appointed. He received a pectoral cross with emeralds and diamonds as a present from the emperor to raise him to the rank of imperial prince . In 1731 he had a splendid pontifical regalia made for himself and his successors, both of which are now in the St. Paul Abbey in Lavanttal (Carinthia). However, he could only enjoy the dignity of prince for eight months; but for his successors he had won the title of prince abbot.

Political situation

The effects of the Austrian War of Succession and the saltpetre riots were the most difficult political tasks in his tenure.

Portraits

The Viennese medalist Matthäus Donner (1704–1756) created a medal to commemorate the new construction of the monastery in 1740 with the portrait of Schächtelin. A portrait of Schächtelin by the hand of the baroque painter Jacob Carl Stauder , who Schächtelin employed alongside Franz Joseph Spiegler , from the series of abbots portraits of St. Blasien is preserved in St. Paul Abbey in Lavanttal . It shows the abbot seated and pointing to the commemorative medal, on the left of the picture there is a short eulogy with references to his merits. The St. Paul Abbey also has a small wooden relief portrait of Johann Christian Wenzinger , probably based on Donner's commemorative medal. A copperplate portrait also exists.

coat of arms

His coat of arms is a sloping beam in red 14-fold black and silver.

literature

• Exhibition catalog 1983, The Thousand Year St. Blasien, 200th anniversary of the cathedral . 2 volumes. ISBN 3-7617-0221-3 .
• Heinrich Heidegger, Hugo Ott (Hrsg.): St. Blasien 200 years monastery and parish church . Schnell and Steiner, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7954-0445-2 .
• Konrad Sutter, The abolition of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Blasien and the new beginning in St Paul / Carinthia in: Badische Heimat, issue 3, Sept. 1977, 57th year.

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ There were already Zwiefalten (since 1668), the Hofen priory (today Friedrichshafen, 1696), Einsiedeln (1704 to 1717), Ottobeuren (1711 to 1725) and Wiblingen (since 1714), Ettenheimmünster (since 1719), and Münsterlingen (1711 and 1716) has been renewed with magnificent baroque buildings.
2. ↑ Catalog picture and description online
3. ↑ Catalog: The Thousand Year St. Blasien, 200-year cathedral anniversary , Karlsruhe 1983, Volume I catalog, pp. 249-254 (bw photo) No. 200 and P. 257
4. ↑ Catalog with illustration

predecessor	Office	successor
Blasius Bender	Abbot of St. Blaise 1727 - 1747	Celestine Vogler
---	Imperial Prince 1746 - 1747	Celestine Vogler