Fridolin Honold

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Fridolin Honold

Fridolin Honold (born November 29, 1837 in Thalmühle near Engen , † November 3, 1900 in Bonndorf in the Black Forest ) was a German Catholic priest .

Life

Fridolin Honold was the son of Dominik Honold and Juliana Rothakar. He was baptized on November 30, 1837 in Engen. Honold attended the Lyceum in Constance . He studied at the University of Freiburg Catholic theology and was "the most gifted" roommate in college Borromaeum of Heinrich Hans Jakob , 1863 he was selected by Archbishop Hermann von Vicari ordained. After years of chaplaincy , he became parish administrator in Altglashütten in 1868 and was pastor in Bonndorf from 1881 until his death in 1900.

Priests and patrons of the arts

Honold as a wedding guest?
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Painting by Simmler
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Template Overbecks


When Fridolin Honold came to Bonndorf as a pastor in 1881, he found a new but spartan parish church. For the monastery and parish church that burned down in 1842, the state of Baden built the church of St. Peter and Paul above the city until 1850 , as it was required to build the church after the dissolution of the Pauline monastery . Pastor Honold, who had a great sense of art, especially painting, could not get used to the poor design of the church. He therefore compared the interior of the church with an emptied magazine and worked tirelessly for the design of the church. His persistence succeeded and the church was redesigned between 1893 and 1900 by the sculptor, painter and altar builder Franz Joseph Simmler . Simmler was the executive body, while Honold provided the concept for the design of the church. In particular, the design of the choir with the Seven Sacraments and the cycle of pictures of the Credo on the walls of the nave bear the (theological) handwriting of the clergyman. Pastor Honold sacrificed not only time and his tireless energy, but also his private fortune to the desire for the richest, highest quality and dignified furnishing of this church. Simmler is said to have portrayed Honold as a guest in the representation of the sacrament of marriage in the choir of the church. At least one recognizes fewer guests on Simmler's version of Overbeck's template on the right.

Hostility

Pastor Honold was held in high esteem, probably also because he saw himself as a pastor and deliberately stayed out of politics. He was friendly with liberal parishioners as well as Protestants. He commented on the political party landscape at the time:

“Whoever casts his vote for the center may do so; if you don't want that, let it stay. "

This attitude and the fact that the liberal Bonndorf savings bank administrator Ferdinand Kriechle had been a member of the Baden state parliament from 1895 displeased Theodor Wacker , the party chairman of the Center Party and pastor in Zähringen , and the Freiburg cathedral chapter . In September 1896 Josef Schofer wrote a secret letter to the Bonndorf vicar Mamertus Duffner (* 1868) on behalf of the cathedral capitular Jakob Schmitt (1834–1915 ). Through this he was asked to carefully write down and communicate everything he could learn about the angry way of life of his principal. He should document for each point whether he is completely sure or suspect it and whether he has observed it or has heard from it. Before writing, let him pray, reflect, and examine. After that, however, "what was recognized as true should be firmly written down". Duffner should have “no false pity”, since it was about “averting a great annoyance and saving many souls”. The letter, which began with the laudation of Jesus Christ , ended with Schofer's promise to pray for Duffner every day and with the phrase “God and Mary recommended protection”.

Vicar Duffner lost the letter (consciously or unintentionally) in front of Honold's office. This led to a dispute between Honold and Wacker. After the letter was published on December 19, 1897 in the Badische Landeszeitung , the dispute was carried out in public. Wacker's behavior towards Kriechle and Honold had been brought up shortly before in the Baden Estates Assembly by the National Liberal MP Emil Fieser when the controversial election of the Loerrach NLP MP Karl Dreher was discussed. The Prussian ambassador in Baden, Karl von Eisendecher , reported to his superiors about Fieser's statements and the publication of the letter.

The theologian Josef Müller (1855–1942) called this “Affaire Wacker-Honold” in his book Der Reformkatholizismus , published a few years later, as an example of the “contentiousness and spite among Catholic priests”.

Although the congregation stood firmly behind their pastor and expressed this with a collection of 256 signatures to the ordinariate and did not know how to raise any objections against Honold, the slander against Honold did not end for several years. He fell ill in the last year of his life and died soon afterwards.

Honors

Priest's grave in the Bonndorfer cemetery

The Bonndorf community erected a memorial to him in the cemetery. In the course of the cemetery redesign, the memorial was dismantled in the 1970s and a priest's grave was erected in its place, in which Honold is buried.

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Details on Fridolin Honold. In: Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558–1898. FamilySearch.org, accessed May 20, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Friedrich von Weech (ed.): Badische Biographien. V. Teil, Braun, Karlsruhe 1891-1900, p. 911 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Program of the Grand Ducal Lyceum in Constanz as an invitation to the public exams and the awarding of prizes on August 16-19, 1854. Jakob Stadler, Konstanz 1854, p. 21 ( full text in the Google book search).
  4. ^ Heinrich Hansjakob: Selected writings. Volume 2, Bonz, Stuttgart 1910, p. 222, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Kremer: The Grand Duchy of Baden in the political reporting of the Prussian ambassadors, 1871-1918 , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1992, p. 149 ( preview in the Google book search).
  6. ↑ Meinrad Götz: The rich church furnishings were due to him. On the 100th anniversary of Pastor Honold's death. In: Badische Zeitung. November 3, 2000.
  7. ^ Judith Wörner, Hans Jakob Wörner : Bonndorf (Black Forest). Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul. Schnell und Steiner publishing house, Munich, Zurich 1976.
  8. ^ A b Hans-Jürgen Kremer: The Grand Duchy of Baden in the political reporting of the Prussian ambassadors, 1871-1918 , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1992, p. 149 ( further preview in the Google book search).
  9. ↑ a b Dr. Krone: A memorable spiritual letter. In: Willibald Beyschlag (Ed.): Deutsch-Evangelische Blätter. Journal for the entire field of German Protestantism. 23, 1898, pp. 140-145, ( full text in Google Book Search USA ).
  10. ↑ Baden State Parliament. Karlsruhe, December 9th. In: Freiburg newspaper . December 11, 1897, Retrieved May 28, 2016 .
  11. ^ Karl Wippermann : Political history of the present. XXXI. The year 1897 , Julius Springer, Berlin 1898, p. 224 ( full text in the Google book search USA ).
  12. ^ Josef Müller: Der Reformkatholizismus , Caesar Schmidt, Zurich 1899 ( full text in the Google Book Search USA ).
  13. ^ Karl Ebner: A Bonndorfer looks back. In: Bonndorfer Texte. No. 2, Bonndorf im Schwarzwald 1993, pp. 210-211.
personal data
SURNAME Honold, Fridolin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Honold, Fridolin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic priest
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Narrow
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1900
Place of death Bonndorf in the Black Forest