Friedrich Pfennigbauer
Friedrich Pfennigbauer OCist (born February 26, 1909 in Flandorf, municipality of Hagenbrunn , Lower Austria , † January 24, 1968 in Vienna ) was the 63rd abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Lilienfeld from 1958 to 1968 .
Life
Pfennigbauer was born the son of an innkeeper and butcher and was named Rudolf . After attending primary and secondary school, he began an apprenticeship as a businessman and, in addition to this apprenticeship, prepared for the Matura , which he passed in Klosterneuburg . On August 19, 1931, he joined Wilhering Abbey and took the religious name Friedrich . On August 20, 1932, he made temporal and permanent profession on August 20, 1935 .
He studied philosophy and theology at the Canons' Monastery of St. Florian and was novice master in Wilhering from 1938 to 1946 , parish vicar from 1942 to 1945 and rentmaster and prior from 1945 to 1953 .
On June 9, 1953, he was under the chairmanship of Archbishop Andreas Rohracher of Salzburg as Apostolic Visitor and Abbot President Karl Braunstorfer of Heiligenkreuz Abbot Coadjutor elected in Lilienfeld and on August 16, 1953 benediziert . After the death of his predecessor on March 31, 1958, he succeeded him as abbot of the Lilienfeld monastery.
Abbot Friedrich also held the office of forest master and carried out extensive restoration and construction work. For example, he initiated the construction of the Traisen parish church , which took place between 1958 and 1964, and the construction of a dormitory in Horn , which was primarily intended to provide secondary school education for those interested in the order for Lilienfeld, and which was built between 1958 and 1964.
Between 1960 and 1969 he built a Domcalor factory for the production of bitumen cork and bricks in order to achieve a better use of beech wood as a building material. In 1967 the Bundesrealgymnasium was opened in the Kaisertrakt, which goes back to his initiative.
Since the numerous construction activities exceeded the financial strength of the monastery, the Kleinzell forest district had to be sold to the Herzogenburg monastery in 1961 to partially cover the claims.
From 1959 Pfennigbauer was the first assistant of the Austrian Cistercian Congregation . On January 24, 1968, he died of a stroke in the hospital of the Barmherzige Brüder in Vienna and was buried on January 27 in the abbot's vault in Lilienfeld.
Publications
- Cistercian Abbey Lilienfeld , Verlag Schnell and Steiner Munich, Zurich, 2nd edition 1963
- Lilienfeld Abbey , Schnell und Steiner Verlag, Munich, Zurich, 3rd edition 1966
Memberships
- 1955 to 1968: Councilor of the Lower Austrian Chamber of Agriculture
literature
- Eugen Müller : Professbuch des Cisterzienserstiftes Lilienfeld, EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 1996, ISBN 3-88096-628-1 , pp. 424-425.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedrich Pfennigbauer in the Cistercian Lexicon , accessed on August 9, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfennigbauer, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pfennigbauer, Rudolf (baptismal name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Cistercian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Flandorf, municipality of Hagenbrunn , Lower Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1968 |
| Place of death | Vienna |