Georg Bauer (Provost)

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Georg Bauer (* at Salzburg Castle , today Bad Neustadt an der Saale ; † November 12, 1692 ) was provost of the Augustinian canons in Heidenfeld from 1673 to 1692 .

Heidenfeld before Bauer

The time before Georg Bauer took office was marked by the reconstruction after the Thirty Years' War . In the 1640s, Provost Laurentius Wirsing had to prevent the troops of the Protestant Swedes from setting fire to the Heidenfeld monastery buildings. His successor Andreas Deichmann from the Triefenstein Abbey then began to organize the reconstruction. He also received permission from the Pope to wear the miter in 1664 .

Life

Georg Bauer was born in the 17th century in Salzburg Castle above the city of Neustadt an der Saale. Nothing is known about his parents, and the sources are silent about the school education of the future provost. Neustadt was part of the Hochstift Würzburg and so it is likely that Bauer, after graduating from the so-called Latin School , perhaps in Neustadt, attended the University of Würzburg to study theology.

It is possible that Georg Bauer joined the Heidenfeld Abbey as a canon in his youth and rose quickly in the hierarchy under Provost Andreas IV. Deichmann . When the old head of the official duties could not do alone, asked him canons Bauer Coadiutor aside. After the death of Andrew IV in February 1673, a new provost was elected. Bauer had proven himself as a coadiutor and won the election.

Provost Georg continued the reforms of his predecessor. So he paid back debts that had accumulated during the Thirty Years War. In 1674 he was able to acquire a new parish for the monastery , which from then on was occupied by canons from Heidenfeld. In 1676 he bought a prelate's baton from a blacksmith from nearby Volkach , with which all subsequent provosts were consecrated. Bauer also had the community's economic buildings rebuilt.

In a diary , called Manuals, Provost Georg wrote down all the deeds that were accomplished during his reign. In 1685 the non-bell of the monastery church was cast and the organ was retuned at the same time . Three years later, in 1688, a new altar was purchased for the Laurentiuskirche in the village of Heidenfeld. In the same year, Bauer was an assistant at the church consecration in Bergrheinfeld . A year earlier, the property of the provost had been expanded with the acquisition of another parish.

Under Provost Georg, the number of canons in the monastery rose to 15. The many clergymen managed to look after the parishes of the monastery. The provost also had many books copied for the monastery library and increased the inventory. A visitation in 1688 revealed some problems. The canons' drinking bouts and the lateness of individual priests were reprimanded . Provost Georg Bauer died on November 12, 1792.

coat of arms

The personal coat of arms of Georg Bauer is the first surviving provost coat of arms of the monastery. It was attached to the east gate of the monastery and, as a talking coat of arms, refers to the provost's surname, a farmer Description : A growing male figure with a hoe in hand. The tinging of the coat of arms is unclear.

literature

  • Norbert Backmund: The canons and their monasteries in Bavaria. Augustinian Canons, Premonstratensians, Canons v. Holy Spirit, Antonite . Passau 1966.
  • Anton Oeller: A monastery diary from Heidenfeld . In: Unterfränkisches Heimatblatt. Main, Rhön, Steigerwald, Hassgau and Grabfeld No. 17 . Schweinfurt 1950. pp. 3-4.
  • Brigitte Schröder: Main Franconian monastery heraldry. The monasteries and monasteries bearing the coat of arms in the old diocese of Würzburg (= sources and research on the history of the diocese and monastery of Würzburg, vol. XXIV) . Würzburg 1971.
  • Benvenut Stengele : The former Augustinian Canons Monastery of Klosterheidenfeld am Main (Lower Franconia) (= calendar for Catholic Christians for the year 1897) . Sulzbach in the Upper Palatinate 1896.
  • Johannes Zimmermann: Heidenfeld - parish and village. 1141-1991 . Münsterschwarzach 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Backmund, Norbert: The canons and their pens in Bavaria . P. 85.
  2. ^ Stengele, Benvenut: The former Augustinian Canons Monastery of Klosterheidenfeld am Main . P. 121.
  3. ↑ Oeller, Anton: A monastery diary from Heidenfeld . P. 4.
  4. ^ Zimmermann, Johannes: Heidenfeld - parish and village . P. 61.
  5. ^ Schröder, Brigitte: Mainfränkische Klosterheraldik . P. 205.
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German provost
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg Castle
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1692