Georg Kihn
Georg Kihn (* in Würzburg ; † November 6, 1639 in Bad Königshofen in Grabfeld ) was abbot of the Bildhausen monastery .
Life
Georg Kihn from Würzburg was elected abbot of the Bildhausen monastery in 1618 and had the gate church built there, which Auxiliary Bishop Jodoku's Wagenhäuser inaugurated in 1624, and in 1625 the Renaissance- style abbey and syndicate building that still exists today as a replacement for the previous buildings that had been destroyed in the war .
During the Thirty Years War , Swedish troops occupied the monastery in October 1631 and drove away the monks. Kihn fled to Cologne for several years with the Würzburg Prince-Bishop Franz von Hatzfeld . Returned to Franconia in 1634, he lived with some monks in Königshofen, where he died in 1639 and was buried in the parish church .
literature
- Johann Wilhelm Rost: History of the Franconian Cistercian Abbey Bildhausen. From handwritten documents. Wurzburg 1852
Web links
- Georg Kihn in Biographia Cisterciensis , version from May 19, 2018
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kihn, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Abbot of the Bildhausen Monastery |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th Century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 6, 1639 |
| Place of death | Bad Königshofen in Grabfeld |