Georg Schweicker

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Georg Schweicker often also Schweiker (* around 1500 in Kirrweiler (Palatinate) ; † May 2, 1563 ) was auxiliary bishop in Speyer and titular bishop of Daulia .

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Georg Schweicker came from Kirrweiler, a Palatinate village that at that time also belonged politically to the Principality of Speyer.

He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Speyer by Prince-Bishop Philipp von Flersheim in 1543 and was later given the position of pastor of Bruchsal as well as that of early messenger at Waghäusel . The papal appointment as titular bishop of Daulia took place on December 15, 1544.

On August 17, 1550, Mainz asked for the appearance of Auxiliary Bishop Schweicker to consecrate the new Auxiliary Bishop there . On August 31 of that year, Georg Schweikert donated auxiliary bishop Georg Neumann to Mainz to be bishop .

In 1551/52, Auxiliary Bishop Georg Schweicker took part in the second period of the Council of Trent as a council father and representative of the Speyer diocese .

Also under the next Speyer bishop Rudolf von und zu Frankenstein (officiated 1552-1560) Schweicker continued to hold the office of auxiliary bishop of the diocese. In 1553 he was also a canon at the Allerheiligenstift Speyer .

On September 8, 1561, Auxiliary Bishop Jakob Eliner von Konstanz , assisted by Auxiliary Bishops Georg Schweicker from Speyer and Johannes Delphius from Strasbourg , donated the episcopal consecration to the new Prince-Bishop Marquard von Hattstein in the Bruchsal collegiate church . Schweickershausen had the archbishop already a day earlier in the chapel of the old castle for priests ordained .

The diocesan historian Franz Xaver Remling from Speyer gives a very clear account of the consecration ceremony :

“September 8th and the collegiate church in Bruchsal were determined for the consecration. Both Johannes Delphius - Episcopus Tripolitanus - from Strasbourg and Jacob - Episcopus Ascaloniensis - from Constanz promised to arrive and to carry out the ceremony with the Speyer Auxiliary Bishop Georg Schweicker. They came to Bruchsal on Saturday, September 6th, and on Sunday morning Marquard was ordained priest by his auxiliary bishop in the castle chapel. The new episcopal jewelry, the ring, the golden pectoral cross, the sandals and gloves were blessed. On Monday morning around seven o'clock the shepherd to be ordained was fetched in a solemn procession by the collegiate clergy, headed by the collegiate dean Georg von Koppenstein , from the castle, under the ringing of the bells, to the collegiate church. Marquard followed, after his relatives, in a long, black velvet dry with a square priestly bar, behind him the Auxiliary Bishop of Constanz, who was destined to ordain, the Auxiliary Bishop of Speyer on the right, the Auxiliary Bishop of Strasbourg on the left. This was followed by a long line of clergy and secular people, including several members of the cathedral chapter and the Weissenburger Stift. Philipp Simonis , notary of the cathedral monastery, was also among the secular officials ; the cathedral scholaster Andreas von Oberstein and the vicar Nicolaus Haugk were the altar boys. The consecration was carried out according to ecclesiastical regulations and Marquard placed the oath to be given to the Pope in the hands of the Constance Auxiliary Bishop ... After the consecration, including high mass, Marquard expressed his thanks to the three suffragan bishops in a Latin address, whereupon the episcopal chancellor took the floor called on those present to pious prayer, loyalty and obedience to the newly ordained. A happy meal at ten tables in the castle hall concluded the day's celebration. "

- Franz Xaver Remling, History of the Bishops of Speyer, Volume 2, Page 365

When he died, Auxiliary Bishop Schweicker left a large part of his fortune to the poor students at the Speyer Cathedral.

He was buried in the cloister of the Allerheiligenstift in Speyer. Franz Xaver Remling stated in his History of the Bishops of Speyer in 1852 (Volume 2, page 371, footnote 1123) that his grave slab is in the cathedral and is one of the few that has not been devastated. Possibly. it was brought there when the All Saints Church was demolished around 1800.

The later Speyer Auxiliary Bishop Dionys Burckard was a relative of Georg Schweickert and was raised by him.

literature

  • Franz Xaver Remling : History of the bishops of Speyer . Volume 2, Verlag Kirchheim, Mainz 1854.
  • Heinz Friedel: Kirrweiler; the story of a Palatinate wine village . Association municipality Maikammer, 1978 excerpt from the source .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source on date of death and origin from Kirrweiler
  2. ↑ Source for the request from Mainz
  3. ↑ To Auxiliary Bishop Georg Neumann, Mainz
  4. ^ Source on participation in the Council of Trent
  5. ↑ Further source on Schweickert's participation in the Council
  6. ↑ Source on the adoption of the canonical at Allerheiligenstift Speyer
  7. ↑ To Auxiliary Bishop Jakob Eliner
  8. ^ To Johannes Delphius: Sophronius Clasen OFM:  Delphius, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 589 ( digitized version ).
  9. ↑ Source on the priest and episcopal ordination of the prince-bishop by Georg Schweicker
  10. ↑ Source on the foundation for the Speyer cathedral students
  11. ↑ Source of the grave plate
  12. ↑ Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1448-1648. Volume 2, page 89.
personal data
SURNAME Schweicker, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schweiker, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Auxiliary Bishop in Speyer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirrweiler (Palatinate)
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1563