Georg Truchseß von Wetzhausen
Georg Truchseß von Wetzhausen (* 1465 ; † 1552 in Eichstätt ) was the last abbot of the Auhausen Monastery on the Wörnitz.
Origin and family
Georg Truchseß came from the Dachsbacher line of Truchsessen von Wetzhausen and was, according to Johann Gottfried Biedermann, the son of Jakob Truchseß zu Wetzhausen and his wife Susanna nee. from Wilhelmsdorf born. According to this genealogy, the Speyer cathedral dean and humanist Thomas Truchseß von Wetzhausen († 1523) was his brother; Martin Truchsess von Wetzhausen († 1489), 34th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order , his uncle (father's brother). Two of his cousins also held high offices in the Teutonic Order, namely Georg Truchseß von Wetzhausen (Grand Commander in Prussia) and Jobst Truchseß von Wetzhausen († 1524, Landkomtur of Austria). Her brother Erhard Truchseß von Wetzhausen († 1519) officiated as cathedral dean in Eichstätt .
Live and act
On January 4, 1488, Georg Truchseß von Wetzhausen enrolled at the University of Ingolstadt ; at that time he was already a monk in the Münchsteinach monastery . After completing his studies, he went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land with others in 1493 . In Jerusalem he was solemnly inducted into the Order of the Holy Sepulcher ; the Jerusalem cross can be found in many of his later foundations.
Returning to Münchsteinach, he was not elected successor to the abbot there in 1495, despite extensive support from the Ansbach margrave ; he was feared as "pious and strict". When Abbot Wilhelm von Wülzburg also died in 1495 , Margrave Friedrich II wanted to see Georg Truchseß there as abbot, but he was not elected here either. Four years later, in the autumn of 1499, the margrave finally succeeded in creating an abbey for Georg Truchseß with Auhausen. After confirmation by the Bishop of Eichstätt, Georg Truchseß took his oath on October 23, 1499.
In the following years the new abbot had to prove himself to both the margrave and the convent. He succeeded: on the one hand he was able to pay the margrave considerable taxes and on the other hand he was able to expand the monastery and equip it with equipment, works of art and a library. Word got around about the abbot's hospitality and sociability; among other things, humanists from Nuremberg came to see him. He was able to implement his sense of the visual arts in many varieties. In 1519 he gave the monastery church a new choir , for which he had new altar panels painted by Hans Leonhard Schäufelein from 1513 onwards, and in 1519 Melchior Schabert carved new choir stalls, and he built three new chapels in the church and added new side chapels. They were painted with colorful ornamental tendrils. From 1503 he expanded the monastery and built a new, vaulted cloister . He had the dormitory , the refectory , an infirmary, the chapter house and the library rebuilt around him . In addition there were new farm buildings and a double walling of the monastery complex. Outside of his monastery he also worked as a builder and outfitter of churches. His art treasures also included graphics and paintings of secular motifs as well as artistic utensils such as cups and Bohemian and Venetian glasses.
Opponents soon emerged within his convent, against whom he knew how to assert himself. Despite its severity, the number of monks in his convent doubled. In 1524 he was allowed to chair the provincial chapter of the Benedictines in Nuremberg.
As the margravial councilor and governor, the abbot conducted negotiations in many places and attended imperial diets.
After 25 years of activity, the Peasants' War suddenly brought fundamental changes for the successful abbot. His monastery suffered losses and destruction of buildings and valuable inventory while he and the monks had taken to Schloss Neuenmuhr to safety. After that, the introduction of the Reformation under Margrave Georg threatened the continued existence of the monastery. In October 1530 he received an imperial letter of protection for himself and his monastery, but on November 25, 1530 he left the monastery for the episcopal city of Eichstätt - only temporarily, as he justified several times to the margrave. However, the return negotiations failed because he was unwilling to give in on the matter of the new church order.
In Eichstätt he enjoyed the goodwill of Bishop Gabriel von Eyb , to whose round table he belonged. Under his successor Moritz von Hutten , he was given a permanent refuge in the Dominican monastery . Here he founded a sacrament house in the monks' choir , a replica of the sacramentary of his monastery that Loy Hering carried out. He was buried at its feet. The grave slab - a copy of the grave slab never used as such in the monastery church in Auhausen, modified for Eichstätt - was still in place in 1970, but seems to have disappeared in the meantime.
literature
- Klaus Sturm: History of the Auhausen Monastery on the Wörnitz. Eichstätt 1970: Collection sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 63 (1969/70); at the same time phil. Dissertation at the University of Erlangen; especially pp. 88-144
- Wolfgang Buchta: Lost grave monuments of the former Dominican monastery in Eichstätt. In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 77/78 (1984/85), Eichstätt 1986, esp. P. 53f.
Web links
- Georg Truchseß and his monastery
- Monuments to Georg Truchseß von Wetzhausen in the monastery church in Auhausen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website on the Franconian noble family von Wilhelmsdorf ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Johann Gottfried Biedermann: genealogical register of the Reichsfrey immediate knighthood of the Landes zu Franken praiseworthy place Baunach, panel CXCVII, Kulmbach, 1747; (Digital scan)
- ^ NDB data page for the Teutonic Order Commander Georg Truchseß von Wetzhausen
- ↑ Epitaph of Jobst Truchseß von Wetzhausen in the Teutonic Order Church in Vienna
- ↑ Gustav Knod: Steward of Wetzhausen, Erhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 682.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Truchseß von Wetzhausen, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German dept |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1465 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1552 |
| Place of death | Eichstatt |