Gottschalk from Heiligenkreuz

Gottschalk von Heiligenkreuz OCist ruled from around 1133 to around 1147 . He was the first abbot of Heiligenkreuz .

Life

He had made his profession in the Burgundian Cistercian monastery of Morimond . However, since the founding year of Heiligenkreuz is given differently, between September 1133 and March 1136, the beginning of Gottschalk's term of office cannot be precisely determined.

In September 1133 some of Morimond's brothers were sent to the forest outside Vienna to investigate a foundation there. St. Margrave Leopold III. von Austria had promised to support them. When she arrived in Austria in the autumn of 1133, she could not start work because of the late season and spent the winter at the margrave's expense. Construction work began in the spring of 1134 and the temporary timber construction was completed in the summer of 1135. Abbot Otto von Morimond, Leopold's son, then added twelve to the number of monks sent to Austria. These arrived on September 11, 1135 in Heiligenkreuz, where the Vita regularis , life according to the rule of the order, could now begin and this day can therefore be regarded as the foundation day and the beginning of the effectiveness of Abbot Gottschalk.

Gottschalk's year of death is given differently, for example according to Hanthaler in the year 1141 or on December 5 or 13, 1147.

literature

• Entry about Abbot Gottschalk , in: Florian Watzl : Die Cistercienser von Heiligenkreuz . Graz 1898, p.1 ( Online on Wikimedia Commons)

Web links

Wikisource: I. Abbot Gottschalk. (1135–1147)  - Sources and full texts

• Gottschalk von Heiligenkreuz in the Biographia Cisterciensis

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Entry about Abbot Gottschalk , in: Florian Watzl : Die Cistercienser von Heiligenkreuz . Graz 1898, p.1 ( Online on Wikimedia Commons)
2. ↑ Hanthaler, Chrysostom: Fasti Campililienses . Linz 1747 ( bibliographical evidence ).

predecessor	Office	successor
	Abbot of Heiligenkreuz Abbey 1133–1147	Abbot Heinrich I (1148–1185)