Greimold Wulp

Greimold Wulp was provost of the Berchtesgaden monastery from 1368 to 1377 .

Little is known about Wulp's life and work, including whether and to what extent he is related to his successor Ulrich I. Wulp .

As provost of the Berchtesgaden monastery, Greimold Wulp was still subject to the metropolitan authority of the Archdiocese of Salzburg . It was not until 1455 that the monastery was able to get rid of it and was then subordinate to the Pope in spiritual matters. But the secular independence of the Stiftspropstei began to manifest itself as early as 1294 through the acquisition of blood jurisdiction for serious offenses.

Greimold Wulp was also able to obtain from Salzburg Archbishop Pilgrim II von Puchheim that after his Berchtesgaden subjects were rejected in breach of the contract, every fifth ship could be loaded with the prehistoric Schellenberger salt - an indication of how high the salt production within the Stiftspropstei has meanwhile increased was. But Wulp and his canons apparently lived in great luxury, so that even their rich income was not enough. The debt burden reached a “fantastic level” and the country was becoming increasingly impoverished. His successor Ulrich I. Wulp then tried to counter this when he took office in 1377, among other things, with a land letter in which he offered the serfs the property and fiefs of the monastery to purchase under inheritance law, but on the condition that the subjects continue to fulfill their feudal obligations had. Even if this was used extensively, this alone was not enough to restore the finances.

literature

• Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Berchtesgadener Anzeiger Verlag , Berchtesgaden 1986 ISBN 3-925647-00-7 , pp. 50-61.
• A. Helm , Hellmut Schöner (ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time . Reprint from 1929. Association for local history d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1973. pp. 100, 108-109, 261-262.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Pp. 50-51
2. ↑ According to A.Helm, the episcopal insignia received after him in 1254 are already a sign of direct papal suzerainty to which the monastery would have been subject to since then. See Helm A .: Berchtesgaden through the ages , keyword: History of the country, p. 109
3. ↑ ^{a b} Helm A .: Berchtesgaden through the ages, keyword: history of the country, pp. 108-109
4. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Pp. 60-61.