Heinrich Faber (Abbot)

Heinrich Faber OSB (* in the 14th century in Biberach ; † March 6, 1434 in Constance ) was the 2nd abbot of the later imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen in today's Biberach district in Upper Swabia .

Life

He was the nephew of Abbot Nicholas . On June 12, 1422 he was elected abbot of the imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen by the convent and remained so until his death. Before that he was pastor in Winterstetten for five years . Due to his weak constitution, he initially did not want to accept the election. However, the episcopal consecration took place three days later by the auxiliary bishop of Constance , Georgius Episcopus Dimettensis , in the collegiate church of St. Gallus and Otmar in St. Gallen .

He bought several wineries in Markdorf for a thousand pounds of Heller . In 1424 he merged the parishes of Oy and Kronwinkel with Thannheim . He compared himself to the Abbot of Rot an der Rot because of the villages of Berkheim and Illerbachen in the Illertal . In 1427 he acquired the patronage rights of Schönebürg from the widow Elisabeth Lang . After the Council of Constance , tensions arose over property and legal relationships with the local and regional nobility. In the winter of 1434, Faber traveled to Constance, despite his well-known weak constitution, to take legal action against the nobility before the episcopal ordinariate and the Council of Basel . Pope Eugene IV thought little of the council, especially since it took place outside of his territorial sphere of influence. Eugene dissolved it with his bull “ Quoniam alto ” of November 12, 1431 and, alternatively, called a meeting in Bologna . However, the majority of the church representatives present in Basel did not care much. The bull wasn't even read. The complaints of the then still rather insignificant monastery should also be brought before the controversial Council of Basel. It never came to that.

Heinrich Faber fell seriously ill and died on March 6, 1434 in Constance.

literature

• Georg Geisenhof : Brief history of the former Reichsstift Ochsenhausen in Swabia . Ganser, Ottobeuren 1829, pp. 48–50 ( digital copy , )
• Volker Himmelein (ed.): Old monasteries, new masters. The secularization in the German southwest 1803. Large state exhibition Baden-Württemberg 2003 ; Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2003; ISBN 3-7995-0212-2 (exhibition catalog and essay volume)
• Volker Himmelein, Franz Quarthal (ed.): Front Austria, Only the tail feather of the imperial eagle? The Habsburgs in the German southwest . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Ulm 1999, ISBN 3-88294-277-0 (catalog of the state exhibition).

predecessor	Office	successor
Nikolaus Faber OSB	Abbot of Ochsenhausen 1422–1434	Michael Ryssel OSB