Heinrich Feiten

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Heinrich Feiten (1835–1892), pastor of Fraulautern (1866–1884), auxiliary bishop of Trier (1887–1892)

Heinrich Feiten (born May 19, 1835 in Bengel (Mosel) , † February 17, 1892 in Trier ) was auxiliary bishop in Trier .

Life

Origin and school time

Heinrich Feiten was born on September 15, 1835 in Bengel, Parish Springiersbach, as the son of Matthias Feiten and his wife Margaretha (née Winckel). The family came from poor, smallholder backgrounds and had their origins in Bengel and Bad Bertrich . Feiten was prepared by the local priest for the grammar school, which he attended from the fourth as a convector in Trier. Because of his good singing voice, he received a grant from the Banthus Foundation, which was administered by the Trier Konvikt. In return, Feiten had to support the cathedral chapter with choir prayers on Sundays and public holidays. In 1855 Feiten passed the Abitur exams. Immediately afterwards he began studying philosophy as a convector and entered the Trier seminary in 1856 .

Parish priest

Feiten was ordained a priest on August 27, 1859 and was initially chaplain in Mayen for four years , where he also worked for two years as a religion teacher at the secondary city school. On October 12, 1866, Feiten was appointed pastor in the parish of the Holy Trinity in Fraulautern and also worked here as a part-time teacher of religion . Feiten worked in Fraulautern until 1884.

During this time, Fraulautern grew from 2,000 to 3,000 residents due to the local chair factory and sheet iron factory, the ironworks in neighboring Dillingen and the coal mine in neighboring Ensdorf . Feiten was involved in Fraulautern and in neighboring Saarlouis in the social, pastoral, cultural and pedagogical areas, cared for church music as a choir director and violin player and founded a group of the Third Order of St. Francis and the Catholic Mothers' Association.

During the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/1871, after the Battle of Gravelotte on August 18, 1870 , Feiten set up a hospital for wounded soldiers in the rooms of the dissolved Fraulautern Abbey . This is where he also quartered 120 women citizens who had been attacked by black pox as a result of the war . For his commitment, Feiten was honored by Kaiser Wilhelm I with the Merit Medal for Duty in War .

In the Kulturkampf on February 2, 1878, Feiten was deprived of the local school inspection because of alleged anti-government sentiments, for example he refused to participate in the celebration of the Emperor's birthday. Only after the violent Kulturkampf events in Saarland had subsided Feiten was reinstated on July 13, 1882.

Against a significant part of the Fraulautern municipal council, Feiten campaigned for denominational ties to the Fraulautern cemetery. The interior of the former baroque abbey church was refurbished by Feiten after a large part of the interior fittings had been lost as a result of the French secularization and subsequent auctions. After Feiten had taken on the official duties of the dean Hecking for a long time, he was appointed his successor on December 21, 1881.

Career in the diocese leadership

Against the opposition of the Prussian officials, Feiten was appointed to the cathedral chapter on December 30, 1884 by the Trier bishop Michael Felix Korum . The Prussian side suspected that Feiten was a willing tool of ultramontanism , which was secretly conspiring with the " hereditary enemy " France via the Wallerfang pastor Karl Josef Petry (term of office: 1872–1893) .

On March 21, 1885, Feiten was appointed clergyman and on January 22, 1887, Trier cathedral priest. On January 31, 1887, the Trier bishop Korum beat Pope Leo XIII. Prepare as auxiliary bishop of Trier. Since Feiten was classified by the Prussian government as disloyal to the Prussian state, the Pope asked the Reich Chancellor and Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck for his approval as a sign of reconciliation . In his reply to the Pope, Bismarck summarized all the arguments gathered by the secret service against Feiten:

“Feiten is an anti-government, incitement to elections, conspiratorial with the French via Metz, of the opinion of the Dasbach chaplain , in whose paper he writes; Spiritually and scientifically without means, it has become a mechanical instrument of Korum, through Protection de Lorenzi's canon. So we certainly don't like it ... "

Thereupon Pope Leo XIII refused. Feit's appeal. Cardinal Secretary of State Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro , however, did not want to give himself up so quickly by Bismarck and summoned Feiten to Rome for a visual inspection on June 14, 1887, where Feiten appeared convincing.

Auxiliary Bishop in Trier

After Bismarck had given up his resistance to Feiten in the following years, he was appointed auxiliary bishop in Trier and titular bishop of Amyzon on September 20, 1887 . On November 20, 1887, the Bishop of Trier Michael Felix Korum , assisted by the Bishops Johannes Joseph Koppes of Luxembourg and Paul Leopold Haffner of Mainz, donated his episcopal ordination . The Prussian government was represented by District President Berthold von Nasse and the Prussian military by Major General Schmidt at the celebration.

As a coat of arms, Feiten chose a shield with the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the five sacred wounds, divided by the Trier cross . His motto was: In cruce salus (“In the cross is salvation”).

Feiten always had health problems, so that he suffered from the rigors of the new office. On August 14, 1888, Feiten was appointed by Bishop Korum as a member of the board of directors of the Trier seminary, which was reopened in 1886.

Corporate trips

List of company trips to Feiten in the Diocese of Trier:

Failed election as bishop of Münster

On May 22nd, 1889, on the recommendation of Bishop Korum of Trier, the cathedral chapter of the Münster diocese put auxiliary bishop Heinrich Feiten on the electoral list for the election of a new bishop in Münster. However, on August 15, 1889, Feiten lost to Hermann Jakob Dingelstad in the election .

Health problems and death

At the General Assembly of Catholics in Germany, which took place in Trier from August 28 to September 1, 1887, Feiten, although a co-organizer, barely emerged. The Heilige-Rock-Pilgrimage , which took place from August 20 to October 4, 1891, further weakened Feiten's ill health.

Feiten suffered a stroke at the beginning of 1892 , of which he died on February 17, 1892. Heinrich Feiten was buried on February 20, 1892 in the Auxiliary Bishop's Crypt in Trier.

After Feiten's death, Karl Ernst Schrod was appointed his successor on April 17, 1894.

relationship

Heinrich Feiten's nephew was the educator and writer Josef Feiten (1888–1957).

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family book Bad Bertrich - Kennfus from 1570–1899
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Seibrich: The auxiliary bishops of the Trier diocese (= publications of the Trier diocese archive , vol. 31). Trier 1998, p. 271.
  3. ↑ Diocese archive Trier, Dept. 84 (personal file)
  4. ↑ State Main Archive Koblenz Dept. 442/9650
  5. ^ Trierische Landeszeitung from February 17, 1892
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Seibrich: Die Auxiliary Bishops of the Diocese of Trier (Publications of the Diocese Archive Trier, Vol. 31), Trier 1998, pp. 216-221.
  7. ^ Auxiliary Bishop Feiten, Ein Lebensbild, in: Supplement to the St. Paulinus-Blatt, Trier edition, No. 47 of November 20, 1887.
  8. ↑ Guido Fontaine: Heinrich Feiten, pastor in Fraulautern (1866–1885), priest and auxiliary bishop in the Kulturkampf, in: Unser Heimat, Mitteilungsblatt des Landkreis Saarlouis für Kultur und Landschaft, 19, 1995, pp. 45–57.
  9. ^ Erwin Gatz : Cathedral Chapter and Bishops' Elections in Prussia from 1821 to 1945, in: Römische Viertelschrift 78 (1983), pp. 101–126.
  10. ↑ R. Rudolf Rehanek: History of the town of Saarlouis, Volume 1: The aristocratic woman abbey and the village Fraulautern, Saarlouis 1978, pp 242-243.
  11. ↑ Alfred G. Scharwath: The Secret Acta Trier concerning Ultramontanes, Church Affairs 1873-1903, in:. Kurtrierisches Yearbook 9, (1969), pp 177-198.
  12. ↑ Alois Thoma: Feiten, Heinrich. In: Erwin Gatz (Ed.): The bishops of the German-speaking countries 1785/1803 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-428-05447-4 , p. 184.
  13. ↑ Christoph Weber: Church politics between Rome, Berlin and Trier 1876–1888 (= publications of the Commission for Contemporary History, Series B: Research, 7), Mainz 1970.
  14. ^ Gregor Brand - Liber Philosophicus Josef Feiten from Hetzerath - teacher and writer ( Memento from May 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Feiten, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German auxiliary bishop in Trier
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Rascal (mosel)
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1892
Place of death trier