Heinrich Kahlert

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Heinrich Kahlert OCist (also Heinrich Victorinus Kahlert ; born August 15, 1638 in Braunau , Königgrätzer Kreis , Bohemia ; † April 6, 1702 in Heinrichau , Principality of Münsterberg ) was prior of the Cistercian monastery of Grüssau from 1665 to 1669 , then provost of the Grüssau provost until 1681 Warmbrunn . Then he was abbot of the Cistercian monastery Heinrichau until 1702 and in this capacity at the same time governor of the principality of Münsterberg. From 1701 he was also abbot of Zirc in Hungary and thus a member of the Hungarian parliament .

Life

Heinrich Kahlert was the son of a draper. After attending the Braunauer Stiftsgymnasium and completing his humanistic studies, he entered the Cistercian monastery Grüssau in the Duchy of Schweidnitz as a novice in 1656 . On November 1, 1657, under Abbot Andreas Michaelis (1653–1660), he took the religious vows and began the theological studies in the Grüssau house seminar. In September 1660 he made minor orders in Neisse . The date of his ordination is not known. The Grüssau abbot Bernhard Rosa , who had previously been prior of Heinrichau, sent Heinrich Kahlert together with his fellow brother Bartholomäus Krommer to the University of Graz for theological studies . There Heinrich Kahlert doctorate on April 20, 1662 to Dr. theol. After returning to Grüssau he was appointed subprior. He was mainly active in pastoral care in the abbey villages of Kunzendorf , Tschöpsdorf , Wittgendorf , Forst bei Wittgendorf, Hartau and Trautliebersdorf .

On March 12, 1665 Heinrich Kahlert was appointed prior of Grüssau, at the same time novice master and lecturer of theology. On May 26, 1665 he took part in an audience with Abbot Bernhard Rosa and Heinrichau Abbot Melchior Welzel (1656–1680) at an audience with the new Breslau prince-bishop Sebastian von Rostock , which took place in the bishop's castle Ottmachau . On August 1, 1669, he was appointed provost of the Grüssauer Propstei Warmbrunn, to which he earned great services in the following twelve years. During these years he regularly took part in the Grüssau pilgrimage to Wartha . Heinrich Kahlert gave the festive sermon at the great Grüssau procession from May 1st to 4th, 1671 to Wartha, in which Angelus Silesius also took part.

After the death of Heinrichau Abbot Daniel Meyer in 1681, Heinrich Kahlert was presumably recommended to the local convent by Abbot Bernhard Rosa as his successor. The abbot election took place on February 20, 1681 in Heinrichau. Bernhard Rosa was the election officer in his capacity as vicarius generalis of the Silesian Order Province . In addition to the Leubus Abbot John the Duke of Münsterberg Graf were representing Haugwitz and the syndic of the city Frankenstein present. The inauguration by the Grüssau abbot Bernhard Rosa took place on March 6, 1681, with the assistance of the Kamenz abbot Friedrich Steiner (1666-1681) in Heinrichau. In May 1681 he was abbot Pierre Bouchu of Clairvaux in the Abbey Church of St. Benigne in Dijon infuliert . During his tenure there was an economic and cultural boom. The monastery church and the monastery buildings were rebuilt and expanded by well-known artists in the Baroque style. In 1699 he acquired the Hungarian abbey of Zirc, which perished in the Turkish wars, from Lilienfeld abbot Sigismund Braun .

After the death of Abbot Bernhard Rosa in 1696, Abbot Kahlert led the election of his successor, from which Dominicus Geyer emerged . As the successor to Abbot Bernhard Rosa, Heinrich Kahlert was appointed by the Abbot General of Citeaux as the new Vicarius Generalis for the Silesian Order Province. At the end of the 17th century he built a castle in the monastery village of Schönwalde for the abbots and the convent of Heinrichau .

Heinrich Kahlert died on April 6, 1702. His body was buried in the Heinrichau monastery church. As early as 1690, the Grüssau painter Jacob Arlet created a copper engraving portrait of him.

literature

  • Ambrosius Rose: Abbot Heinrich Kahlert von Heinrichau (1681–1702) as a monk in the Grüssau monastery . In: Archives for Silesian Church History , Vol. 27, pp. 276–279

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hugo Weczerka (Ed.): Handbook of historical sites . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , pp. 180-182.
  2. ^ Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , pp. 355–361
personal data
SURNAME Kahlert, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kahhert, Heinrich Victorinus (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot of the Cistercian monasteries Heinrichau and Zirc
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1638
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunau , Königgrätzer Kreis , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1702
Place of death Heinrichau, Principality of Münsterberg