Heinrich Rudolf von Weeze

Heinrich Rudolf von Weeze was administrator of the Waldsassen monastery from 1548 to 1560.

In the office of administrator he succeeded his uncle Johannes von Weeze , the last abbot of the pre-Reformation period was Georg III until 1537 . Agmann . The Palatinate used the religious and social conflicts that broke out with the Reformation to expand its influence on the prince abbey and the Stiftland . While Johannes was largely able to evade the claims of the Count Palatine Friedrich II , Heinrich Rudolf had to recognize the Count Palatinate as sovereign as soon as he took office under the threat of Palatine soldiers. But the emperor, too, insisted on taxes and troop contingents, burdens that still indicate the status of imperial immediacy . The chronicler Kaspar Brusch praises Heinrich Rudolf as a learned and honest personality. He was in lively correspondence with Joachim Camerarius the Elder . In 1556 the monastery property was inventoried under the Count Palatine Ottheinrich . Heinrich Rudolf and other important persons of the monastery were brought to Amberg under a pretext and initially detained there. An iconoclasm began in the Stiftland . Finally Heinrich Rudolf resigned in favor of the Count Palatine Reichard , a brother of Friedrich III. who succeeded the childless Ottheinrich. At the time of Heinrich Rudolf's resignation, there were still 13 religious in the monastery, six of whom accepted Luther's teachings. The Stiftland became part of the Upper Palatinate .

literature

• Rudolf Langhammer : Waldsassen - monastery and town . Waldsassen 1936, pp. 215-220.