Heinrich von Pflimmern

Heinrich von Pflimmern (born September 5, 1475 in Biberach , † April 28, 1561 in Waldsee ) was a German Catholic priest and chronicler of the Reformation .

life and work

Heinrich von Pflummer comes from the aristocratic family of Pflummers, which died out in 1882 and originally had its seat in the village of Pflumper on the southern edge of the Swabian Alb , which is now incorporated into Riedlingen . He was ordained a priest in 1501 and worked at the hospital church in Biberach . In 1531 he went into exile in Waldsee because of the Reformation he had rejected . As a staunch opponent of the Reformation, he wrote his chronicle there in 1545 , in which he described in detail the religious customs of the time in the imperial city of Biberach and complained about the abolition of these by the Reformation. He thus continued the notes of his brother Joachim von Pflimmern , who described the conditions and the time before the Reformation in Biberach in another report.

literature

• Albert Angele: Altbiberach around the years of the Reformation . Biberach publishing house printer, 1962.
• Gudrun Litz: The Reformation image question in the Swabian imperial cities . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2007.
• A. Schilling: Heinrich von Pflimmern . In Freiburg Diocesan Archives Volume 9, 1875.
• A. Schilling: The religious and ecclesiastical conditions of the former imperial city of Biberach immediately before the introduction of the Reformation . Freiburg Diocesan Archives , Volume 19, 1887.
• Joseph Görres : Historical-political papers for Catholic Germany . 1866, pp. 717-737.