Hieronymus Nitz

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Archabbot Hieronymus Nitz (left) visits the saw cross in Veringenstadt (1998)

Hieronymus Nitz OSB (born May 17, 1928 in Flensburg as Gerhard Wilhelm Nitz ; † July 21, 2020 in Beuron ) was a German Benedictine and archabbot of the Beuron Archabbey .

Life

Gerhard Nitz was the son of the marriage of master hairdresser Josef Gottlieb Nitz and his wife Auguste nee. Kirchner. His father converted from the Protestant to the Catholic faith. Nitz attended a Catholic school until it was banned by the National Socialists in 1939, then the humanistic high school in Flensburg, where he also passed his Abitur. At the end of the Second World War he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and as an air force helper.

In 1947 Nitz entered the novitiate of the Beuron Archabbey of St. Martin; he knew the abbey from a visit in 1943. Nitz was given the religious name Hieronymus and made profession on February 10, 1951. He studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the Maria Laach Abbey , at the Beuron Religious College and at the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant'Anselmo in Rome , where he obtained a licentiate in theology (lic. Theol.). After his ordination on July 24, 1955, he taught dogmatics at the Theological College in Beuron. From 1958 to 1963 he was also the novice master in Beuron, later a pilgrimage father and oblate rector of the archabbey.

On January 25th, 1980 the Beuron monks' convent elected Father Hieronymus Nitz as the ninth Archabbot of Beuron. He was ordained abbot on March 2, 1980 by Archbishop Oskar Saier . For the motto of his abbotical ministry he chose: Stemus iuxta crucem - We want to stand by the cross (Christ). During his 21-year reign almost all monastery buildings were renovated and the Association of Friends of the Archabbey of St. Martin zu Beuron e. V. , together with the then Minister of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg Dietmar Schlee . On February 10, 2001, Hieronymus Nitz resigned from his position as ruling archabbot for reasons of age, but remained active in the pastoral care of the Beuron monastery until the last years of his life.

From 1971 to 2001 he was also chairman of the Benedictine Oblates Working Group .

On July 25, 2020, Archabbot Hieronymus Nitz was buried in the crypt next to his predecessors after a pontifical request celebrated by Archbishop Stephan Burger in the Abbey Church of Beuron.

Fonts

  • (as publisher): On the way with the monks: The Benedictine monastery Beuron 1989–1999 / 1999–2009 , Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron 1999
  • How the Benedictine monastery of Beuron came about . In: Coelestin Merkle (arr.), The hundredth year. For the centenary of the Benedictines in Beuron 1963 , ed. from the Archabbey of St. Martin, Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron 1962, pp. 81–85.

literature

  • Festschrift for Archabbot Hieronymus Nitz: on the occasion of his 70th birthday on May 17, 1998 , Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron 1998, OCLC 312751517 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archabbey of St. Martin zu Beuron News: RIP - Archabb em. Hieronymus Gerhard Wilhelm Nitz OSB , accessed on July 24, 2020
  2. ↑ Hermann-Peter Steinmüller: "Hieronymus Nitz from Beuron Abbey is celebrating his 90th birthday" , Südkurier from July 12, 2019, accessed on July 23, 2020
predecessor Office successor
Ursmar Engelmann Archabbot of Beuron
1980-2001 		Theodor Hogg
personal data
SURNAME Nitz, Hieronymus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nitz, Gerhard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chaplain (Benedictine), Archabbot of Beuron
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2020
Place of death Beuron