Regensburg Monastery

Territory in the Holy Roman Empire
Regensburg Monastery
coat of arms
Alternative names	Principality , bishopric , pen
Form of rule	Electoral principality / corporate state
Ruler / government	Prince-bishop , administrator or vacant : cathedral chapter
Today's region / s	DE-BY
Parliament	1 virile vote on the ecclesiastical bench in the Reichsfürstenrat
Reichskreis	Bavarian
Denomination / Religions	Roman Catholic
Language / n	German , Latin
Incorporated into	Perished in 1802 (de facto) / 1803 (officially) to the Principality of Regensburg

The Bishopric of Regensburg was up to the secularization beginning of the 19th century the secular dominion of the Prince Bishop of Regensburg .

scope

Wörth Castle on the Danube Manorial estate Hochstift Regensburg

With his dominions Donaustauf , Wörth and Hohenburg am Nordgau , it was one of the smaller monasteries in the empire. The Bishop of Regensburg also owned other villages in Bavaria , the Upper Palatinate, Tyrol and Austria .

history

In 739 the diocese of Regensburg was founded by St. Boniface on behalf of Pope Gregory III. and erected with the consent of the Bavarian Duke Odilo . The first bishops, as abbot bishops, were also heads of the St. Emmeram monastery . Only Wolfgang von Regensburg created an economically independent monastery in 974/75 with the appointment of Abbot Ramwod , which experienced a spiritual and cultural heyday in the following period. The economic separation meant a great loss for the bishopric, and subsequent bishops tried again and again to bind the monastery more closely to themselves.

The development of the bishopric was hampered by the fact that other imperial forces existed in Regensburg, namely the imperial city of Regensburg , the monastery of Sankt Emmeram and the monasteries of Niedermünster and Obermünster . So the bishop did not succeed in developing a larger closed territory.

Various bishops, such as Heinrich II. Von Rotteneck as the last of his family of counts, brought possessions into the bishopric. It belonged to Hohenburg im Nordgau since 1256 , Wörth since the end of the 13th century and Donaustauf since the middle of the 14th century to the Regensburg bishopric. Increasing indebtedness put various bishops in the position of mortgaging or selling property. Most of the Donaustauf rule remained pledged for centuries. The bishopric suffered considerable weakening in the conflict between Heinrich III. von Stein and Friedrich von Zollern , who both competed for the bishopric. The imperial city of Regensburg became Protestant in 1542. In the Upper Palatinate, which is part of the diocese, the denomination changed several times in the 16th and 17th centuries. From the 16th century, the bishopric sought the closeness of the financially strong Bavarian and Palatinate neighbors from the Wittelsbach family.

In 1803 the bishopric was converted into the Principality of Regensburg , which in addition to the free imperial city of Regensburg also comprised other areas with a total of 1,542 km² and 108,000 inhabitants. On November 26, 1802, Regensburg was occupied by the troops of Kurerzkanzler Karl Theodor von Dalberg . The archbishopric was not transferred from Mainz to Regensburg until July 2nd, 1805 , Archbishop was von Dalberg. After the occupation of Regensburg by French troops , the Principality of Regensburg formally fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1809 . The actual transition took place in 1810.

See also

• List of the bishops of Regensburg

literature

• Josef Staber: Church history of the diocese of Regensburg . Regensburg 1966.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manfred Müller (Ed.): Register of the diocese of Regensburg. Verlag des Bischöflichen Ordinariats Regensburg, 1997, pp. XXXIX, XLVII
2. ↑ Manfred Müller (Ed.): Register of the diocese of Regensburg. Verlag des Bischöflichen Ordinariats Regensburg, 1997, pp. XXXIX, XLVII
3. ↑ Manfred Müller (Ed.): Register of the diocese of Regensburg. Verlag des Bischöflichen Ordinariats Regensburg, 1997, p. XL

Web links

• Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Regensburg I.