Hroznata from Ovenec

Statue of Blessed Hroznata, Teplá Monastery

Hroznata von Ovenec (* around 1160 ; † July 14, 1217 in the fortress Kinsberg near Eger ) is revered as a Catholic martyr and is considered the progenitor of the Hroznatowci clan with the descendants of the Vrtba (noble family) . The Roman Catholic Church beatified him in 1897 .

origin

Hroznata came from an old noble family in Central Bohemia, probably from Soběnice near Leitmeritz on the Elbe and was also mentioned as Gaugraf von Mělník . His father's name was Sezima and is said to have been an illegitimate son from the Přemyslid dynasty . It is said of his mother that her name was Dobroslava and that she came from the noble family of the Czernin von und zu Chudenitz .

Live and act

Hroznata became a comes (Gaugraf) of the area around Teplá in western Bohemia . According to legend, he wanted in 1197 on the crusade of Emperor Henry VI. Participate in the Holy Land as a crusader to free Jerusalem from the infidels. He was released from his vow to participate after the emperor's untimely death. After the death of his wife and son, he is said to have entered the Premonstratensian order in Rome in 1198 , returned to Tepl in 1202, founded the Teplá monastery and the Chotieschau monastery in western Bohemia and took care of the administration of the church property and its income inherited localities. During this time he was involved in a feud with the ministerial family of the Künsberg , who sought to expand their holdings in the Nordgau (Bavaria) and Egerland . Hroznata was captured and, according to legend, was imprisoned in the Hrozňatov Castle (Kinsberg am Muglbach ). To this day, in historical research based on the publications of the humanist Kaspar Brusch , it is controversial in which castle in the vicinity of the imperial city of Eger ( Cheb ) he died as a result of hunger and suffered agony in 1217: Kinsberg Castle ( Altkinsberg) am Muglbach, the former Kynšperg in Königsberg an der Eger ( Kynšperk nad Ohří ) or in the Hohenberg Castle an der Eger, ancestral seat of the Hohenberg family .

Adoration

On September 16, 1897 Hroznata was recognized as a martyr after a long effort of the Vrtba (noble family) and by Pope Leo XIII. beatified. The anniversary of his death on July 14th was celebrated with a festive ceremony during the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in Teplá Monastery until 1919. Since 1990, he has been commemorated again on this day as the founder of the Teplá Monastery and blessed of the Catholic Church. In 1993 he was named patron of the newly founded Diocese of Pilsen by Pope John Paul II . At the beginning of 2004, the Pilsen bishop František Radkovský initiated the canonization process for the blessed Hroznata.

literature

• Commemorative publication: On the 700th anniversary of the death of the blessed Hroznata of the founder of the monasteries Tepl and Chotieschau, Marienbad 1917.
• Altkinsberg, after 1918 in the Czech language Stary Kynšperg, after 1946 Starý Hrozňatov, local history in: Heimatkreis Eger - history of a German landscape in documentations and memories, publisher: Egerer Landtag eV Heimatverband für Eger Stadt und Land, Amberg in der Oberpfalz 1971, including the Text passage about the castle Kinsberg, the later castle Altkinsberg am Muglbach , designated in the year 1217 as the place of death of the Bohemian nobleman Hrozňata, p. 300–302 and a short biography of Hrozňata among the personalities of the Egerland on p. 560.
• Kinsberg (vulgo: Loretto) place of pilgrimage and place of death of the blessed Hrozňata, in: Rudolf Sitka: Die Gnadenorte der Sudetenländer, Heimatverlag Renner, Kempten im Allgäu 1954, p. 56.
• Hrozňata (Groznata) in: Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Lands, published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum by Heribert Sturm , Volume I (A – H), Oldenbourg Verlag Munich Vienna 1979, p. 694 with extensive further sources. ISBN 3-486-49491-0
• Altkinsberg / Starý Hrozňatov, in: Lorenz Schreiner : Monuments in Egerland , Amberg in der Oberpfalz 2004, pp. 571-576 with an illustration. The castle, owned by Heinrich von Künsberg for the first time in 1217, was documented.

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• Extensive bibliography