Ignaz Albert von Riegg

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Ignaz Albert von Riegg, portrait from the Bishop's Gallery in Augsburg Cathedral
Ignaz Albert von Riegg

Ignaz Albert Riegg , from 1824 Knight of Riegg , (born July 6, 1767 in Landsberg am Lech ; † August 15, 1836 in Augsburg ) was Bishop of Augsburg from 1824 to 1836 .

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Joseph Ignaz Alexius, his baptismal name, was the ninth child of the white tanner and mayor of Landsberg Ignaz Riegg and his wife Theresia, nee. Schilk. After the early death of the mother, the father married a second and later a third time. A total of 20 children emerged from these connections. The boy first attended elementary school, then the Latin school in Landsberg and from 1781 the collegiate high school in the Canons' Monastery of Polling . In 1785 he finished his school career at the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . At the age of 18 he entered the community of the Augustinian canons and received the religious name Ignaz Albert, which remained with him continuously. On July 6, 1788, he made his religious vowsfrom. He was ordained priest on September 29, 1790. The young clergyman only took on pastoral care in the parish of Oderding for a few months , which he was able to provide from the monastery. On November 6, 1791, he went to Munich and in 1794 to the Lyceum in Neuburg an der Donau , where he worked as a teacher of mathematics and physics. In 1798 Rieeg became rector of the lyceum, which however was dissolved a year later. He then took over the direction of the study seminar, as well as responsibility for the Collegium academicum Nobilium, which only existed for a short time .

In 1803 he took over the parish of Allersberg (Diocese of Eichstätt), which he had maintained by a permanent vicar paid by him. A few weeks later, Riegg was promoted to senior school and studies commissioner for the province of Neuburg ad Donau. The supervision of the Palatinate-Neuburg Provincial Library in Neuburg ad Donau was assigned to him in August 1804 and at the same time in December of the same year the city parish of Monheim , which was closer to his sphere of activity , which he had a vicar pastorate because of his other diverse tasks. In addition, in September 1805, the clergyman received the rank and privileges of a real state board of directors and the department in school matters for the entire province of Pfalzneuburg . In 1807 he withdrew to his parish in Monheim, which he looked after until 1821.

In February 1821, Riegg was appointed parish priest of the main church of Our Lady in Munich by King Maximilian I. Joseph and after the establishment of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, he was promoted to cathedral chapter I class. The monarch chose the clergyman to be his confessor.

On March 4, 1824, King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria nominated him Bishop of Augsburg. Pope Leo XII. Riegg had on May 24 of that year präkonisiert . A few weeks later, on July 11, 1824, he was ordained bishop in Munich Cathedral by Archbishop Lothar Anselm von Gebsattel . The enthronement took place on July 18, 1824 in the High Cathedral of Augsburg. Three days after his solemn appointment as Bishop of Augsburg, the ruling king presented him with the "Knight's Cross of the Order of Civil Merit", which was connected with the elevation into the nobility of the knightly class.

The bishop, a member of the state church, advised King Ludwig I on the rebuilding of monastic life in Bavaria, had a new catechism published and successfully tried to revitalize pastoral care in his diocese. The re-establishment of Benedictine monasteries also fell during his term of office. In 1834 King Ludwig I approved the opening of a priory in Ottobeuren and the St. Stephan Abbey in Augsburg, to which in 1835 the Catholic college, which had reopened seven years earlier, was affiliated.

In the Bavarian mixed marriage dispute, the chief shepherd supported the orders of the royal government. In this regard, he instructed his clergy to follow the demands of the state in order to avoid any clashes. According to this, the pastors should not ask the bride and groom to provide any written stipulations about future Catholic child rearing. However, if they were not willing to raise their children as Catholics, the wedding should be left to the Protestant pastoral office (Witetschek, n.d., p. 208).

For his conciliatory attitude towards the Bavarian royal family, King Ludwig I awarded him the Commander 's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown in 1830 , and in 1824 he had already received the Knight's Cross of the Order.

Grave of Ignaz Albert von Rieggs in the High Cathedral

Riegg fell ill during a long visitation trip that also took the bishop to Austria and Switzerland. He searched in vain for a cure in Bad Gastein. The bishop died on August 15, 1836. The grand funeral service , which was followed by a three-day ringing of all the city bells , took place four days later. The Protestant clergy expressed their gratitude to the deceased, who during his tenure tried to relax between the two major denominations, by attending the solemn funeral in their official attire. The bishop was buried in front of the Gertrudenkapelle in the high cathedral of Augsburg.

Works

  • Pastoral letter from the Bishop of Augsburg, Ignaz Albert v. Riegg, to all believers in his diocese after the diocesan visitation , Augsburg 1832.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 3, p. 177.
predecessor Office successor
Joseph Maria von Fraunberg Bishop of Augsburg
1824 - 1836 		Peter von Richarz
personal data
SURNAME Riegg, Ignaz Albert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riegg, Ignaz Albert Ritter von (full name); Riegg, Ignaz Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Augsburg
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg am Lech
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1836
Place of death augsburg