Ignaz Lindl

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Ignaz Lindl

Ignaz Lindl (born October 3, 1774 in Baindlkirch , today in Ried near Mering , † October 31, 1845 in Barmen ) was a Catholic priest . In 1822 he and his followers founded the village of Sarata , a settlement of Bessarabian Germans in Bessarabia .

Life

Working in Germany

Lindl was born in Baindlkirch near today's Ried (near Mering) in Bavaria as the son of the innkeepers Urban and Monika Lindl, née Friedl. He had eight siblings. He studied at the then Jesuit college St. Salvator (today high school with St. Stephan ) in Augsburg and in Dillingen an der Donau . In 1799 he was ordained a priest and was appointed chaplain in his home village. In 1818 the parish was withdrawn from him because of endangering the peace of the Church due to his advocacy of the revival movement .

He started a new job in Gundremmingen . There he maintained contacts with supporters of the Allgäu revival movement . This Catholic movement had ecumenical features and expressed itself in the form of public sermons and the advocacy of common property and simple, strict rites as in the supposed early Christianity . When Lindl lost his first parish in 1818 by a decree of King Maximilian I and found a new one in Gundremmingen, where he preached sermons to several thousand people, he had to go there too.

Working in Russia

Lindl met with the Russian Tsar Alexander I, who was in Germany at the time. As a friend of the revival movement, the tsar offered Lindl a place of refuge and Lindl urged his followers to follow him.

First he preached in Saint Petersburg , Russia. There he was able to present to the tsar his wish to found a community in the Russian south (then New Russia), in the Odessa region . In Saint Petersburg he met the German Alois Schertzinger , with whom he developed the plan to found a village in Bessarabia. Having arrived there in 1820, however, he found no approval of his ideas among the Catholics there. That is why he began to recruit emigrants to Bessarabia in his old home with the help of the wealthy businessman Christian Friedrich Werner from Württemberg and his business partner Gottlieb Veygel. With them he founded the new colony Sarata.

Founding of Sarata

Sarata was founded in 1822 as a new foundation on 16,000 Dessjatinen land in Bessarabia allocated by the Russian Tsar Alexander I as a Bessarabian German colonist village. The founders were around 70 families from Bavaria and Württemberg and their leader, Ignaz Lindl. The families were both Catholic and Protestant. The colonists arrived in covered wagons on March 19, 1822 on the Sarata River and built up the village.

Expulsion

Ignaz Lindl

Lindl, with his charismatic charisma and his large audience among the faithful - up to 10,000 people came to his sermons in St. Petersburg and Bessarabia - also had enemies. They accused him of being a popular rebel and sect leader before the tsar. In addition, as a Catholic priest, he married his housekeeper Elisabeth Völk, sister of the Bavarian chaplain Martin Völk (* 1787), and had children. As a result, Lindl was expelled from the country by the Russian tsar within 72 hours in 1823, but received 2000 rubles of travel money from him. Lindl left Russia with his family and stayed in Berlin for a few months in 1824 before moving to Barmen .

Werner's company partner Gottlieb Veygel took over the management of the community of Sarata, which became Protestant, as mayor. He ended the community of property introduced by Lindl and distributed the land to the families. The Bessarabian German villages Gnadental and Lichtental were built on the original land of 16,000 Dessjatinen in the 1830s .

Lindl died in Barmen in 1845 after a brief illness. His grave is in the Unterbarmer cemetery in the so-called "Million Allee".

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Inscription on the tombstone , accessed September 12, 2015
  2. Joseph Hergenröther: Handbook of general church history. Volume 3. Freiburg im Breisgau 1886, p. 956
  3. ^ Hermann Dalton: Johannes Gossner, a life picture from the church of the nineteenth century. Friedenau (near Berlin) 1898, p. 288 f.