Ignaz Speckle

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Ignaz Speckle

Ignaz Speckle OSB (born May 3, 1754 in Hausach , † April 15, 1824 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was the last abbot of the Benedictine Imperial Abbey of St. Peter in the Black Forest in St. Peter in what is now the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district in Baden-Württemberg .

Life

Ignaz Speckle was born as the eldest son of a family who immigrated from Wangen im Allgäu to Hausach in the Black Forest; his father worked there as a pan smith in the ironworks. Ignaz attended the Latin school in Freiburg and entered St. Peter's Abbey as a novice in 1773 . There he made the perpetual religious vows on May 8, 1775 , where he exchanged his baptismal name Joseph Anton for the religious name Ignaz. In 1777 he was ordained a priest and worked from 1778 to 1783 as a professor of theology in the monastery . In the following years up to 1789 he was employed as a pastor in several places belonging to the monastery and from 1789 to 1795 he was entrusted with the administration of the care Bissingen an der Teck in Württemberg . On November 23, 1795, the monastic community finally elected him abbot. As such, he was also an estate of the Breisgau region and was expressly praised by an imperial letter of January 18, 1797 for the activity he performed in this function during the French occupation of the Breisgau . From November 2 to December 23, 1800, he was held in custody in Strasbourg with several other prelates and knights . After the Upper Austrian Breisgau fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1806 , in the course of the wave of secularization in November of the same year, the St. Peter monastery was abolished and declared an extinction monastery . Speckle therefore initially stayed there with a few fathers until the monastery building was converted into a military hospital in 1813. He then moved to Freiburg, where he died in 1824.

Speckle took an active part in the disputes over the secularization of his and other monasteries; he saw one of his main opponents in the enlightened Roman Catholic theologians from Swabian nobility Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg , a brother of the Austrian minister Johann von Wessenberg . The relationship between the two was tense, perhaps not least because of their very different origins. This is also reflected in a work by Speckle entitled Wessenberg's Stay in Breisgau , which he published in 1818 as anonymous.

Fonts

  • The diary of Ignaz Speckle , Abbot of St. Peter in the Black Forest, edited. by Ursmar Engelmann , Publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Series A, Vol. 12–14, Stuttgart 1965–1968
  • Wessenberg's stay in Breisgau. 3rd edition, Bamberg 1818 (published as anonymous).
  • Ignaz von Wessenberg in the judgment of Abbot Ignaz Speckle. In: Upper Rhine. Pastoralblatt 61, 1960, pp. 252-257
  • Stephan Braun (editor): Memoirs of the last abbot of St. Peter: a contribution to patriotic history , Freiburg 1870, pp. 187–193 at the Freiburg University Library

literature

predecessor Office successor
Philipp Jakob Steyrer Abbot of St. Peter
1795–1824 		---
personal data
SURNAME Speckle, Ignaz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION last abbot of the Benedictine imperial abbey of St. Peter in the Black Forest
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Hausach
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1824
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau