Innocent Fritsch
Innozenz Fritsch SOCist (Latin Innocentius Fritsch , real name Gottfried Fritsch ; * March 6, 1655 in Ottmachau , Principality of Neisse ; † September 29, 1734 in Grüssau , Duchy of Schweidnitz ) was abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Grüssau from 1727 to 1734 .
Life
Innozenz Fritsch, whose baptismal name was Gottfried , was the son of a beer brewer. After attending the Jesuit grammar school in Neisse , before completing his humanistic studies, he entered the Grüssau monastery as a novice in 1672 and assumed the religious name of Innocent . On November 21, 1683 he placed the religious vows in the hands of Abbot Bernhard Rosa . After studying philosophy and theology, he was ordained a priest on September 24, 1689 in the Neisser St. Jakobus Church by the Breslau auxiliary bishop Karl Franz Neander von Petersheide . The first Mass he celebrated on October 22 d. J. in Grüssau. He then initially worked as a sub-librarian and chef. He was then employed as a field chaplain in the Turkish Wars from spring 1697 to autumn 1700 . After his return he worked for six years as a Sunday preacher at St. Joseph's Church in Grüssau, then as pastor of Wittgendorf and from 1708 as pastor of Altreichenau ; at the same time he held the office of goods administrator. In 1716 he was appointed prior of the Warmbrunn provost and in 1727 he was elected abbot of the Grüssau monastery. At the same time he was the secular landlord of the Grüssauer Stiftland, which extended to the borders of Schweidnitz , Reichenbach , Striegau and Hirschberg .
His outstanding achievement was the initiative for the construction of the new monastery church of the Assumption. For this he hired the most important Bohemian and Silesian artists of the time, including the sculptor Ferdinand Maximilian Brokoff and his pupil Anton Dorazil as well as the painters Peter Johann Brandl and Georg Wilhelm Neunhertz .
Abbot Innozenz Fritsch died in his 70th year. He did not live to see the completion of the monastery church. It was under his successor Benedict. Seidel from the Wrocław archbishop II on July 3rd, 1735 Philipp Ludwig von Sinzendorf consecrated .
literature
- Nikolaus von Lutterotti : Abbot Innozenz Fritsch (1727–1734), the builder of the Grüssau abbey church . Bergland-Verlag Schweidnitz, 1935
- Grüssau Monastery / Klasztor Krzeszów . Schnell Art Guide No. 2301, ISBN 3-7954-6055-7 , Regensburg 1997 ( German-Polish edition )
Web links
- Literature by and about Innozenz Fritsch in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fritsch, Innocent |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fritsch, Innocentius (Latin); Fritsch, Gottfried (baptismal name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Cistercian, abbot of the Cistercian monastery Grüssau |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1655 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ottmachau , Principality of Neisse |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 29, 1734 |
| Place of death | Grüssau , Duchy of Schweidnitz |