Isingrim (Ottobeuren)

Depiction of Abbots Rupert and Isingrim, 12th century

Isingrim († 1180 ) was abbot of the Ottobeuren monastery (1145–1180) and successor to Rupert von Ottobeuren († 1145).

Isingrim became abbot in Ottobeuren (1145) after the death of his predecessor, the monastery reformer Rupert. He was able to build on what had been achieved through the monastery reform. Friends of the famous historian and bishop Otto von Freising (1138–1158), he began to write the Ottobeurer chronicle and had precious liturgical manuscripts made, including the Isingrim missal , the monk Reinfrid's collector or the Ottobeurer gradual , the miniatures of the abbots Rupert and Isingrim shows. Under Isingrim the lost vita of his holy predecessor must have been written down. Discharge of a resumption of literacy in the monastery were history and liturgical texts, documents and a traditional book, especially the fake in the 12th century records that are available for historical memory and a renewed interest in the past of the monastery. Ottobeurer scriptorium and painting school were part of a cultural and religious upswing in the monastery.

Abbot Isingrim expanded the monastery’s reform activities to the outside world, and in 1146 his monks settled in the South Tyrolean Marienberg monastery , which was subsequently closely connected to the mother monastery through five Ottobeurer professed abbots. It was also a consequence of the reforms of Rupert and Isingrim that Ottobeuren were granted important privileges by Pope Eugene III in 1152 and 1171 . (1145–1153) and Emperor Friedrich Barbarossas (1152–1190).

Isingrim was the scholar and artist who could build on Rupert, the holy reformer. Both Rupert and Isingrim shaped the history of Ottobeuren in the 12th century through their long terms of office, even if Isingrim's last years of office were darkened by his mental illness. Isingrim died in 1180.

literature

• Michael Buhlmann: Rupert von Ottobeuren, monk from St. Georgen, Abbot of Ottobeuren († 1145) . In: Der Heimatbote , 17 (2006), pp. 4-14
• Ä. Kolb: The cult of the blessed Rupert , Ottobeuren 1961
• Ä. Kolb, Hermann Tüchle (Ed.): Ottobeuren. Festschrift for the 1200th anniversary of the abbey . Augsburg 1964
• Ottobeuren . In: Josef Hemmerle : The Benedictine monasteries in Bavaria (= Germania Benedictina, Vol. 2), Ottobeuren 1970, pp. 209–215
• Franz-Josef Schmale :  Isingrim. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 196 f. ( Digitized version ).
• H. Schwarzmaier: Medieval manuscripts of the Ottobeuren monastery. Attempt to take stock . In: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches (SMGB), 73rd year (1962), pp. 7-48
• H. Schwarzmaier: Abbot Rupert von Ottobeuren (1102-1145) and his time . In: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches (SMGB), 107th vol. (1996), pp. 299-317

Web links

• Isingrimus in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"