Heideck Jesuit Station

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The Jesuit station Heideck was a branch of the Jesuit order in Heideck ( Diocese of Eichstätt ) in the 17th century .

history

Heideck was added to the newly established Principality of Pfalz-Neuburg in 1505 . In 1542, the heavily indebted Count Palatine Ottheinrich pledged the Heideck office for 36 years to the imperial city of Nuremberg, which immediately introduced the Reformation in the Heideck office . With the redemption in 1585 nothing changed in the new faith of the subjects. Only after Duke Wolfgang Wilhelm returned to the old faith in 1614 did his country children also have to convert again. In the course of the Counter-Reformation measures in November 1627 - after the removal of all preachers from office in the Upper Palatinate in 1626 and thus the vacancy of 197 pastors for the temporary occupation with Jesuits - two Jesuit fathers came to Heideck and the neighboring Hilpoltstein . In Heideck, the Jesuits (a priest with four assistants), who probably came from the Jesuit college founded in 1614 in the episcopal city of Eichstätt, began their sermon in the parish church, the Church of Our Lady, and presumably lived in the rectory. They acted as parish administrators , which means that weddings , baptisms and funerals could only take place through them. They also missioned the surrounding villages.

After the sermon of the Jesuits in Heideck and elsewhere and also the billeting of soldiers' families did not immediately show the desired success, Duke Wolfgang Wilhelm issued a religious patent on April 26, 1628 in which he demanded a conversion to the old faith within six months; otherwise, those affected would have to emigrate.

After three years of activity, the Jesuits in Heideck numbered over 500 Catholics. In March 1634 the Jesuits had to flee from the Swedes, who brought the new faith back to life in Heideck - but only until September / October 1634, when the Swedes suffered a devastating defeat off Nördlingen and left southern Germany. How long the Jesuits stayed afterwards is not known; Romstöck (p. 46) suspects the end of the Jesuit station Heideck in 1665, when the Jesuit mission in Hilpoltstein came to an end.

literature

  • Negotiations of the historical association of Upper Palatinate and Regensburg 20 (1861), especially p. 318f.
  • Bernhard Duhr : History of the Jesuits in the countries of the German tongue. Volume II, part 2. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1913, p. 340.
  • Karl Heinrich Ritter von Lang: History of the Jesuits in Baiern . Nuremberg: Riegel and Wießner 1819, p. 132
  • Franz Sales Romstöck: The founders and monasteries of the Diocese of Eichstätt up to 1806 . In: Collection sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 30 (1915), Eichstätt 1916, p. 46
  • Hirschmann: The Jesuits in Hilpoltstein. In: At home. Fränkisches Tagblatt 1928, No. 12–15
  • Dieter Deeg: Heideck. City and Landscape , Nuremberg 1971

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deeg, p. 61
  2. ↑ Deeg, p. 62
  3. ↑ Deeg, p. 62

Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 57 ″  N , 11 ° 7 ′ 37 ″  E