Jesuit station Hilpoltstein

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

history

Hilpoltstein was incorporated into the newly founded Principality of Pfalz-Neuburg in 1505 . In 1542 Hilpoltstein, together with Heideck and Allersberg, was pledged to the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg by Count Palatine Ottheinrich ; soon afterwards the Reformation was introduced . In 1543, Ottheinrich secularized the noble collegiate monastery at the Hilpoltstein parish church of St. John the Baptist, founded in 1372 by the von Stein family. In 1578 the Count Palatinate redeemed its three offices pledged to Nuremberg.

After the Protestant Elector of the Palatinate, Friedrich V , lost his hereditary lands in 1622 , the new ruler, Duke Maximilian of Bavaria , re-Catholicized the Upper Palatinate in 1624 . In the course of this counter-Reformation measure, the first Jesuit fathers came to Hilpoltstein and the neighboring Heideck in November 1627. In Hilpoltstein, the Jesuit mission began with taking possession of the St. Georgen chapel in the suburbs.

From Hilpoltstein, the surrounding country parishes and their branches were re-Catholicized within ten days, while this was more difficult in the main town. On April 26, 1628, Duke Maximilian issued a religious patent , which stipulated that all subjects should return to the Catholic faith or emigrate within six months. Even after the implementation of this patent - after three years all residents were again Catholic - the Jesuits stayed in Hilpoltstein; In 1646 three fathers formed the Jesuit residence here, later only two, in 1656 four fathers. In 1665 the branch was closed. Five years later, the Franciscans came to Hilpoltstein and began building a monastery, which only existed for a short time.

literature

  • Karl Heinrich Ritter von Lang: History of the Jesuits in Baiern . Nuremberg: Riegel and Wießner 1819, pp. 159, 162
  • Negotiations of the historical association of Upper Palatinate and Regensburg 20 (1861), in particular pp. 318–322; 21 (1862), p. 291
  • Bernhard Duhr : History of the Jesuits in the countries of the German tongue. Volume II, part 2. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1913, pp. 339f.
  • 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. 54
  • Hirschmann: The Jesuits in Hilpoltstein. In: At home. Fränkisches Tagblatt 1928, No. 12–15
  • Wilhelm Gegenfurtner : Jesuits in the Upper Palatinate. Their work and their contribution to the re-Catholicization in the Upper Palatinate region 1621-1650. In: Contributions to the history of the Diocese of Regensburg 11 (1977), pp. 71–220 (= Diss. University of Regensburg)

Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 17 ″  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 32 ″  E