Joachim Röck

Joachim Röck OSB (born February 13, 1744 in Lienz , † July 30, 1810 in St. Lambrecht ) was an Austrian Benedictine who was abbot of St. Lambrecht's Abbey from 1802 until his death in 1810 . Since Joachim Suppan was another abbot with the religious name Joachim in office a few years later , Röck has often been written as Joachim I since then .

Röck was the first abbot after the restoration of the abbey, which had previously been abolished in 1786.

Life

Maria Theresa of Naples-Sicily ; Detail from the portrait in the prelate hall

Joachim Röck was born on February 13, 1744 in Lienz in East Tyrol . On August 11, 1765, the then 21-year-old made his profession under Abbot Berthold Sternegger in the Upper Styrian Benedictine Abbey of St. Lambrecht . After being ordained a priest on June 17, 1768, he was professor of theology at the in-house study and later worked in Aflenz and Mariazell , where he was dean even after the abolition of St. Lambrecht in 1786. In 1802 the abbey was restored by the conservative Emperor Franz II and Joachim Röck was elected abbot on October 4, 1802 by the 50 remaining capitulars - 41 monks and Abbot Berthold had died during the abolition and two monks did not return to the monastery on October 24, 1802 in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna . On this occasion, the emperor gave him amethyst breast cross and ring, whereupon Abbot Joachim, out of gratitude for the restoration of the abbey, had Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder paint a portrait of the imperial couple and subsequently placed it in the prelate hall of the monastery.

Abbot Joachim's term of office was then characterized by the attempt to regain the expropriated monastery property and the establishment of the monastic order as it had been before the abolition. However, he only partially succeeded in doing so and a large part of the expropriated goods could no longer be returned to the monastery. On Christmas Eve 1802, the first admission of new candidates to the monastery took place. The main reason for this was the significant aging of the convent over the years in which the monastery was closed. The pastoral care tasks were meanwhile done in the remaining incorporated parishes and in the pilgrimage site of Mariazell, which was associated with great effort. Other areas, such as the home school, where Abbot Joachim once taught theology himself, had to be abandoned due to the lack of staff. Only the grammar school was continued as a lower grammar school until the 1930s.

After eight years of trying to rebuild the monastery, Joachim Röck died on July 30, 1810 at the age of 66 in the monastery and was buried in the convent crypt under the sacristy. He left a large mountain of debt to his successor Ferdinand Herzog , which is why Abbot Ferdinand asked the emperor in vain for the abolition of the monastery in 1812.

literature

• Pirmin Lindner : Monasticon metropolis Salzburgensis antiquae . Kösel-Verlag , 1908.
• Benedikt Plank : History of the St. Lambrecht Abbey. Festschrift for the 900th anniversary of the death of the founder Markward v. Eppenstein, 1076-1976 . Kösel-Verlag , Sankt Lambrecht 1976.

Web links

• Joachim Röck in the Biographia Benedictina (Benediktinerlexikon.de)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Benedictine abbots St. Lambrecht. In:  Grätzer Zeitung. The attentive one. Steyermärkische intelligence papers. Steyermärkisches intelligence sheet. Steyermärkisches Official Journal / Stiria, a sheet of the useful and the beautiful / Gratzer Zeitung. Styrian Official Gazette , May 21, 1829, p. 7 (online at ANNO ). , accessed on June 15, 2020

predecessor	Office	successor
Berthold Sternegger (1760–1786); thereafter the monastery was abolished until 1802	Abbot of St. Lambrecht Abbey 1802–1810	Ferdinand Duke