Johann Anton III. from Zehmen

Johann Anton III. from Zehmen

Epitaph altar of Johann Anton III. in the cathedral of Eichstätt

The Eichstätter Dom

Johann Anton III. Baron von Zehmen (* 1715 ; † 23 June 1790 ) was bishop of the Eichstätt diocese and at the same time prince-bishop of the Eichstätt monastery from 1781 to 1790.

Act

He led an enlightened reform in the Principality of Eichstätt, which included the reduction of national debt, the improvement of the administration, made industry and agriculture more effective, reformed welfare for the poor and the school system, and introduced fire protection insurance . After the election, Johann Anton III von Zehmen was considered a compromise or transition candidate due to his old age and frailty. Zehmen “avenged himself” on the skeptics, - as Franz Xaver Heinrichmayer, one of his biographers, put it - that he “only marked his reign with good deeds and with so many wonderful institutions”. During his reign there were two major challenges: the Zehm reform program and the Illuminati in Eichstätt.

Johann Anton III. came from the Meissen-Saxon family of von Zehmen with the parent company of the same name in Zehmen near Zwenkau , north of Böhlen in Saxony.

As Prince Bishop, Johann Anton III. via a personal increased coat of arms. It takes the family coat of arms and the coat of arms of the diocese. The diocese is symbolized with a crook . The coat of arms shows a black and silver geschachten two blue bars shield. On the helmet with a wrapped blue-silver bead, five ostrich feathers bsbsb. The ceilings are blue and silver.

epitaph

The epitaph altar in the Willibald choir can still be found in Eichstätt Cathedral to this day . In addition to other alliance coats of arms, the prince-bishop's coat of arms is shown as a family coat of arms with the diocese's coat of arms as a heart shield .

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  Depiction of the bishop, excerpt from the epitaph

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  Coat of arms, depiction with heart shield

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  Tinging according to Siebmacher's coat of arms

literature

Portrait and coat of arms of the Prince-Bishop on half a silver thaler from 1785

• Peter Zürcher: The bishopric elections in the prince-bishopric of Eichstätt from 1636 to 1790. Election events in the mirror domkapitelscher, dynastic and imperial state and imperial church politics (dissertation Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, 2004/2005). Munich: Verlag CH Beck, 2008 (series of publications on Bavarian national history; 155). ISBN 978-3-406-10770-2 .
• Bruno Lengenfelder: The Eichstätt Diocese between Enlightenment and Restoration, Church and State 1773-1821 , Verlag Friedrich Pustet, published 1990, ISBN 3-7917-1216-0
• Klaus Kreitmeir: The Bishops of Eichstätt , Verlag Kirchenzeitung for the Diocese of Eichstätt, 1992, explanations about the bishops from 741-1992, u. a. about Johann Anton III. Baron von Zehmen, p. 87

Web links

Commons : Johann Anton III. von Zehmen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Entry on Johann Anton III. von Zehmen on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Description of coat of arms after Dr. Bernhard Peter
• The Johann-Anton-von-Zehmen-Schule in Aurach is named after him, www.km.bayern.de
• The court garden in Eichstätt and the prince-bishop Johann Anton III. v. Zehmen www.urlaub-im-altmuehltal.de
• Information about Johann Anton III. v. Take it to www.bistum-eichstaett.de
• Resumption of brewing by Prince-Bishop Johann Anton III. from Zehmen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation by Bruno Lengenfelder, "The Diocese of Eichstätt between Enlightenment and Restoration, Church and State 1773-1821", cf. P. 94

predecessor	Office	successor
Raymund Anton von Strasoldo	Bishop of Eichstätt 1781–1790	Joseph von Stubenberg