Johann Anton Wallreuther

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Depiction of the bishop on his epitaph
Epitaph in the Liebfrauenkirche (Worms)
Coat of arms with nobility crown of the epitaph
Epitaph's grave inscription

Johann Anton Wallreuther (born May 30, 1673 in Kiedrich ; † January 16, 1734 in Worms ) was from 1731 to 1734, under the prince-bishops Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg and Franz Georg von Schönborn-Buchheim , auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Worms and titular bishop of Sarepta .

Life

origin

Johann Anton Wall Reuther became Kiedrich in the Rheingau , the son of from Eltville originating Cooper and later Kurmainzer Upper mayor born Johann Matthäus Wall Reuther and his wife Margaretha Schnock was born. At the time of the birth of Johann Anton Wallreuther, his grandfather Johann Anton Schnock († 1676) was still in high school in Kiedrich; his son Michael Schnock († 1727) was abbot of the nearby Eberbach monastery .

Priest and bishop

Wallreuther studied at the University of Mainz , where he obtained a licentiate in theology; on March 15, 1698 he was ordained a priest. His sponsor was the brother of the Palatinate Elector Johann Wilhelm , the Worms Prince-Bishop Franz Ludwig von der Pfalz , who made sustained efforts to find capable priests in his districts. It was through him that Johann Anton Wallreuther came to the diocese of Worms. Due to his abilities, the prince-bishop used him as pastor of Seckenheim near Mannheim as early as 1701, at the age of 28 . In that year he also took over the administration of Neckarau , where he was mainly represented by chaplains. The bishop also transferred the parish of Ladenburg to him from 1701 in place of pastor Carl Desiderius de Royer, who was appointed to the spiritual council in Worms .

Johann Anton Wallreuther belonged to the "Institute of Communal Priests", the so-called Bartholomites, founded by Bartholomäus Holzhauser . From around 1705 he was canon at the Liebfrauenstift Worms , worked from 1705 to 1711 as parish administrator of St. Johann in Worms (the baptismal church at the cathedral) and from 1707 was also appointed to the episcopal ordinariate.

In 1707 Johann Anton Wallreuther obtained his doctorate in theology in Mainz. In addition to his canonical at the Liebfrauenstift Worms, which he renounced in 1711, he held another and additionally the office of scholaster at the Andreasstift Worms .

After the death of Worms auxiliary bishop Johann Baptist Gegg (1664–1730), Prince-Bishop Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg appointed Canon Wallreuther as his successor on March 5, 1731; on April 22nd of that year, the Mainz auxiliary bishop Caspar Adolph Schnernauer consecrated him as titular bishop of Sarepta . He died after almost three years of activity on January 16, 1734 and was buried on January 18 in the St. John's Church , which belongs to the cathedral , where he had long worked as a pastor. There an epitaph with his figurative representation was erected for him, which was transferred to the Church of Our Lady (Worms) in 1812 when St. John was demolished ; it is still there today. His successor as Auxiliary Bishop of Worms was Christian Albert Anton von Merle (1693–1765).

Family environment

Peter Friedrich Wallreuther (1712–1786), the nephew of the auxiliary bishop, was a canon and from 1776 to 1786 dean (head) of the Martinsstift Worms , his brother Michael Anton Wallreuther (* 1711), who had his uncle as godfather, acted as chancellor of the secular government of the Principality of Worms . Two of the latter's sons (the auxiliary bishop's great-nephew) were clerics in the diocese of Worms; namely Peter Friedrich (1744–1814), from 1782 to 1802 the last dean of the Worms Liebfrauenstift , and Philipp Franz Ignaz (1751–1811), canon and cantor at the Worms Paulusstift .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the descent of the auxiliary bishop
  2. ↑ Source on Uncle Michael Schnock
  3. ↑ To the support of Wallreuther by Prince-Bishop Franz Ludwig von der Pfalz
  4. ^ Hansjörg Probst: Mannheim before the city was founded, Volume 2, page 416, Pustet Verlag, Regensburg 2008, ISBN 3791720228
  5. ↑ On the takeover of the Ladenburg parish
  6. ↑ To the Johanneskirche Worms
  7. ↑ Picture of the Worms Cathedral and the Johanneskirche in front of it
  8. ↑ On the work at St. Johann and for use in the episcopal ordinariate
personal data
SURNAME Wallreuther, Johann Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic priest, auxiliary bishop of Worms (1731–1734)
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1673
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiedrich
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1734
Place of death Worms