Johann Christoph von Freyberg

This article deals with the Prince-Bishop of Augsburg and Prince Provost of Ellwangen Johann Christoph von Freyberg (1616–1690). For the former prince provost of Ellwangen of the same name see Johann Christoph von Freyberg-Eisenberg (1551–1620).

Johann Christoph von Freyberg , also: von Freyberg-Eisenberg , von Freyberg and Eisenberg , von Freyberg-Allmendingen , (born September 28, 1616 in Altheim , † April 1, 1690 at Dillingen Castle on the Danube ), was prince provost of the prince provost of Ellwangen and Prince-Bishop of Augsburg .

biography

Youth and education

His parents were Kaspar von Freyberg zu Altheim and Worndorf and Anna Regina von Rechberg . With ten years ago, on 22 October 1626, he was at the University of Dillingen enrolled . From 1635 he studied at the University of Ingolstadt . In 1642 he was ordained a priest for the diocese of Augsburg.

Canon and provost

In 1630 he received a canonical in Augsburg . In the same year he became canon for Johann Adam Truchseß von Höfingen, who had resigned himself in October 1629, of the prince-provost of Ellwangen, where he rose to the group of twelve capitulars on October 23, 1638 . Previously a knight of the empire, he could call himself an imperial baron from 1644. In 1646 he was such president of the Dillingen Hochstift government. From 1641 to 1655 he was scholaster of the prince provost of Ellwangen and then cathedral dean in Augsburg, from 1660 as provost of the cathedral . He bought the Justingen Empire for his family .

From May 11, 1660 until his resignation on April 13, 1674, he was Prince Provost of Ellwangen ; in the row of the Ellwanger prince provosts named Johann Christoph von Freyberg he is called the III. counted. Under him, from 1661 to 1662, the interior of the collegiate church of St. Vitus was redesigned in the early Baroque style.

Prince-Bishop

From 1661 he was administrator , from August 18, 1665 until his death in 1690, Prince-Bishop of Augsburg; the episcopal ordination took place on April 17, 1667 by Kaspar Zeiler , auxiliary bishop in Augsburg, co-consecrators were Sebastian Denick , auxiliary bishop in Regensburg , and Georg Sigismund Müller , auxiliary bishop in Constance . He implemented church reforms in accordance with the Council of Trent . He also made a contribution to the establishment of the Augsburg Institute of the English Misses by recognizing them as religious women in 1680.

From 1680 to 1690 he had the interior of the High Castle in Füssen baroque. On June 16, 1682, he laid the foundation stone for the Schönenberg pilgrimage church . In 1687, the castle chapel of St. Johannes Evangelist in the north wing of Dillingen Castle was given a baroque change on his behalf ; there is his coat of arms on the south wall. In 1688/89 a university building was built under him in Dillingen . His tomb is located in the Wolfgang chapel of Augsburg Cathedral , which was converted to Baroque style under him.

literature

• Karl Fik: The canons and capitulars (canons) of the princely provost of Ellwangen (1460–1802). In: Ellwanger yearbook. Vol. 22, 1967-1968, pp. 74-97, especially p. 86 (No. 133).
• Bruno Bushart : The Basilica of St. Vitus in Ellwangen. Catholic parish office, Ellwangen o.J.
• Joachim Jahn : Freyberg and Eisenberg, Johann Christoph Frhr. from. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 221 ( digitized version ).
• Walter Ansbacher: The diocese of Augsburg in a baroque awakening. Church renewal under Prince-Bishop Johann Christoph von Freyberg (1665–1690). Sankt Ulrich, Augsburg 2001, also: Dissertation under the title: Johann Christoph von Freyberg (1665–1690), imperial prince and reform bishop in the Tridentine spirit. University of Augsburg, 1999.
• Walter Ansbacher: Johann Christoph von Freyberg 1616–1690. Prince-Bishop of Augsburg (1665–1690). In: Wolfgang Haberl (ed.), Life pictures from Bavarian Swabia. Vol. 1. Anton H. Konrad, Weißenhorn 2004, pp. 44-73.
• Hans-Michael Körner (Ed.), Bruno Jahn (Mitarb.): Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. Saur, Munich 2005, p. 565.

Web links

Commons : Johann Christoph von Freyberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Johann Christoph von Freyberg-Allmendingen on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on August 16, 2016.
• Provost coat of arms

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Rudolf von Rechberg	Prince Provost of Ellwangen 1660–1674	Johann Christoph Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden
Sigismund Franz of Tyrol	Bishop of Augsburg 1665–1690	Alexander Sigmund of the Palatinate