Johann IV of Bingenheim

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Johann IV of Bingenheim (*?; † 1574 ) was a clergyman and since 1560 abbot of the Limburg monastery .

Life

Nothing is known about its exact origin, for example whether the "von Bingenheim" refers to an origin from Bingenheim or belonging to a low-nobility family of that name. Before he was elected abbot, he was the head cellar master at the Limburg monastery .

When he was elected in 1560 as abbot, the monastery was under the de facto sovereignty of the Palatinate , the them from the Bailiwick law had developed the monastery. This made it dependent on their religious policy during the Reformation . Elector Ottheinrich forbade z. B. on January 23, 1556 the Roman Catholic service . The elector also forbade accepting new monks. His attempts to induce the convention to accept the Reformation were only successful with a few members. So managed Abbot John IV to a considerable extent the gradual dissolution and. Secularization of the monastery: After the last owner of the provost Naumburg . Died in 1558, sold John IV this remote branch of the Limburg Abbey in the Wetterau in 1561 for 18,000 guilders to Count Philipp III . from Hanau-Munzenberg . In 1562 Abbot Johann IV rededicated the income that was due to the hospital and the Antonius Altar in (Bad) Dürkheim , thereby financing the position of a school teacher there.

Death and end of the monastery

Since 1571 the Electoral Palatinate employed an official who controlled the economic administration of the monastery, so that the abbot no longer had any power over it. After the death of Johann IV in 1574, he was buried in the parish church of Wachenheim , no successor was elected and the monastery was finally secularized by the Electoral Palatinate. After the death of John IV, the convent consisted only of the prior and two monks.

The attempt by the Roman Catholic side to reinstate an abbot during the Thirty Years' War was only temporarily successful (cf. Johann V. Jordans ).

literature

  • Wilhelm Manchot: History of the Limburg ad Hardt monastery. A construction science and historical treatise . Mannheim 1892. Reprinted by: Aktion Limburg e. V.
  • Jens Werner: Monastery of the Holy Cross. Limburg . Bad Dürkheim 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manchot, p. 33; Werner, p. 77.
  2. ↑ Manchot, p. 32.
  3. ↑ Manchot, p. 33; Werner, p. 77.
  4. ↑ Manchot, p. 33; Werner, p. 77.
  5. ↑ Manchot, p. 33.
personal data
SURNAME Bingenheim, Johann IV. Of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot of the Limburg an der Haardt Monastery
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH 1574
Place of death uncertain: Wachenheim on the Wine Route