Johann Jakob Wagner (priest)

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Johann Jakob Wagner (often Johann Jacob Wagner ; * July 13, 1867 in Dommershausen ; † May 10, 1959 in Vallendar ) was a Roman Catholic priest and local historian .

Life

Johann Jakob Wagner was born on July 13, 1867 as the son of the village school teacher Johannes Wagner and Rosina Rickus in Dommershausen in the district of Sankt Goar . He attended the grammar school in Sobernheim an der Nahe, the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Trier and from 1887 the Roman Catholic seminary in Trier. After his ordination on March 14, 1891, he was chaplain in Nalbach and then in the parish of Sankt Gangolf in Trier. In 1895 he was given a pastor's post in Offenbach am Glan , then from 1899 to 1907 in Münster near Bingerbrück and finally from 1907 to 1932 in the then still independent town of Ehrenbreitstein . Since 1924 he was also dean of the Ehrenbreitstein dean's office . After his retirement he lived until 1935 in Ehrenbreitstein and then moved to Lehmen , where he remained until 1940 chaplain in the convent of Carmelite nuns was. He then moved to live with relatives in Vallendar, where he celebrated his diamond jubilee as a priest in 1951, held the daily worship service in the Marienburg of the Borromean women as long as he was able, and died on May 10, 1959 as a senior of the Trier clergy .

In addition to his work as a pastor, Wagner always found time for his literary work. A bibliography of his essays and works written by him includes almost 200 numbers. From 1931 until it was banned by the Gestapo in 1936, he was also the editor of the Sankt Heribertsblättlein , a monthly publication for the Catholic population of the Ehrenbreitsteiner deanery with a print run of 3-4,000 copies. Wagner left behind an extensive history of the parish and the town of Ehrenbreitstein as manuscripts, as well as a description of all of Ehrenbreitstein's houses in the last few centuries.

Works (selection)

  • Documented history of the villages, monasteries and castles in the Kreuznach district up to the year 1300 . Kreuznach 1909 (387 pages).
  • Catholic church calendar for the parish of Ehrenbreitstein for the years 1916 to 1919 and 1927 to 1932 (1915–1931) . Ehrenbreitstein.
  • Joseph von Hommer, Bishop of Trier, 1824–1836 . Trier 1917 (196 pages).
  • Coblenz-Ehrenbreitstein. Biographical news about some older Coblenz and Ehrenbreitstein families . Koblenz 1925 (218 pages).
  • The former monastery of the Augustinian hermits in Ehrenbreitstein and its relationships with Martin Luther, Erfurt and Wittenberg . Koblenz 1931 (218 pages).
  • 100 years of St. Joseph Hospital Ehrenbreitstein 1850–1950 . Ehrenbreitstein 1950 (56 pages).
  • Archival material about the relics of the church in Münstermaifeld . In: Pastor bonus. Journal for Church Science and Practice . tape 23 (1910/11) . Trier, S. 604-609 .
  • The Holy Rock of Trier on Ehrenbreitstein . In: Pastor bonus. Journal for Church Science and Practice . tape 44 (1933) . Trier, S. 219-226 .
  • Judaism in the Electorate of Trier . In: Mittelrheinische Geschichtsblätter (monthly supplement to the Coblenzer Volkszeitung) . tape 4 , 5 and 6. Koblenz 1924.

His publications about Beethoven's ancestors:

  • News about Beethoven's maternal grandparents . In: The Guardian. Journal for all branches of culture . tape 2 . Vienna 1919, p. 238-239 .
  • Beethoven and his relationship with Ehrenbreitstein . In: Mittelrheinische Geschichtsblätter (monthly supplement to the Coblenzer Volkszeitung) . tape 7 , no. 3 . Koblenz 1927.
  • Beethoven's mother, on the master’s 150th birthday [1920] . In: Beethoven's relationship with Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein . Koblenz 1970, p. 19-23 .

literature

personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Johann Jacob; Stein, Heribert von (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic pastor and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Dommershausen
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1959
Place of death Vallendar