Johann Konrad I. von Roggenbach

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Johann Konrad von Roggenbach around 1656

Johann Konrad I von Roggenbach (born December 15, 1618 in Schopfheim , † July 13, 1693 in Pruntrut ) was Prince-Bishop of Basel from 1656 to 1693 .

Life

In 1652 he was elected Provost of the Basel Cathedral Chapter in Freiburg and on December 22, 1656 in Delsberg he was elected Bishop of Basel . Due to formal objections, the Roman Curia initially rejected his election. Nevertheless, in 1658 he was awarded the diocese. The official inauguration and episcopal ordination did not take place until March 3, 1659. From 1656 Johann Konrad was also canon of the Comburg knight's monastery .

Johann Konrad tried to lean his prince-bishopric politically to the Old Confederation . First, in 1657, he was able to extend the Defensionale concluded with her by two years. After the cantons of Lucerne, Schwyz, Obwalden, Nidwalden and Zug blocked any further rapprochement between the prince-bishopric, Johann Konrad joined the Rhenish Confederation in 1664 . However, this dissolved as early as 1668 and the prince-bishopric suffered in the Franco-Dutch War (1672–1679) under the passage and occupation by troops from both Austria and France. Johann Konrad sought protection from the Catholic cantons of the Confederation, with whose support the warring parties accepted the neutrality of the prince-bishopric. However, in 1691 it rejected an application to join the Swiss Confederation.

The dispute with the city of Basel revived, as Johann Konrad again raised claims of the prince-bishopric to the Basel Minster and the associated possessions such as the church treasury. The support sought from the French king failed to materialize and in 1675 the city flatly rejected the request. Johann Konrad then moved the cathedral chapter from Freiburg im Breisgau to Arlesheim. The delicate political situation of the small state required careful coordination of this plan with Austria and France, which in 1678 belonged to Freiburg. Both powers agreed at the beginning of 1678 and the move took place in December of the same year. On March 25, 1680, Johann Konrad laid the foundation stone for the new cathedral in Arlesheim and it was inaugurated on October 26, 1681. He also supported the construction of the residence and the chapter houses with funds from his private fortune.

In 1671 Johann Konrad tried to reintroduce Catholicism in the reformed Münstertal . However, the resistance of the city of Bern with the threat of military intervention quickly prevented this plan.

Johann Konrad was buried in the crypt of the Arlesheim Cathedral in 1693. Its epitaph was destroyed during the French occupation of Arlesheim during the revolutionary years.

origin

Johann Konrad comes from the old ministerial family von Roggenbach and was born as the son of Hans Hartmann von Roggenbach and Maria Susanna von Zu Rhein. He had 14 siblings, including Johann Hartmann von Roggenbach , the Landkomtur of the Deutschordensballei Swabia-Alsace-Burgundy .

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References and comments

  1. ↑ See: Roggenbach p. 68; the HLS reports of a compulsion on the French side
  2. ↑ As it turned out later, the rapid construction brought quality problems with it, so that a fundamental renovation was necessary as early as 1759.
  3. ↑ See: CA Blösch: History of the City of Biel , Volume 2, p. 300
predecessor Office successor
Johann Franz von Schönau Bishop of Basel
1656–1693 		Wilhelm Jakob Rinck von Baldenstein
personal data
SURNAME Roggenbach, Johann Konrad I. von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roggenbach, Johann Konrad von; Roggenbach, Jean Conrad de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince-Bishop of Basel
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1618
PLACE OF BIRTH Schopfheim
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1693
Place of death Pruntrut