Johann Raimund von Lamberg

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Johann Raimund von Lamberg (born April 28, 1662 in Salzburg or Laufen ; † April 6, 1725 in Tulln ) was Bishop of Aulon and auxiliary bishop in Passau.

Life

Johann Raimund Guidobald Graf von Lamberg was a son of the royal Salzburg court councilor Johann Raimund II von Lamberg-Greifenfels, who was raised to the rank of imperial count in 1667 , from his marriage to Anna Justina von Dietrichstein († April 28, 1662), who died on the day of his birth.

After briefly studying law, he embarked on a military career and took part in the Hungarian wars with Turkey under General Christoph Wilhelm von Harrant for six years as an imperial cavalry master . When he returned to Salzburg, Archbishop Max Gandolf von Kuenburg appointed him court counselor and treasurer . Since he did not feel comfortable in this position, Lambach entered the Capuchin order in 1687 as Father Rupert in Meran . Ordained a priest in Vienna on September 23, 1691, he celebrated his first mass in Salzburg that same year and then worked as a preacher for 14 years. On May 9, 1701 he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Passau in Lower Austria and on September 8, 1701 by his third uncle, Cardinal Johann Philipp von Lamberg -Steyr (1651–1712), since 1689 Prince-Bishop of Passau, Bishop of Aulon in Consecrated to Macedonia . As a donation he received the parish Tulln , which he had however provided by vicars. The appointment of bishop was in return for the transfer of the Tyrolean goods, including Kitzbühel and Münichau Castle , of the Lambach-Greifenfels family branch to the prince-bishop and thus to the princely line of Lambach-Steyr.

The founding of the Capuchin monastery in Kitzbühel (closed in 2002) goes back to Johann Raimund von Lamberg, the main donor of which was his father who died before the construction of the monastery was completed (as the ruler). On October 8, 1702, he consecrated the newly built monastery church and donated the Confirmation Sacrament in Kitzbühel that afternoon . Since the consecration was to be carried out by Father Rupert, they had waited until after his episcopal ordination.

Johann Raimund was evidently employed by his uncle and initially also by his successor, Count Discounta, more for political and diplomatic purposes than as auxiliary bishop, etc. a. at the Reichstag in Regensburg (January 1713 to May 1714). The inevitable consequence was neglect of episcopal duties. The suspension of confirmations over a longer period of time ultimately led to mass confirmations involving several thousand people. The church of the English Misses in St. Pölten in 1718 and the castle chapel of Hirschbach on August 19, 1723 are known at church consecrations . He consecrated altars with the Franciscans in Neulengbach and in 1722 in the parish church of Ybbs. In 1721 he infected the newly elected provost of the Herzogenburg monastery , Leopold von Planta.

Bishop Johann Raimund died of dropsy in Tulln in 1725 and, at his request, was buried in Capuchin habit in the crypt of the Capuchin Church. After the abolition of the convent in 1787, the crypt was closed and the bones of those buried there were buried in a mass grave in the new city cemetery.

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  1. ↑ Agapit Hohenegger : History of the Tyrolean Capuchin Order Province (1593-1893), Volume I, Innsbruck 1913, p. 548.
personal data
SURNAME Lamberg, Johann Raimund von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Auxiliary Bishop in Passau
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1662
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg or Laufen
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1725
Place of death Tulln