Johann von Riedheim

Johann von Riedheim (* 15th century ; † October 16, 1507 in Ulm ) was Prince Abbot of the Prince Abbey of Kempten from 1481 to 1507 .

Live and act

The date of birth of Johann von Riedheim is unknown. He came from the Bavarian - Swabian noble family of the Lords of Riedheim , who were originally ministerials of the Counts of Lechsgemünd and had their headquarters in Riedheim .

In 1483 Johann von Riedheim succeeded in obtaining the exemption of his monastery from Pope Sixtus IV . This not only freed the Kempten abbey from the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Constance and placed it directly under the Holy See ; From now on the prince abbots were also allowed to exercise episcopal rights, which the Bishop of Constance did not recognize until 1752.

The resistance of peasants from the Abbey of Kempt to paternalism, oppression and increases in taxes on the part of the prince abbey, which was already emerging under his predecessor Johann von Wernau , erupted in a peasant uprising in 1491/92 after Johann von Riedheim demanded the introduction of a new tax despite a famine caused by poor harvests. Because of the unrest, the prince fled to Liebenthann Castle until the uprising was peacefully settled in 1492 .

Construction activity

Von Riedheim was not only very fond of the arts, but also proved to be very willing to build during his reign and is therefore considered the most important late medieval prince abbot of the Princely Monastery of Kempten. The St. Afra church in Betzigau was built under Johann von Riedheim in 1498 and the parish church of St. Michael in Krugzell around 1500 . Furthermore, in 1488 he had a second wooden organ built in what was then the collegiate church, thereby making a major contribution to the promotion of liturgical music in the prince monastery of Kempten.

Territory expansion

In 1499 von Riedheim acquired the rule of Hohentann, which in addition to Hohentann Castle also included several mills, estates, farms and resident subjects, also had the lower jurisdiction and had a bailiwick of the prince's monastery set up there.

Individual evidence

↑ Johann Zorn: Collection of the strangest events in the former imperial city of Kempten, from its creation to the dissolution of imperial immediacy in 1802 . Publishing house Tobias Dannheimer , Kempten 1820, p. 31.
^ Gerhard Immler : The court of the prince abbots of Kempten . In: Allgäuer Geschichtsfreund 100 (2000), pp. 43–59, here p. 43.
^ Norbert Hörberg: Intellectual development in the monastery and the city . In: Volker Dotter Weich u. a. (Ed.): History of the City of Kempten , Tobias Dannheimer Publishing House, Kempten 1989, ISBN 3-88881-011-6 , pp. 139–149, here p. 143.
^ Franz Krautwurst: Music in Imperial City and Stift . In: Volker Dotter Weich u. a. (Ed.): History of the city of Kempten , Tobias Dannheimer publishing house, Kempten 1989, ISBN 3-88881-011-6 , pp. 303–321, here p. 315.
↑ Peter Blickle: Monastery rule in the Middle Ages. On the emergence of the Kemptian territorial state . In: Volker Dotter Weich u. a. (Ed.): History of the city of Kempten , Tobias Dannheimer publishing house, Kempten 1989, ISBN 3-88881-011-6 , pp. 79–89, here p. 87.

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann I of Wernau	Prince Abbot of Kempten 1481 - 1507	Johann Rudolf von Raitenau

personal data
SURNAME	Riedheim, Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prince Abbot in the Prince Abbey of Kempten
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century
DATE OF DEATH	October 16, 1507
Place of death	Ulm

[1] Johann Zorn: Collection of the strangest events in the former imperial city of Kempten, from its creation to the dissolution of imperial immediacy in 1802 . Publishing house Tobias Dannheimer , Kempten 1820, p. 31.

[2] Gerhard Immler : The court of the prince abbots of Kempten . In: Allgäuer Geschichtsfreund 100 (2000), pp. 43–59, here p. 43.

[3] Norbert Hörberg: Intellectual development in the monastery and the city . In: Volker Dotter Weich u. a. (Ed.): History of the City of Kempten , Tobias Dannheimer Publishing House, Kempten 1989, ISBN 3-88881-011-6 , pp. 139–149, here p. 143.

[4] Franz Krautwurst: Music in Imperial City and Stift . In: Volker Dotter Weich u. a. (Ed.): History of the city of Kempten , Tobias Dannheimer publishing house, Kempten 1989, ISBN 3-88881-011-6 , pp. 303–321, here p. 315.

[5] Peter Blickle: Monastery rule in the Middle Ages. On the emergence of the Kemptian territorial state . In: Volker Dotter Weich u. a. (Ed.): History of the city of Kempten , Tobias Dannheimer publishing house, Kempten 1989, ISBN 3-88881-011-6 , pp. 79–89, here p. 87.