Johannes (Oberzell)

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The donor monument in the Oberzeller monastery church. Johannes next to his brother Heinrich

Johannes (also Johann ; gen. 1133 , before 1141) was between 1128 and 1141 one of the founders and first head of the Premonstratensian monastery in Oberzell in Zell am Main .

Before Oberzell was founded

The founder of the Premonstratensian Order, Norbert von Xanten , returned to the Holy Roman Empire after his appointment as Archbishop of Magdeburg. He also came through Würzburg and is said to have healed a blind woman here on Easter day in 1126. The miracle induced several influential Würzburgers to donate their land to the new order. The community was planned as a double monastery for men and women at the gates of the city of Würzburg.

Life

The origin of John is unclear. Before the monastery was founded, he was probably already a canon at the Würzburger Domstift and thus part of the urban upper class. The family was probably of aristocratic origin and very large. A spiritual career was envisaged for those who were born afterwards, including Johannes. After the healing of the blind in Würzburg, the biological brothers Johannes and Heinrich, possibly with the third, Liebhulf, agreed to donate their property to the order.

The new Premonstratensian branch was mentioned for the first time in a document from Bishop Embricho of Würzburg . At that time the bishop exchanged some goods with the parish church in Zell, on whose territory the new convent was to be settled. Johannes was probably appointed first head of the monastery by Norbert von Xanten personally. On February 20, 1133, Johannes, now also called provost , was able to have the foundation confirmed by Pope Innocent II .

Johannes quickly had the former parish church of Zell demolished and the new monastery church built in its place. The parish church was rebuilt elsewhere. The last time Johannes was mentioned in the sources was before 1141, and in 1143 Conrad was the new head of Zell. In the older monastery historiography he was assigned the attributes of a saint or blessed. He is also said to have had the gift of prophecy .

Johannes was buried together with his brother Heinrich in the new monastery church. The donor's tombstone was removed and replaced by Abbot Johannes Herberich in 1604. In 1654 the bones of the monastery donors were reburied and buried in a copper coffin in 1702 before they could be reburied in 1704. Now they are resting in the parish church in Zell. On the donor monument from 1604 they are referred to as "Fundatores huius loci (...)" (Latin founder of this place).

literature

  • Helmut Flachenecker , Stefan Petersen: Personnel lists for upper and lower cell. In: Helmut Flachenecker, Wolfgang Weiß (ed.): Oberzell - From the Premonstratensian Monastery (until 1803) to the motherhouse of the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus (= sources and research on the history of the diocese and bishopric of Würzburg, Volume LXII). Würzburg 2006, pp. 521-570.
  • Leo Günther: Oberzell Monastery. From foundation to secularization 1128–1802 . In: Festschrift for the 800th anniversary of the Norbertus monastery in Oberzell . Würzburg 1928. pp. 5-55.
  • Rolf de Kegel: Monasterium… cum adiacenti sanctimonialium celle. An approach to the premonstratensic double monastery in Zell near Würzburg (1128 – after 1221?) . In: Helmut Flachenecker, Wolfgang Weiß (ed.): Oberzell - From the Premonstratensian Monastery (until 1803) to the motherhouse of the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus (= sources and research on the history of the diocese and bishopric of Würzburg, Volume LXII) . Würzburg 2006. pp. 33-56.
  • Stefan Petersen: The medieval papal documents of the Oberzell Abbey. Sources on the history of ownership, on dealing with the Tückelhausen Abbey and on internal problems . In: Helmut Flachenecker, Wolfgang Weiß (ed.): Oberzell - From the Premonstratensian Monastery (until 1803) to the motherhouse of the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus (= sources and research on the history of the diocese and bishopric of Würzburg, Volume LXII) . Würzburg 2006. pp. 85-175.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kegel, Rolf de: Monasterium… cum adiacenti sanctimonialium celle . P. 42.
  2. ^ Günther, Leo: Oberzell Abbey . P. 9 f.
  3. ↑ Flachenecker, Helmut (inter alia): Personal lists for Ober- and Unterzell . P. 522 (footnotes).
  4. ↑ Petersen, Stefan: The medieval papal documents of the Oberzell monastery . P. 86.
  5. ^ Günther, Leo: Oberzell Abbey . P. 9.
personal data
SURNAME John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Monastery founder, ruler
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century or 12th century
DATE OF DEATH 12th Century