Johannes Ernst

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Johannes Ernst OSB (* 1528 in Obermarchtal ; † November 20, 1594 in Ochsenhausen ) was from 1585 to 1593 the 12th abbot of the imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen in today's Biberach district in Upper Swabia .

Life

Johannes Ernst was elected abbot on July 19, 1585. Johannes already took religious vows under Abbot Georg Müller . Georg Geisenhof describes him in his chronicle as a person who lived up to his name in a certain sense. He is said to have been serious in taming his irascible temper and serious in handling monastic discipline . However, Geisenhof complains that he lacked the seriousness to consistently enforce the monks' vow of dispossession . A picture that can no longer be found, which, according to Geisenhof, hung between the sixth and seventh cell doors of the monastery, shows Abbot Johannes in a kneeling pose in front of the Last Judgment .

Saint Anne Chapel

St. Anne's Chapel

Towards the end of his tenure, Abbot Johannes had the St. Anna Chapel built between Oberstetten and Steinhausen in 1592 . A hermit has lived near the chapel since the monastery was founded in 1090 in a small house with a stable. The last hermit named Onuphrius Wahl died there on August 13, 1794. In 1593 Johannes resigned . Abbot Johannes died on November 20, 1594 and was buried at the foot of the altar in the St. Anne's Chapel.

During his reign, it gradually became common for the conventuals to drop their first names and adopt a monastery name. In 1594, seven other conventuals died without an epidemic occurring on the territory of the imperial abbey.

  • January 20, 1594 Theobald Ehinger
  • February 13, 1594 Daniel Schienlin, Prior
  • March 4, 1594 Waltherus Immhof von Biberach
  • April 15, 1594 Georg Vetter subdeacon of Munderkingen
  • May 31, 1594 Martin Schad
  • June 2, 1594 Konrad Weih
  • October 27, 1594 Johannes Merlin

literature

  • Georg Geisenhof : Brief history of the former Reichsstift Ochsenhausen in Swabia. Ganser, Ottobeuren 1829 ( digitized version ).
  • Volker Himmelein (ed.): Old monasteries, new masters. The secularization in the German southwest 1803. Large state exhibition Baden-Württemberg 2003. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2003, ISBN 3-7995-0212-2 (exhibition catalog and essay volume).
  • Volker Himmelein, Franz Quarthal (Ed.): Vorderösterreich, Only the tail feather of the imperial eagle? The Habsburgs in the German southwest. Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Ulm 1999, ISBN 3-88294-277-0 (catalog of the state exhibition).
  • Elmar Kuhn (Ed.): The Peasants' War in Oberschwaben. Tübingen.
  • Heribert Smolinsky : Church History of Modern Times Part 1. 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Geisenhof : Brief history of the former imperial monastery Ochsenhausen in Swabia . Ganser, Ottobeuren 1829 ( digitized , p. 92)
predecessor Office successor
Andrew II Sunday OSB Abbot of Ochsenhausen
1585–1593 		Christoph Spieß OSB
personal data
SURNAME Ernst, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION twelfth abbot of the imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen
DATE OF BIRTH 1528
PLACE OF BIRTH Obermarchtal
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1594
Place of death Ochsenhausen