Johannes Nablas

The coat of arms of Abbot Johannes Nablas at the entrance to the new convent building in Metten

Johannes Nablas OSB (* 1560 in Niederlauterbach ; † November 29, 1639 in Regensburg ) was a German Benedictine and abbot of the monasteries Metten and Sankt Emmeram (Regensburg) .

biography

Johannes Nablas made his profession in 1582 in the imperial abbey of Sankt Emmeram in Regensburg, where he also received his theological training. After his ordination in 1586, he was entrusted with the economic management and financial administration of the monastery as an economist. His successful work in this area was probably the reason why the monks of the Lower Bavarian monastery Metten elected him their abbot in 1595.

As an energetic reformer, Johann Nablas fulfilled the expectations placed in him and brought about a rapid improvement in the desolate economic and personal situation of the Metten Monastery. The new bloom of the monastery documents the generous expansion of the spatially cramped medieval monastery building through the New Convent Building, which has been preserved and used to this day. The new building, which forms a courtyard around the choir of the monastery church, contained the cells for the monks on the upper floor and a new refectory and rooms for the monastery library on the ground floor. In addition to the economic consolidation, Johannes Nablas was also concerned with the spiritual renewal of his monastery. His efforts to improve the theological training of the monks documents his commitment to the establishment of the University of Salzburg by the Benedictines (opened in 1622).

In 1623 Johannes Nablas was elected abbot of his professed monastery Sankt Emmeram in Regensburg. Nevertheless, he did not give up the office of Abbot von Metten until 1628. Far less is known about his activity as abbot in Sankt Emmeram, apart from the building activity that also developed here, than about the time of his activity in Metten.

literature

• Wilhelm Fink : History of the development of the Benedictine abbey Metten. Vol. 1: The professorship book of the abbey (studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches. Supplementary booklet 1,1), Munich 1927, p. 34.
• Wilhelm Fink: Johann Nablas II., Abbot of Metten , in: StMBO 44, 1926, pp. 193-201.
• Anton Landersdorfer:  Nablas, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 680 ( digitized version ).
• Michael Kaufmann: Chronicle of Metten Abbey 766–2016 , Sankt Ottilien 2016, pp. 233–255.
• Rupert Mittermüller : The Metten Monastery and its Aebte . Straubing 1856.

predecessor	Office	successor
Andreas Eckler	Abbot of Metten Monastery 1595–1628	Johannes Christoph Guetknecht
Jerome Feury	Abbot of Sankt Emmeram 1623–1639	Placidus Judmann