Johannes Rueff

Johannes Rueff (* 1520 Horb am Neckar ; † March 28, 1599 in Klosterbruck in Moravia) was an Austrian Benedictine and later abbot of Zwettl , then Heiligenkreuz .

Life

Johannes Rueff was Conventual of the Benedictine monastery Melk , was built by Emperor Rudolf II. Used on 15 August 1580 as abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Zwettl and the Passau Bishop Hector Wegmann 1581 infuliert . In 1585 he became abbot of Heiligenkreuz at the request of the Viennese bishop Melchior Khlesl .

The abbot had been tried since 1592; he was accused of poor economic management and breach of celibacy . He was arrested by the political authorities and was imprisoned for three years. After a process headed by Abbot General Edmund de la Croix (from Cîteaux) in Vienna, Rueff was allowed to conduct his official business again under very strict conditions. However, he had to "fast weekly in front of his convent, throw himself down in front of the high altar of the church and pray the All Saints' litany, just as often a Holy Mass for the forgiveness of his sins and a second Holy Mass in his opinion, and pray the Psalter every month . "

During his imprisonment, Matthias Gülger , the Heiligenkreuz Prior, was responsible for the monastery. When Rueff was released, Gülger went to Rein .

Rueff died in 1599 on a Legatus trip, which he was to carry out on behalf of the prelate class to Prague in the Bruck Premonstratensian Monastery in Moravia . He was buried on April 14th in Heiligenkreuz.

literature

• Contributions to the history of the Cistercian pens . Vienna 1891, archive.org .
• Malachias Koll: The Heiligenkreuz Abbey in Austria . (PDF) Vienna 1834, pp. 113–114.
• Friedrich Schweickhardt: Representation of the Archduchy of Austria under the Ens , Bd. 3. Vienna 1839.
• Entry about Johannes Rueff , in: Florian Watzl : Die Cistercienser von Heiligenkreuz . Graz 1898, p.54 ( online on Wikimedia Commons)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Riedl, Ulrich Hackel, Abbot zu Zwettl. A prelate of the Counter Reformation . Innsbruck 1935, p. 54.
2. ↑ Peter Pöschek, Hans Bruno Schneider : Abbot Mathias Gülger (1565-1628) of clean and the vicars general of the Cistercian Order in Austria . In: Analecta Cisterciensia , 47, 1991, pp. 143-329, here pp. 167-168; In detail from Hermann Riedl: Ulrich Hackel, Abbot zu Zwettl. A prelate of the Counter Reformation . Innsbruck 1935, pp. 49-55.
3. ↑ Bernhard Link , Annales Austrio Clara Vallenses (Vienna 1723), S. 520th

predecessor	Office	successor
Laurenz Hengenmüller	Abbot of Zwettl Monastery 1580–1585	Ulrich II. Hackel

predecessor	Office	successor
Ulrich Müller	Abbot of Heiligenkreuz Abbey 1585–1599	Paul Schönebner