Johannes Shrine

Johannes Schrein (* in Zlawings (Moravia) ; † December 9, 1524 in Kremsmünster ) was the 45th abbot of Kremsmünster Monastery from 1505 to 1524 .

Johannes Schrein was already a master of arts before he entered the Kremsmünster monastery. He was recommended as a teacher at the local school to Abbot Ulrich Schoppenzaun from the Passau “Officialen Doctor Udalricus de Albn”.

His concern for the economy of the monastery is shown in documents from 1505 and 1506, in which Emperor Maximilian decided in favor of the abbot in disputes over fishing rights in the Krems river with the Scharnstein and Steyr rulers.

A letter of purchase dated April 13, 1507 documents the acquisition of the Kremsmünsterer Hof in the old town of Linz from the noble Bernhard von Scherffenberg .

In 1508 Abbot Johannes had the papal legate Cardinal Bernhard Carvajali confirm all the rights assigned to the monastery. In the next few years he bought some buildings in Mautern, from a Viennese citizen Johann Rockner some vineyards in Klosterneuburg and from a citizen of the city of Stein the monastery there. On August 14, 1510, Emperor Maximilian granted the abbot permission to set up a guild of grinders, swordsmen and cutlers with a diploma from Innsbruck.

As early as 1509 he had a new altar built in the collegiate church, where the remains of Gunther and St. Wisinthos were embedded. Likewise, during his tenure in 1511, five new altars were inaugurated by Passau Auxiliary Bishop Bernhard and in 1513 a new organ was installed. In 1515 the renovation of the collegiate church and the construction of new choir stalls were completed.

Abbot Johannes enjoyed the benevolence and grace of Emperor Maximilian I , so that he had not only chosen him to be his confessor, but had also called in as an advisor for important decisions. When Emperor Maximilian fell ill in Wels on his return journey from Augsburg in 1519 and died there on January 12, 1519, Abbot Johannes stood by him. Together with Johann Geymann , Grand Master of the knightly Order of St. George , and Bishop Georg of Vienna , he was also appointed executor of the will.

Abbot Johannes presided over the monastery for 19 years with great benefit. The prosperity of the monastery and especially the library have always been very important to him. On December 9, 1524 he died weakened by old age and marked by illness.

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• P. Wolfgang Dannerbauer, OSB: "Briefly chamfered chronicle of the eleven hundred year old Benedictine monastery Kremsmünster, 1877"
• P. Ulrich Hartenschneider, OSB: "Historical and topographical representation of the Kremsmünster Abbey", Vienna 1830.

predecessor	Office	successor
Georg Sparrow	Abbot of Kremsmünster Abbey 1505–1525	Leonhard Hunzdorfer