John VI Wittig

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John VI Wittig - other spelling Widdig - († October 10, 1667 in Koblenz-Metternich ) was a German Roman Catholic clergyman and the 38th abbot of the Marienstatt Abbey . His abbatiat went from 1636 to 1658.

Live and act

The date of birth is not known. He was professed at the mother monastery in Heisterbach and was elected abbot on August 12, 1636 in Marienstatt. The Benediction took place on January 27, 1637 by the Cologne Auxiliary Bishop Gutmann. The Marienstatter Tafeln , however, speak of the election year 1638.

His abbatiat was shaped by the turmoil of the Thirty Years War : the monastery was about to be dissolved in 1633: the abbey had been declared a Swedish crown property - looting and devastation followed. The majority of the monks fled - only Abbot Wittig stayed in the monastery with another confrere and two novices .

“Due to the looting and devastation, the economic efficiency of the abbey was so severely restricted that even the worship service could no longer be carried out. Abbot Johann pledged or sold numerous monastery properties between 1638 and 1655 (including the sale of the monastery courtyard in Andernach in 1653). His successor Johannes VII Kaspar Pflüger still had to struggle with the high debts . "

- zisterzienserlexikon.de

The economic and general circumstances made Abbot Johann resigned on August 12, 1658. He left Marienstatt and moved to the Rhein-Metterich (Metternich) monastery courtyard. There he died on October 10, 1667 of the plague that was rampant in Koblenz. He was also buried in the parish church in the courtyard.

literature

  • E. Pfeiffer: The order of the Abbots from Marienstatt. CistC 50 (1938) 244
  • Gilbert Wellstein: The Cistercian Abbey Marienstatt in the Westerwald. 1955, p. 319.
  • The Cistercian Abbey of Marienstatt. The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Cologne. The Archdiocese of Cologne 7. Volume 14
  • Wolf-Heino Struck: The Cistercian monastery Marienstatt in the Middle Ages. Wiesbaden: Historical Commission for Nassau (= publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau Vol. 18), 1965.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WITTIG, Johannes OCist. Retrieved January 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wittig, Johannes VI.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Widdig, John VI.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman and abbot of Marienstatt Abbey
DATE OF BIRTH before 1638
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1667
Place of death Koblenz-Metternich