Justin Panschab

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Justin Panschab OCist (born December 25, 1859 in Brno , † December 29, 1930 in Lilienfeld ) was a Cistercian and from 1899 to 1930 the 60th  abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Lilienfeld .

Life

1859 to 1899

Born the son of a master glove maker and baptized in the name of Johannes (Evangelist), Panschab, whose uncle Ferdinand Domdekan was in Brno and Regens of the seminary , visited the grammar school in Brno, entered the novitiate of the Lilienfeld monastery on September 17, 1877 and took it Religious name Justin . After he made his temporary profession on September 18, 1878 , he studied philosophy and theology in St. Pölten from 1878 to 1882and made his perpetual profession on September 25, 1881 while studying. After completing his studies, he was ordained a priest on July 16, 1882 .

In 1882 he was a cooperator in Annaberg , from 1884 to 1887 catechist in Schrambach, a town in the parish of Lilienfeld, from 1885 to 1887 monastic asset manager and in 1887 parish vicar in Kaumberg . From 1890 to 1899 Panschab was prior and parish vicar in Lilienfeld and in 1897 and 1904 a member of the district school council in Lilienfeld.

On 25 May 1899 he was chaired by Vicar General Abbot Theobald Grasböck of Wilhering elected abbot and on 28 May 1899 by diocesan Bishop John Baptist Roessler from St. Pölten in the Collegiate Church Lilienfeld benediziert .

1899 to 1914

Abbot Justin, from 1901 to 1920, building authorities had started a construction boom after taking office. In 1900 the abbey area was equipped with water pipes and a sewer system, in 1902 the power station , which is now a listed building , was put into operation and in 1904 a newly built sawmill went into operation.

On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the founding on August 24, 1902, the monastery provided building land free of charge for the construction of today's Lilienfeld State Hospital , which Justin Panschab inaugurated in 1903. Other mundane building projects that were implemented were the new building of the house on Platzl with the post office and the house for the community doctor in Dörfl. In Vienna, the now listed building at Tulpengasse 2 was built and the building at Krugerstraße 4, which is also listed, was modernized.

Religious buildings include the new building of the rectory in Unterretzbach , which is now a listed building , from 1904 to 1908 and the new building of the listed church in Mitterbach , which was funded by the pilgrimage association of the Viennese men and which was built in 1915 in honor of St. Klemens Maria Hofbauer was inaugurated by Abbot Justin. Finally, from 1901 to 1905 the also listed parish church in Ramsau was restored according to plans by the architect Dominik Avanzo and from 1910 to 1913 the listed parish church of Wilhelmsburg was restored.

1914 to 1930

Justin Panschab tried his best to help with the limitations and privations that the First World War brought with it. So he set up a military hospital in the convent and earned services to war welfare . Although Lilienfeld was spared acts of war, riots among the workers of the neighboring industrial companies hit the monastery several times due to the food shortage, because it was hoped to be able to steal food supplies.

In 1916 the military were quartered in the abandoned hospital in the convent. In March 1918 the abbot and the convent were forced to leave the monastery for a short time because the unrest among the soldiers and workers had reached threatening proportions, which lasted until 1922.

In 1923 and 1925 Panschab had serious intentions to resign , but remained in office at the insistence of a large part of the convent. In 1924 he celebrated the 25th and in 1929 the 30th anniversary of the Abbot in the Kremserhof.

He maintained contacts with numerous artists of his time and was anxious for peace and mutual understanding among those entrusted to him. In old age he showed little in public because he suffered from neuritis and asthma . After his death on December 29, 1930, he was buried on January 2, 1931 in the abbot's vault in the local cemetery.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Justin Panschab in the Lower Austrian Chronicle , accessed on August 21, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Panschab, Justin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Panschab, Johannes (baptismal name); Panschab, Johannes Evangelist (baptismal name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Cistercian and Abbot of Lilienfeld
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1930
Place of death Lily field