Charles II of Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn

Charles II of Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn, Bishop of Olmütz (1664–1695)

Coat of arms of Charles II of Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn in Olomouc (above)

Coat of arms of Charles II of Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn, Bishop of Olomouc (1664–1695)

Karl von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn (born March 17, 1623 in Glatz ; † September 23, 1695 in Olomouc ) was Karl II. Bishop of Olomouc and elected Prince-Bishop of Wroclaw .

family

Karl von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn came from the South Tyrolean noble family Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn . He was the son of the imperial general and governor and governor of the County of Glatz Rudolf Philipp von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn and his wife, Baron Klara Vintler von Runkelstein .

Life

After attending the first three grammatical classes with the Jesuits in Innsbruck , he studied in Ingolstadt , where he received his Dr. iur. utr. received his doctorate. In 1637 Karl became canon in Salzburg , where from 1654 he was also councilor, chamber president and cathedral dean . He also owned canons in Olomouc (1641) and Passau (1643). In 1655 he was ordained a priest.

After the death of the Olomouc bishop Karl Joseph of Austria , the cathedral chapter unanimously elected Karl von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn as his successor on March 12, 1664. The election was confirmed on June 28th of that year by Pope Alexander VII .

During his long tenure in Olomouc numerous sacred and ecclesiastical secular buildings were built in the baroque style. After the destruction of the Thirty Years' War , he had the episcopal city of Kremsier , in which he was the unrestricted landlord, rebuilt and built roads, water pipes and sewers. In the newly built palace , which was expanded to include a baroque garden, he founded a collection of paintings and music as well as a semi-public library with 4,000 books. The episcopal castles and fortresses Hochwald , Keltsch near Mährisch Weisskirchen , Mürau and Wischau were expanded and the convent buildings were built in Hradiště near Olomouc.

In 1666, Karl published guidelines for the life of secular priests, for teaching youth and for the maintenance of church buildings. The correct management of the church registers, a copy of which had to be delivered to the episcopal consistory every year , was strictly monitored. The division of the diocese into the archdeaconates of Olomouc, Brno , Znojmo and Opava remained in place until the diocese of Brno was separated in 1777.

Karl promoted the veneration of the Moravian patron saints Cyril and Method and in 1675 also declared St. Joseph to be the patron saint of Moravia.

To improve the school system, Karl appointed the Piarists in 1675 , to whom he left a college and a grammar school in Kremsier (1687) as well as the Johanniskirche. Further colleges were established in Altwasser (1690) and Freiberg (1694).

In 1682, Karl, who had a papal brief about his eligibility for all other dioceses in Germany, was elected Bishop of Breslau by the Breslau cathedral chapter . Since Emperor Leopold I wanted to push through his own candidate, the Viennese court prevented papal confirmation. After Pope Innocent XI. Faced with the alternative of opting for Olomouc or Breslau, Karl stayed in Olomouc. He was therefore unable to take up the office of Bishop of Wroclaw.

Under his government, during the witch trials of Groß Ullersdorf, dean and pastor Christoph Alois Lautner was burned alive for alleged witchcraft on September 18, 1685 in Müglitz .

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Liechtenstein-Castelcorn, Karl (Archbishop) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 15th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1866, p. 130 ( digitized version ).
• Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire, Vol. 3, ISBN 3-428-06763-0 , pp. 276-278
• Joachim Bahlcke , Winfried Eberhard, Miloslav Polívka (eds.): Handbook of historical places . Volume: Bohemia and Moravia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 329). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-32901-8 .
• Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Lands, Vol. 2, ISBN 3-486-52551-4 , pp. 446-447,
• Memorable men from and in County Glatz. In: Quarterly journal for history and local history of the County of Glatz, p. 231

Web links

Commons : Karl II. Von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry about Karl von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Charles I Joseph of Austria	Bishop of Olomouc 1664 - 1695	Charles III Joseph of Lorraine

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich of Hessen-Darmstadt	Prince-Bishop of Breslau 1682 - 1683	Franz Ludwig of the Palatinate