Kaspar Ayndorffer

Kaspar Ayndorffer (also Aindorffer ; * 1401 in Munich , † January 17, 1461 in the Tegernsee Monastery ) was a German Benedictine and abbot of the Tegernsee Monastery . He made a contribution to the restoration of the dilapidated monastic discipline and the renewal of monastic life.

Life

Ayndorffer came from a Munich patrician family. He was elected abbot of the monastery in Tegernsee in 1429. Ayndorffer is considered a meritorious innovator of monastic life. Under him, Tegernsee became the driving force behind the Melker monastery reforms in Bavaria . The principles of the reforms were the attempt to live strictly according to the Benedictine Rule , i. H. to align monastic life with common prayer times. Further goals were the struggle against the secularization of monks and abbots, the admission of non-nobles to the monastery and, last but not least, the promotion of scientific work in the spirit of humanism . During Ayndorffer's official activity, the Tegernsee Monastery provided well-known abbots for the Andechs , Benediktbeuern , Scheyern and Wessobrunn monasteries . Church and monastery in Tegernsee were expanded in the Gothic style, a new choir with a two-story sacristy and the three-aisled nave were started under his direction. In 1446 a large passion altar was consecrated for the 700th anniversary (today there are panels in Munich, Nuremberg, Berlin and Bad Feilnbach)

Ayndorffer had had an active helper in the prior Bernhard von Waging since 1452. Bernhard von Waging and Kaspar Ayndorffer were among others in connection with Johann III. von Eych , Johannes von Melk and Nikolaus von Kues . From Ayndorffer's time, a number of works of art that are still preserved today come from the monastery, such as the grave monument of the two founders of the monastery from the hand of the Munich sculptor Hans Haldner and the large "Tegernsee" monstrance by Landsberg goldsmith Hans Kistler from 1448.

literature

Friedrich Lauchert: Aindorffer, Kaspar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, p. 720 f.
Romuald Bauerreiß OSB: Ayndorffer (Aindorffer), Kaspar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 471 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

↑ Albert Groiß: Late medieval way of life of the Benedictines from the Melker Observanz against the background of their customs. A descriptive commentary on the Caeremoniale Melicense of 1460 (contributions to the history of ancient monasticism and Beneditinism, vol. 46), Münster 1999.
↑ Alois Anger Pointner: Nicholas of Cusa and Bernard of Waging . in: Amperland , 1st year, 1965, pp. 3–5.
^ Parish church Tegernsee-St. Quirinus: History and Art , website of the Tegernsee-Egern-Kreuth Parish Association, accessed on April 14, 2020.

predecessor	Office	successor
Hildebrand Kastner	Abbot of Tegernsee 1429–1461	Konrad V. Ayrenschmalz

personal data
SURNAME	Kaspar Ayndorffer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kaspar Aindorffer; Caspar Aindorfer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Benedictine and abbot of Tegernsee
DATE OF BIRTH	1401
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	January 17, 1461
Place of death	Tegernsee Monastery

[1] Albert Groiß: Late medieval way of life of the Benedictines from the Melker Observanz against the background of their customs. A descriptive commentary on the Caeremoniale Melicense of 1460 (contributions to the history of ancient monasticism and Beneditinism, vol. 46), Münster 1999.

[2] Alois Anger Pointner: Nicholas of Cusa and Bernard of Waging . in: Amperland , 1st year, 1965, pp. 3–5.

[3] Parish church Tegernsee-St. Quirinus: History and Art , website of the Tegernsee-Egern-Kreuth Parish Association, accessed on April 14, 2020.