Kaspar Zeiler

Epitaph for Kaspar Zeiler in the Moritzkirche in Augsburg

Kaspar Zeiler (* 1594 in Mainwangen ; † July 4, 1681 in Augsburg ) was vicar general and auxiliary bishop in Augsburg .

Life

Kaspar Zeiler was born as one of six children of Jakob Zeiler and his wife Dorothea, née Schwarz, in Mainwangen - today a district of the Baden-Württemberg community of Mühlingen  .

After attending the Jesuit college in Ingolstadt and studying theology at the University of Ingolstadt , Zeiler was ordained a priest in 1621 . On January 30, 1645 he was appointed titular bishop of Adramyttium and appointed auxiliary bishop in Augsburg. The episcopal ordination donated him on March 5, 1645 Johann Fiernhammer , auxiliary bishop in Freising . On June 25, 1646 he was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the Augsburg Diocese. After the death of Prince-Bishop Heinrich V. von Knöringen in 1646, he took over practically all episcopal functions until 1665, since the new Prince-Bishop Sigismund Franz was neither ordained a priest nor a bishop. On August 18, 1665 , Kaspar Zeiler resigned . He died on July 4, 1681.

In the church of St. Moritz in Augsburg an epitaph commemorates Kaspar Zeiler.

Others

In Mainwangen, the connecting road between Messkircher Strasse and Doktor-Karl-Ott-Strasse is named " Bischof-Zeiler-Weg " in honor of Zeiler .

literature

• Gunther Gottlieb, Wolfram Baer, ​​Josef Becker, Josef Bellot, Karl Filser, Pankraz Fried, Wolfgang Reinhard, Bernhard Schimmelpfennig (ed.): History of the city of Augsburg from Roman times to the present . Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8062-0283-4 , p. 530 f .
• Sibylle Probst-Lunitz: Bishop Kaspar Zeiler from Mainwangen . In: Mühlingen, a common local history of the Madachdörfer Gallmannsweil, Mainwangen, Mühlingen, Schwackenreute and Zoznegg (=  Hegau library . Volume 135 ). MarkOrPlan Hegau-Bodensee, Singen (Hohentwiel) 2007, ISBN 978-3-933356-48-2 , p. 391 ff .

Web links

• Entry on Kaspar Zeiler on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on August 18, 2016.
• Kaspar Zeiler in the Stadtlexikon Augsburg