Chancellor reform

The Kastler Reform was in the 14th century by Kastl Abbey in Upper Palatinate outgoing monastic , the reform movement in the 15th century much of the Benedictine recognized monastic in southern Germany.

Origin, history and goals of the reform

Chancellor monks who studied in Prague got to know the monastic renewal in the Benedictine monasteries Břevnov and Kladrau as well as the reforms in the Augustinian canons in Raudnitz . The reform measures were based on the Bull Summi magistri (1336) of Pope Benedict XII. with their regulations for the renewal of monastic life. The outstanding figure of the reform efforts in Kastl was the superior Franz von Böhmen , who had come to Kastl from Kladrau. The spirit of reform also shapes the mystical writings of Prior Johannes von Kastl .

Under Abbot Otto II Nortweiner (1378-1399) the basic documents for the implementation of the reform were compiled in the Kastl monastery:

• Breviarium de divinis officiis : Collection of liturgical texts and instructions for the worship of the monastery
• Liber consuetudinum : compilations of the rules for daily life and the organization of the monastery; In the monasteries of Kastler Reform, short versions of this collection were drawn up for practical use ( Excerpta consuetudinum et regulae ).

Abbeys influenced by the Chancellor Reform (selection)

• Reichenbach Monastery in Upper Palatinate, since 1394
• Füssen Monastery , 1397/1410
• Weltenburg Abbey
• Ensdorf Monastery
• Michelfeld Monastery
• Weihenstephan Monastery
• St. Egidius Monastery in Nuremberg
• Heiligkreuz Monastery in Donauwörth
• Sankt Emmeram Monastery in Regensburg
• St. Gallen Monastery

bibliography

swell

• Consuetudines Castellenses , ed. P. Maier (CCMon 14 / 1–2), Siegburg 1995–1996.

literature

• Bonifaz Wöhrmüller , Contributions to the history of the Chancellor Reform , in: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches (SMGB) Volume 42, 1923/24, pp. 10–40.
• Stephan Haering , Art. "Kastler Reform" , in: Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, 3rd edition, Vol. 5 (1996), Sp. 1287f.
• Josef Hemmerle : The Benedictine monasteries in Bavaria (Germania Benedictina 2). Augsburg 1970, 126.
• Peter Maier, origin and expansion of the Kastler reform movement , in: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches 102 (1991) 75–204.
• Peter Maier, Kastl - his Consuetudines and the whole human being , in: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches 105 (1994) 97-106.

Web links

• Peter Maier: Chancellor Reform. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . May 6, 2010, accessed March 8, 2012 .