Konrad I. von Abenberg

Konrad von Abenberg (* around 1075; † April 9, 1147 in Lungau , Salzburg ) was Archbishop of Salzburg in the first half of the 12th century and an extremely energetic reformer who received the honorary title of "second founder of the Salzburg Church" . In the literature it is often wrongly assigned to the family of the Lower Bavarian Abensbergers .

Life

Archbishop Konrad von Abenberg came from the family of the Counts of Abenberg- Frensdorf, bailiffs of Bamberg. As the son of Wolfram I von Abenberg , he was brought up at the court of Emperor Heinrich IV , became court chaplain and then canon in Hildesheim . On January 7, 1106, King Heinrich V appointed him Archbishop of Salzburg, where the anti-archbishop Berthold von Moosburg , appointed by Heinrich IV, ruled. With the military support of his older brothers Otto and Wolfram, he was able to persuade Berthold to abdicate. Pope Paschal II consecrated him on October 21 in Guastalla as bishop and handed him the pallium .

In July 1110 he moved to Italy with the later Emperor Heinrich V, but rejected the so-called “Concordat of Sutri ” and sided with the Pope in the investiture dispute . Due to further conflicts with the imperial officials, he had to flee in 1112 and was only able to return to Salzburg in 1121.

After his return he reorganized his diocese, founded a number of monasteries and reformed many others by enforcing the rule of the Augustinian canons or that of the regular canons (cathedral monastery in Salzburg, St. Zeno in Bad Reichenhall, Gurk, Reichersberg , Berchtesgaden , Baumburg , Gars am Inn , Au am Inn , Ranshofen , Höglwörth , Herrenchiemsee , Seckau , Suben ); These reform efforts also had an impact on the diocese of Brixen, which is part of the Salzburg ecclesiastical province (Reformstift Neustift ) and even as far as the Trento area (Reformstift San Michele all'Adige ). The Archbishop also supported the Benedictines . Through these measures, which were accompanied by a large number of trips and visitations, he earned the honorary title "Second founder of the Salzburg Church".

In 1121 the cathedral received two mighty towers in the west. In 1127 he had the now burned down Salzburg Cathedral rebuilt and expanded. For the poor of the city, the cathedral chapter of St. Johannsspital (today the hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder am Kai), the closest St. Peter monastery, is building the Laurentiusspital (today Chiemseehofteile). In 1140 he created the cathedral cemetery.

He assigned areas of land to St. Peter's Abbey on which his residence previously stood and then part of the monastery was built. He moved the new archiepiscopal residence to the cathedral. During his reign, the Almkanal's pen arm was also created.

To defend against Hungary, he built the castles Leibnitz ( Seggau ), Pettau (today Ptuj ) and Reichenburg (today Brestanica). An expansion of Deutschlandsberg Castle as the center of the Salzburg possessions in western Styria is also assumed for his reign.

literature

Ekkart Sauser : Konrad I. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 430-432. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Stefan Weinfurter : Salzburg diocese reform and episcopal politics in the 12th century. Archbishop Konrad I of Salzburg (1106–1147) and the Canon Regulars . Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1975. ( Kölner Historische Abhandlungen. 24).
Kurt Zeillinger: Archbishop Konrad I of Salzburg. Geyer, Vienna 1968.
Kurt Zeillinger: Konrad I .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 524 ( digitized version ).
Heinrich Ritter von Zeißberg: Konrad I (Archbishop of Salzburg) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 609-615.

Web links

Conradus I archiepiscopus Salisburgensis in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
Entry on Konrad I. von Abenberg in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Konrad I of Salzburg in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints

Individual evidence

↑ Franz Machilek: The counts of Abenberg Frensdorf. In: Ferdinand Kramer , Wilhelm Störmer (Hrsg.): High Middle Ages families in Old Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia. (= Studies on Bavarian Constitutional and Social History; Vol. XX). Munich 2005, pp. 213-238, here: pp. 225 f.
↑ Hannes Obermair , Martin Bitschnau : The traditional notes of the Augustinian canons of St. Michael ad Etsch (San Michele all'Adige): preliminary work on the “ Tyrolean document book ” . In: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung , Vol. 105, 1997, pp. 263–329, here: pp. 265–267.

predecessor	Office	successor
Thiemo	Archbishop of Salzburg 1106–1147	Eberhard von Biburg

personal data
SURNAME	Konrad I. von Abenberg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Conrad of Salzburg; Conradus Archiepiscopus Salisburgensis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Reformer of Augustinian monasteries and Archbishop of Salzburg
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1075
PLACE OF BIRTH	Abenberg , Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH	April 9, 1147
Place of death	Lungau , Salzburg

[1] Franz Machilek: The counts of Abenberg Frensdorf. In: Ferdinand Kramer , Wilhelm Störmer (Hrsg.): High Middle Ages families in Old Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia. (= Studies on Bavarian Constitutional and Social History; Vol. XX). Munich 2005, pp. 213-238, here: pp. 225 f.

[2] Hannes Obermair , Martin Bitschnau : The traditional notes of the Augustinian canons of St. Michael ad Etsch (San Michele all'Adige): preliminary work on the “ Tyrolean document book ” . In: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung , Vol. 105, 1997, pp. 263–329, here: pp. 265–267.