Conrad III. from Mödling

Konrad von Mödling († 1283 ) was an Augustinian canon and as Konrad III. from 1257 to 1283 provost of the Berchtesgaden monastery .

Konrad von Mödling (formerly: Megling ) was elected provost like his last predecessors from the ranks of the canons of the Berchtesgaden monastery. He had evidently always tried to steer his little ship through the conflicts of that time both outside and inside the monastery walls "without taking part in any party."

Although the monastery was granted the right to pronounce death sentences within its limits , it did not yet have the blood judiciary to enforce such sentences . It was agreed with the brothers Otto and Cuno von Gutrath that they would take these judgments accordingly. Only Konrad's successor, Johann Sax von Saxenau, was supposed to be able to enforce the blood ban from 1294 himself within the monastery territory.

But Konrad already benefited from the "freedom letter" issued in 1156 by the emperor Friedrich Barbarossa , who granted the Berchtesgaden monastery monastery forest sovereignty, as well as from the unauthorized expansion of this "golden bull" in 1180 by his predecessor, provost Friedrich I, to include freedom to mine salt and Metal. Thanks to the “Magna Charta of the Berchtesgaden Regional Authority”, which has been in effect since 1194, he was also able to exercise not only lower but also higher jurisdiction as sovereign and court ruler. And since 1209 was the Berchtesgaden provosts by Pope Innocent III. the right of free jurisdiction over all lay people within the papal area of immunity has been confirmed. In addition, thanks to a right granted by Pope Alexander IV “for all time” in 1255, Konrad was allowed to wear the insignia miter , ring and sandals, which almost put him on an equal footing with the bishops.

In 1274 he had obtained a papal confirmation of the monastery privileges and was later confirmed in Judenburg by King Rudolf I the toll and customs rights of the monastery monastery in Austria. According to Brugger , the year of his death, dated 1283, is not certain.

literature

• Walter Brugger , Heinz Dopsch , Peter F. Kramml: History of Berchtesgaden: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594) . Plenk, Berchtesgaden 1991, pp. 311, 392-393
• Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger , Berchtesgaden 1986 ISBN 3-925647-00-7 , pp. 37, 47, 50-51.
• A. Helm , Hellmut Schöner (ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time . Reprint from 1929. Association for local history d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1973. pp. 100, 109, 261-262.
• Joseph Ernst von Koch-Sternfeld: History of the Principality of Berchtesgaden and its salt works , Volume 1. Salzburg 1815. P. 112 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Joseph Ernst von Koch-Sternfeld: History of the principality of Berchtesgaden and its salt works. Volume 1. Salzburg 1815, p. 112 f.
2. ↑ Stefan Weinfurter , The Foundation of the Augustinian Canons ' Monastery - Reform Idea and Beginnings of the Canon Regulars in Berchtesgaden , in: History of Berchtesgaden: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594), Vol. 1 , ed. by W. Brugger, H. Dopsch, PF Kramml, Berchtesgaden 1991, pp. 229-264, here: p. 254.
3. ↑ "So in Berchtesgaden (..) they had a new document, an extended new edition, created on the basis of a real preliminary document with the purpose of securing the salt shelf." in Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . P. 37
4. ↑ Ulli Kastner: Salt has been part of Berchtesgaden history for 900 years in Berchtesgadener Anzeiger , message from May 22, 2002
5. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . P. 47.
6. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Pp. 50-51.
7. ↑ According to A.Helm, the episcopal insignia received after him in 1254 are already a sign of direct papal suzerainty to which the monastery would have been subject to since then. See history of the country. In: A. Helm: Berchtesgaden through the ages. P. 109.
8. ^ ^{A b} Walter Brugger, Heinz Dopsch, Peter F. Kramml: History of Berchtesgaden: Between Salzburg and Bavaria (until 1594). Plenk, 1991. pp. 311, 392-393.