Konrad Martin (pastor)

Konrad Martin (born March 14, 1765 in Konstanz , † December 3, 1844 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German Catholic clergyman. He was pastor of Neuchâtel am Rhein (1795–1833) and cathedral chapter in Freiburg (1833–1844).

Life

Konrad Martin was born in 1765 in the Constance suburb of Paradies . His father Johann Baptist Martin was a landowner and vegetable gardener there. Konrad attended the Lyceum in Konstanz and studied at the general seminar and at the University of Konstanz. Ordained a priest on September 20, 1789 in Konstanz, he became vicar of the pastor Dominikus Herr in Liel (today in Schliengen ) at the end of October 1789 and on March 10, 1793 he moved to the parish in Bad Bellingen , where he stayed for two years and eight months. first as a parish administrator, then as a real pastor.

On November 3, 1795, he took up his position as pastor in Neuchâtel am Rhein, where he stayed until his appointment as cathedral capitular in Freiburg in July 1833 (37 years and nine months). Since 1894 treasurer of the Neuchâtel chapter, in 1807 he became its dean and at the same time the sovereign school visitator. In 1809 he was also given the state dean's office and in 1810 he was appointed advisor in school matters and Catholic church affairs to the Grand Ducal Directory of the Baden Wiesenkreis .

Pastor Martin, whose first years as a pastor fell during the Napoleonic Wars (1793–1815), made a great contribution to Neuchâtel. In addition to his church activities, he strove to improve the very dilapidated agriculture. His parish garden served him as a model example of the higher garden, flower and fruit culture, which was imitated several times. In 1808 the city administration had given him a three- yoke- large and overgrown plot of land into a school garden, where he taught older students theoretically and practically in tree and vine cultivation for 25 years. The parish received most of its fruit yield from this garden. Cuttings and seedlings of different grape varieties were distributed in the region as far as Constance and thus created the basis for improving the vineyards in the Upper Rhine District . His book Viticulture in the Upper Rhine District was published in the year he died.

At the request of the city administration, Martin searched the city archives for documents relating to their bans , arranged them chronologically and worked out their evidential value . In this way, he contributed to the fact that for two hundred years, the demarcation processes on both sides of the Rhine (so-called ban dispute), the construction obligation of the parish church and other things were decided in favor of the city of Neuchâtel. In 1824 he was named (by Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg ) as a candidate for the newly created Archbishop's Chair in Freiburg, which then went to the Freiburg Minster Pastor Bernhard Boll .

On May 2, 1833, Martin became cathedral capitular in Freiburg, where shortly afterwards he was appointed to the deputation of the Grand Ducal Agricultural Association. At his suggestion, what was then an agricultural nursery garden was realized in the spring of 1834, but after some time he passed its management to the government councilor Dr. Kern handed over. On November 17, 1837, the Baden Ministry of the Interior appointed him the school examination commissioner for the municipal elementary schools in Freiburg.

Konrad Martin died on December 3, 1844. Dekan-Martin-Strasse in Neuchâtel is named after him. His portrait, drawn by Straub and lithographed by Herder , was published in 1833 at the instigation of the members of the Neuchâtel chapter, of which he had been dean since 1807.

Fonts

• Many essays in the Konstanz pastoral archive
• The dispute between the city of Neuchâtel and the municipality of Auggen , presented historically and legally, Freiburg 1831
• Reply of the city of Neuchâtel to the writing: Reply of the municipality of Auggen etc. , Freiburg 1832
• Contribution to a contemporary catechism for the Archdiocese , Freiburg 1837
• Christian Catholic catechism for the middle and higher grades of elementary school, Sunday school and Christian apprentices for the promotion of perfection in religious instruction , Freiburg 1838
• Essays in the archive for the clergy of the Upper Rhine ecclesiastical province , published in 4 volumes by Herder in Freiburg from 1838 to 1841 and edited by Martin
• Viticulture in the Upper Rhine District of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1844

literature

• Baden biographies. First part, Bassermann, Heidelberg 1875, p. 109 (sub verbo Bernhard Boll) ( digitized version ).
• Necrologium Friburgense. First department 1827–1846 , in: Freiburg Diöcesan Archive Volume 16 (1883), pp. 273–344, here: p. 336
• Cajetan Jäger (Ed.): Literärisches Freiburg im Breisgau: or directory of the writers currently living in Freiburg im Breisgau, with details of the main features of their careers and the writings they have published in print . Wangler, Freiburg i. Br. 1839, pp. 102-105 ( digitized version ).