Konrad Torer from Törlein

Konrad Torer von Törlein († April 5, 1406 ) was as Konrad V imperial prelate and provost of the Berchtesgaden monastery and then as Konrad II. Bishop of Lavant .

Konrad Torer von Törlein came from an Upper Bavarian ministerial family . He was pastor in Salfeld, from 1369 canon of Salzburg and from 1384 to 1393 provost of the monastery in Berchtesgaden with the rank of imperial prelate .

When Konrad took over this office, the pen was heavily in debt. His predecessor Ulrich I. Wulp had tried to pay off the debt, but without success. On the contrary. The serf subjects made active use of Ulrich's land letter , especially under Konrad's reign , which enabled them to purchase the estate and fiefs of the monastery under inheritance law , but the schism that Ulrich conjured up because of the lifestyle of his confreres criticized by him led to armed attacks and attacks for two years Looting carried out in the Berchtesgadener Land. After that, a little more than 1000 guilders were on the annual income side of the monastery , but the "obvious" debts now amounted to 44,000 guilders, according to other calculations even at least 161,000 guilders. The income of the pen thus no longer even covered the debt interest due.

Since neither the Bavarian nor Austrian dukes wanted to invest any more money in this bankrupt state, Konrad only had the option of asking his hostile neighbors for help. And the Archbishop of Salzburg, Pilgrim II von Puchheim , immediately got involved. For six years, the Schellenberg salt works owned by the monastery was pledged to him, for which he assured the canons as well as the women's monastery a "decent livelihood". A little later, all the other salt mines and finally in 1393, at the instigation of the monastery, the entire monastery state with house and farm, land and people were pledged or handed over to the Archdiocese of Salzburg . So that was Klosterstiftskirche Berchtesgaden now the Archdiocese of Salzburg incorporated .

Archbishop Pilgrim had already appointed Konrad two years earlier on May 1, 1391 as administrator of the orphaned diocese of Lavant. After Konrad handed over his post as provost in 1393, the archbishop assured him the income from the provost until he was bishop. Pope Benedict XIII confirmed Conrad on April 12, 1397 as Bishop of Lavant. Bishop Konrad resided in Friesach and died on April 5, 1406.

literature

• Erwin Gatz (ed.): The bishops of the Holy Roman Empire. 1198 to 1448. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10303-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Manfred Feulner : Berchtesgaden. History of the country and its people. 4th edition. Berchtesgadener Anzeiger, Berchtesgaden 2002, ISBN 3-925647-30-9 , pp. 75-76.