Konrad Wilhelm von Wernau

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Konrad Wilhelm von Wernau, engraving by Elias Hainzelmann
Grave monument, Marienkirche (Würzburg)

Konrad Wilhelm von Wernau (born August 6, 1638 in Dettingen am Main , † September 5, 1684 in Würzburg ) was Prince-Bishop of the Würzburg Monastery from 1683 until his death in 1684 .

Konrad Wilhelm von Wernau in the family context

The von Wernau family was a Swabian noble family (see also list of Swabian noble families ). The name-giving headquarters is the hamlet of Wernau on Hochstrasse, today part of the town of Erbach in the Alb-Danube district. Konrad Wilhelm von Wernau was the last name bearer of the Unterboihinger line. After the Dießen line also died out a few years later in 1696, the male line died out.

Life

He was born the son of Georg Ludwig von Wernau and his wife Margareta Ursula geb. Schenk von Stauffenberg . One of the father's brothers, Veit Gottfried von Wernau (1601–1649), served as dean of the Würzburg cathedral. Raised by the Jesuits in Würzburg, Konrad Wilhelm von Wernau studied at the university there from March 1654 and law in France from 1656 to 1658. 1661–1662 he went on educational trips through Italy, France and Spain. In 1672 he became cathedral capitular in Würzburg and was ordained diaconate. As canon , Wernau negotiated under Bishop Johann Hartmann von Rosenbach with the French Marshal Turenne because of the blockade of Ochsenfurt and worked under Peter Philipp von Dernbach as a special envoy at the Imperial Court in Vienna . On December 20, 1682 he was ordained a priest, in the same year he was promoted to cathedral dean in Bamberg .

On May 14, 1683 he was elected Prince-Bishop of Würzburg . The confirmation by Pope Innocent XI took place on May 31 of that year . At his instigation, a first stone chapel was built for the miraculous image on Nikolausberg, the forerunner of today's Käppele . Konrad Wilhelm von Wernau died in autumn 1684 of "hot fever" ( typhus ). According to contemporary sources, he was buried in Kilians Cathedral. There is a grave monument in the Marienkirche in Würzburg .

The bishop's sister Susanna Maria (religious name Norbertina Barbara ) was a premonstratensian and prioress in the Unterzell monastery .

Your great aunt Barbara Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler, born von Wernau (Werdenau) and her husband Wilhelm Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler († 1647) were among the main benefactors of the newly founded Capuchin monastery and the associated Aegidia Church in Speyer from 1625 . They donated 20,000 guilders for the monastery building alone .

coat of arms

The Prince-Bishop's coat of arms is quartered . Fields two and three take up the family coat of arms of the von Wernau family. As a coat of arms in silver, the people of Wernau wear a black sloping bar covered with three golden balls . The three balls symbolize the legend of St. Nicholas, according to which Bishop Nikolaus von Myra threw three poor girls three times three gold bags through the window at night and thus made the wedding possible for them. The first field contains the Franconian rake for the Duchy of Franconia and the fourth field a racing flag in red and silver for the Diocese of Würzburg .

literature

  • Winfried Romberg (edit.): The Würzburg bishops from 1617 to 1684 (= Germania Sacra. Third series 4. The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz. The diocese of Würzburg; 7). De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-025183-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/einfueh.php?Stock=17024
  2. ↑ A look at history. Unterboihingen. City of Wendlingen , accessed on December 11, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Biographical website on Veit Gottfried von Wernau
  4. ↑ Johann Gottfried Biedermann : genealogical register of the Reichsfrey immediate knighthood of the country to Franconia praiseworthy places Rhön and Werra , Bayreuth, 1749, table CCCCXXXI, (digital scan )
  5. ↑ Jakob Baumann : History of the St. Aegidien Church and the Capuchin Convent in the free imperial city of Speier , Speyer, Jägerscher Verlag, 1918, p. 33
  6. ^ Regest of the will of Barbara Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler geb. from Wernau, 1661
predecessor Office successor
Peter Philipp von Dernbach Prince-Bishop of Würzburg
1683–1684 		Johann Gottfried von Guttenberg
personal data
SURNAME Wernau, Konrad Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince-Bishop of Würzburg
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1638
PLACE OF BIRTH Dettingen am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1684
Place of death Wurzburg