Konstantin Miller
Konstantin Miller (* 1681 in Konstanz ; † February 22, 1745 in Salem ) was abbot of the Imperial Abbey of Salem .
Life
Konstantin Miller was ordained a priest in 1705 and elected abbot of Salem Monastery on April 25, 1725. Before that, he had managed the Pfullendorf nursing home for some time and thus gained experience in economic matters. He continued the baroque interior design of the baroque monastery buildings built by his predecessor Stephan Jung and also had some conversions and extensions carried out himself. a. the lower gate (1734) and the stables (1737). He also enriched the abbey church with numerous new altars, candlesticks and images of saints. He had precious reliquary shrines made for the catacomb saints Faustina and Felix. He acquired several estates and farms and participated in the construction of the episcopal seminary in Meersburg by delivering timber .
Despite the high war costs and burdens imposed on the monastery by the War of the Austrian Succession and the billeting of French soldiers, the monastery experienced an economically healthy period during his reign and developed into a center of southern German Rococo .
Worn out by the strains of his 20-year term in office, he died on February 22, 1745 and was buried in the abbey church.
literature
- Gerhard Kaller: Cistercian Monastery Salem. In: Helvetia Sacra III / 3, Bern 1982, pp. 341-375
- Alberich Siwek: The Cistercian Abbey of Salem. The order, the monastery, its abbots. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1984
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| SURNAME | Miller, Constantine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Abbot of the Imperial Abbey of Salem |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1681 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Constancy |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1745 |
| Place of death | Salem |