Leonhard Hunzdorfer

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Leonhard Hunzdorfer († June 6, 1526 in Kremsmünster ) was Benedictine and abbot of Kremsmünster Abbey from 1524 to 1526.

Leonhard Hunzdorfer was a pious and scribe who presided over the Kremsmünster monastery for only one and a half years. In that short time, however, he had to endure much grief. Shortly after he took office in 1524, the first consequences of the Reformation and the peasant uprisings in the area of Freistadt , Wels and Steyr became apparent . In this year 1525 Leonhard Hunzdorfer took part in the assembly of the estates of the united Austrian provinces in Vienna as a member of the assembly of the estates of the united Austrian provinces in addition to Abbot Leonhard Rosenberger von Wilhering, Veit von Zelking, Erasmus Paumkirch and the deputies from Linz and Steyr. During the term of office of Leonhard Hunzdorfer, the jurisdiction of the Kremsmünster Abbey over the Martinsberg parish also came to an end . He died in Kremsmünster in 1526.

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  • P. Ulrich Hartenschneider: "Historical and topographical representation of the Kremsmünster Abbey in Austria above the Enns.", Vienna 1830
  • Anton Friedrich Reil: “The emperor's little Danube country. royal Patrimonial rule in the Obermannhartsberg district in Lower Austria ”, Vienna 1835
personal data
SURNAME Hunzdorfer, Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION 46th Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey Kremsmünster
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1526
Place of death Kremsmünster