Leonhard Schanzenbach

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Leonhard Schanzenbach (born October 12, 1852 in Mingolsheim (district of Bad Schönborn ), Baden-Württemberg ; † June 23, 1938 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German Catholic clergyman, rector of the archbishop's high school convict and high school professor at the Berthold high school in Freiburg.

Life

Birthplace

Leonhard Schanzenbach was the thirteenth of fifteen children of the nail smith Leonard Schanzenbach and his first wife Apollonia nee. Heinzmann was born in Mingolsheim. His older brother Stefan Schanzenbach (1847–1876) was also a pastor and may have influenced his career. The house where the Schanzenbach children were born is still in Rettigheimer Gasse .

Schanzenbach attended high school in Bruchsal and Rastatt . From 1873 he studied theology at the University of Freiburg . When the theological Konvikt was closed at the end of the first year of study as a result of the Baden Kulturkampf , Schanzenbach went to the University of Würzburg , where scholars like Josef Hergenröther and Franz Hettinger gathered listeners from all over Germany around their chairs . On July 19, 1877, he was ordained a priest in St. Peter . The newly ordained person found his first position at the Lender institute in Sasbach . In 1879 he went to Heidelberg to prepare for the philological exam there, but was soon called to Freiburg as a clergyman teacher and pastor for the military.

At the request of Archbishop Lothar von Kübel , he founded a boarding school for foreign students in the old boys' college in 1881, which was so well attended that after only two years the need for a larger new building arose. This building was to be financed by the Archbishop Hermann von Vicari and Kohler Foundation. For example, a stately building was built on Zähringer Strasse opposite the mother house from 1882 to 1885, which the spiritual teacher Schanzenbach leased and moved into with around two hundred high school students during the 1885 Christmas break. Also in 1885 he was accepted as an honorary member of the KDStV Hercynia Freiburg im Breisgau . Appointed professor in the following year (1886), every year he saw a larger number of his students not among the last as high school graduates and in the lower and middle grades as awardees. The principal of the grammar school repeatedly expressed his satisfaction with the hard work and good attitude of the prisoners. In 1889 the institution became the archbishopric Konvikt and the board was rector. On the silver jubilee of his institution, the rector was appointed to the clergy and at the opening of the new university in 1911 as "Doktor theologiae honoris causa". In 1896 he also became an honorary member of the Unitas Association . Even the appointment to the Grand Ducal Academic Council after a few years should be a recognition of his achievements among the student youth. At the end of the First World War , the rector and several of his colleagues made room for the younger generation returning from the war and retired as a professor at the grammar school. In 1927 he celebrated the golden jubilee of priests with the great participation of his students. On this occasion, Pope Pius XI appointed him . to the papal house prelate . In 1929 the jubilee submitted a request to be removed from his office and left the office at Easter 1929, which he had administered for almost four decades. On July 8, 1937, he celebrated his diamond jubilee as a priest. After his death, Schanzenbach was buried almost a year later in 1938 in the Mingolsheim cemetery.

He was made an honorary citizen of Bad Mingolsheim and the church forecourt was named after him Prälat-Schanzenbach-Platz .

  • Memorial plaque at the Prälat-Schanzenbach-Platz

  • Gravestone inscription by Leonhard Schanzenbach

  • Row of priests; from left to right: Göbel, Wüst, Gassner, Münch, Kuhn and Schanzenbach

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Burr (ed.): Unitas manual . tape 5 . Verlag Franz Schmitt, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-87710-502-5 , p. 262 .
personal data
SURNAME Schanzenbach, Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Schönborn (district of Bad Mingolsheim ), Baden-Wuerttemberg
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1938
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau