Leopold Hoechle
Leopold Höchle SOCist (born October 28, 1791 in Klingnau , † May 23, 1864 in Bregenz ) was Cistercian and abbot of the exemte Wettingen Monastery and Private Abbey Wettingen-Mehrerau from 1840 to 1864.
Life
Höchle entered 1810 in the Cistercian - abbey Wettingen and received the 1815 ordination. From 1815 to 1818 he was cantor and conductor, from 1817 to 1820 vicar in Neuenhof , from 1820 to 1825 pastor in Wettingen and from 1825 to 1840 confessor in Gnadenthal monastery . In 1840 he was elected abbot of Wettingen Monastery, a few months before the canton of Aargau's violent abolition of the monastery in January 1841 ( Aargauer Klosterstreit ). Höchle had to leave the monastery and the canton with the monks and spent years looking for a new settlement option. After several intermediate stops, the monks finally came to Bregenz on Lake Constance in 1854 , where they repopulated the remains of the Benedictine Abbey of Mehrerau, which had been secularized in 1806 . In the same year a teaching and educational institution was opened, today's Collegium Bernardi , two years later a theological home teaching institution . Abbot Höchle died in 1864 after several months of sick leave.
literature
- Leopold Hoechle. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 348.
- Andreas Steigmeier: Höchle, Leopold. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Leopold Höchle in the Biographia Cisterciensis , version of August 2, 2011
Web links
- Entry to Leopold Höchle on medals online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Höchle, Leopold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss clergyman, Abbot of Wettingen-Mehrerau |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1791 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klingnau |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1864 |
| Place of death | Bregenz |