List of Abbots of the Aura Monastery
The following people were abbots of the Benedictine monastery Aura in Aura an der Saale :
| Surname | annotation | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Ekkehard from Aura | Historian; first abbot of the monastery |
| 2. | Name unsure; possibly "Albert" | |
| 3. | Folcnandus | possibly died in 1143. |
| 4th | Conradus (I.) | First mentioned in 1144. |
| 5. | Herrmann | Mentioned in connection with the Aura monastery for the year 1156. Possibly the third abbot of the Münchaurach monastery instead . |
| 6th | Conradus (II.) | Cited in documents from 1167 (in connection with an exchange of goods) and from July 10, 1179 (as a witness). During his time, the Auraer St Laurentius Church received several territorial donations. |
| No records in the period between 1179 and 1244. There were probably several abbots who are now unknown by name. | ||
| 7th | John | Guaranteed for the year 1244; possibly this is Abbot John I of Ebrach. |
| 8th. | Heinricus (I.) | In documents from 1275 and 1277 mentioned as a witness in connection with area waiver services. |
| 9. | Hartmann (or Hartmut) | First guaranteed for the year 1299; also mentioned in a document from 1302 in connection with the purchase of the village of Hain by the monastery. |
| 10. | Krafto | Only mention in a document from 1312. |
| 11. | Heinricus (II.) | The documentary mentions of Abbot Heinricus date to July 19, 1313 (or July 29, 1317) and to the year 1316; the latter mentioned in a document from the Würzburg St. Stephan monastery . |
| 12. | Ludovicus (I. + II.?) | Elected abbot in 1345. Possibly there was also an abbot Eberhard (1319–1321) and two successive abbots named Ludwig (1334–1342 [or 1345] and 1345–1360) at this time. |
| 13. | Sigewin | Mentioned in a document in 1366. |
| Gap in tradition | ||
| 14th | John (I.) | Passed down through documentary mentions of 1422, 1424 and 1436, among other things in connection with an acquisition of goods and a dispute settlement. |
| 15th | Peter | Mentioned in 1450. |
| 16. | Bertholdus | Evidenced by participation in the synod of Würzburg Bishop Gottfried IV. 1452 in Würzburg . Bertholdus died on March 3, 1473. |
| 17th | Burcardus | Apparently the direct successor of Abbot Berthold. Burkardus was called "Ipsheimer" according to Wagner, became a member of the Bursfeld congregation in 1478 and died on December 17, 1522. The official acts of Abbot Burkard have been handed down in connection with tithes (1488, 1492, 1493). (Wagner found evidence of an abbot John II for the period from 1465 to 1497. According to this, he was employed by Bishop Johann III von Grumbach , from 1465 to 1497 at the Aura monastery and died after an early resignation in 1497 and a brief activity at the Hausen monastery on May 10, 1497 in the women's monastery in Neuburg near Heidelberg.) |
| 18th | George | The first known documentary mention comes from the year 1523. He had to move some meadows due to the financial situation of the monastery after the peasant uprising of 1525 . He died in 1549. |
| 19th | Balthazar | He was elected abbot in 1549 and served for about two years. He too had to struggle with the monastery's financial difficulties after the peasant uprising. |
| 20th | John (III.) | His full name was Johannes Fleischmann and was elected abbot on September 23, 1552. He had to cope with the financial consequences of the Margravian War for the monastery. He died in 1556 after shortly before he had to be represented by Abbot Jodocus at the deliberations of the Würzburg Prince-Bishop Melchior Zobel von Giebelstadt . |
| 21st | Jodocus | Jodocus Jäcklein was made abbot on January 9, 1557 and worked here for three years. The circumstances of his administration forced him to go into debt. |
| 22nd | Leonhard | Leonard Gneitzheimer, who had worked as abbot at the Schwarzach monastery from 1551 , was appointed abbot of the Aura monastery by Prince-Bishop Friedrich von Wirsberg on March 27, 1560 . He was transferred to the St. Stephan Monastery in Würzburg in July 1564 because of misconducts such as the squandering of monastery goods and extravagance, which he had already committed before his time at Aura Monastery. He died in the Schottenkloster Würzburg in 1566 . |
literature
- Werner Eberth : Ekkehard von Aura , Bad Kissingen 2005