List of abbots and provosts of the Wessobrunn monastery

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Wessobrunn. Engraving from 1640.

The following list shows the abbots and provosts of the Benedictine monastery in Wessobrunn . The Wessobrunn monastery , in the Weilheim-Schongau district in Upper Bavaria , was founded in the 8th century and existed until the secularization of 1803. The dates indicate the term of office.

Plaques with the names of the abbots and proves in the fountain house of the monastery
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Abbots of the monastery from the 8th century to the year 955:

  • Ilsung (approx. 758–798 / 799)
  • Adelmar (798 / 799-830 / 831)
  • Ratmund (830 / 831–872 / 873)
  • Adelheim (872 / 873-885 / 886)
  • Snello (885 / 886–903 / 904)
  • Hatto (903 / 904-905 / 906)
  • Sigimar (905/906 - approx. 927)
  • Benedict I (approx. 933-943 / 944)
  • Thiento (942 / 943-955)

In the following section are provosts of the convent listed in the period from 955 to 1061/1064:

  • Ruthard (960 - unknown)
  • Sigimar (2nd half of the 10th century - before 1013)
  • Germanus (before 1013 - unknown)
  • Gunthart (unknown)
  • Hartmann (unknown)
  • Anselm (unknown - before 1051)
  • Sintbert (before 1051-1060 / 1061)

The following abbots presided over the monastery from 1061/1064 to the secularization of 1803:

  • Adelbero (1061 / 1064–1110)
  • Sigihard (1110-1129)
  • Adalbert I. (1129-1130)
  • Walto (1130-1156)
  • Norbert von Weilheim (1156–1162)
  • Liutpold (1162–1167)
  • Conrad I (1167–1168)
  • Ulrich I (1168–1173)
  • Sigibald (1173–1199)
  • Adalbert II (1199-1220)
  • Conrad II. De Menchingen (1220-1241)
  • Walchun (1241-1254)
  • Otto I. (1254-1260)
  • Ulrich II (1260)
  • Conrad III. (1260-1276)
  • Wernher I. (1276-1280)
  • Ulrich III. Moser (1280-1286)
  • Marquard (1286 – approx. 1306)
  • Otto II. (1294) - Abbot Otto II is named once in a document dated April 23, 1294. Severe damage to the seal means that it cannot be clearly determined whether this is a typographical error.
  • Gebhard (1306-1313)
  • Ulrich IV. Thaininger (approx. 1313–1324)
  • Werner II. The Greuter (1324-1364)
  • Paul I (1364-1384)
  • Ulrich V. Höhenkircher (1384–1414)
  • Eberhard Stopfer (1414-1416)
  • Peter I. Poerstlin (1416-1420)
  • Friedrich Stettner (1420-1432)
  • Iban von Rothenstein (1432–1438)
  • Ulrich VI. Stöckl (1438–1443)
  • Leonhard I. Vettinger (1443-1460)
  • Paul II. Ranck (1460-1486)
  • Johannes Kiesinger (1486–1493)
  • Peter II Wittiber (1493–1498)
  • Heinrich Zäch (1498 / 1499–1508)
  • Kaspar Götz (1508–1525)
  • Wolfgang I. Kolb (1525-1533)
  • Benedict II (John) Hunter (1533–1562)
  • Leonhard II. Hirschauer (1562–1571)
  • Gregory I. Jacob (1571–1589)
  • Benedict III Black (1589–1598)
  • Georg Übelhör (1598–1607)
  • Gregory II. Prugger (1607–1655)
  • Bernhard Gering (1655–1666)
  • Wolfgang II Third (1666–1671)
  • Leonhard III. (Michael) Weiss (1671–1696)
  • Virgil (Virgil) Dallmayr (1696–1706)
  • Thassilo (Michael) Boelzl (1706–1743)
Coat of arms of Beda Schallhammer
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on the choir arch of the parish church of St. Johannes Baptist in Wessobrunn
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on the choir arch of the parish church St. Vitus in Iffeldorf


  • Beda (Paul) Schallhammer (1743–1760)
  • Ulrich VII. (Joseph Simpert) Mittermayr (1760–1770)
Engelbert Goggl's coat of arms on the arch of the Sankt Ottilia chapel in Rott

literature

  • Helmut Flachenecker : The Benedictine abbey of Wessobrunn ( Germania sacra ; NF 39.1; The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz. The diocese of Augsburg. 2. The Benedictine abbey of Wessobrunn ). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-017664-5 , pp. 368–440 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Judas Taddäus Zauner: Biographical news from the Salzburg legal scholars from the foundation of the university to the present day . Salzburg 1889, pp. 95-97.