List of the abbots of Ensdorf

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From 1123 until the dissolution of the monastery in 1803, 38 abbots headed the Ensdorf Abbey .

Dept Beginning of the
term of office 		Term
expires 		Significant events in the history of the monastery
Walchun 1123 1136
  • fetched from Sankt Blasien by Bishop Otto von Bamberg
  • 1123 Inauguration of the first wooden St. Jacob's Church
  • 1123 papal confirmation
  • 1131 imperial confirmation
  • 1136 resignation
Dietwinus 1136 1144
  • from the St. Michael monastery , Bamberg
  • 1139 Death of the founder, Bishop Otto von Bamberg
  • 1144 resignation
Hertnidus 1144 1155
Helmricus 1155 1170
Botho (also: Boto) 1170 1202
Albero 1202 1202
Rudigerus 1202 1215
Gotboldus 1215 1229
Conradus I. 1229 1255
Heroldus 1255 1272
Alhardus (also: Arnoldus) 1272 1275
Gerungus 1275 1284
Rudigerus II. 1284 1284
Eberhardus 1284 1289
Liebhardus 1289 1293
Engelmarus 1293 1294
Meinhardus 1294 1304
Wernherus 1304 1308
Friedrich von Allersburg 1308 1310
Albertus I of Hertenstein 1310 1312
  • from the monastery of Sankt Emmeram
Ulrich von Allersburg 1312 1333
  • 1314 Dissolution of the women's monastery
Ulrich Emmhofer from Ennichhofen 1334 1368
  • Gothic vault of the church
  • Endowments for the Wolfsbach and Egenberg estates by the von Theuern family
Friedrich Zantner (from Zant ) 1368 1394
Ulrich Zantner (from Zant) 1394 1396
Wilhelm Rorstetter 1396 1413
  • 1413 Removal from office by the Bishop and Count Palatine for mismanagement and his love for hunting
Konrad II. Schöss (also: Schoss, Schechs) 1413 1424
Ludwig von Kastl 1424 1441
  • Conventual from Kastl Abbey
  • To appoint the abbot, the bishop and the count palatine had to blow up the gates.
  • Retention of the Chancellor reform
Paul Kelner (also: Kellner, Keiner) 1441 1445
  • Beginning of the Gothic renovation of the cloister (until 1472)
Hermann Hollenfelder (also: Holfelder, Holvelder) 1445 1468
  • Heyday of the monastery
  • 1452 Abbot Hollenfelder is granted the right to wear the pontifical miter, ring and staff.
  • 1468 Gothic tombstone of the abbot (preserved)
Albrecht Dratschmid 1468 1472
Johann Jordan 1472 1494
  • 1480 First history of the monastery by chronicler Parfues
Johann Hausner 1494 1503
  • 1503 Gothic tombstone of the abbot (preserved)
Friedrich Prentel (also: Prentell) 1503 1520
  • 1507 fire accident
Sebastian Sintersberger (also: Sintersperger) 1520 1525
  • 1522 Gothic bell by Hans Stain, Amberg (preserved)
  • 1524 The abbot, five monks and a lay brother still live in the monastery
  • 1525 resignation of the abbot
  • The monastery is administered by monastic administrators and was orphaned in 1549
Bonaventure Oberhuber 1695 1715/16
  • 1695 raised to the status of an abbey
  • War of the Spanish Succession brings construction work to a standstill
  • 1711–1713 Under Prior Maurus Bächl: Construction of the monastery and church
  • 1713 Prior Johann Miller
  • 1713–1716 Prior Anselm Meiller: ceiling frescoes by Cosmas Damian Asam (1714–1716)
Anselm Meiller 1716 1761
  • 1716 Beginning of the collection of the Totenrotel of the Ensdorf Monastery (until 1789)
  • 8 October 1717 consecration of the church
  • 1718 completion of the church tower
  • 1723 Six hundredth anniversary
  • 1739 barrel of the organ (preserved)
  • War of the Austrian Succession
  • 1743 sacristy for Abbot Meiller
Anselm Desing 1761 1772
  • Expansion of the monastery library
Diepold Ziegler 1772 1801
  • Further expansion of the monastery library
  • 1778 Foundation of a pedagogical center to train teachers

On January 25, 1802, the monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization . The Salesians of Don Bosco , who took over the monastery in 1920, are indeed an order of clergy, but also a provincial order, so they have no abbots. The heads of the branches are called directors.

literature

  • Hans Zitzelsberger, Chronicle of Ensdorf , Ensdorf 1991
  • Monumenta Boica , Volume 24, ed. by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Commission for Bavarian State History, 1821, p. 7f.