Ludwig Ludwig

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Ludwig Ludwig , called Ludovici , (born September 5, 1640 in Oberschwarzach , † May 23, 1696 in Nuremberg ) was abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Ebrach from 1686 to 1696 .

Life

Ludwig Ludwig was born on September 5, 1640 in Oberschwarzach, Lower Franconia . The sources are silent about his parents and siblings, and there are no archive records to be found about the education of the young Ludwig. Later descriptions refer to the abbot as a studied theologian and philosopher who was also trained in architecture. Only with his vow is the name Ludwig Ludwig mentioned again. On January 25, 1662, he entered the Cistercian monastery in Ebrach. On August 2 In 1665 he already celebrated his first Mass .

After the death of his predecessor Alberich Degen in the abbot's office in 1686, Ludwig was elected the forty-third prelate of the monastery on December 1 of the same year. The abbot immediately promoted the sciences in his abbey, for which he sent many monks to universities in the area. At the same time, in 1688, he began building new monastery buildings. So he had the convent building rebuilt by Joseph Greissing and Balthasar Neumann . He also built a granary in the monastery village of Sulzheim and the blood fountain in Burgwindheim.

The long-lasting tensions with the Würzburg bishop flared up again under Abbot Ludwig. During the orphanage of the abbey, councilors of the prince-bishop came to the Ebrach area and were responsible for attacks against the population. The so-called "Wine War", the confiscation of a wine cart in 1691, also made problems for Abbot Ludwig with Würzburg. Investiture law was once again on the agenda. Only a new trial before the Reich Chamber of Commerce and mediation by the Teutonic Order and Johann Euchar von Eichstätt brought peace.

The abbot even got into a dispute with the nearby diocese of Bamberg . When Ludwig Ludwig had been in the Langheim monastery during the election of Gallus Knauer as abbot in 1690 , he had given some professed consecrations. The Bamberg Bishop Philipp Valentin took action against this practice at the Holy See, whereupon Abbot Ludwig Ludwig left the monastery for Nuremberg. Here, in the Ebracher Hof , he suffered severe pneumonia, from which he died on May 24, 1696.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Abbot Ludwig Ludwig

The personal coat of arms of Abbot Ludwig Ludwig has only survived, heavily weathered, on the blood fountain in the monastery village of Burgwindheim. The heraldic right side of the vertically divided coat of arms shows a standing abbot , in front of it a wild boar. The founding legend of the monastery tells that a boar showed the monks where to found the monastery by snatching the abbot's staff from them and dropping it on the site of the later monastery. The left field contains a slanted feather between two palm branches, above a star. The tinging of the coat of arms is not known.

literature

  • Adelhard Kaspar: Chronicle of the Ebrach Abbey . Münsterschwarzach 1971.
  • Josef Wirth: The Ebrach Abbey. To commemorate eight hundred years. 1127-1927 . Gerolzhofen 1928.

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Ludwig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kaspar, Adelhard: Chronicle of the Ebrach Abbey . P. 169.
  2. ↑ Wirth, Josef: The Ebrach Abbey . P. 49.
  3. ↑ Franconian Day , article from September 30, 2003
predecessor Office successor
Alberich sword Abbot of Ebrach
1686–1696 		Candidate Pfister
personal data
SURNAME Ludwig, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ludovici, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Cistercian abbot
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1640
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberschwarzach
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1696
Place of death Nuremberg