Martin von Polheim

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Martin von Polheim († July 6, 1399 in Kremsmünster ) was a Benedictine and from 1376 to 1399 abbot of Kremsmünster Abbey . He came from the family of Barons von Polheim and was next to his brother Kaspar the last male heir of the Alberon line.

Because of his class, he made charitable friends and the favor of Prince Duke Albrecht III. (with the braid) , with the help of which he wanted to increase the reduced prosperity of the monastery again. As early as 1376, when he took office as Abbot of Kremsmünster , he donated half of Scharnstein Castle to the monastery . Soon after he took office, he celebrated the 600th anniversary of the monastery with the laying of the foundation stone for the Church of St. Sigimund am Bache, which was inaugurated on May 22, 1378 by Passau Auxiliary Bishop Blasius.

In the following years he acquired further property for the pen. In 1382, Duke Albrecht gave him an umbrella letter for all associated parishes to protect him from noble and non-noble robbers. After the death of his brother, he brought the family inheritance into the foundation's assets. At the end of 1390 Abbot Martin went to Rome to see Pope Boniface IX. and regained the right of infulness that had been lost since Abbot Ortolf . In 1393 Pope Boniface IX. 4 Breven the monastery still further rights. Despite these activities, however, liabilities had been incurred and there was a lack of liquidity in its time. When he felt near his end in 1399, he wrote his will in the presence of the provost of St. Florian and the abbots of Garsten and Lambach as witnesses, in which, among other things, the Almsee fell to the monastery. Abbot Martin died on July 6, 1399.

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  • Ulrich Hartenschneider: Historical and topographical representation of the Kremsmünster Abbey. Doll, Vienna 1830 (Church Topography of Austria. Volume 3, Part 2).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b P. Ulrich Hartenschneider: Historical and topographical representation of the Kremsmünster monastery. , Vienna 1830, p. 74.
  2. ↑ http://www.benediktinerlexikon.de/wiki/Polheim,_Martin
  3. ↑ P. Ulrich Hartenschneider: Historical and topographical representation of the Kremsmünster monastery. Vienna 1830, pp. 76-78.
  4. ↑ P. Ulrich Hartenschneider: Historical and topographical representation of the Kremsmünster monastery. Vienna 1830, p. 79.
personal data
SURNAME Martin von Polheim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION 36th Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Kremsmünster
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1399
Place of death Kremsmünster