Father Emmeram

Father Emmeram OSB (born March 1, 1902 in Regensburg ; † October 3, 1994 , ibid; actually Max Emanuel Maria Siegfried Joseph Antonius Ignatius Lamoral Prince of Thurn and Taxis ) was a German Benedictine and member of the former Princely House of Thurn and Taxis .

Life

Max Emanuel Prince von Thurn und Taxis was the fourth oldest son of Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis and Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria , he had six brothers and a sister. His eldest brother was Franz Joseph von Thurn und Taxis . Like all members of the House of Thurn and Taxis at the age of 18, Max Emanuel also received the Order De Parfaite , donated by Prince Alexander Ferdinand von Thurn and Taxis (1704–1773) as a merit and house order, which has only been awarded as a house order since 1806 Amitié .

Max Emanuel became a member of the Benedictine order in 1923 and initially entered the Neresheim monastery . He chose Emmeram as his religious name (after the holy Emmeram of Regensburg or after the Thurn und Taxis headquarters, Castle St. Emmeram in Regensburg) and called himself that from then on.

From 1952 on, he lived in the former convent owned by the Thurn und Taxis family . His wish to re-establish a Benedictine monastery there and to revive monastic life did not come true. In the 1950s, the Liturgical Science Institute Regensburg -prüfunging was founded on the premises . For the last 30 years or so of his life, Father Emmeram lived alone in the monastery. He made individual rooms of the large monastery available to local youth groups as meeting points and poor people as living quarters. He himself guided art-interested visitors through the monastery church.

Father Emmeram died in 1994 and was buried in Neresheim Monastery.

The association Klosterprüfung eV founded by Father Emmeram . V. had accumulated a considerable fortune in the amount of the equivalent of more than 3.5 million euros for rebuilding the monastery over the years. Since this company ultimately failed and Father Emmeram had left no will, the Free State of Bavaria decided to distribute these donations to various foundations and church institutions, including the REWAG Cultural Foundation. The construction of the new monastery library of Metten Monastery was partly financed from the estate.

ancestors

Pedigree of Father Emmeram (1902–1994)
Great grandparents	Prince Maximilian Karl von Thurn and Taxis (1802–1871) ⚭ 1828 women Wilhelmine von Dörnberg (1803–1835)	Duke Max Joseph in Bavaria (1808–1888) ⚭ 1828 Duchess Ludovika Wilhelmine of Bavaria (1808–1892)	Archduke Joseph Anton Johann of Austria (1776–1847) ⚭ 1819 Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg (1797–1855)	Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1818–1881) ⚭ 1843 Princess Clementine d'Orléans (1817–1907)
Grandparents	Prince Maximilian Anton von Thurn und Taxis (1831–1867) ⚭ 1858 Duchess Helene in Bavaria (1834–1890)		Archduke Joseph Karl Ludwig of Austria (1833–1905) ⚭ 1864 Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1846–1927)
parents	Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis (1867–1952) ⚭ 1890 Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria (1870–1955)
Father Emmeram (1902-1994)

literature

Bernt Engelmann , Günter Wallraff : You up there - we down there . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-462-01202-9 .
Christian Feldmann: Emmeram's estate. After the death of the noble monk, dispute over his abbey . In: The time . No. 50 , 1994 ( zeit.de ).
Fabian Fiederer: "... hold on to all old traditions". The living environment and self-image of the high nobility using the example of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis in the time of Prince Albert I (1888–1952). In: Thurn und Taxis Studies - New Series No. 5, Publisher: Pustet, F / Pustet, Friedrich GmbH, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7917-2795-0 .

Individual evidence

Jump up ↑ Monasteryprüfung , basic data and history:
Doris Gerstl: Prüfing - Gem of the Romanesque in the database Monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
↑ ^a ^b 900 years of Checking Monastery on the homepage of Metten Monastery
^ Peter H. Görg: Gamber, Klaus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 27, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-393-2 , Sp. 489-515. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
^ The Regensburg Cultural Foundation of REWAG ( Memento from May 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on rewag.com

personal data
SURNAME	Father Emmeram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Thurn and Taxis, Max Emanuel Maria Siegfried Joseph Antonius Ignatius Lamoral Prince of (full name); Thurn and Taxis, Emmeram from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Benedictine priest
DATE OF BIRTH	March 1, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	regensburg
DATE OF DEATH	3rd October 1994
Place of death	regensburg

[1] Jump up ↑ Monasteryprüfung , basic data and history:
Doris Gerstl: Prüfing - Gem of the Romanesque in the database Monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History

[Metten-2] 900 years of Checking Monastery on the homepage of Metten Monastery

[3] Peter H. Görg: Gamber, Klaus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 27, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-393-2 , Sp. 489-515. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

[4] The Regensburg Cultural Foundation of REWAG ( Memento from May 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on rewag.com