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Meinwerk (* around 975 probably in Renkum (Netherlands); † June 5, 1036 in Paderborn ) was bishop of Paderborn from 1009 to 1036 .
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Meinwerk came from the Immedinger family, which belonged to the Saxon nobility . His father was Count Immad (or Immed IV.), His mother Adela von Hamaland , one of the two heir daughters of Count Wichmann von Hamaland . His older brother was Count Dietrich, who was allegedly murdered at the instigation of their mother. Sister Azela was a canon in Elten Abbey . Another sister - possibly half-sister - was Holy Emma († December 3, 1038), wife of Count Liutger, son of Hermann Billung .
As a later son, Meinwerk was destined for a spiritual career and attended the cathedral schools in Halberstadt and Hildesheim , where the future King and Emperor Heinrich II was his classmate. He then received a canonical at Halberstadt Cathedral . He has been a chaplain at the court of Emperor Otto III since 1001 . testified. His successor, Heinrich II, kept his school friend Meinwerk as court chaplain and appointed him as his successor after the death of Paderborn Bishop Rethar in March 1009. He received the episcopal ordination on March 13, 1009 in the Palatinate of Goslar by the Archbishop of Mainz Willigis .
In addition to the close relationship between Heinrich II. And Meinwerk, it was decisive for his elevation to Paderborn bishop that Meinwerk had a considerable inherited fortune from his immediate origin. The choice turned out to be a stroke of luck for the then comparatively poor diocese of Paderborn . Meinwerk had the Paderborn Cathedral restored (consecrated in 1015), founded the Abdinghof Monastery and the Busdorf Canonical Monastery in the episcopal city and reformed the church institutions of the Sprengels . He invested a large part of his fortune in the diocese.
As an imperial prince , too , he was an important pillar of imperial policy. He regularly took part in imperial assemblies, court meetings and synods of bishops and moved three times in the royal entourage to Rome, where he was an eyewitness to the coronations of Henry II (1014) and Conrad II (1027). The emperors also thanked him for his services by visiting his diocese regularly and transferring large parts of the counties Haolds II and Dodikos to him when these became available in 1011 and 1020 after the death of these counts. Heinrich II visited Paderborn and the Palatinate there seven times, Konrad II even stayed eight times, also mostly at high festivals, in Paderborn.
Shortly after the consecration of the Busdorf Foundation he founded in May 1036, Meinwerk died on June 5th. His bones first found their resting place in the Abdingskapelle, also donated by him in 1014. After the monastery was closed in 1803, the sarcophagus was moved to the Busdorf Church . There it is still located in the high choir, but some bones were removed in 1936 and buried in the crypt of the cathedral, where they are covered by the sarcophagus lid with the figure of Meinwerk in the bishop's crypt. The sarcophagus in the Busdorf Church has had a simple lid since then. Meinwerk is venerated as a blessed in the Catholic Church .
Meinwerk's life was described by Abbot Konrad von Abdinghoff (1142–1173) in the Vita Meinwerci around 1165 .
On the occasion of his investiture in 1009 an exhibition was dedicated to him in Paderborn from October 23, 2009 to February 21, 2010.
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- Guido M. Berndt : Vita Meinwerci episcopi Patherbrunnensis. Text, translation, comment. The life of Bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn. Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4914-6 .
- Christoph Brouwer: Vita B. Meinwerci Ecclesiae Paderbornensis Episcopi. Joannes Todt, Paderborn 1681. ( online version on the website of the University of Düsseldorf )
- Franz Tenckhoff (ed.): The life of the bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn . Hahn, Hanover 1921. ( online version in the digital collections of the Munich digitization center )
literature
- Gerd Althoff: Meinwerk. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 680 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Manfred Balzer: Evidence for the self-image of Bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn. In: Norbert Kamp, Joachim Wollasch (ed.), Tradition as a historical force. Interdisciplinary research on the history of the early Middle Ages. Berlin u. a. 1982, pp. 267-296, ISBN 3-11-008237-3 .
- Hermann Bannasch: The Diocese of Paderborn under the Bishops Rethar and Meinwerk , Altertumsverein, Paderborn 1972.
- Guido M. Berndt (Ed.): Vita Meinwerci episcopi Patherbrunnensis. The life of Bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn (medieval studies) (text, translation, commentary), Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4281-9 .
- Hans Jürgen Brandt, Karl Hengst : The Diocese of Paderborn in the Middle Ages. Paderborn 2002, ISBN 3-89710-001-0 .
- Eberhard wood, Wolfgang Huschner (ed.): German princes of the Middle Ages . Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-361-00437-3 .
- Ansgar Köb: In the footsteps of Bishop Meinwerk through Paderborn. A cultural-historical guide to medieval buildings , Schnell + Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7954-2202-8 .
- Wilhelm Kuhne : Meinwerk, bishop and statesman at the first turn of the millennium and the first documentary mention of Hardehausen . Schöningh, Munich et al. 1986. ISBN 3-506-73714-7 .
- Gabriele Mietke: The building activity of Bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn and the early Christian and Byzantine architecture. Paderborn 1991, ISBN 3-506-76271-0 .
- Christoph Stiegemann and Martin Kroker (eds.): For Kings and Heaven. 1000 years of Bishop Meinwerk von Paderborn , Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7954-2152-6 .
- Klaus Terstesse: Meinwerk. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 1025-1027.
- Wilhelm Wattenbach: Meinwerk . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 239 f.
Web links
- Meinwerk in the personal register of Germania Sacra online
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Rethar |
Bishop of Paderborn 1009-1036 |
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | My work |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bishop of Paderborn |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Renkum |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 5, 1036 |
| Place of death | Paderborn |