Michael Balthasar von Christalnigg

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Michael Balthasar von Christalnigg
Christalniggs grave monument

Michael Balthasar Graf von Christalnigg (born September 10, 1710 - † May 27, 1768 in Berchtesgaden ) was an Augustinian canon and from 1752 to 1768 Prince Provost of Berchtesgaden .

Life

The Count of Christalnigg was trained at the " Collegio Apolinari " and immediately after taking office as Prince Provost, he commissioned a new library building for the monastery book collection.

Michael Balthasar Graf von Christalnigg died in 1768 and found his final resting place under a stone tombstone next to his grave monument in the collegiate church in Berchtesgaden.

Act

During his tenure and reign the monastery owed 250,000 guilders . When he had to raise a further 69,000 guilders in order to cover the current expenses, his new financiers included monasteries, privateers and, according to Koch-Sternfeld, "also the Bavarian cabinet". In contrast to his two prince provincial predecessors, he therefore had Fürstenstein Castle built in Berchtesgaden about halfway up the Kälberstein in 1758 , which also included a castle chapel and other buildings such as a Meierhof , and in 1760 the Calvarienberg in the immediate vicinity of the castle ". Despite the lack of money, Christalnigg is said to have been particularly committed to expanding the monastery library, of the beginnings of which only little is known. At the end of the 18th century it is said to have comprised around 10,000 volumes.

literature

  • Manfred Feulner : Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Berchtesgadener Anzeiger Verlag , Berchtesgaden 1986 ISBN 3-925647-00-7 , pp. 182, 188.
  • A. Helm , Hellmut Schöner (ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time . Reprint from 1929. Association for local history d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1973. pp. 100, 106–111, 261–262.

Individual evidence

  1. Michael Balthasar von Christalnigg , online at geneall.net
  2. a b Joseph Ernst von Koch-Sternfeld : History of the principality of Berchtesgaden and its salt works. Volume 3. Joseph Lindauer, Salzburg 1815, from p. 78 f. ( Full text in Google Book Search).
  3. Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . P. 188
  4. Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . P. 182
  5. ^ On the establishment of the library in Annemarie Spethmann: Historical catalogs of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München , p. 169

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