Michael Ryssel
Michael Ryssel OSB (* in Ulm ; † December 19, 1469 in Ochsenhausen ) was the 3rd abbot of the later imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen in today's Biberach district in Upper Swabia .
Life
Michael Ryssel was the son of a wealthy patrician family from Ulm. For Ryssel, the election as abbot came as a surprise. On March 10, 1434, while he was still at the Council of Basel , he was elected abbot. When he returned to Ochsenhausen from the council, the convent and the population welcomed him with bells ringing.
With little effort he had a higher church tower built and fitted with larger bells as well as the Gothic cloister and the prelature . He had a Gothic chapel built next to the tower and consecrated to the founder of the order, Benedict of Nursia . He rebuilt the dilapidated St. Veit cemetery chapel , in which the monastery's founders were buried, and provided it with three altars .
The focus of his time as abbot was the maintenance of discipline and the rules of the order within the convent. The spinning enemy of all orders was the private property of the individual monks. Chapter thirty-three of the Regula Benedicti gives clear instructions on the extent of the monks' private property. And no measure to oneself without the permission of the abbot to give or receive anything is written there in section two. Geisenhof goes on to explain in his chronicle that Pope Nicholas V relaxed certain fasting rules for the spiritual territories and for all of Latin Christendom. It was now possible to eat dairy foods on fasting days , with the exception of Holy Week .
He bought printed books for the library of the monastery for the first time, bought another winery near Markdorf and bought part of the tenth of the annual fruit sales from the municipality of Baustetten . Erlenmoos and Eichbühl were separated from the Reinstetten community and parish changed to Ochsenhausen. Geisenhof describes in his book the economic environment during Abbot Michael's tenure. He notes a high purchasing power due to low fruit prices. The indicator for assessing the economic situation was that the Malter rye cost only 26 Kreuzer and the Maß Neckar wine six pfennigs.
Abbot Michael resigned on June 8, 1468 and died the following year on December 29, 1469. In his newly built Benedict Chapel , a citizen of Ulm named Johannes Mischold had donated a simple grave for him at the beginning of his term of office , on which it read : Haec est Sepultura Michaelis, tertii Abbatis hujus Monasteri .
literature
- Georg Geisenhof : Brief history of the former Reichsstift Ochsenhausen in Swabia . Ganser, Ottobeuren 1829, pp. 50–56 ( digitized version )
- Volker Himmelein (ed.): Old monasteries, new masters. The secularization in the German southwest 1803. Large state exhibition Baden-Württemberg 2003 ; Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2003; ISBN 3-7995-0212-2 (exhibition catalog and essay volume)
- Volker Himmelein, Franz Quarthal (ed.): Front Austria, Only the tail feather of the imperial eagle? The Habsburgs in the German southwest . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Ulm 1999, ISBN 3-88294-277-0 (catalog of the state exhibition).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Geisenhof : Brief History, p. 51 ( digitized version )
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Heinrich Faber OSB |
Abbot of Ochsenhausen 1434–1468 |
Johannes Knuss OSB |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ryssel, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ryssel, Michael OSB |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | third abbot of the later imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 14th century or 15th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ulm |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1469 |
| Place of death | Ochsenhausen |