Michael Schnock

Schnock's grave plate in the basilica of Eberbach Monastery , on which he is incorrectly referred to as the monastery’s 45th abbot

Abbot coat of arms Schnocks

Michael Schnock SOCist (* December 7, 1652 in Kiedrich as Peter Schnock ; † November 27, 1727 ) was abbot of Eberbach Monastery from 1702 until his death in 1727 .

Life

Michael Schnock was born on December 7, 1652 in the Rheingaudorf Kiedrich. He was the son of the Kiedricher Schultheiss and organist Johann Anton Schnock († 1676) and the Caritas Schloßer. After entering the novitiate of the Cistercian Abbey of Eberbach, he received the religious name Michael and made his profession in 1672 . In 1677 he was ordained a priest. On May 29, 1702 Schnock, who at that time was the confessor of the Cistercian convent Marienhausen, was elected 54th abbot of the monastery Eberbach.

His abbacy was characterized by brisk construction activity in the monastery: in 1706 he had a new organ for the Abbey Church by the Mainzer organ builder Johann Jakob Dahm finished, it was after the dissolution of the monastery in 1802 in the Mauritius Church of Wiesbaden spent where it during the fire of the church Was a victim of the flames in 1850. From 1707 a fundamental baroque redesign of the monastery took place: Schnock had the monumental west gallery built in the abbey church with a connecting passage outside to the Konversenbau . This was raised by one floor and expanded into a representative abbot's apartment from 1707–1734. In order to create space for a new high altar in the choir, the wall niche graves of the Archbishops of Mainz Gerlach and Adolf von Nassau were removed from the choir and the remaining grave slabs were placed in their current location on the northern choir wall. In 1719/20 an old Romanesque monk's refectory was replaced by the current baroque building based on the plans of Eberbach Father Bernhard Kirn. In 1722 Schnock had a half-timbered garden house built according to Kirn's plans in the prelate garden of the monastery, in which, among other things, house concerts were held for the monks. Schnock took the baroque redesign of the library as an opportunity to increase its holdings, and at the same time the monks' dormitory was fundamentally renovated.

The abbot's coat of arms can be found above a portal from 1719, which marks the entrance to the garden, on the garden house, the abbot's house and in many other places in the monastery: next to the slaughtered Cistercian bar and a boar in the upper fields crosses in the main field Arrow with a feather. Four stars are grouped around it under a cross.

As early as 1705, the main building of the Eberbacher Hof in Geisenheim was replaced by a new building at Schnock's instigation . Here, too, his coat of arms can be found above a gate entrance.

Schnock remained particularly attached to his hometown of Kiedrich. In the Eberbacher Hof there, in 1706 he had the Margaretenkapelle redesigned in baroque style and donated an altar to Mary for the parish church in Kiedrich .

An oil painting showing Schnock as the fictional founder of a monastery with his fellow brothers kneeling in front of Bernhard von Clairvaux can be found today in the Marienstatt Abbey in the Westerwaldkreis.

Michael Schnock was the uncle (brother of the mother) of the Auxiliary Bishop of Worms Johann Anton Wallreuther (1673–1734), as well as the great uncle of Peter Friedrich Wallreuther (1712–1786), dean (head) of the Martinsstift Worms and his brother Michael Anton Wallreuther (* 1711), Chancellor of the Principality of Worms .

literature

• Hartmut Heinemann: Michael Schnock, abbot of the former Cistercian Abbey of Eberbach from 1702-1727. In: Kiedricher personalities from seven centuries, Ed .: Förderkreis Kiedricher Geschichts- und Kulturzeugen. Kiedrich 2008, pp. 149–153.
• Yvonne Monsees: Tombs in the Eberbach Monastery , Freundeskreis Kloster Eberbach eV 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-027060-4
• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Hesse II: The administrative district of Darmstadt . Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3422031173
• Dagmar Söder: Rheingau-Taunus District I.1 Altkreis Rheingau . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse , Theiss-Verlag , Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3806229875

Web links

Commons : Michael Schnock  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Oil painting from the Marienstatt Abbey ( Memento from August 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Homepage Eberbach Monastery

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association for Nassau antiquity and historical research: Nassauische Annalen: Yearbook of the Association for Nassau antiquity and historical research , Volume 104, p. 84, 1993; (Detail scan)