Nicholas V. Seber

Nikolaus V. Seber was abbot of the Waldsassen monastery from 1524 to 1526.

Nikolaus V. Seber, who came from Thuringia , was abbot of the Waldsassen monastery at the time of the Peasant War . Complaints from farmers about the oppressive tax burden in the Stiftland have been known since 1499 . Nicholas V had introduced further tax increases and was accused of immorality with alcoholism and violation of celibacy .

When the Peasants' War flared up all over Germany, Count Palatine Friedrich II , who had the right to inherit the monastery and to whom dissatisfied subjects of the monastery had also turned , asked the abbot to open the monastery to Palatinate troops and give him treasures and documents and to hand over food supplies for safekeeping. Nicholas V did not comply with this, because it was foreseeable that the Count Palatine would use the situation to expand his influence on the monastery. Rather, Nicholas V fled on May 11, 1525 with the most important valuables to the stone house in Eger and later to Bečov , where he wanted to negotiate protection by the Bohemian crown. On May 12, 2000 rebellious farmers stormed the monastery and mainly used the food and the large quantities of beer stored there in the pantries. On May 25, a contract was drawn up in Tirschenreuth with the mediation of Count Palatine Friedrich II , which met the demands of the peasants far. The prior and two monks who opposed the Count Palatine were sent to prison in Amberg , and the cantor was chained. The Count Palatine also asked the city of Eger to hand over monks who had fled to the stone house and presented their escape as a decline in discipline in the monastery. Nicholas V, however, obtained before the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer on September 4, 1526 that the monastery was restored to its original autonomy . The Count Palatine also had to release the prisoners. Nicholas V had to give up and was resigned. He retired to the stone house in Eger. Contrary to the arbitration ruling, however, the Count Palatine left Palatine officials in Falkenberg , Neuhaus , Waldershof , Liebenstein and Hardeck and future abbots recognized the Palatinate protectorate upon taking office.

literature

• Rudolf Langhammer : Waldsassen - monastery and town . Waldsassen 1936, pp. 184-189, 213.

predecessor	Office	successor
Andreas Metzl	Abbot of Waldsassen 1524–1526	Valentin Fischer