Nikolaus Weinbach
Nikolaus Weinbach (* in Oberlahnstein ; † March 31, 1658 ) was abbot of Eberbach Monastery .
Life
On April 18, 1633, in exile in Cologne, Nikolaus Weinbach was elected abbot of the monastic community of Eberbach Monastery, expelled from the Rheingau in 1631 by the Thirty Years' War . Returning to Eberbach at the end of 1635, he found the monastery looted and devastated. With borrowed money and donations in kind (the list of benefactors has been partially preserved) he began to rebuild agriculture and monastic life. His efforts to recover the stolen books were unsuccessful, but Pastor Brigelius von Eltville donated his small library.
Weinbach's efforts, however, did not find recognition from the Archbishop of Mainz and Elector Anselm Casimir Wambolt von Umstadt . For no comprehensible reason Weinbach was arrested after a monastery visitation and abdicated on May 13, 1642, after he had been exonerated from the allegations by a letter from the Archbishop. He then lived in the Eberbacher Hof in Cologne. His subsequent re-election in 1648 was rejected by the archbishop.
literature
- Simon Widmann: Johannes Nikolaus Weinbach von Oberlahnstein, Abbot of Eberbach 1633–1642. In: Rhenus. Contributions to the history of the Middle Rhine 3.3 (1886), pp. 40–41.
- Simon Widmann: On the history of the Eberbach monastery during the Thirty Years War. In: Annalen des Verein für Nassauische Altertumskunde und Geschichtsforschung 17 (1882), pp. 28–34. ISSN 0077-2887
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weinbach, Nikolaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Abbot of the Eberbach Monastery |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th century or 17th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lahnstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1658 |