Otto de la Bourde

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Otto de la Bourde (* 1630 in Eger ; † December 24, 1708 ) was Prince-Bishop of Gurk as Otto II .

Life

Otto de la Bourde comes from a family of Austrian officers. His father came from Piedmont and was a lieutenant colonel in Eger , where his son Otto was born. In 1664 Otto de la Bourde became abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Banz in Upper Franconia.

The Chapel of the Holy Spirit in Strasbourg

Abbot Otto did a great job of restoring the abbey, which had suffered badly from the Peasants' War and the Reformation. In 1677 he entered the service of Emperor Leopold I as a real councilor , whose intercession with the Prince and Archbishop of Salzburg he owed the elevation to the bishopric in 1697. On July 7, 1697 he took possession of his cathedral in Gurk .

Prince-Bishop Otto II distinguished himself as a pious donor and benefactor of the poor and promoted the hospital for the poor in Strasbourg .

Under his government, the dispute between Salzburg and Gurk over the so-called Marburg district broke out for the first time. Prince-Bishop Otto II granted jurisdiction to the pastor of St. Peter near Marburg , and the Prince and Archbishop of Salzburg saw this as an impairment of his authority as a metropolitan.

Prince-Bishop Otto II died on December 24, 1708 and, at his request, was buried in Strasbourg in front of the high altar of the Holy Spirit Chapel (next to the hospital for the poor), of which he was a great benefactor. He bequeathed his fortune to Emperor Joseph I. Of this, however, 10,000 guilders were to be used to buy Austrian soldiers from Turkish captivity.

literature

  • Jakob Obersteiner: The bishops of Gurk. 1072–1822 (= From Research and Art. 5, ISSN  0067-0642 ). Publishers of the history association for Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1969, pp. 420-424.

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personal data
SURNAME Bourde, Otto de la
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Gurk (1697–1708)
DATE OF BIRTH 1630
PLACE OF BIRTH Eger
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1708