Peter Gremmelsbach

Peter Gremmelsbach (* unknown, place of origin: Villingen ; † February 7, 1512 ) was abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter in the Black Forest from 1496 until his death in 1512 . He became known through a parchment manuscript about the Zähringer and his monastery, which he laid out between 1497 and 1500 and which was called Liber vitae in the early modern period due to a necrology contained therein .

Gremmelsbach is stylized in the manuscript as the third builder of the monastery, after the Zähringian founder Berthold II (1078–1111) and Abbot Walter (1275–1291), the manuscript also contains an introductory report, a “Zähringer genealogy” and a list of abbots. The work of Gremmelsbach thus appears as part of the Zähringermemoria, the restoration of the donor's memory in St. Peter, as Benedictine historiography of a Benedictine monastery.

As abbot, Gremmelsbach first tried to restore and consecrate the monastery church, which burned down in 1437. In 1500 he was able to achieve this goal. The rights and income of the monastery were secured by the privileges granted to the German king and later emperor Maximilian I (1493–1519) and Pope Alexander VI in 1498 and 1499 . (1492-1503), a discharge certificate from 1500 and authored shortly after 1497 Urbar . In addition, efforts were made to renew monastic life with the help of the donor's memory. However, St. Peter was hardly influenced by the widespread religious reforms of the 15th century.

During his reign, the foundation stone for the Peterhof was laid in 1507 with the acquisition of a house , which later became the Freiburg branch of the Abbots of St. Peter.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Kempf: The chapel of the Peterhof . in: Freiburg im Breisgau. The city and its buildings , HM Poppen & Sohn, Freiburg im Breisgau 1898, p. 364 ff.

Editions

• Franz Ludwig Baumann : Necrologium Minus Monasterii S. Petri Nigrae Silvae . In: Monumenta Germania Historica. Antiques. Necrologia Germaniae. 1. Dioceses Augustensis, Constantiensis, Curiensis. Berlin 1888, pp. 334–338 ( digitized version ) - Reconstruction of the necrology based on data handed down by Gremmelsbach (for Baumann's editions, see Mertens 2001, p. 229)
• Franz Ludwig Baumann: History from St. Peter. 13th to 18th centuries . In: Freiburger Diöcesan-Archiv 14 (1881), pp. 65–95 - Edition of the remaining parts of the manuscript with major interventions in the order of the texts

literature

• Michael Buhlmann: Benedictine monasticism in the medieval Black Forest. A lexicon. Lecture at the Black Forest Association St. Georgen e. V., St. Georgen im Schwarzwald, November 10, 2004, Part 1: AM . (= Vertex Alemanniae, issue 10/1). St. Georgen 2004, p. 34f.
• Dieter Mertens: Peter Gremmelsbach, Abbot of St. Peter in the Black Forest 1496–1512 . In: Hans-Otto Mühleisen (ed.): The St. Peter monastery in the Black Forest. Studies of its history from its founding in the 11th century to the early modern period. Waldkircher Verlag, Waldkirch 2001, ISBN 3-87885-340-8 , pp. 215–248 ( full text )