Peter II. Pinzenauer

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Peter Pinzenauer († 1432) was canon of Freising and, as Peter II. From 1404 to 1432, imperial prelate and provost of the Berchtesgaden monastery .

Act

Pinzenauer's assumption of office as Berchtesgadener Stiftspropst also meant the end of the incorporation of the Berchtesgaden monastery into the prince-archbishopric of Salzburg since 1393 . Pope Boniface IX wanted this . Revoke it with a bull in 1403, but revoked this bull again in the same year after counter-presentations by Salzburg Archbishop Gregor Schenk von Osterwitz . But after Ludwig , the son of the Bavarian Duke Stephan III. , intervened again and Austria and the majority of the cardinals in Rome also joined the Bavarians, the independence of the Berchtesgaden provost was restored on February 24, 1404 and the canon of Freising, Peter Pinzenauer, who accompanied the son of the duke, was appointed the new provost.

The last reigning regent of Berchtesgaden, Archbishop of Salzburg, Eberhard III. Von Neuhaus on his part complained against it in Rome, only to recognize Pinzenauer as an independent provost in 1409 in an amicable agreement. However, its sovereignty should be subject to limits: Pinzenauer “had to be obedient and attentive to the Archbishop of Salzburg” and was “not allowed to sell any goods, jewels or books that belonged to the Berchtesgaden church without his advice and will”. In addition, the Schellenberg, which belongs to the provost's office, including the saltworks, was to remain pledged to the prince-archbishopric until its high debts worth 44,000 gold ducats were paid off . Despite these restrictions, Pinzenauer took the first steps towards the resurgence of the monastery monastery.

Peter Pinzenauer died in 1432 and found his final resting place behind a stone grave slab in the collegiate church in Berchtesgaden. The grave slab shows his coat of arms and that of the later provost Bernhard II. Leoprechtinger († July 11, 1473) and covers the actual burial chamber of both provosts. His epitaph made of red marble (check marble ) with strong white speckles , placed not far to the left of it, shows Pinzenauer as a half-relief in the bishop's regalia , in his hands the pedum and the missal . Over his head two angels hold a banner with the inscription "got dear".

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  Epitaph for Provost Peter Pinzenauer in the Berchtesgaden collegiate church

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  Coat of arms of the crypt of Peter Pinzenauer and provost Bernhard II. Leoprechtinger († 1473)

Trivia

Pinzenauer is part of the plot of the historical novel Der Ochsenkrieg (The Ox War) , published in 1914, from the 15th century by Ludwig Ganghofer , although in truth neither Pinzenauer nor the monastery pen directly from the historical Ochsenkrieg 1421–1422 between the county of Haag under George III. and the Duchy of Bavaria-Landshut under Heinrich XVI. may have been affected.

literature

• Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger , Berchtesgaden 1986 ISBN 3-925647-00-7 , pp. 76-78.
• A. Helm , Hellmut Schöner (ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time . Reprint from 1929. Association for local history d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1973, pp. 100, 108-109, 261-262.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hellmut Schöner (ed.), A. Helm : Berchtesgaden in the course of time . see page 261 f.
2. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Pp. 76-78.
3. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . P. 78.
4. ↑ Stiftskirche Berchtesgaden (= Christian Art in Bavaria, No. 9). Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 2002, p. 30.
5. ↑ stiftskirche-berchtesgaden.de To the tombs in the collegiate church