Peter von Grünstadt

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Peter von Grünstadt , also Peter von Grinstat (* approx. 1400 in Grünstadt , Palatinate ; † 1471 in Zell (Zellertal) ), was a Catholic priest and from 1441 to 1471 dean (head) of the Philippsstift in Zell, the oldest collegiate monastery in the Palatinate .

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From the 13th century onwards, members of a lower aristocratic family "von Grünstadt" often appear in documents , to which Peter von Grünstadt also belongs. The family seems to have been in a vassal relationship to the Counts of Leiningen, who were predominant in the region ; As early as 1237, a "Ulrich von Grünstadt" signed the certificate of division of the County of Leiningen as a Burgmann from Liningen.

Apparently, Peter's family was quite wealthy, so that he could attend the University of Heidelberg to study . There it is recorded in the registers in 1425/26.

St. Philipp von Zell, ceiling painting in the pilgrimage church in Zell, where Peter von Grünstadt was the monastery dean.

Not much is known about his further career. He was ordained a priest and appears from 1441 as dean of the nearby Philippsstift in Zell, the oldest collegiate monastery in the Palatinate and an important place of pilgrimage, arising from the cell and the grave of St. Philip of Zell .

The collegiate dean was the head of the spiritual community which the Counts of Leiningen had as guardians. The connection could be found here, which is why Peter von Grünstadt, who came from a family of servants in Leiningen, rose to the position of dean of the monastery there.

Under the dean of Grünstadt, the pilgrimage and the monastery reached their prime. After all, it was so well known that on September 13, 1447, Elector Ludwig IV of the Palatinate and his wife Margaret of Savoy, along with an entourage of 60 people, went there in person to pray for the birth of the heir to the throne. Stiftsdekan Peter von Grünstadt received the couple solemnly and entertained them. On the occasion of the visit, the rulers were accepted into the Philipps Brotherhood and gave the monastery 20 guilders as well as some loads of building materials. In fact, the longed-for prince and heir to the throne was born to the happy parents on July 14, 1448, whom it named after St. Philip of Zell; the later Elector Philip the Sincere . Full of gratitude, the ruling couple donated a precious chasuble to St. Philip and his community , as well as a red smoke cloak with a gilded child. They also donated the parish and the associated slope to Wattenheim an der Bergstrasse to the monastery . Since this sensational answer to the prayer of the state regent, the Zell pilgrimage under the direction of Peters von Grünstadt has taken a hitherto unknown upswing and has become the most famous in the whole of the Palatinate.

Peter von Grünstadt acted as monastery dean of Zell for 30 years and apparently died in 1471. From 1472, Philipp Krael was his successor. The "Documents on the Palatinate Church History" , by Dr. Franz Xaver Glasschröder (Munich, 1903), contain under the number 640 (page 261) the regests of a Zeller document from March 1, 1463, in which dean Peter von Grünstadt - as "Peter von Grinstat" - a Gysgen zu Steden the goods leased, which Johann von Steden had left the monastery as a soul tool .

Peter von Grünstadt is the first historically tangible, significant personality from Grünstadt .

literature

  • Jakob Knauber : The hermit Philipp von Zell, a saint of the Palatinate . Pilger Verlag, Speyer 1938.
  • Peter Moraw: The St.Philipp zu Zell monastery in the Palatinate . University Press Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1964, p. 107 .
  • Joachim Specht: St. Philipp von Zell, Patron of the North Palatinate (full-page newspaper article) . The Rheinpfalz , local part Kirchheimbolanden, May 8, 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Frey, Attempt at a Geographical-Historical-Statistical Description of the Royal Bavarian Rhine District, Volume 2, 1836, Page 278 Scan about the noble family "von Grünstadt" with mention of "Peter von Grüntadt" (at the end of the page).
  2. ^ Gustav Toepke : The register of the University of Heidelberg . Volume 1, 1884, page 169
personal data
SURNAME Grünstadt, Peter von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grinstat, Peter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic priest and monastery dean of Zell (Zellertal)
DATE OF BIRTH 1400
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünstadt
DATE OF DEATH 1471
Place of death Zell (Zellertal)