Peter (red on the red)

Petrus († April 21 or 30, 1401 ) (also called Petrus I or Peter I) was the 15th abbot of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Rot an der Rot in today's Biberach district in Upper Swabia from 1397 to 1401 .

Life

Zeller parade with the figure of "Bobohle" and "Fronweible" (2006)

Nothing is known about the place of birth, origin or place of death of Abbot Peter. He was before he entered the monastery apparently from Judaism to Christianity converted . During his tenure, the parishes of Oy and Kronwinkel, which were incorporated into Rot around the middle of the 14th century, had to be spun off again. Whether he was responsible for the temporary decline of the abbey around 1400 through allegedly fraudulent machinations, Peter was probably not always rightly blamed . As early as 1843 August Friedrich von Pauly pointed out that the mismanagement of two predecessors had also led to pledges and sales. In general, with regard to Peter, the chronic sources and the older literature up to the 19th and 20th centuries are not free from anti-Jewish motifs.

Cultural reception

The fool's guild "Bobohle e. V. Rot an der Rot ”, which maintains the Swabian-Alemannic Carnival in red, establishes a relationship between Abbot Peter and the figure of the “ Oberbobohle ” . There are indeed historical references, but it cannot be said how old the popular and anti-Jewish traditions are. The starting point for the legendary figure of Bobole or Boppole were the reports about the abbot's alleged or actual frauds, as well as a traveling legend known in German-speaking countries since around 1600, which dealt with high-ranking clergymen, converted Jews. This was dressed in a widespread, abusive and varied two-liner. No convert could become a true Christian as long as a “mouse doesn’t eat the cat” or, conversely, “as little as the cat catches the mouse”. The first author who wrote about the orally communicated saga vom Boppole in red was the theologian and Germanist Anton Birlinger in 1861 .

literature

• Hermann Tüchle , Adolf Schahl: 850 years of red on the red. History and shape. New contributions to the church and art history of the Premonstratensian Imperial Abbey . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1976, ISBN 3-7995-4012-1
• August Friedrich von Pauly: Description of the Oberamt Leutkirch. Published by the Royal Bureau of Statistics and Topography, written by Professor v. Pauly , Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1843, p. 175. Wikisource
• Anton Birlinger: Popular things from Swabia , Volume 1, Freiburg 1861, p. 50f. Online: [1]

Web links

Commons : Petrus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hermann Tüchle, Adolf Schahl: 850 years of red on the red. History and shape. New contributions to the church and art history of the Premonstratensian Imperial Abbey. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1976, p. 15
2. ↑ Hermann Tüchle, p. 15
3. ↑ August Friedrich von Pauly: Description of the Oberamt Leutkirch. Published by the Royal Bureau of Statistics and Topography, written by Professor v. Pauly , Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1843, p. 175
4. ↑ https://www.nz-bobohle.de/sage.html
5. ↑ Beate Hintzen : A Munster in a Rhenish metropolis. Bernardus Mollerus' view of Cologne , pp. 69 - 81, here p. 79f in: Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann , Ulrich Eigler (ed.): Latin on the Rhine. On the cultural topography and literary geography of a European river ', De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2017
6. ↑ Hans-Martin Kirn: The image of Jews in Germany in the early 16th century , Mohr / Siebeck, Tübingen 1989, p. 64, note 25. In addition to Kirn's limited presentation in this regard, there are many other examples and variants for the two-line more, the not all can be listed here
7. ^ Anton Birlinger: Volksthümliches aus Schwaben , Volume 1, Freiburg 1861, p. 50f

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Barner von Saulgau	Abbot of Rot an der Rot 1397–1402	Lucius