Placidus Buechauer

Placidus Buechauer (* December 23, 1611 or 1610 in Schongau in Bavaria; † June 27, 1669 in Markt Kuchl ) was a Benedictine and abbot of Kremsmünster Abbey .

Life

Buechauer was born on December 23, 1611 (other sources say 1610) in Schongau in Bavaria, made his profession on June 29, 1632 and was ordained a priest on October 18, 1639. On December 7, 1644 he was elected 56th abbot of Kremsmünster Abbey. He held the office until his death in 1669.

Construction activity

Placidus Buechauer had the lake house built at the southern end of the Almssee in 1652. The monastery operated and operates forestry and fishing there. The memorial plaque is placed in the chapel of the house to commemorate the building of the house.

During the term of office of Abbot Placidus Buechenauer there was a lot of construction activity. In 1651 he had the museum wing built and a brewery built in it, and in 1667 the marble portal with the three statues (Tassilo the founder, Charlemagne and Henry the Saint) on the outside of the entrance to the prelate's court . In 1658 he provided the collegiate church with several new bells and a clock, and had the relics of St. Agapitus set in gold and silver, which were exhibited on the Agapitus altar from 1654. He also expanded the courtyard garden and surrounded it with a wall in 1659. In 1647 he himself laid the foundation stone for the construction of the St. Wolfgangstein Church.

There are also traces of his construction activity in the surrounding parish churches of Unterrohr and Buchkirchen. In 1680 he expanded the churches of Kematen, Ried, Sipbachzell, Schauersberg, Weigersdorf and Einsiedling. He had a chapel for the dead built in parish churches and a gallery in Adlwang. In 1650 he had high altars built in Adlwang and Oberrohr, and in 1658 on Magdalenaberg. In 1669 he built a presbytery in Thalheim.

In addition, Abbot Placidus built the Freihaus in Kirchdorf in 1649, the monastery house in Mautern in 1657, and renewed the parishes of Pfarrkirchen (1649), Pettenbach (1658), Buchkirchen (1660) and Vorchdorf (1668). In 1652 he also built a house ("Seehaus") on the Almsee.

Act

Abbot Placidus was “the ideal of a prelate”, as P. Wolfgang Dannerbauer (chronicler in the 19th century) put it. He expanded the grammar school and the museum and had theology and philosophy as well as oriental languages ​​lectured. He also sent priests to foreign academies and universities and increased the library's holdings. On May 13, 1659 he achieved the admission of Kremsmünster to the Benedictine Congregation of Monte Cassino with full participation in its privileges.

Abbot Placidus Buechenauer was not only distinguished by his enormous construction activity, but also showed economic skill by buying tithe, vineyards and land. He enjoyed general respect and admiration. In the years from 1647 to 1649, marked by bad harvests, hail and famine, he was a benevolent prelate. During his ministry, 58 capitulars took their vows.

literature

• Hieronymus Besange: Synopsis vitae Religiosorum ord. SP Benedicti Cremifani Super Austriae Professorum, 1777, p11ff
• P. Wolfgang Dannerbauer OSB: Briefly chamfered chronicle of the eleven-hundred-year-old Benedictine monastery Kremsmünster, 1877, p11f, p40

Web links

• Placidus Buechauer in the Biographia Benedictina (Benediktinerlexikon.de)

predecessor	Office	successor
Boniface Negele	Abbot of Kremsmünster Abbey 1644–1669	Erenbert II. Schrevogl