Plazidus Kobolt

Plazidus Kobolt OSB (born October 4, 1642 in Lindau ; † March 30, 1719 in Tannheim ) was the 20th abbot of the imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen in today's Biberach district in Upper Swabia .

Life

Kobolt was born on October 4, 1642 in Lindau. He took his religious vows on January 23, 1660 and was ordained a priest seven years later on September 24, 1667. For eight years he held the office of assistant priest in Ummendorf and for two years he was the abbot's representative.

On May 15, 1681 he was elected abbot of the monastery. The first six years of his tenure were characterized by impeccable administration.

Government and mental illness

Ochsenhauser Pflegehof

First in 1686 he commissioned the carpenter Ferdinand Zech from Thannhausen to replace the choir stalls in the collegiate church of St. Georg from walnut and oak. In 1686 he built the Loretto Chapel in Kronwinkel . For 400 guilders he bought a complete theater decoration from the bishopric of the Benedictines St. Ulrich in Augsburg and built a room in the monastery for it. In 1688 he bought Horn Castle in the Swiss Confederation for 17,000 guilders. The monastery wash house outside the monastery walls also dates from his tenure. He decreed that all female servants were not allowed to enter the monastery.

In the sixth year of his tenure, Kobolt contracted an illness of the mind . The chronicler Geisenhof suspects that the many night trips to Rottweil, Ulm, Augsburg and Memmingen led to this. On May 14, 1689, Abbot Plazidus was voted out of office by the convent of the monastery.

He lived after that for another thirty years and received a pension during that time, which added up to 60,000 guilders over the years. He spent most of his time in the official seat of the monastery in Ummendorf, and later in the territory of the Weingarten abbey. In 1719 he moved to the official seat of the Ochsenhausen monastery in Tannheim, where he died on March 30 of the same year.

literature

Georg Geisenhof : Brief history of the former Reichsstift Ochsenhausen in Swabia . Ganser, Ottobeuren 1829

Web links

Commons : Ochsenhausen Monastery - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Geisenhof: Brief History , p. 156

predecessor	Office	successor
Balthasar Puolamer	Abbot of Ochsenhausen 1681–1689	Francis Klesin

personal data
SURNAME	Kobolt, Plazidus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chaplain, abbot in Ochsenhausen
DATE OF BIRTH	October 4, 1642
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lindau
DATE OF DEATH	March 30, 1719
Place of death	Tannheim

[1] Geisenhof: Brief History , p. 156