Rottenburg seminary

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Episcopal Seminary Rottenburg
Episcopal coat of arms of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese

Episcopal coat of arms of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese

Seminar type Pastoral seminar
address Karmeliterstrasse 9
72108 Rottenburg
state Baden-Württemberg
country Germany
carrier Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart
founding year 1817
Number of seminarians (total) 1
Rain Cathedral Chapter Msgr. Andreas Rieg
Spiritual Uwe Thauer
Website URL www.priesterseminar-rottenburg.de

The seminary of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart was established in 1817 as part of the upcoming new Diocese of Rottenburg and is located in Rottenburg am Neckar directly on the river bank. Together with the Ambrosianum and the Wilhelmsstift in Tübingen, it forms a link in the formation of priests.

history

State University of Ellwangen

After the secularization of the prince provosty Ellwangen in the years 1802-1803 was determined by the Württemberg King Friedrich I. Ellwangen as the seat of a Catholic regional bishop for New Württemberg. As a result, a general vicariate , the Catholic Theological University of Friedrichs and a Catholic seminary were founded by decree in September 1812 . In December of the same year, all facilities were able to start operations.

As a result of a change of government in 1816, the Friedrichs University of Ellwangen was incorporated into the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen as the Catholic Theological Faculty in autumn 1817 . The vicariate general was relocated to Rottenburg, the Wilhelmsstift in Tübingen and the seminary in Rottenburg were re-established . A Catholic diocese was established there in 1821 due to its more central location in Württemberg and its proximity to the seat of government in Stuttgart .

Criticism of the state university

Johann-Baptist-Hirscherhaus in Rottenburg

After it was founded, critical statements were made in Württemberg about this “state university”. 15 Catholic members of the Württemberg assembly of estates declared that the training of young clergymen at a university with only one theological faculty must remain “always incomplete and one-sided”. This criticism initially had no effect. Only after King Wilhelm I came to power in the autumn of 1816 did a change become apparent. The new minister of church and school system was Karl August Freiherr von Wangenheim, President of the High Tribunal and the Higher Education Directorate and Curator of the University of Tübingen. On May 20, 1816, he asked the three-member trustee of the Ellwangen teaching institution “to report on the current state of the Catholic State University of Ellwangen, its needs and resources, and at the same time to comment on the question of whether the Catholic theological study system would be perfected not to be desired, and under what provisions it would be feasible to establish a faculty for Catholic theology at the University of Tübingen with the abolition of the University of Ellwangen [...], and thus to use the study aids of this high school for the purposes of the Catholic Church . "

Expert opinion of the Ellwanger board of trustees

The answer of the trustee was preprogrammed in the question of the minister. In a report dated January 16, 1817, she considered it “natural to use the existing University of Tübingen as a joint educational institution”. The division of teaching subjects in Ellwangen should be retained. For the candidates for the priesthood, the board of trustees considered “their own institute [for] the essential requirement”. In order to anticipate the conditions of the Vicariate General, the reporters expressed their wish to set up a seminary in the former Jesuit college in Rottenburg, as the distance between Tübingen and Ellwangen made the supervision of the bishop difficult. The relocation of the Catholic theological faculty and the founding of the Konvikt were the inspiration for the new bishopric.

Opening of the seminary

Johann-Baptist-Hirscherhaus

The seminary of the diocese Rottenburg-Stuttgart was established in 1817 in the Carmelite monastery Rottenburg , which probably dates from the 13th century. Today's main building, the Johann-Baptist-Hirscher-Haus, was expanded in 1981 and bears the name of the moral and pastoral theologian Johann Baptist von Hirscher (1788–1865).

Institutions associated with the Rottenburg seminary

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commemorative publication on the conversion of the Wilhelmsstift, Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Ulm 1981, page 87.
  2. ^ Letter from the President of the Upper Tribunal and the Senior Academic Directorate and Curator of the University of Tübingen, Karl August Freiherr von Wangenheim, dated November 20, 1816, Wilhelmsstift Tübingen archive
  3. ↑ Expert opinion of the Ellwanger Kuratel from January 16, 1817 to the Minister Karl August Freiherr von Wangenheim, Main State Archives Stuttgart

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