Raymund Nethammer

P. Raymund Netzhammer

Raymund Netzhammer OSB , (born January 19, 1862 in Erzingen , † September 18, 1945 on Werd Island , Switzerland ) was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bucharest .

Life

In the district of Waldshut , in today's community association Klettgau as Albin Netzhammer born, he appeared as 1881 in the Benedictine Abbey of Maria Einsiedeln one, was given the religious name Raymund and was on September 5, 1886, for the priests consecrated.

From 1887 to 1900 he taught at the monastery school of the Einsiedeln monastery and was also deputy governor of the monastery in 1894/95. On September 15, 1900, he traveled to Bucharest, where the local Archbishop Joseph-Xavier Hornstein appointed him superior in his seminary and made him Dome of Honor . In 1902 Netzhammer returned to Einsiedeln. In the autumn of 1903 he came to Rome as cellarer at the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant'Anselmo and in 1904 became rector of the papal Greek college.

On September 16, 1905, Pope Pius X appointed him Archbishop of Bucharest . He was ordained bishop in San Anselmo on November 5, 1905, by Cardinal Girolamo Maria Gotti OCD , Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples .

In 1909 he laid the foundation stone of the Bucharest Basilius Church, the first Romanian Uniate Church in the Kingdom of Romania .

On July 14, 1924, he resigned as Archbishop of Bucharest and was appointed Titular Archbishop of Anazarbus . On June 23, 1925, he was appointed papal assistant to the throne and Roman count. He took his retirement home in 1927 in the Werd monastery near Eschenz in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. On September 8, 1931, he celebrated his golden profession.

Awards

• 1906: Jubilee Medal (Romania)
• 1912: Order of the Crown of Romania with the rank of Grand Officer .
• 1918: Grand Cross of the Franz Joseph Order .
• Honorary member of the Romanian Numismatic Society.
• Member of the Austrian Numismatic Society, Vienna

Fonts

• Theophrastus Paracelsus. Einsiedeln 1901.
• The early Christian Tomi. Salzburg, 1903.
• From Rumania. Einsiedeln, 1909.
• The construction of the Romanian Uniate Church in Bucharest . Einsiedeln-Cologne 1910.
• The Christian antiquities of Dobruja. Bucharest 1923.
• The island of Werd. 1931. 2nd edition 1934.
• Epictetus and Astion, Diocletian martyrs on the Danube Delta. Zug, 1936.
• Eschenz. 1938.
• The Christian martyrs on the Ister. Bucharest, 1939.

literature

• Hieronymus Menges:  Netzhammer, Raymund. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , pp. 90-92 ( digitized version ).
• Nikolaus Netzhammer (Ed.): Raymund Netzhammer: Bishop in Romania. 2 volumes. Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Munich. Volume 1: 1995, ISBN 3-88356-101-0 , Volume 2: 1996, ISBN 3-88356-102-9
• Stefan Heid : Art. Raymund Netzhammer, in: Stefan Heid, Martin Dennert (Hrsg.): Person Lexicon for Christian Archeology. Researchers and personalities from the 16th to the 21st century, Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, Vol. 2, pp. 957–958, ISBN 978-3-7954-2620-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Raymund Netzhammer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Victor Conzemius : Netzhammer, Raymund. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Hubert Roth: From the Erzinger farmer's boy to the Archbishop (PDF; 845 kB)
• Entry to Raymund Netzhammer on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Raymund Netzhammer in the professorship book of Einsiedeln Abbey

predecessor	Office	successor
Joseph-Xavier Hornstein	Archbishop of Bucharest 1905–1924	Alexandru Theodor Cisar