Reinhard von Rüppurr
Reinhard von Rüppurr , also Rippur (* 1458 ; † April 19, 1533 in Rüppurr , today in Karlsruhe ) was a Prince-Bishop of Worms who resigned voluntarily.
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Early life
He came from the Upper Rhine noble family of the peacock von Rüppurr ( Pfau von Rietburg ) and entered the clergy. In 1474 he was nominated for a canon praise in Worms, and he completed his biennium from 1479 at the University of Heidelberg .
Bishop of Worms
As the city of Worms tried to get more and more rights, Bishop Johann III. from Dalberg in 1499 the interdict on them. This church sentence still existed when Dalberg died unexpectedly in 1503. The cathedral chapter meeting in Ladenburg on August 29th of that year elected the cathedral cantor Reinhard von Rüppurr as his successor; he was then a sub-deacon . Pope Julius II confirmed the election on February 9, 1504, whereupon Rüppurr was ordained bishop on October 7 in Ladenburg. Even under the new bishop, the disputes with the city continued. As early as September 1503, Rüppurr negotiated in Frankenthal with no result because of the appointment of council members he was entitled to.
Politically, the bishop was therefore dependent on the support of the mighty Electoral Palatinate , as a result of which he was drawn into the Landshut War of Succession as their ally, against the emperor . Together with the Palatinate Elector, the imperial ban was imposed on him. During this time, the city of Worms was demonstratively loyal to the emperor and was thus able to acquire even more episcopal rights. After the end of the war and the repeal of the imperial ban, new negotiations took place which dragged on for years with the participation of various imperial estates. In order to scorn Rüppurr, the council of Worms complained publicly in 1517 that the chief shepherd had never given the sacrament of Confirmation to them, knowing full well that he was denied entry to the city himself. Elector Ludwig V of the Palatinate finally brokered a compromise treaty that was signed on October 31, 1519. As a result, Bishop Reinhard von Rüppur was able to officially enter his episcopal city for the first time on September 20, 1520 - 17 years after his election - and held his solemn entry accompanied by 700 riders.
The Diet of Worms took place from January to May 1521 , on which the Worms Edict imposed the imperial ban on Martin Luther . Bishop Rüppurr did not appear in the negotiations. In order to support the recovery of church life, however, he had a new missal from Worms published in 1522 under the title Missale secundum ritum et observantiam Ecclesie et Dioecesis Wormatiensis . It shows him with his family coat of arms on the title page. In the same year he helped the Pfiffligheim parish to renovate their church with a collection letter and granting an indulgence . Even in Ladenburg, Bishop Reinhard had the grave of Notburga von Hochhausen , traditionally venerated as a saint, opened in 1517 and examined her bones. In the fund of St. Laurentius Church Dirmstein (since 2006 on permanent loan to the Historical Museum of the Palatinate , Speyer ) there is a magnificent Sebastianus reliquary , donated by Bishop Rüppurr.
After the Reichstag in Worms, the city quickly developed into a center of the Reformation in Germany and unrest broke out. Several clergymen openly sided with Luther. Pope Hadrian VI In May 1522, a bull to Bishop Reinhard von Rüppurr admonished the city administration not to accept the new teaching under any circumstances. The city, for its part, ignored the papal letter, supported by Ulrich von Hutten , who asked on July 27th to force the bishop out of Worms if necessary. In addition, there was the sensational affair about the Worms priest Ulrich Sitzinger , who officially married in 1523 . The bishop did not succeed in bringing the clergy, patronized by the city administration and well-known new believers, to reason.
Resignation and end of life
Due to these mixed up circumstances, Reinhard von Rüppurr resigned from his office as bishop in 1524. As coadjutor with the right of succession, the later Speyer bishop Philipp von Flersheim was elected as early as 1521 , who also received papal confirmation on April 17, 1523, but waived on December 18. He had been Rüppurr's preferred candidate. The Palatinate Elector Ludwig V instead succeeded in getting his brother Heinrich von der Pfalz through, who was confirmed on March 16, 1524 by Pope Clement VII as Rüppurr's new coadjutor, who ruled until 1552, but was in no way up to the theological challenges of his time .
Reinhard von Rüppurr retired to Neuleiningen , then to the Gottesaue monastery , which he had to leave because of its looting during the Peasants' War; The secluded Ramsen monastery , which he had originally chosen as his retirement home, was also destroyed in the Palatinate Peasants' War. From around 1525 the former bishop lived in his family castle in Rüppurr, where he died in 1533. His body was buried in the east choir of Worms Cathedral , his heart - at his own request - in the home church of St. Nikolaus zu Rüppurr. The heart epitaph has been preserved there. In relation to the far-reaching failure of his efforts as a bishop, it bears the touching burial motto:
"God does not reject a humbled and broken heart."
A memorial stone for Reinhard von Rüppurr, donated by his nephews and who praises his “outstanding piety”, is embedded in the surrounding wall of today 's Gottesaue Castle (the former monastery).
The contemporary Hirsauer chronicler Nikolaus Basellius writes about Bishop Reinhard, "... he was a capable and honorable man, but he had little love for beautiful literature ."
literature
- Friedhelm Jürgensmeier : The Diocese of Worms from Roman times to its dissolution in 1801 , Echter Verlag, Würzburg, 1997, ISBN 3-429-01876-5 , pp. 154–162.
- Wilhelm Arnold : Constitutional history of the German free cities following the constitutional history of the city of Worms , 1854, volume 2, p. 477 ff. (Digital scan)
- Antoine Godeau , Johann Ludwig von Groote: General Church History , Volume 32, P. 116 u. 117, Augsburg, 1791, books.google.de
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Document request for papal activity
- ↑ Website on the Worms Missal Missal ( memento of the original from December 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Document request for Pfiffligheim in the German Digital Library
- ^ Website of Notburga von Hochhausen
- ↑ Johann Michael Fritz: Stitched images: Engravings on German goldsmith's work of the late Gothic . Böhlau Verlag, 1966, p. 65; (Detail scan)
- ↑ Relocation to Speyer. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)
- ^ Lebrecht Mayer: Messages from the history of Rüppurr . Konkordia Verlag, Bühl 1910, p. 13 (digital view)
- ↑ Friedhelm Jürgensmeier : The Diocese of Worms from Roman times to its dissolution in 1801 , Echter Verlag, Würzburg, 1997, ISBN 3-429-01876-5 , p. 163
- ^ Wilhelm Arnold: Wormser Chronik von Friedrich Zorn , Stuttgart, 1857, page 216; Scan from the source
- ^ Lebrecht Mayer: Communications from the story of Rüppurr , Konkordia Verlag, Bühl, 1910, p. 14; (Digital view)
- ↑ Website for the Nikolauskirche Rüppurr
- ^ The Nikolauskirche Rüppurr in Karlsruhe-Wiki
- ↑ Heart grave in Rüppurr. (PDF)
- ^ Renate Neumüllers-Klauser: The inscriptions of the Enzkreis until 1650 . 1983, ISBN 3-7608-9471-2 , p. 126, (detail scan )
- ^ Anneliese Seeliger-Zeiss: Die insschriften des Großkreis Karlsruhe , 1981, p. 83, ISBN 3-7608-9470-4 ; (Detail scan)
- ↑ Quotation in the Regesta-Imperii portal
- ^ Biographical page on Nikolaus Basellius
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Johann von Dalberg |
Bishop of Worms 1503–1524 |
Heinrich of the Palatinate |
Raugraf Eberhard I. | Raugraf Friedrich I. | Simon von Schöneck | Eberhard II von Strahlberg | Raugraf Emicho I. | Eberwin I. von Kronberg | Emmerich von Schöneck | Henry III. by Daun | Conrad IV of Schöneck | Gerlach von Erbach (double election: candidate for the cathedral chapter) | Salmann Cleman (double election: candidate of the Pope) | Dietrich Bayer von Boppard | Johann I. Schadland | Eckard von Dersch | Matthew of Krakow | Johann II of Fleckenstein | Eberhard III. from Stettenberg | Friedrich II. Von Domeneck | Ludwig von Ast | Reinhard I. von Sickingen | Johann III. by Dalberg | Reinhard II of Rüppurr | Heinrich IV., Count Palatine near the Rhine | Dietrich II of Bettendorf | Georg von Schönenberg | Philip I of Rodenstein | Philip II. Kratz von Scharfenstein
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rüppurr, Reinhard von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rippur, Reinhard von; Rüppurr, Reinhard II. Von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bishop of Worms |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1458 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1533 |
| Place of death | Rueppurr |