Roman Foissner

Roman Foissner (born November 5, 1924 in Hohenfurth ) is an Austrian religious priest and cultural worker .

Live and act

Foissner joined the Reichersberg Abbey in 1946 and was ordained a priest in 1951 . In 1957 he was the founder of the Reichersberg Music Summer and organized more than a thousand concerts for the Reichersberg cultural area. For many years he was rentmaster and head of the Reichersberg Abbey Education Center , was also entrusted with the restoration and adaptation of the premises of the Reichersberg Abbey and made special contributions to the Upper Austrian Provincial Exhibition 900 Years of Reichersberg Abbey - Augustinian Canons between Passau and Salzburg in 1984.

Publications

The Reichersberg am Inn Abbey , Die Heimat, episode 244 (1980)
The organ in the Stiftspfarrkirche zu Reichersberg , Orgelzeitung, Issue 1, Reichersberg 1981
Church music in the Reichersberg Abbey from 1954 to 2004 , in: Yearbook of the Austrian Augustinian Canons Congregation 2007
Music traditions in the Upper Austrian monasteries - Reichersberg . In: Musikstadt Linz - Musikland Oberösterreich, as part of the International Bruckner Festival, Linz 1990
10 years of the Reichersberg Abbey Education Center , 1969 to 1979, Reichersberg Abbey Education Center (publisher), Reichersberg, 1979
Musisches Reichersberg, 25 years of Reichersberger Sommer , 1956 to 1981, Bildungszentrum Stift Reichersberg (publisher), Reichersberg, 1981

Awards

Consistorial Councilor of the Bishop of Linz
Consultant to the Upper Austrian Provincial Government for Cultural Affairs (1973)
Culture Medal of the Province of Upper Austria (1996)
Federal Medal of Honor for Special Services to Cultural Work (2007)

Honorary ring bearer and honorary citizen of the Reichersberg community

Individual evidence

↑ Federal honorary mark 2007 to consultant Konsistorialrat Roman Foissner, in: Web presence of the Catholic Church in Upper Austria from September 4, 2008 ( Memento from October 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Foissner, Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian religious priest and cultural worker
DATE OF BIRTH	November 5, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hohenfurth

[1] Federal honorary mark 2007 to consultant Konsistorialrat Roman Foissner, in: Web presence of the Catholic Church in Upper Austria from September 4, 2008 ( Memento from October 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )