Rupert of Bodman

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Rupert von Bodman (born March 13, 1646 in Steißlingen , † November 10, 1728 in Kempten ), born as Johann Sigmund von Bodman , was prince abbot in the prince's monastery Kempten from 1678 to 1728 . He was the only prince abbot in the history of the monastery who had a 50-year term in office.

Origin and life

Part of the portrait of Rupert (us) von Bodman ( Fürstensaal in Kempten)
Grave of Rupert von Bodman in the crypt of St. Lorenz (1st coffin from left)

Rupert von Bodman comes from a Swabian noble family, whose members belonged to the ancient nobility in the Lake Constance area, were ministerials of the Diocese of Constance and the Staufer and had their original ancestral seat in Hohenbodman . He was a son of Johann Sigmund von Bodman and his wife Helena von Kottwitz .

Bodman had a very high level of education, mastered French, Italian and Spanish in addition to Latin, had studied at the universities of Strasbourg , Salzburg and Padua , was a professor of theology and was in contact with the French Benedictine, scholar and paleographer Jean Mabillon . He made his profession in Kempten in 1661 , was already sub-prior to Prince Abbot Bernhard Gustav von Baden-Durlach , accompanied him to the conclave in Rome in August 1676 and was elected Prince of Kempten in 1678.

In October 1683, Bodman, confirmed by Emperor Leopold , was also Archmarschall of the Empress. Although Prince Abbot Johann Willibald Schenk von Castell referred to himself for the first time in 1631 on a commemorative coin that he had minted on the occasion of his election, his successor Roman Giel von Gielsberg also used this title and Bernhard Gustav von Baden-Durlach for recognition The legitimacy of the Kempten arch marshal's office came about, Rupert von Bodman was the first prince abbot who was able to legally secure the claim to the title, as the kemptian arch marshal's office was not officially confirmed until 1683.

From 1707 to 1712 Rupert von Bodman also served as principal commissioner during the visitation and reform of the Imperial Chamber Court in Wetzlar , the highest court of the Holy Roman Empire .

Furthermore, in 1708 he was appointed President of the Reichshofrat , the highest office at the imperial court, but never took up this position due to the resistance of the Protestant imperial estates and in 1713 finally renounced the office.

Act

Under Rupert of Bodman that were in Kempten Monastery Holy Cross , the granary , the Old Brewery , the soul band and pen bleach built. He also had the royal hall in the residence designed. With the acquisition of Grönenbach in 1695, he made it the eighth nursing office of the prince monastery .

The name Rupert von Bodman is also associated with European history: He is considered to be a co-founder of the Principality of Liechtenstein . As an imperial commissioner and financial expert, he was sent to the Vorarlberg county of Hohenems in 1681 to end the witch trials there and to get the debts under control. He succeeded in the former: the defendants who were still in custody were released, confiscated assets were returned to the victims and in some cases compensation was even paid for the injustice suffered. Arranging the finances proved to be more difficult: Finally Rupert von Bodman sold parts of the County of Hohenems to Prince Johann Adam von Liechtenstein , who had owned the County of Vaduz since 1712 . During his long tenure as prince abbot, only one witch trial took place in the area of ​​the prince monastery of Kempten.

literature

  • Birgit Kata: Building on a princely order: The Kempten abbot Rupert von Bodman and the builder Johann Jakob Herkomer. In: Ingo Seufert (Ed.): Symposium on the 300th of Johann Jakob Herkomer (1652-1717). (= Alt-Füssen , born 2017). Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn, and Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-95976-180-2 , pp. 153-174.
  • Birgit Kata: The Kempten abbot Rupert. A Freiherr von Bodman as a pioneer for the Principality of Liechtenstein. In: Harald Derschka , Jürgen Klöckler (Hrsg.): Der Bodensee. Nature and history from 150 perspectives. Anniversary volume of the international association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings 1868–2018. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2018, ISBN 978-3-7995-1724-9 , p. 134 f.

Franz-Rasso Böck : The Kempten abbot Rupert von Bodman in his work (1678-1728) as imperial commissioner , in: 1712 - The becoming of a country - 2012 . Exhibition catalog. Liechtensteinisches Landesmuseum, Vaduz 2012, pp. 76–83

Web links

Commons : Rupert von Bodman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eduard Zimmermann, Friedrich Zollhoefer (ed.): Kempter coat of arms and symbols encompassing the city and district of Kempten with the adjacent areas of the Upper Allgäu. In: Alfred Weitnauer (Ed.): Old Allgäuer sexes. XXXVIII. Allgäu homeland books. Vol. 60, Verlag für Heimatpflege, Kempten 1963, p. 27.
  2. ↑ Volker Laube: The arch marshal office of the prince abbots of Kempten . In: Birgit Kata u. a. (Ed.): "More than 1000 years ...". The Kempten Abbey between founding and relinquishing 752 to 1802 ( Allgäu research on archeology and history ; 1), Likias Verlag, Friedberg 2006, ISBN 3-9807628-6-6 , pp. 191–217, here pp. 199 and 203 .
  3. ^ Wolfgang Petz: Twice Kempten. History of a Twin City (1694–1836) ( Writings of the Philosophical Faculties of the University of Augsburg. Historical-Social Science Series No. 54). Ernst Vögel Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-89650-027-9 , p. 298 f.
predecessor Office successor
Bernhard Gustav of Baden-Durlach Prince Abbot of Kempten
1678–1728 		Anselm Reichlin from Meldegg
personal data
SURNAME Bodman, Rupert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bodman, Johann Sigmund von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German abbot, prince abbot in the prince monastery Kempten (1678-1728)
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1646
PLACE OF BIRTH Taillings
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1728
Place of death Kempten