Simon Lengenberger
Simon Lengenberger OSB (* in Biberach ; † February 22, 1498 in Ochsenhausen ) was the 6th abbot of the Imperial Abbey of Ochsenhausen in today's Biberach district in Upper Swabia .
Life
Simon entered the Benedictine order as a novice at the age of fifteen and made his profession a year later . In 1482 he was elected abbot. Like four of his predecessors in the abbot's office, he came from Biberach an der Riss. With a certificate issued in Innsbruck on December 23, 1488, Emperor Friedrich III. the abbot the right of blood jurisdiction , combined with the permission to erect a stick and gallows. Pope Alexander VI gave the abbot the pontifical insignia unbidden in 1495 . In 1494 and 1495, Emperor Frederick's successor, the Roman-German King and later Emperor Maximilian I, presented the monastery with the regalia and the abbot with the title of Imperial Prelate with a seat and vote in the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire .
New construction of the monastery church
In 1489, Abbot Simon began building the new monastery church in a Gothic style. She is said to have been not unlike the ministers of Strasbourg and Freiburg in majesty at the time. On May 29, 1495, it was solemnly consecrated by the Constance Auxiliary Bishop Daniel, Titular Bishop of Belline in Syria . The new church had fifteen altars and the high altar was made by Jörg Sürlin from Ulm. He started doing it in 1496 and completed it in 1499 under the later abbot Hieronymus Biechelberger. He also had a guest house built.
Acquisitions and foundations
In 1487, Herr zu Horn founded the Fischbach chaplain . In 1491 the branch church in Baltringen came to the Ochsenhausen monastery. The branch town of Hirschbronn, which had previously been part of the parish of Thannheim, was incorporated into the parish of Steinhausen. In 1493 Abbot Simon Lengenberger bought the entire village of Oberopfingen , the hamlet of Bonlanden and individual farms in Unteropfingen, Kirchdorf an der Iller , Kirchberg an der Iller and Binnrot from the Mehrerau monastery and partly from the Rot an der Rot monastery . In 1496 he exchanged the latter for Eichenberg and Bechtenrot. In the same year he bought a house in Ulm and Memmingen .
Georg Geisenhof gives a description of the abbot by Bernhard Klaus. “He was serious and at the same time friendly, courteous and obliging; kind to the weak, fearless to the unruly; Careful in making decisions, skillful in carrying out what was decided, a much experienced economist, a rare friend of science, a tireless promoter of monastic discipline and good morals in general. ” Abbot Simon resigned in 1498 and died on February 22nd, 1498.
literature
- Georg Geisenhof : Brief history of the former Reichsstift Ochsenhausen in Swabia . Ganser, Ottobeuren 1829 ( digitized version )
- Volker Himmelein (ed.): Old monasteries, new masters. The secularization in the German southwest 1803. Large state exhibition Baden-Württemberg 2003 ; Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2003; ISBN 3-7995-0212-2 (exhibition catalog and essay volume)
- Volker Himmelein, Franz Quarthal (ed.): Front Austria, Only the tail feather of the imperial eagle? The Habsburgs in the German southwest . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Ulm 1999, ISBN 3-88294-277-0 (catalog of the state exhibition).
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Ochsenhausen (Ed.): Reichsabtei Ochsenhausen. History and art. Ochsenhausen 1984, p. 113
- ^ Georg Geisenhof : Brief history of the former imperial monastery Ochsenhausen in Swabia . Ganser, Ottobeuren 1829 ( digitized , p. 62)
Web links
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Jodoku's brother |
Abbot of Ochsenhausen 1482–1498 |
Hieronymus I. Biechelberger |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Simon Lengenberger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | sixth abbot of the imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Biberach |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1498 |
| Place of death | Ochsenhausen |