Ulrich von Steinfeld

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Beginning of collecting letters

Ulrich von Steinfeld († probably on January 5, 1170 in Steinfeld in the Eifel ) was the Premonstratensian canon and, as Everwin's successor, from around 1152 to 1170 the second provost of the Steinfeld Premonstratensian monastery in the Eifel. He came from France and never learned a complete command of the German language, as Caesarius von Heisterbach reports. He was a scholar of the collegiate monastery in Münstereifel and entered Steinfeld when this monastery took over its debts.

A collection of 73 letters has been preserved from him, which he wrote around 1152–1158 in his capacity as monastery head . The “unique source” is considered to be one of the most important testimonies to the situation of the Premonstratensian order in its early days. But it is not only important for them, judged Bruno Krings, who found in it a "not yet evaluated testimony to the way of life, spirituality, spiritual strength and charisma of the regular canons of the 12th century and the close relationships between the Springiersbachers and Premonstratensians" saw.

The letters have survived in a copy from the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century, which comes from the Premonstratensian Abbey of Arnstein an der Lahn. The parchment codex in octave format with the letters written in Latin came to Darmstadt via the former Arnstein conventual and later pastor Siardus Hasslacher and was donated to the Episcopal Seminary in Mainz in 1894 by the Darmstadt Catholic Church Council (today Martinus Library Mainz Hs. 42 , the collection of letters on pages 112–164).

The historian Ferdinand WE Roth got the first print of the letters in 1896 in the journal of the Aachener Geschichtsverein . Ingrid Joester presented an improved edition of the letters in 1976 in the Steinfeld Abbey record book . The manuscript is available online in the virtual reconstruction of the Lorsch monastery library of Heidelberg University Library .

literature

  • Ferdinand Wilhelm Emil Roth: A collection of letters from the XII. Century from the Steinfeld monastery . In: New archive of the Society for Older German History 21 (1896), pp. 558-561 online
  • Ferdinand Wilhelm Emil Roth: A collection of letters from Provost Ulrich von Steinfeld from the 12th century. In: Journal of the Aachen History Association. 18, 1896, pp. 242-311 online
  • Gilbert Krikava: corrections to the edition of the letter collection of the provost Ulrich von Steinfeld . In: Journal of the Aachen History Association. 22, 1900, p. 357 online
  • Isidor Zahradník : Correspondence probošta Ulricha ze Steinfeldu . In: Časopis katolického duchovenstva 41, Praha 1900, pp. 103-106, 211-215, 265-268 online
  • Alfons Zák: Listy Oldřicha, probošta Steinfeldského, do Čech a na Morava zaslané . Prague 1900 online
  • Alfons Zák: From the Arnstein Codex . In: Studies and communications from the Benedictine and the Cistercian Order 23, 1902, pp. 439–451 online
  • Alfons Zák: To the letter collection of the provost Ulrich von Steinfeld. In: Journal of the Aachen History Association. 25, 1903, pp. 73-86 online
  • Ingrid Joester: Document book of the Steinfeld Abbey. Cologne / Bonn 1976, pp. 603–639: Letters from Provost Ulrich von Steinfeld
  • Ingrid Joester: Premonstratensian in the Eifel. Steinfeld . In: Eiflia sacra. Studies on a monastery landscape . Edited by Johannes Mötsch and Martin Schoebel (sources and treatises on church history in the Middle Rhine region 70). 2nd edition Mainz 1999, pp. 179–203, here pp. 190–196.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dialogus miraculorum Distinctio IV Capitulum LXII, ed. by Joseph Strange vol. 1, Cologne a. a. 1851, p. 228 f. online .
  2. ^ Joester, p. 190.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Oberste: Centrality as a problem of the early Premonstratensian order. In: Irene Crusius , Helmut Flachenecker (editor): Studies on the Premonstratensian Order. Göttingen 2002, p. 236.
  4. ↑ Bruno Krings: The Premonstratensian Monastery Arnstein ad Lahn in the Middle Ages (1139-1527) . Wiesbaden 1990, p. 262, note 113.
  5. ↑ Hasslacher, Siardus. Hessian biography. (As of February 14, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
personal data
SURNAME Ulrich von Steinfeld
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Provost of the Steinfeld Monastery
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1170
Place of death Steinfeld (Kall)