Vincent Mohr

Vinzenz Mohr (born June 6, 1475 in Cochem ; † September 29, 1525 in Trier ) was a German Benedictine priest and abbot in Trier.

life and career

Until his profession in the Echternach monastery , here superior, he was then prior and from 1512 a waiter in St. Maximin in Trier . As a debut, he was entrusted with organizing the glamorous reception of Emperor Maximilian in the abbey on the occasion of the Trier Reichstag . On July 5, 1514 he was elected abbot there, which he remained for eleven years until his death in 1525. He expanded the Medard farm and acquired vineyards in Briedel , Bruttig and Kaimt . During the siege of the abbey by Franz von Sickingen , he fled to Luxembourg and called on the emperor's protection. This war of knights caused great devastation in Maximin Abbey and the destruction of individual parts of the abbey by the residents of Trier. The subsequent process with the city, which the abbey had to bear hard until around 1535, almost brought the convent to financial ruin. The convent of 28 monks, which had dispersed over other Benedictine monasteries during the war, was brought together again through him. He did a lot for the abbey. It was only thanks to his tireless energy that St. Maximin did not remain in ruins after the severe damage.

The recognition of Mohr as a financial expert beyond his sphere of activity became clear in his election as president of the property administration of all monasteries in the Benedictine province at the general chapter in Cologne in 1517. In 1518 he is President of the Chapter of the Order at Groß St. Martin in Cologne , where he also celebrated the Chapter Mass. In 1520 he was elected procurator of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Mattheis near Trier and appointed president for the future chapter of the order province and, together with Eberhard von St. Mattheis, he was the visitor of the Trier diocese . Like his predecessors, he employed the most important family of goldsmiths, the Wolf, for extensive work in the abbey. Most likely the silver bust of St. Martin in the parish church of Cochem from him, which he gave out of gratitude on the occasion of his election as abbot of his hometown (it is not a gift from Emperor Maximilian, as previously assumed in Cochem. Emperor Maximilian was always short of money and very stingy). In 1525 the plague hit Trier from Metz, claiming many victims, among others. a. Abbot Vincent.

literature

• Alfons Friderichs (Ed.): Mohr, Vinzenz . In: Personalities of the Cochem-Zell district, Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , pp. 245–246.
• Letter drafts & Settlements beginning with the year 1505, ending with the year 1518 in the Trier City Library. Hs 1888/1431 a. 1626/401, 1629/399.
• Pauly, city u. Burg Cochem, Wieprecht 1883, 75; Caspar, The Archdiocese of Trier in the Age of Faith Split, * Reformation-historical studies a. Texts, issue 90, Münster 1966, 137; Schweigerer, Vincent v. Cochem, home of Sept./Oct. 1972; 6;
• Schommers, Cochem personalities, Heimat v. Aug 1984, 2/3; Friderichs, owned by the St. Maximin Abbey, KJB CZ 2002; 61/3.

Web links

• Entry on Vinzenz Mohr in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database