Wendelin Merbot

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Otterberg monastery church

Wendelin Merbot SOCist († October 31, 1561 in Worms ) was a Cistercian and the last abbot of the Otterberg monastery .

Live and act

Nothing is known about his origins and family. The predecessor, Abbot Wigand, is documented for 1551. Abbot Wendelin Merbot from Ottersberg already lived the choice of from Speyer originating Eberbacher Abbot Pallas Brender , on September 22, 1553 at.

In 1559 the Palatinate Elector Friedrich III. the Otterberg abbot Wendelin and his monks to convert to Protestantism, and to make the monastery church available for Protestant worship, which they refused. Therefore, the ruler forcibly dissolved the convent in 1561 and expelled the Cistercians from there. Wendelin Merbot had to renounce his abbot rights on February 24, 1561 and moved with the last three conventuals to the Otterberger Hof in Worms , with the assurance of a low annuity . This was an abbey estate that no longer exists today, north of the Worms Magnus Church . Since the complex was already in the possession of the Jesuit order at that time , Wendelin Merbot lived there in an outbuilding; on June 24th of the same year he accepted the citizenship of Worms .

Cloister of the Andreasstift Worms

Abbot Wendelin died on October 31, 1561 and was buried in the cloister of the nearby St. Andreasstift . The grave inscription no longer exists, but was found and handed down here by the historian Johann Friedrich Schannat († 1739). In 1563, Wolfgang Cartheiser , the last abbot of the Cistercian monastery Schönau , who also lived in Worms, was buried in the St. Andrew's cloister .

literature

  • Rüdiger Fuchs: The inscriptions of the city of Worms , Volume 29 of: The German inscriptions , Verlag L. Reichert, Wiesbaden, 1991, ISBN 3882264985 ; (Digital view)
  • Gerhard Kaller: History of the monastery and town of Otterberg , Volume 1, p. 111, Arbogast Verlag, 1976, ISBN 3870220279 ; (Detail scan)
  • Ernst Förster : Monuments of German Architecture, Sculpture and Painting from the Introduction of Christianity to the Most Recent Times , Volume 10, Leipzig, 1866, p. 40; (Digital scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Xaver Remling : Documented history of the former abbeys and monasteries in what is now Rhine Bavaria , Volume 1, p. 144, Neustadt an der Haardt, 1836; (Digital scan)
  2. ^ Gerhard Kaller: Heidelberger Publications for Regional History and Regional Studies , Volume 6, p. 48, 1961; (Detail scan)
  3. ↑ Michael Werling: The building history of the former Otterberg abbey church with special consideration of its stonemason marks , Heimatstelle Pfalz, Kaiserslautern, 1986, p. 23; (Detail scan)
  4. ↑ Adalbert Becker: Contributions to the history of the free and imperial city of Worms and the higher schools established there since 1527 , self-published by the Grand Ducal High School in Worms, 1880, p. 175; (Detail scan)
  5. ^ Gerhard Kaller: Heidelberger Publications for Regional History and Regional Studies , Volume 6, p. 48, 1961; (Detail scan)
  6. ^ Gerhard Kaller: History of the monastery and city of Otterberg , Volume 1, p. 111, Arbogast Verlag, 1976, ISBN 3870220279 ; (Detail scan)
  7. ↑ Palatinate-Rhenish Family Studies , Volume 2, 1957, p. 34; (Detail scan)
  8. ^ Website on the grave of Abbot Wolfgang Cartheiser
personal data
SURNAME Merbot, Wendelin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Merbot, Wendel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cistercian, last abbot of the Otterberg monastery
DATE OF BIRTH before 1553
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1561
Place of death Worms