Werner von Rosenegg

Epitaph of Abbot Werner von Rosenegg in Reichenau Minster

Werner von Rosenegg (first mentioned in 1367; † April 24, 1402 in Reichenau ) was abbot of Reichenau Monastery from 1385 to 1402 .

Life

Coat of arms of the barons of Rosenegg.

Werner von Rosenegg came from the Baden noble family of the barons von Rosenegg , who had their ancestral seat at Rosenegg Castle near Rielasingen in Hegau . He was a son of Hans I. von Rosenegg (1343-1383) and his first wife, a Baroness von Tengen .

In 1367 he was first mentioned in a document as a conventual of the Reichenau monastery. He was made head of the monastic hospital , parish rector of the monastery Reichenau incorporated parish congregation Radolfzell and from 1370 until his appointment as abbot in 1385 Dean .

Unlike his predecessor Mangold von Brandis , Werner von Rosenegg was on the side of the Roman Pope Urban VI during the Schima . After Werner had been elected abbot by the convent members in 1385, he asked the Pope to confirm his election, but was unable to travel to Rome himself due to the financial misery in which the Reichenau monastery had been since Eberhards von Brandis Abbatiat. In April 1386 he received from Urban VI. permission to be ordained abbot by a bishop and was consecrated on July 29, 1386 by the Augsburg auxiliary bishop Albert in the monastery church of St. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg.

As dean, Werner had already broken his monastery vows and fathered an illegitimate son, for whose care he waived all the special income from his monk's chap .

Abbot Werner von Rosenegg died on April 24, 1402 and was buried in Reichenau Minster in front of the altar of St. Otmar and Gallus .

Act

Church political activity

While his predecessor Mangold von Brandis took the side of the Avignon papacy in a schism , Werner von Rosenegg brought the Reichenau convent back to Roman obedience and not only brought it closer to the Constance diocese and Bishop Nikolaus , but also secured favor King Wenceslas . Wenzel granted the Reichenau abbot two court privileges, which considerably improved his legal position.

With his return to Roman obedience, Werner von Rosenegg risked a conflict with the Habsburg rule, which could only be prevented because after the death of Duke Leopold in 1386, Duke Albrecht III, who was also part of the urbanist camp . administered the Habsburg territories.

Efforts to secure the legal and economic position of the Reichenau monastery

Werner's entire term of office was overshadowed by the financial plight of his convent, so that he was mainly concerned to overcome this precarious economic situation and to secure the strengthened legal position of the island monastery. The abbey's debt burden was so high that Werner von Rosenegg was forced to pledge the feudal , presentation and investiture rights of all Reichenau parishes to the Counts of Nellenburg in 1388 . Despite all his efforts, he did not succeed in consolidating the monastery budget.

In 1398 he obtained from Pope Boniface IX. two restitution cops , with whose help illegally sold monastery property could be reclaimed.

Although the city of Constance tried to keep the monastic communities of Allensbach , Steckborn , Berlingen and Reichenau in a castle legal relationship without the permission of the abbot , Werner von Rosenegg succeeded in binding the Reichenau communities more closely to the Reichenau monastery, but had to come to terms with it that these communities were allowed to keep the Constance castle rights for another ten years.

Werner von Rosenegg had the bones of St. Mark removed from the monastery and brought to Radolfzell , but was forced to bring them back to Reichenau in July 1394. It is controversial whether he just wanted to keep the reliquary safe from attacks, to put the monastery communities under pressure by removing the Markus relics , with whom he was in conflict due to the extension of the castle rights with the city of Constance, or whether he wanted to sell it planned to the Venetians to improve the financial position of his convent.

The size of the convent, which had fallen continuously since the beginning of the 13th century due to economic stagnation and church political conflicts, continued to shrink to just two monks under Abbot Werner von Rosenegg.

Construction activity

Despite financial bottlenecks, Werner von Rosenegg not only had the construction of his headquarters in Constance completed, which had already begun under Abbot Diethelm von Castell , but also had the tower in Steckborn repaired. He also donated a large bell to Reichenau Minster in 1392 , on which both the abbey coat of arms and the rose coat of arms of the barons of Rosenegg are cast.

literature

• Konrad Beyerle : From the foundation to the end of the baronial monastery (724–1427) . In: Konrad Beyerle (ed.): The culture of the Reichenau Abbey. Commemorative pamphlet for the twelve hundredth anniversary of the founding year of the island monastery 724–1924 . 1st subband. Verlag der Münchner Drucke, Munich 1925, pp. 202–205.
• Thomas Kreutzer: Faded shine. Nobility and reform in the Reichenau Abbey in the late Middle Ages ( publications by the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg ; Series B; 168). Kohlhammer Verlag , Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-17-019760-2 , pp. 295-301 and pp. 486-493.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Kreutzer: Faded gloss. Nobility and reform in the Reichenau Abbey in the late Middle Ages ( publications by the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg ; Series B; 168). Kohlhammer Verlag , Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-17-019760-2 , pp. 489-490.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Konrad Beyerle: From the foundation to the end of the baronial monastery (724–1427) . In: Konrad Beyerle (ed.): The culture of the Reichenau Abbey. Commemorative pamphlet for the twelve hundredth anniversary of the founding year of the island monastery 724–1924 . 1st subband. Verlag der Münchner Drucke, Munich 1925, pp. 55–212, here pp. 202–205.
3. ↑ Thomas Kreutzer: Faded gloss. Nobility and reform in the Reichenau Abbey in the late Middle Ages ( publications by the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg ; Series B; 168). Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-17-019760-2 , p. 492.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Thomas Kreutzer: Faded gloss. Nobility and reform in the Reichenau Abbey in the late Middle Ages ( publications by the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg ; Series B; 168). Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-17-019760-2 , pp. 295-301.
5. ↑ Thomas Kreutzer: Faded gloss. Nobility and reform in the Reichenau Abbey in the late Middle Ages ( publications by the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg ; Series B; 168). Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-17-019760-2 , pp. 226-227.

predecessor	Office	successor
Swiss chard from Brandis	Abbot of Reichenau 1385 - 1402	Friedrich von Zollern-Schalksburg