Wilhelm Grafsturm

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Wilhelm Grafsturm (* 1681 in Deggendorf ; † March 22, 1760 in Gotteszell ) was a German clergyman and abbot of the Gotteszell Monastery .

Life

Wilhelm Grafsturm from Deggendorf was elected a priest in 1705 and was elected abbot of the Gotteszell monastery on June 28, 1716. With great effort he celebrated in 1729 the 100th anniversary of the miraculous rescue of the wooden miraculous image of Anna Selbdritt in the monastery fire in 1629. To this end, he had the monastery and church refurbished and a calvary built on the mountainside on the west side of the monastery. The medieval monastery church was given a baroque design that is no longer preserved today. a. by the Asam brothers. Cosmas Damian Asam painted the Assumption of Mary on the east wall. In the anniversary year of 1729, the St. Anna Brotherhood was founded, which until the abolition of the monastery in 1803 had a total of more than 12,000 members. In 1743 he gave the address to Queen Maria Theresa in Straubing at the homage to the Lower Bavarian estates . Gotteszell Monastery experienced its heyday during his almost 44-year reign.

literature

  • Pirmin August Lindner : Monasticon metropolis Salzburgensis antiquae: directories of all abbeys and provosts of the monasteries of the old ecclesiastical province of Salzburg. Salzburg: Pustet, 1908
  • Handbook of Historic Places in Germany, Volume 7. Kröner, 1965, p. 242
personal data
SURNAME Grafsturm, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and abbot of the Gotteszell monastery
DATE OF BIRTH 1681
PLACE OF BIRTH Deggendorf
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1760
Place of death Gotteszell