Wolfgang I. Lenberger

Wolfgang Lenberger with staff and missal (grave monument)

Wolfgang Lenberger († 1541 ) was monastery dean and as Wolfgang I from 1523 to 1541 imperial prelate and provost of the monastery monastery Berchtesgaden .

His “highly artistic” grave monument is in the Berchtesgadener Stiftskirche on the right choir wall opposite that of his predecessor Gregor Rainer . Both were buried in their own tombs in the ground immediately in front of their grave monuments .

Official requirements

In 1294, the secular independence of the Stiftspropstei, founded around 1100, had already manifested itself through the acquisition of blood jurisdiction for serious offenses. Raised to the scepter fief from 1380 and also represented with a seat and vote in the Reichstag, the power of the Stiftspröpste increased even further and Lenberger's status was equated with that of a Reich prelate.

Thanks Propst Bernhard Leoprechtinger of the "metropolitan authority" of the since 1455 Fürsterzbistums Salzburg free, was Wolfgang Lenberger also in spiritual things ( Spiritualien subordinated only to the Pope). However, Lenberger still had to accept the pledge of Schellenberg and its saltworks to Salzburg in order to repay the monastery monastery’s immense debts to the prince-archbishopric. His predecessor Balthasar Hirschauer has after conflicts with the Berchtesgaden farmers and their complaints in the " Fuchs letter " of the Emperor I. Maximilian commissioned captain of Kufstein sword Fuchs Fuchsberg get securitized the right to control various surveys. Nevertheless, the debts to Salzburg were not to be fully paid until 1556.

Act

During the peasant uprising

Spread of the uprisings during the German Peasants' War

After Lenberger had been elected provost from among the ranks of the Augustinian Canons Chapter, he had "hard times to endure, but was the man to do it", according to Koch-Sternfeld. His reign was determined by the Great Salzburg or German Peasants' War , which began in Schellenberg with the liberation of a priest named Matheus. This priest had preached Martin Luther's new doctrine of Protestantism and was to be kept in “eternal captivity” in Mittersill Castle . At the salt pans in Schellenberg, the crowd was touched by the priest's "misery" and some young men, including one named Stöckl, had brought him to safety. However, the liberators were soon caught and eventually beheaded. Then it says: "The peasants of the mountains, hounded by the relatives of the beheaded, swore blood revenge".

In the course of this peasant uprising, the monastery was also plundered. Documents and writings went to shreds and the treasures hidden in barrels at Count Wicka Weiher on instructions from Lenberger became welcome prey. Subsequently, a large number of Berchtesgaden farmers followed the rebels and moved with them to the siege army in Salzburg. In the end, however, they had to ask Provost Lenberger - like all other regents of their respective regents - for forgiveness and pay compensation in order to be guaranteed a contractual pardon and impunity. For the monastery monastery, however, the claims for compensation to be negotiated with the Salzburg archbishop were limited and, in contrast to Salzburg, it survived the peasants' war relatively lightly.

Issuing of regulations

After this Peasants 'War, Lenberger devoted himself to the internal administration of the Stiftspropstei and in 1529 gave the woodworkers' guild and the “ Sebastiani Brotherhood” a handicraft code with legal force. After that, whoever wanted to join this guild as an apprentice required the approval of the provost and the guild master. Furthermore, the publishers or buyers of the Berchtesgaden War were forbidden to pay for finished goods with raw materials or natural products.

literature

• Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger , Berchtesgaden 1986 ISBN 3-925647-00-7 , pp. 50-109.
• A. Helm , Hellmut Schöner (ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time . Reprint from 1929. Association for local history d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1973. pp. 100, 106–111, 261–262.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . P. 100
2. ↑ The tombs in the collegiate church “St. Peter and Johannes the Baptist ” ( memento from March 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), tombs in the collegiate church with information on the grave of Wolfgang Lenberger, online at stiftskirche-berchtesgaden.de
3. ^ Helm A .: Berchtesgaden in the course of time, keyword: History of the country, pp. 108-109
4. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Pp. 50-51
5. ↑ According to A.Helm, the episcopal insignia received after him in 1254 are already a sign of direct papal suzerainty to which the monastery would have been subject to since then. See Helm A .: Berchtesgaden through the ages , keyword: History of the country, p. 109
6. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . P. 79
7. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Pp. 79-85
8. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Pp. 96-97
9. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Pp. 98-99
10. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Pp. 99-100