Wolfhard von Roth

Wolfhard von Roth († January 13, 1302 ) was Bishop of Augsburg from 1288 to 1302 and was the brother of Abbot Dietrich ( Kloster Sankt Ulrich and Afra Augsburg ).

life and work

Wolfhard von Roth came from Oberroth near Illertissen . It was in 1256 for the cathedral canons called and rose in 1286 to Provost on. A year earlier, Wolfhard von Roth was appointed administrator of St. Ulrich and Afra. He proved to be a capable economist and, due to his diplomatic skills, was able to settle a dispute with Duke Rudolf of Bavaria in 1296. Without staging himself, he probably also had great support in the city. He had close ties to the religious women's communities that were still frowned upon at the time; For the ladies in Leuthau near Schwabmünchen he built the Augsburg monastery of St. Margareth in 1262 and paid 25 guilders for their acceptance into the Dominican order .

The enigmatic tomb

Wolfhard von Roth was buried in the Augsburg Cathedral in 1302 , the tomb in the Konrad Chapel - one of the seven chapels on the east choir - has been preserved. The tomb, cast in bronze, is one of the most unusual sculptures of the 14th century and raises the question of what distinguished it in particular. An interdisciplinary project with nine scientists has found that the massive bronze plate is rather fragile: cracks, bubbles and a porous surface suggest problems during casting, other traces of subsequent mechanical effects. Apparently, the high relief is the earliest representation of a dead man dressed in regalia in the German-speaking world.

literature

• Günther Grünsteudel , Günter Hägele, Rudolf Frankenberger (eds.): Augsburger Stadtlexikon. 2nd Edition. Perlach, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-922769-28-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Riddle about dead bishop in the Augsburger Allgemeine from March 12, 2018 , accessed on September 9, 2018

predecessor	Office	successor
Siegfried IV of Algertshausen	Bishop of Augsburg 1288–1302	Degenhard von Hellenstein