Wunibald Waibel

Wunibald Waibel OSB (born February 11, 1600 in Markdorf ; † February 11, 1658 in Ochsenhausen ) was the 17th abbot of the imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen in today's Biberach district in Upper Swabia .

Life

Waibel made the religious vows on March 21, 1616 in the monastery . In June 1624 he celebrated his first Holy Mass . In the time before he was novice master of the monastery. On December 23, 1632 he was ordained abbot of the monastery by the monks in Constance . At that time there was the Thirty Years War . The 54 remaining monks were distributed among monasteries in the foothills of the Alps or in today's Austria, Switzerland, which were not occupied by the Protestant invasion army after the lost battle of Rain am Lech in 1632.

The abbot then entered the Ochsenhausen monastery that had been entrusted to him incognito in mid-January 1633. General Gustaf Horn , coming from Ulm, had previously occupied large parts of Swabian Austria with an army of 20,000 soldiers . Eighty Swedish soldiers of the command were quartered in the imperial abbey. After a short time the monastery was in a neglected state and after it was plundered it was given away as spoils of war to a Count von Hohenlohe .

Sorrowful mother in Steinhausen

The church in nearby Steinhausen an der Rottum was devastated. Four elderly monks named Roman, Isaias, Lanfrank and Columban stayed in the monastery. Only the defeat and victory of the imperial Habsburg troops in the battle of Nördlingen in September 1634 brought about the liberation of southern Germany and also brought relief to the monastery. After the Peace of Prague , however, France joined the Swedes in the war against the emperor and the Catholic League, which would last until the peace agreement in Westphalia in 1648.

First, however, the Swedes withdrew and the abbot finally entered his monastery in January 1636. With fifteen monks returned from exile, the community tried to lead a meager monastic life for the next few years. The chronicler Georg Geisenhof describes the situation in the area of the imperial abbey with the words:

“[...] you couldn't go a mile without coming across the body of someone slain; there was seldom a night when a conflagration did not redden the sky. "

In his distress, Abbot Wunibald had to sell the green farm in Ulm to the city of Ulm in 1642 for 7200 guilders.

Waibel tried in the remaining ten years after the end of the war to repair the monastery and died on February 11, 1658 in Ochsenhausen.

literature

Georg Geisenhof : Brief history of the former Reichsstift Ochsenhausen in Swabia . Ganser, Ottobeuren 1829 ( full text in the Google book search)

Web links

Commons : Ochsenhausen Monastery - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Georg Geisenhof: Brief history of the former imperial monastery Ochsenhausen in Swabia . Ganser, Ottobeuren 1829, p. 134 ( full text in the Google book search).

predecessor	Office	successor
Bartholomäus Ehinger	Abbot of Ochsenhausen 1632–1658	Alphons Kleinhans

personal data
SURNAME	Waibel, Wunibald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German dept
DATE OF BIRTH	February 11, 1600
PLACE OF BIRTH	Markdorf
DATE OF DEATH	February 11, 1658
Place of death	Ochsenhausen

[1] Georg Geisenhof: Brief history of the former imperial monastery Ochsenhausen in Swabia . Ganser, Ottobeuren 1829, p. 134 ( full text in the Google book search).