Ottobeuren Abbey, Bavaria, Germany. (Part Two).

 

The façade of Ottobeuren Basilica, 

designed by Johann Michael Fischer, has been 

hailed as the pinnacle of Bavarian Baroque architecture.

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Rococo-Style Nave of Ottobeuren Abbey.

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His successor, Abbot Isengrim (1145 – 1180), wrote “Annales minores”[1] and “Annales majores”.[2]

Conrad of Ottobeuren was Abbot from 1193 until his death in 1227. He is described by the Benedictines as a “lover of the Brethren and of the Poor”.[3]

In 1153, and again in 1217, the Abbey was consumed by fire. In the 14th-Century and 15th-Century, it declined so completely that at the accession of Abbot Johann Schedler (1416 – 1443) only six or eight Monks were left, and its annual revenues did not exceed forty-six Silver Marks. 

The High Altar,

Ottobeuren Abbey, Bavaria, Germany.

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Under Abbot Leonard Wiedemann (1508 – 1546), it again began to flourish: He erected a Printing establishment and a common House of Studies for the Swabian Benedictines. The latter, however, was soon closed, owing to the ravages of the Thirty Years' War.

Ottobeuren became an Imperial Abbey in 1299, but lost this status after the Prince-Bishop of Augsburg had become Vogt [Editor: A Mediæval holder of the Office] of the Abbey. 

These Rights were renounced after a Court Case at the Reichskammergericht in 1624. Within months of his Election in 1710, the new Abbot, Rupert Ness (Rupert II, 1710 – 1740), the son of a Master Blacksmith, succeeded in solving the Centuries-old dispute over jurisdiction by paying 30,000 Guldens to the Prince-Bishop of Augsburg for his renouncing the “Protection Vogtei” over the Abbey, thus allowing Ottobeuren to regain its full status as an independent Imperial Abbey, although it did not become a member of the Swabian Circle. 

The War of the Spanish Succession not being yet over at the time, Rupert II arranged to meet Emperor Charles VI, who still occupied Bavaria, as well as Prince Eugene and the Duke of Marlborough, who were operating in the area.[4]

PART THREE FOLLOWS.