Zölibatsbekämpfer possess a disadvantage: As long as they are in church power, Frömmigkeit and growth of the church lie on ice. By Hubert Hecker.

(kreuz.net) the village Wipfeld at the Main is a 1.100-Seelen-Dorf in Lower Franconia - in the northwest of the Free State of Bavaria.

A son of the municipality is Johann George cutter. It was born there in the year 1756 as a son of a winegrower.

On urge of its parents it began the theological studies, entered with the Franziskanern and in the year 1783 as Pater Eulogius in Salzburg to the priest was dedicated.

Because of its aufklärerischen ideas Pater Eulogius became first as Hofprediger in Stuttgart and then as a literature professor in Bonn to dismiss.

In the year 1791 cutter - in the meantime world priests nascently - pulled in the revolution-coined/shaped Strasbourg. There it received numerous church offices. He was among other things a professor at the seminar for priests and preacher at the Straßburger Münster.

By the radicalization of the French revolution it was brightly enthusiastic. It even sealed a Ode on the revolution, which closes as follows:

Favour is the potentiometer mash chain,
Made happy people! of your hand:
The prince throne ward you to the freedom place
The kingdom to the native country.

No feather/spring course, none: „This is our will “,
more of the citizen lot decides.
There lie it in the debris, the Bastille,
A free man is the Franzos!

Already in October its first yearly in Strasbourg held also one for cutter before the society of constitution friends „speech over the priest marriage “.

Two years later he married the daughter of a Straßburger of wine merchant. Cutter was in the meantime ascended to the Jakobinerclubpräsidenten and civil commissioner.

Starting from 1792 it made itself earned as prosecutors in the revolution tribunal around the state terror. With a mobile Guillotine the freedom hero traveled by the Niederelsaß and executed about thirty death sentences.

But of the state terrorists in Paris „the kosmopolitische Scharlatan and ex-Pfaffe were nevertheless distrustfully beäugt “. The revolutionary Blutapostel Louis de Saint Just († 1794) took its splendid wedding with a sechsspännigen carriage to the cause, in order to arrest cutters.

Before its transfer to Paris one placed cutters publicly against the pillory - bound to the Guillotine, with which he had fought still briefly before and had cut back for the freedom.

The ex-Pater in Paris ex monasteries the Saint Germain of the Près waited three months for its short process. It ended on 1 April 1794 with its Exitus on the scaffold.

At this time the Johann Ludwig cook († 1853), originating from central Hessen in the proximity of Marburg, studied theology in Mainz. In the year 1798 it was dedicated there to the priest.

Cook turned as young Kaplan, ministers and finally attained a doctorate Kirchenrechtler to the enlightened theology of a state-church Josefinismus:

It aimed at a German national church, which would receive its legal existence alone from the national force in its writings.

In the year 1815 he transferred the again-creative post of the church and upper school advice for the catholic interests in the duchy Nassau. In this office it was concerned with founding and state-church adjustment of the diocese Limburg which can be created again.

Riot caused cook with an initiative for loosening the Zölibats.

After his conceptions priests, who exercised no more church offices, should to be carried back be able to marry again to the layman conditions and.

Cook pursued thereby not least a personal goal: the wedding with its former Katechismusschülerin Susanne Reisert.

After the wedding had been refused to it despite nationalwonderful grant, cook withdrew 1821 from the catholic church and followed the Protestant community. Stood to its marriage now nothing more in the way.

In the resolution of a Regionalsynode of ten Westerwälder ministers in the year 1818 the land minister Wilhelm Bausch from Frickhofen - later second bishop of Limburg - referred to this upper training and church advice cook, whom he brought for the draft of one „to liberal church condition of the diocese which can be created again “in attack.

Bausch took the liberty to suggest „own opinions for a liberal diocese condition “:

„The marriage obstacles should be limited and because of in its unconditionality too hard and impracticably marriage prohibition showing the clergyman eliminate itself. “

„By such modifications the freedom of conscience of the clergymen both and the believers secured and the unfavorable annoyances, who developed from the seitherigen absolute Rücksichtslosigkeit to insults and disadvantages of the catholic church and the Klerus', for which future would be eliminated can. “

These formulations of Bausch were located in clear purchase to the Zölibatskritik of the ex monk and Reformators Martin Luther from a writing of 1520.

„Bishop Wilhelm Bausch was embarrassed like its predecessor Jacob fire in the liberals and state-church ideas of his time “, judges Hw. Matthias Höhler in „the diocese history “of 1908: „Their perishableness for the church it became only, when they restricted it in the administration of its Oberhirtenamtes from all sides. “

Only in the year 1842, with the start of pious and faith-faithful bishop Mons. Peter Josef Blum - which was born on 18 April before 200 years in Rhine gau - that could be overcome mentally and religiously superficial liberalism in the diocese Limburg.


The religious-church life took a pleasing upswing.

At that time was the time-mental reconnaissance aircraft and Zölibatskritikern one duration of approximately fifty years at church influence zubemessen.

Fifty years of a similar crisis lie also at present behind the church.

That may hope to be a cause that also the today's Zölibatsdiskussion the end of a liberal church epoch suggest.

Parmenas: @Gotthard: It was only the attempt…

… a Transkription. Perhaps one should use „ß “. But there are quite better options here…

God hard: @parmenas

And risaikeln it nobody probably became.

a completely mad word creation…

GregorH.: Text of the song

Is praised and high-praised, holiest Dreifaltigkeit! See, we fall to you to feet in the spirit of the bitterness. From the depth to you we call pressed children yours: wollst us all time benevolently its.
We here sins we appear full to the devotion weep, oh, with punishments us spare before your grace throne, all! From the depth…
Fully hope, with confidence we flee into your lap; benevolently us to look at, your children not offence wants! From the depth…
Oh, let our watering talk with so hard, heavy time! Comfort us in all emergencies; to always help is ready! From the depth…
Our asking, praying, singing let o God, please you! Our sigh to you penetrate, let us grace find here!
From the depth…
To you we turn the hearts, before you bend we the knees. Young and old your Gnad and Hilf' allhie erfleht with pain. From the depth…
Oh, let us not from you separate, holiest Dreifaltigkeit! Let us your Gnad' accompany in the house of the eternity! From the depth…
Text originates from the Ave Maria - Gesangbuch of the Diözese Wuerzburg. In the Gesangbuch of 1860 from Wuerzburg the song has altogether 12 Strophen and the latter 3 of it to turn itself to the God mother.

Parmenas: @Gregoriusz

Could they communicate the song times, as completely as possible?

GregorH.: Eulogius cutter

also a beautiful church song wrote that this very day in the Gesangbuch is located. Thereby holiest Dreifaltigkeit of “which still another deep concerns religiosität the author shows the song „is praised and high-praised. In a Würzburger even the 3 last Strophen the mother God are dedicated Gebetbuch of 1860. Unfortunately it dropped later from the faith and the church fought. It is already remarkable that the sloping catholics become often the largest Kirchenhasser.

Pünktchen: UNBELIEVABLY!