Pankraz Vorster – Wikipedia
Pankraz Vorster (Born July 31, 1753 in Naples, † September 9, 1829 in Muri) from 1796 to 1805 was the last priority of the St. Gallen.
The previous family came from an old family from the Princely Land. He was born in Naples as the son of captain Joseph Zacharias Vorster and Countess Anna Maria Rosa Berni. He mainly grew up with his uncle, who was a pastor in Grub and Wittenbach. He took off his profession in St. Gallen in 1771 and taught philosophy, natural sciences and moral theology at the Abbey School. On July 13, 1777, he received consecration. In 1784 he made an educational trip to Swabia and Bavaria with Johann Nepomuk Hauntinger. In 1785 he cited the opposition to Abbot Beda Anngehrn, who, due to his great investments and his self -controlled administration, endangered the existence of the monastery in the eyes of numerous monks. In September 1788 he was therefore a vice stattle holder ( Suboeconomus ) In the Sanktgallische exclave Ebringen near Freiburg im Breisgau. The Sanktgallen local rule there was under Austrian sovereignty. There he mainly took care of the dairy industry and built a dairy. It was not until 1796 that the first reconciled with Abbot Angehrn and returned to St. Gallen.
On June 1, 1796, the first was elected to the Abbot and immediately countered the democratic efforts in the area of the monastery. In 1797 he had to grant the old landscape his own seal and the election of a district administrator. When on February 3, 1798 the chapter released the subjects to independence, the worldly rule of the monastery was at the end. The last country bailiff of the monastery in the county of Toggenburg, Karl von Müller-Friedberg, had already released the Toggenburger into independence on January 1. On February 14, the constituent country community of the “Free Republic of the St. Gallen landscape” took place in Gossau. Vorster moved to Neu-Ravensburg, a Sanktgallische exclave north of Lake Constance and on March 3, 1798, raised formally protest against the procedure of his subjects. After the French invaded St. Gallen, the first tried to withdraw the prince’s office from Switzerland with a proclamation of June 9, 1798 and to re -annex to the Holy Roman Empire. With the invasion of the coalition’s troops in St. Gallen, Vorster returned to the monastery on May 26, 1799 and began to rebuild the rule. However, he had to flee to Mehrerau again on September 29, because after the coalition’s defeat at Zurich, the sheet had turned again (second coalition war).
From the exile in the area of power in Austria, the first had ahead to restore his monastery. From 1801, he mainly resided in Ebringen, the last remaining territory of the Fürstiei. There he uncompromisingly rejected all offers of restoring the monastery without sovereign rights. In 1803 he sent a emissary to the Helvetian consulta in Paris in order to personally recover the monastery from Napoleon. Despite the assurance in the mediation act that all monasteries should be restored, the first landlord of St. Gallen, Karl von Müller-Friedberg, was able to prevent the St. Gallen monastery, since the extensive demands of the newly founded canton of St. Gallen would have endangered. Nevertheless, on November 17, 1804, the Benediction received the Benediction as a abbot of St. Gallen through the Basel Bishop Franz Xaver of NEveu. The Grand Council of the Canton of St. Gallen on May 8, 1805 decided to liquidate the monastery on May 8, 1805. At the beginning of the third coalition war in September 1805 left the first Ebringen and finally came to Vienna via Slavonia. From there he called for a lifelong rule over Ebringen from the canton in 1806 and an annual pension of 4,000 guilders. In 1806, however, Austria finally lost control of the Breisgau and the canton of St. Gallen did not go into the territorial demands, but sold Ebringen to Baden in 1807.
Despite his commitment, the first to be called the monastery of the monastery must be described as he prevented every compromise solution.
From the perspective of the Catholic Church, the first abbot from St. Gallen remained, since the abolition of the monastery was not sanctioned in church. 1814/15 personally tried to re -establish the monastery rule at the Vienna Congress, but was only able to achieve that the congress on November 20, 1815 spoke a guesthouse of 6000 guilders that the canton of St. Gallen had to do. With the support of the Pope, the Pope then tried to at least reach the establishment of a diocese of St. Gallen, but also failed on July 16, 1816 in front of the Confederation. In the same year he moved to Arth. From 1819 he pulled back to the Muri monastery, where he died in 1829. He remained formally until his death Abbot of St. Gallen, since the monastery was only lifted in 1845 from the perspective of the Catholic Church. His body was transferred to the St. Gallen cathedral in 1923.
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