Ulrich of Zell
Ulrich of Zell ( * ca 1029, † 1093 ), also known as Ulrich von Regensburg, Ulrich of Cluny, Ulrich from Möhlinstal or Ulrich from Breisgau, a Benedictine and founder was, inter alia, the monastery of St. Ulrich im Schwarzwald. It is regionally revered as a saint; his feast day is July 10.
A prolific representatives of light emanating from the Burgundian abbey of Cluny Benedictine Reform monasticism appears in the second half of the 11th century Ulrich of Zell / Cluny. Born around 1029, Ulrich was the son of Regensburg merchant Bernwald. About his mother, Bucca, he was related to the Holy Bishop Ulrich of Augsburg. His parents are, as they were waiting a long time for children to Saint Magnus of Füssen have vowed to devote a healthy child to the service in the church. He was a godchild of Emperor Henry III. (1039-1056), and received together with William of Hirsau in the Regensburg monastery of Saint Emmeram his spiritual formation. He was from 1044 a member of the Imperial Chapel ( office), probably had to withdraw from the conspiracy because of his Father with the enemy Hungary.
His paternal uncle, Bishop of Freising Nitger took on Ulrich and appointed him Vicar General of the diocese. Looking after his appointment he undertook about 1051 an adventurous pilgrimage to the Holy Land, during his office was transferred to a others. A monastery was founded on one belonging to him in Regensburg land ownership failed because of the resistance of the Regensburg Bishop Otto. Presumably, Ulrich known even then to the reforms that led him around the year 1063 to enter the monastery of Cluny. As a confessor and adviser to the significant Abbot Hugo (1048-1109) developed Ulrich with his ascetic attitude varied effect. The participation in the founding of the priory Rüeggisberg (after 1070/1071 ) and the management of the priory Peterlingen (Payerne, around and after 1075 ) belong here. Ulrich got there, however, with the Bishop Burkhard another, he criticized if his worldly life change. Back in Cluny wrote a biography of Ulrich Margrave Hermann I (Baden), who had also occurred in Cluny as a simple monk. At the request of his childhood friend Abbot William of Hirsau (1069-1091) wrote and sent Ulrich recorded by him in Cluny 1079-1086 Consuetudines ( Antiquiores consuetudines Cluniacensis monasterii ), a major in the history of the Cluniac reform work in three volumes.
Abbot Hugh of Cluny, in which Ulrich according to his biographers enjoyed a special position of trust and for which he unterhahm diplomatic missions end of the 1070er -Jahre, Ulrich despatched probably at the beginning of the 1080s - years in the Breisgau, where the nobles Hesso, a member of a widely ramified southwest German nobility clan, had ceded to pass the imperial donation confirmation from the July 27, 1072 the monastery of Cluny in Rimsingen possession with the intention of founding of a monastery and a few years later in the neighboring Grüningen ( Breisach ) had been transferred. Since Ulrich stated by his biographers, the situation on the busy trade route, however, appeared to be restless, he moved the Convention in 1087 using the Bishop of Basel, Burkhard von Fenis, in the quiet valley of Möhlin (Rhine), as which he Prior to his death worked and where Ortisei with its monastery by Peter Thumb got its name later in the Black Forest. Ulrich sat down together with the abbots William of Hirsau and Siegfried of Schaffhausen for the election of reformist Gebhard III. of Zahringen, Bishop of Constance. Approx. 1090 blinded, Ulrich died in his priory in 1093, after he had asked in vain to return to Cluny Abbot Hugo. In various biographies Ulrich is represented as a saint and venerated as such in the Archdiocese of Freiburg.