Arn (Bishop of Würzburg)
Arn of Würzburg ( * before 855; † July 13 892 ) was Bishop of Würzburg from 855 to 892
Life
Arn was appointed 855 by Louis the German bishop of Würzburg. In his inauguration burned in Wurzburg down the cathedral, which he had set up in honor of St. Kilian again. He took an active part in diets and poor synods.
Arn fought as an active military leader, for example, 884 together with Heinrich, Margrave of Friesland, in the defense of Saxony against a strong Norman invasion. 892 he moved together with Poppo, Duke of Sorbian Mark, from a less successful campaign against the Bohemians. On the way back Arn was killed along with his companions of Slavic troops. The place where Arn suffered martyrdom is not known. About a hundred years after his death described Thietmar of Merseburg, that this was done " in pago Chutizi ". At the place of martyrdom strange stars were to be seen. Even the Slavs around thought that these lights are the souls of the martyrs.
Entirely without or with unconvincing justifications take different places in Saxony lay claim to be the site of the death of Arn. This is based on local history, especially the 19th century way to eg a late medieval stone cross may have been erected on the site in Klaffenbach where Arn was martyred. Overall, however, solidified opinion, place of death of Arn had somewhere located in the area of Chemnitz or Zschopau. However, this area was both the time of death of Arn and yet at the time, in the Thietmar worked, uninhabited. Other local historians suggest that Arn ( across the circle center today Saxony) used the most comfortable fit of the Ore Mountains, the Old Bohemian climbing over Most ( Brux ), Sidon, and Oederan Waldheim as way back. This reinforces the presumption that Arn was buried in the no longer extant Jacobikirche before Colditz Castle. A later produced grave stone Arns from Rochlitzer porphyry is located in the Church of St. Aegidien ( Colditz ). Arn was worshiped until the 18th century as a saint. Around 1250 it an atonement chapel to have been built in Mittweida.