Erminold

The blessed Erminold of Prüfening († January 6, 1121 ) was the first abbot of the Benedictine monastery Prüfening in Regensburg.

Erminold itself probably came from a Swabian noble family. He has already passed as a boy the reform Hirsau in the Black Forest under Abbot William of Regensburg. In 1106 Erminold should be at the request of Emperor Henry V. abbot of the monastery Lorsch near Worms, failed there, but with the introduction of Hirsauer reform and had to return to his monastery.

Bishop Otto of Bamberg asked 1114 Hirsau to Erminold as head of his newly founded monastery Prüfening where Erminold was elected in August 1114 for the first abbot. On May 21, 1119 was held under him the consecration of the monastery church dedicated to Saint George by the bishops of Bamberg and Regensburg instead.

Erminold Although the monastery Prüfening made ​​in a few years the center of the Hirsauer monastic reform in Bavaria, but won by his obstinate and fanatical personality no friends. The strict monastic discipline must have also led among Prüfening monks to bad blood. After the abbot was an earlier assassination still escape, hit the monastery brother Aaron on such a Erminold that this passed away on January 6, 1121.

In the year 1281 prompted Abbot Ulrich von Prüfening the record of his life and 1283 was carried out with the collection of his bones the beatification Erminolds. He was buried in front of the rood altar in the transept of the abbey church. Its high- grave in the nave of the abbey church is so expressive that it has given its unknown sculptor to Notnamen Erminoldmeister.