Hatto II.

Hatto II (OSB † January 18 970) was 956-968 abbot of Fulda and thereafter until his death, Archbishop of Mainz.

Work

Otto the Great put it on the Archbishop of Mainz seat because, unlike his predecessors, he was a proponent of the establishment of an archbishopric in Magdeburg. In October 968 he agreed at the Synod of Ravenna of the insinuation of the bishoprics of Brandenburg, Havel mountain, Meissen, Merseburg and Zeitz Magdeburg and so opened the possibility of a church organization east of the Elbe and Saale. He then worked to firmly connect the Erzkanzlerwürde after previous uncertainty again with the Mainz chair.

Legend

According to legend, he had the Binger Mouse Tower built in the 10th century. At that time, to the hard-hearted bishop, as a famine prevailed in the land, the poor are denied from his filled granaries help. As they were begging, he is said to have kindled locked in a scrubbing and this of his henchmen. The screams of the dying, he is mockingly with the words " Do you hear the whistle Kornmäuslein down? " have commented. At this moment the announcement came after thousands of mice crawling from every nook and swarmed over the table and through the rooms of the bishop. The mass of rodents have beaten the servants into the flight, and Hatto should be driven with a ship down the Rhine to the island, where he thought himself safe. But when he had locked himself there, he had been eaten by the mice alive. This legend was widespread and should explain the name. From the 19th century the legend, however, was attributed to increasingly (also) Hatto I.. In the time of the Romantic Rhine often painted building inspired by his grisly legend also writers such as Clemens Brentano, Victor Hugo and Ferdinand Freiligrath.

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