Prince Max Emanuel of Thurn and Taxis

Father Emmeram OSB ( born March 1, 1902 in Regensburg, † October 3, 1994, ibid; actually Max Emanuel Maria Siegfried Joseph Antonius Ignatius Lamoraal Prince of Thurn and Taxis ) was a German Benedictine and a member of the former Princely House of Thurn und Taxis.

Life

Prince Max Emanuel of Thurn and Taxis was the fourth oldest son of Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis and the Archduchess Margarethe Clementine of Austria, he had six brothers and one sister. His eldest brother was Franz Joseph von Thurn und Taxis.

Max Emanuel in 1923 a member of the Benedictine Order and initially joined the convent Neresheim. As his religious name he chose Emmeram ( after St. Emmeram of Regensburg ) and changed his name to that.

From 1952 he lived in the owned by the Thurn und Taxis family Prüfening former monastery. His desire there to re-establish a Benedictine monastery and to revive the monastic life again, was not fulfilled. In the premises of the liturgy Scientific Institute Regensburg Prüfening was founded in the 1950s. In the last 30 years of his life, Father Emmeram lived retired alone in the monastery. Individual rooms of the great monastery he asked local youth groups as a meeting place and poor people as abode available. Art Interested visitors he himself led by the monastery church.

Father Emmeram died in 1994 and was buried in the monastery Neresheim.

The association monastery Prüfening eV was founded by Father Emmeram had accumulated considerable wealth in the equivalent of over 3.5 million euros for the restoration of the monastery over the years. Since this company ultimately failed and Father Emmeram had not left a will, the State of Bavaria decided to distribute these donations to various foundations and religious institutions, including the REWAG Cultural Foundation. The construction of the new monastery library of the monastery of Metten was partially funded from the estate.