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Pastor Korbinian Riedmaier: pastor, priest, master builder

2022-12-24T12:12:53.433Z


Pastor Korbinian Riedmaier: pastor, priest, master builder Created: 12/24/2022, 1:00 p.m By: Veronica Power Youth work was particularly important to Pastor Korbinian Riedmaier. He built up a large group of altar boys. © Archive Forstern An “unconventional, practice-oriented priest with a big heart”: this is how Pastor Korbinian Riedmaier was once described. Two street names remind of him. For


Pastor Korbinian Riedmaier: pastor, priest, master builder

Created: 12/24/2022, 1:00 p.m

By: Veronica Power

Youth work was particularly important to Pastor Korbinian Riedmaier.

He built up a large group of altar boys.

© Archive Forstern

An “unconventional, practice-oriented priest with a big heart”: this is how Pastor Korbinian Riedmaier was once described.

Two street names remind of him.

Forstern/Pastetten

– He was quite controversial in his views.

A special concern for him was the pastoral care of young people.

He loved music and singing, and when the churches in his parish needed renovations, he lent a hand.

As a tribute to his work, two streets are dedicated to Pastor Korbinian Riedmaier in the southern district: in Tading (Forstern) and in the neighboring town of Reithofen (Pastetten).

Riedmaier, who died in 2005, worked there for 40 years.

He was born on December 20, 1928 in Eberberg and grew up with several siblings on his parents' farm.

After elementary school, he attended high school in Rosenheim and Landshut, after which he began studying philosophy and theology in Freising and Munich.

In 1957 he was ordained a priest by Cardinal Joseph Wendel.

This was followed by chaplains in Neubeuern, Munich and Traunstein.

On January 1, 1964, Riedmaier was appointed pastor of Forstern and Reithofen, at that time a branch of the parish of Buch am Buchrain.

This was associated with the task of building a parish with the pilgrimage church in Tading as a parish church.

Riedmaier went to work with great enthusiasm, so that just one year later the branch office became a parish curate.

On September 28, 1969, Riedmaier was promoted to a parish: Riedmaier became the first pastor of the Assumption Day of Forstern-Tading.

The priest himself was active in renovations in the churches.

Our picture shows him (r.) on the top of the church tower in Tading, this renovation began in 1965. © Archiv Forstern

From the beginning he took care of the renovation of the branch churches Forstern, Reithofen, Harthofen and Wetting.

However, his greatest commitment was to the pilgrimage church in Tading.

With a great deal of initiative, he brought them back to their former glory, because he often used the tools himself, for example doing the electrical wiring himself.

He also wanted to be seen in his death picture in bricklayer's clothes.

And he found his final resting place in the priest's grave in the cemetery in Tading.

The focus of his work as a pastor was youth pastoral care and working with young families.

Riedmaier founded a school and built up a large group of altar boys - he managed to involve young people more in church life.

Far beyond his professional obligations, he also ensured that the young people had meaningful activities in their free time, such as mountaineering.

Equally close to his heart were his efforts to promote international understanding: he wanted to improve relations between young Germans and Israel.

To this end, he created partnerships and exchange programs and regularly hosted guests from Israel and later from Poland.

The Poles were clergymen who learned German in Munich so that they could later work here as pastors.

The young people from Israel, on the other hand, came from all walks of life, often they were Arab Christians, because tolerance between religions was very important to Riedmaier.

Music was also his love.

In choral singing he saw the possibility of bringing people together for a dignified celebration of the liturgy.

He founded choirs and schools, especially for children and young people, whom he looked after himself.

Ultimately, the entire deanery benefited from his musical talent: in 1967 Riedmaier was appointed music supervisor for the deanery of Isen, and in 1974 for the deanery of Erding.

In 1989, on the occasion of his 60th birthday and 25th anniversary in office in Forstern, the political municipality of Forstern honored all of these achievements by awarding him the citizen's medal.

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Ludwig Hiebinger, the chairman of the gardening association Forstern, experienced Riedmaier himself when he was a member of the parish council and has many memories of the clergyman.

"Pastor Riedmaier really achieved a lot," says Hiebinger, "but a lot of people rubbed him off too.

He was quite a pugnacious person.”

In 2003, for example, he caused a stir when, in his sermon on the Assumption of Mary, he called on the faithful to stand up for the repeal of church law: Riedmaier questioned celibacy and said that priestly celibacy led to a dead end: "We Priests should not only preach about the ideal family, they should also be able to realize and set an example themselves.” For this reason alone, the priestly ministry must have two options: “with and without a family”.

At the time, Riedmaier recalled Cardinal Julius Döpfner, who said 40 years earlier at the last Council: "We need tried men who are already successfully doing their job as deacons, pastoral advisors and religious teachers." Today there are these lay people in the church, he said Riedmaier firmly and demanded: "You should be allowed to be consecrated."

This forcing ahead was definitely admired, even if hardly anyone wanted to express themselves publicly - "for fear of trouble with the ordinariate".

At the time, it was conceded there that "many people probably think like Riedmaier", but that was not the bishop's opinion.

Pastor Korbinian Riedmaier found his final resting place in the priest's grave at Tading Cemetery.

© Vroni power

In 2003, when Riedmaier celebrated his 75th birthday, he was already marked by a stroke.

A good two years later, on December 30, 2005, he passed away.

Hundreds of believers accompanied him in a large funeral procession on his last journey from the funeral home in Forstern to Tading.

His successor at the time, Father Johannes Streitberger, recalled his work as a pastor, priest and master builder.

It was Riedmaier's express wish that as many acolytes as possible "and of course his singers" come to the funeral, because he saw the community as his family.

"The wonderful times of diverse youth work and friendship with other peoples are now over," Riedmaier is said to have said on his deathbed, "but the memories remain."

"He was a tracker all his life," said Auxiliary Bishop Bernhard Haßlberger at the funeral, "who was always looking for connections, not just with our denominations, but with all religions in the world".

Now the circle is closing for the "unconventional, practice-oriented priest with a big heart" - here in his beloved Marienkirche.

The mayor at the time, Georg Els, spoke of the pastor's "unbridled energy" and "unshakeable optimism", while his counterpart in Pastetten, Cornelia Vogelfanger, emphasized Riedmaier's "openness and helpfulness" and said: "His death leaves a painful void."

Sources: Chronicle of the municipality of Forstern, archive Erdinger Anzeiger

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