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By: Andreas Beschorner
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Presented Corbiniani's vita: (from left) Günter Lehrmann (chairman of the historical association), city archivist Florian Notter, mayor Tobias Eschenbacher, city councilor Guido Hoyer and city historian Ulrike Götz.
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When Freising celebrates “1,300 years of Korbinian,” it only refers to a short period of the bishop’s life.
There is a source close to the lifetime of Korbinian that tells the entire life of the saint.
Freising
– The “Vita Corbiniani” is something like the beginning of Bavarian literary history.
The reprint of the scientific edition, including translation and explanations, as it appeared as the 30th collection of the historical association in 1983, is just one work that feels committed to the jubilee year of 2024.
The memory of the bishop and miracle worker, whose presence in Freising meant “an intensification and consolidation of the Christian faith,” said Günther Lehrmann, the chairman of the historical association, at the presentation of the reprint, is closely linked to the very Vita Corbiniani that the fourth Freising bishop Arbeo (764-783) wrote.
Critical edition
The work, written soon after 768, is the only source for Freising's beginnings in the early Middle Ages and is therefore worth reprinting in a critical edition.
It was published in 1983, with which the historical association commemorated the 1200th anniversary of Bishop Arbeo's death.
When describing the life story of Saint Korbinian, Arbeo was, on the one hand, accommodated by the Freising oral tradition, as he was able to rely on reports from people who knew Korbinian personally and on statements from members of the saint's first monastery.
In addition to the dominant miracle legends, Korbinian's "outbursts of anger, his harsh demeanor, his joy in noble horses and beautiful clothes" also come to light in Arbeos Vita.
According to Lehrmann, the description of these human peculiarities shows a personality “that allows him to stand in the political world of the Merovingian period.”
The work consists of a foreword by the editor Hubert Glaser, an article about Bishop Arbeo in Glaser's research, a text including a translation of Franz Brunhölzl's vita, a chapter about the life of Korbinian in pictures and insights into the sequence of pictures about the life of Korbinian in the cathedral (both by Sigmund Benker), was published by Schnell & Steiner and costs 30 euros.
On the initiative of Ulrike Götz, an audio version of “Vita Corbiniani” was also created: two CDs, professionally read and produced, offer the German version of the work in just under two hours for 10 euros.
An art and culture guide will also be published in the Korbinian year: In May “Freising.
Domberg, historic town, Weihenstephan, Neustift" by city archivist Florian Notter will see the light of day, a work that takes the reader on various cultural-historical tours through the city's most important ensembles.
Photographs, maps and floor plans help you get to know Freising, its history and its authentic testimonies better.
The book is published by Volk Verlag, has 160 pages and will cost around 16 euros.
The second work
And then there is a mammoth work that, for the first time in many decades, attempts to present the history of the city of Freising in its entirety.
There are six historians responsible for the richly illustrated work “Freising.
A City History” (450 pages around 40 euros), published by Friedrich Pustet: Christian Later is responsible for prehistory and early history, Roman Deutinger is responsible for the early and high Middle Ages, and Andreas Schmidt is responsible for the late Middle Ages and the early Middle Ages Robert Leutner took modern times under his wing, the chapter on the 19th century was written by Florian Notter, and the section on the 20th century was taken over by Guido Hoyer.