Bernhard of Prambach

[1][2] In 1279, Bernhard was already parish priest of Vienna and Canon of Passau, when he was appointed judge by Pope Nicholas III in a lawsuit between the abbot of Lilienfeld and the Provost of S.

[6] He also invited several diocesan controversies among them 1293 (according to which the clergy had to wear simple costumes), in March 1294 in St. Pölten (the plundering and firefights were debated), and again in Passau (1302) on whether St. Gotthard was compulsory for the whole bishopric.

In Engelhartszell, on the estate inherited from his parents, he founded a new Cistercian penitentiary: the Engelszell monastery.

The citizens accepted the conditions of peace - among other things, even the town hall fell into the possession of the bishop - and Bernhard was once again the unqualified master of the city.

[7] The conversion of the Romanesque cathedral, which was damaged by the city fire of 1181, is now largely Gothic.