Albrecht Eyring

Albrecht Eyring

Certificate of appointment as honorary citizen

Memorial stone for Albrecht Eyring in Oberlauringen

Albrecht Friedrich Eyring (born October 19, 1844 in Oberlauringen , † 1920 in Würzburg ) was a German Protestant pastor and pomologist .

Life

During his studies in Erlangen in 1867 he became a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity . After the theoretical training, Eyring was used for practical preparation in Nuremberg. Until the beginning of the new school year in 1872, Eyring was also a Protestant religious teacher at the Nuremberg Realgymnasium as a city vicar . During the vicariate he was also a chaplain in the Lichtenau prison . From 1877 he was pastor in Lipprichhausen .

During the harsh winter of 1879/80, thousands of fruit trees died from frost. In the following period, Eyring achieved through educational work that fruit trees were planted on previously unused areas. His idea found many supporters and on October 1st, 1883 the Lipprichhausen fruit growing association was founded. This was the first club that is considered the nucleus of the Bavarian State Association. Eyring created its own tree nursery in the first year of its existence, from which the members were supplied with valuable planting material. This displaced the traveling traders, who had previously mostly sold inferior material, from the market. In "hiking meetings" held by him in autumn and spring, he himself or experts from the agricultural schools and chambers held specialist lectures on all issues relating to fruit growing, in which practical exercises were also shown. It is thanks to Eyring that tree maintenance was trained in Triesdorf and that fruit orchards were laid out and a precious rice earth depot was created .

On January 9, 1893, the Middle Franconian district association for fruit growing and horticulture was founded with Eyring as chairman and at the same time it was decided on the same date to publish the monthly journal for fruit growing . The reference was binding for association members, so that everyone had the latest information in the exchange of experiences. On the initiative of Eyring, the Bavarian State Association for Fruit and Horticulture was founded in Nuremberg on November 20, 1894 . Here, too, he became chairman and it was decided to make the monthly journal for fruit growing a national newsletter. In the first year, 242 clubs with 11,410 members joined the regional association. In addition to advising on the expansion of fruit growing, for which tree attendants were trained at state and district level, it was a particular concern of Eyring to get young people enthusiastic about fruit growing. To this end, he successfully suggested in the responsible ministry that clergymen, teachers and administrators attend fruit growing courses.

Eyring himself was pastor in Herrnberchtheim from 1895 . From 1899 he gave up the state chairmanship. Shortly before his death, he handed over his fruit growing estate to his student Georg Ries, who later also taught fruit growing at the district arable farming school in Triesdorf. In 1902 he was founding chairman of the fruit and horticultural association in Herrnberchtheim, which was founded on his initiative . In 1913 Eyring was a founding member of the Heimatmuseumsverein Uffenheim und Umgebung and became its second chairman. He opened the local history museum in the Schnellerturm as early as 1914 . On his 70th birthday on October 9, 1914, Eyring was made an honorary citizen of Herrnberchtheim. He died in Würzburg in 1920 and, according to his wishes, was buried in Herrnberchtheim, where his grave is tended by the community.

Part of his estate with research on the history of the deanery and the parishes in the Uffenheim district is in the regional church archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. A plaque in his honor is attached to the rectory in Herrnberchtheim. A street in Uffenheim was named after him.

In the fortified church of Oberlauringen , a memorial stele by the artist Peter Vollert commemorates Albrecht Eyring. He was born here as the son of pastor Ernst Elias Eyring and grandson of bailiff Christian Burkard Eyring.

See also

• List of pomologists

literature

• Heinrich Reister : Councilor Albrecht Eyring: Man and Work; Festschrift for the 1950 memorial ceremony in Herrnberchtheim , Herrnberchtheim, 1950
• Heinrich Reister: Plant a tree. Bad Windsheim 1984. (With a biography of Albrecht Eyring).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 47.
2. ↑ Königlich Bayerisches Realgymnasium (Nuremberg): Annual report on the K. Bayer. Realgymnasium and the reform school in Nuremberg: 1872/73 , 1873, p. 26
3. ↑ Bavaria State Ministry of the Interior for Church and School Affairs: Ministerialblatt for Church and School Affairs in the Kingdom of Bavaria , Volume 8, Kastner & Callwey, 1872, p. 235
4. ^ History of the Bavarian horticultural associations
5. ↑ Information in the estate database in the Federal Archives
6. ^ History of the Bavarian horticultural associations
7. ^ Website of the Ippesheim market, there presentation of the association ( Memento from January 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Mainpost: Gollachgaumuseum celebrates 100th anniversary , May 21, 2014
9. ↑ Mainpost: Albrecht Eyring's tomb is being restored , July 28, 2010
10. ^ Estate database in the Federal Archives
11. ^ Marie Rienecker: Wallmersbach: a farming village in the Franconian Gollachgau , Schmidt, 1989, 2nd edition, p. 371
12. ^ Book in the catalog of the Bavarian State Library