Alexander to the three stars

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The Johannisloge Alexander zu den drei Sterne is a humanitarian (i.e. religiously neutral ) Masonic Lodge in Ansbach and belongs to the Grand Lodge of the Old Free and Accepted Masons of Germany . Today the lodge has about 40 members (brothers).

history

After the death of his father, Margrave Karl Alexander von Brandenburg-Ansbach asked Margrave Friedrich III. von Brandenburg-Bayreuth , who was the grand master of the Great Mother Lodge Zur Sonne in Bayreuth, for a constitutional patent for the establishment of a Masonic lodge in Ansbach, which he also received: On May 13, 1758, the Masonic lodge To the three stars (matriculation number 35) It was formally inaugurated in Ansbach as a daughter box of the Bayreuth Great Mother Lodge and the management was transferred to Margrave Karl Alexander the following day.

In 1764 the lodge, which had previously worked according to the simple old English system , adopted the system of strict observance . The ritual work was then stopped from 1766 to 1778. From 1778 the lodge officially and regularly again worked under its new name Alexander zu den three Sterne .

With the sale of the Margraviate of Ansbach-Bayreuth to Prussia in 1791, the Alexander also got three stars under “Berlin supervision” and had to submit to one of the three recognized Berlin mother boxes; she decided in 1798 for the Great National Mother Lodge “To the Three Worlds” , while the Bayreuth Mother Lodge Loge Zur Sonne joined the system of the Great Lodge of Prussia called Royal York for friendship ; from then on both lodges finally went their separate ways.

In 1806 the Principality of Ansbach fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria , the Alexander to the three stars submitted to the Great Provincial Lodge called Ansbach Anarcharsis for a sublime purpose .

According to a royal decree of September 13, 1814, all civil servants were banned from membership in secret societies . As a result, the Alexander zu den three Sterne lost a large part of its members and ultimately had to stop its work in 1834 due to insufficient membership.

Masonic life in Ansbach did not come to a complete standstill. In 1878, under the protection of the Erlangener Lodge Lebanon zu den Drei Cedern, the Masonic Club Alexander zu den drei Sterne was founded, but it was not yet permanent.

Once again under the protection of the Erlangen Lodge, the Free Association of Brr. Ansbach and the surrounding area , from which in 1913, under the protection of the Nuremberg Lodge Joseph zur Einigkeit, the Masonic wreath Alexander to the three stars developed. In 1928, the Alexander zu den Drei Sterne was reconstituted as a just and perfect building works by the Great Lodge of Prussia, called “Royal York for Friendship” .

Due to the political situation in Germany, the situation had to resolve itself after only a few years.In 1934 the lodge property and the lodge house were confiscated by the National Socialist rulers and the lodge house was sold to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.

In 1947 the Alexander to the three stars with 19 brothers could be reactivated. In 1948 she joined the Bayreuth Grand Lodge Zur Sonne (for Bavaria) , which was also re-established , which in 1949 was merged with its member lodges in the United Grand Lodge of Germany , which has been called the Grand Lodge of the Old Free and Accepted Masons of Germany (AFAM) since 1968 .

In 1959 a new lodge house was inaugurated (the old, confiscated lodge house now serves as the official residence and apartment of the regional bishop).

Directorial Mother Lodge / Large Provincial Lodge

In 1778, the Alexander was declared to the three stars by Duke Ferdinand von Braunschweig as the acting Grand Master of all united German lodges as the directorial mother lodge for Franconia on this side of the Main stream . Subordinate to her were the lodges Caroline to the three trowels in Marktsteft, Lebanon to the three Ceders in Erlangen and Joseph to the unity in Nuremberg.

After the Principality of Ansbach fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806 , the direct connections to Prussia had to be terminated. In the event that the Franconian lodges had to separate from Berlin, the former directorial mother lodge had already received a constitutional patent as a large provincial lodge from the great national mother lodge "To the three world balls" in 1799 and was constituted in 1807 as the great provincial mother lodge of the royal . bair. Provinces in Franconia . The name of this new provincial lodge was Anarcharsis for the Exalted Purpose , it and its daughter lodges operated in the so-called rectified system with four degrees.

Known members

  • Christian Friedrich Karl Alexander von Brandenburg-Ansbach (* February 24, 1736 in Ansbach; † January 5, 1806 in Benham Castle near Speen (Berkshire) in England): last margrave of the two Franconian margravates of the Principality of Ansbach (since 1757) and the Principality of Bayreuth ( since 1769) from the house of the Hohenzollern family
  • Johann Maximilian von Streit , Freiherr, (* 1752 in Creußen; † May 9, 1833 in Weißenfels): in military service from 1769 to 1816, most recently as a colonel
  • Franz Joseph Abendanz (* around 1762): Franconian landowner and wine merchant
  • Ernst Unbehauen (born March 19, 1899 in Zirndorf; † September 23, 1980 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber): painter and elementary school teacher

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Albert Redlich: History of the Grand Lodge to the Sun , Part 2, in: Die Bauhütte , May 12, 1866, No. 20, IX. vintage
  2. ↑ a b Internet presence of Alexander zu den drei Sterne , accessed on March 5, 2016
  3. ^ Robert Freke Gould: Gould's History of Freemasonry throughout the World , 1882-1887, Vol. III, Ch. III Freemasonry in the German Empire , Sec. VI The Grand Lodge Sun at Bayreuth