Baldwin to the linden tree

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Vignette of the Balduin zur Linde box
Hotel Müller (1870–1923, 1880–1897 called Müller's Hotel ) at Matthäikirchhof, the former Balduin box house (on the right, around 1900)
Joint box building with the box Apollo in Elsterstraße 2
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Medal for the 125th anniversary of the foundation festival of the Balduin zur Linde Lodge in 1901

The Johannisloge Balduin zur Linde in Leipzig is a Masonic Lodge within the Great State Lodge of the Freemasons of Germany .

history

On February 7, 1776, the Balduin Lodge was founded by nine former Minerva brothers in the Große Feuerkugel inn at Neumarkt 3 . The lodge was named after Baldwin II (before 1080–1131), King of Jerusalem and protector of the Holy Sepulcher . The new lodge was "installed" on April 30, 1776, and in 1778 it was recognized by the Minerva lodge for the three palms . After the brothers of the Lodge Zur Linde joined the Lodge Balduin on March 16, 1809 , this led the name Balduin zur Linde .

The box was located in the Place de repos , which was opened in 1793 . On January 1, 1821, the new box bar was inaugurated in the former organist house of the Neukirche am Neukirchhof (later Matthäikirchhof 13, today's location of the school museum). The boxes Balduin zur Linde and Apollo decided to build a joint box house at Elsterstraße 2, at the corner of Zentralstraße. The topping-out ceremony for the building built by Eduard Pötzsch was on October 30th, 1846. On September 12th, 1847 the "celebration of the inauguration of the newly built box house of the just and perfect St. John's lodges Apollo and Balduin zur Linde" took place.

On February 11, 1816, the lodge opened the first Sunday school for journeymen and apprentices of neighboring craftsmen in their lodge premises . The Sunday School was founded by two lodge brothers, the businessman Wilhelm Friedrich Goetz and the pharmacist Heinrich Adam Täschner. The school was held “on Sundays, specifically in those hours [...] that do not interfere with the public service.” The lessons were initially carried out free of charge by teachers from the Lodge, and since 1821 they have received annual compensation. The rival municipal trade school in Leipzig was only founded in 1875.

In 1827, Wilhelm Friedrich Goetz founded an "Association to support women in need of childcare". On October 22nd, 1866, his son set up a “daughter foundation for the best of unsupervised daughters of lodge members”. On February 24, 1865, the lodge founded the "Educational Association for the Training of the Lower Classes of Women".

On June 24, 1933, the Balduin zu Linde lodge dissolved. It was only re-established in Leipzig on April 3, 1992. On November 14, 1992, the lighting took place in the New Town Hall .

On the occasion of its 225th anniversary and the 200th birthday of its former member Albert Lortzing, the lodge organized a festive concert on May 5, 2001 in the Alte Börse .

Well-known members of the lodge

  • Lodge building at Elsterstrasse 2 (1905)

  • Blackboard map of the lodge of April 12, 1845

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helmut-Henning Schimpfermann : Wirtliches on the Pleiße. A gastronomic compendium of Leipzig. Verlag Die Quetsche, Hanau 1991, ISBN 3-9802743-0-6 , p. 160.
  2. ^ OW Förster, GM Hempel: Leipzig and the Freemasons. 2008, p. 81.
  3. ^ OW Förster, GM Hempel: Leipzig and the Freemasons. 2008, p. 70.
  4. ↑ so in the license application to the City Council of Leipzig; see. OW Förster, GM Hempel: Leipzig and the Freemasons. 2008, p. 70.
  5. ^ OW Förster, GM Hempel: Leipzig and the Freemasons. 2008, pp. 73, 84.
  6. ^ OW Förster, GM Hempel: Leipzig and the Freemasons. 2008, p. 84.
  7. ^ OW Förster, GM Hempel: Leipzig and the Freemasons. 2008, p. 123.
  8. ^ OW Förster, GM Hempel: Leipzig and the Freemasons. 2008, p. 124.

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Fuchs: The Masonic Lodge Balduin zur Linde in Leipzig 1776–1876. Festschrift for the secular celebration on May 27 and 28, 1876. Leipzig 1876.
  • Bruno Zechel: The Masonic Lodge Balduin zur Linde in Leipzig, 1876–1901. Festschrift for the 125th Foundation Festival on March 24, 1901. Leipzig 1901.
  • Otto Werner Förster : Freemason in Leipzig. People, history, facts. Taurus Verlag, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-9805669-3-5 .
  • Otto Werner Förster, Günter Martin Hempel: Leipzig and the Freemasons. A cultural story. Taurus Verlag, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-9810303-4-1 .

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