Bolzendahl's Chronicle

The Bolzendahl'sche Chronik , also called the Great Helgoland Chronicle , is a chronicle for Helgoland over the years 761 to 1723. It consists of about 160 pages. The school chronicle of the island names the teacher Friedrich Peter Bolzendahl (1770–1823), who came to Heligoland in 1796, as the author.

The oldest information seems to be taken from the North Frisian Chronicle by Anton Heimreich , which first appeared in 1666. Further sources up to 1698 are assumed to be the court record, for the years 1698 to 1713 the records of the Heligoland clerk Christian Stieff and for the period from 1713 to 1723 records of the councilor and innkeeper Hans Broder.

After the death of Friedrich Peter Bolzendahl, the chronicle was owned by Johann Christian Bolzendahl (1798–1856), lodge owner and church lawyer on Heligoland. The Chronicle inherited the privy councilor Runke family in Düsseldorf through a daughter , from whom the chronicle passed into the possession of the Kröger Franz family in Düsseldorf. In 1936 the font was acquired by the municipality of Helgoland. On their behalf, Johannes Gerbers carried out the restoration and binding in Hamburg in 1938. The chronicle is now kept in the Helgoland Museum . Eduard Uterhark owned an older copy of the chronicle in Hamburg.

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• Copy by Erwin Weber, 1973 (copy of the 1938 copy = Erwin Weber, Helgoländer Chronik , Volumes I-IV, 2 1973-1976. O. Location, copy edition, Volume I)
• Copy by Hartmut Luedtke