Carl Moeller (local history researcher)

Otto Louis Carl Moeller (born August 22, 1867 in Sondershausen , † November 27, 1920 in Stockhausen ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor in Stockhausen and a local researcher.

Life

childhood and education

Carl Moeller was born in 1867 as the son of Lord Lord Jesus Christ Johann Jacob and his wife Johanne Christiane Caroline (née Jacob).

He went to school in Arnstadt and graduated from high school in 1887. He then studied in Leipzig and Göttingen . He passed his exam in 1890 and came back to Sondershausen in 1893 .

Stock houses time

St. Matthias Church in Stockhausen (Sondershausen)

The Protestant community in Stockhausen was affiliated to the parish of Jechaburg until 1894 . The pastors came from there and held services in the village church. As the population grew, the community broke up and declared itself independent. From May 1, 1894, Carl Moeller was ordained as an assistant pastor in Stockhausen , and on December 16, 1894 he was appointed parish vicar . From December 1, 1897, he was officially allowed to call himself a pastor.

During his time in Stockhausen he wanted to improve life in the village. He fought against - in his opinion - unchristian and immoral excesses, which he often referred to as "moral decay". He promoted education, welfare and nursing. He owed the stock houses a children's custody (1895), a public library (1895), a new, larger school building (1900) and a deaconess station (1901). Further structural measures were the construction of a rectory in 1898 and the new building of the St. Matthias Church in 1905, designed by Theodor Quentin . Later he had a new cemetery built. Furthermore, he dealt intensively with the history of Stockhausen and the surrounding area. Almost everything that is still known about this village today is due to Moeller's research. While working on the old cemetery, he discovered strong remains of the wall, which, as he suspected, turned out to be a kind of castle, perhaps the "Stockhus", which possibly gave the place its name.

He remained in the ministry as a pastor until his death in 1920.

family

In Rockensussra , Carl Moeller married Emilie Liddy Elise Margarethe Tölle (1874–1969) on September 28, 1895, the daughter of the pastor from Dannheim Albert Friedrich Wilhelm Tölle and his wife Johanna Friederike Louise (née Lattermann). With her he had three children who were born in Stockhausen :

• Marie Johanna Margarete (born June 9, 1896 - † September 29, 1973), married to Dr. med. dent. Friedrich König from Sondershausen
• Carl Rudolf Johannes (born November 11, 1898 - died March 29, 1918 in France )
• Carl Reinhold Georg (* July 4, 1902, †?)

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• Thuringian Parish Book Volume 2: Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, 1997, Ed .: Society for Thuringian Church History, ISBN 3-7686-4148-1
• Stockhausen church reports from 1895–1919, author: Karl Moeller
• Declaration of love to a city - Sondershausen, 2000; Ed .: Röttig picture archive