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Bijou of the Masonic Lodge Carl zur Eintracht
Logenhaus L 9, 9 was inaugurated in 1952.
Logenhaus L 8, 3 , was inaugurated in 1885 and destroyed on March 1, 1945.

Of the Masonic lodges that exist today , Carl zur Eintracht has one of the oldest traditions. It was founded on January 18, 1756 in Mannheim and belongs to the Grand Lodge of the Old Free and Accepted Masons of Germany (AFuAM). However, their roots go back to the first third of the 18th century.

history

Earliest mention

  • 1727 First mention of Masonic activity in Mannheim
  • 1728 Constitution of the Lodge on Unity founded in the previous year by Count Albrecht Wolfgang zu Schaumburg-Lippe
  • 1737 All Masonic activity is banned by Elector Carl Philip
  • 1745 Resurgence of the Lodge on Unity
  • 1756 Foundation of the St. Charles de l'Union Lodge (emerged from the Zur Einigkeit Lodge )

The name of the Lodge Carl zur Eintracht derives from the time of Elector Karl Theodor . Many French, including Voltaire , came to the court of Karl Theodor in Mannheim . Some of them were supporters of the Scottish royal family Stuart . The changeable life of this lodge has been closely linked to the history of Mannheim since 1727 . Although the official founding year of this lodge is 1756, there is some evidence that the first German Masonic life began in Mannheim 30 years earlier. In the years 1724 and 1726-28, Count Albrecht Wolfgang zu Schaumburg-Lippe stayed in Mannheim as envoy of the English court. As an energetic champion of the masonry idea, the count had “recruited friends and followers for the cause in which he was immersed with all his soul, and through his efforts the first lodge on German soil was founded
in Mannheim .” This is how Mannheim came into being in 1756 In succession to the Lodge Zur Einigkeit , which had existed since 1727 but was banned by the Elector in 1737, initially a French / Scottish lodge Saint Charles de l'Union in honor of King Charles (Charles) Stuart of Scotland. This electoral ban is further proof that there was a Masonic lodge in Mannheim before 1737.
The count founded the lodge in 1727 and adopted the constitution a year later. According to a letter from Br. Due to the danger of persecution, Reibeld worked the lodge in secret and in accordance with the old duties of the Freemasons, which came from England . Only in the thirties does it appear to have appeared in public under the name of Zur Einigkeit under her then master of the chair Br. Gotreu . Heinrich Boos also
reports on an entry that he discovered in a booklet which Br. Burckhardt “received as a gift from the Freemasons in Mannheim” and which reads “that the lodge in Mannheim was owned by Count v. Lippe, who was the English ambassador there, was founded in 1728. ”Another proof is the letter of the Freemason v. Reibeld, which he wrote to Joseph Uriot in Stuttgart on December 1, 1769 , and which is now in the manuscript collection of the Paris National Library. He wrote: “The Brotherhood of Freemasons in Mannheim existed before 1730, according to tradition it was founded in 1727. Its founder is Br. Graf v. Lippe, who stayed in Mannheim as the English ambassador. “ Today's Lodge Carl zur Eintracht is the direct successor of this Lodge Saint Charles de l 'Union. During the Nazi era , the lodge was banned in 1933 and its work stopped. It was rebuilt in 1946 under the old name and, with the approval of the American administration at the time, was able to continue its work in the newly built lodge house in L 9, 9. In 1973 the "Carl zur Eintracht" lodge had grown to around 130 brothers and it seemed advisable to spin off a new lodge to create a smaller brotherhood. So 26 Freemasons founded the Johannis Masonic Lodge Im Quadrat . Both lodges are closely related to this day. Over the years, other Masonic lodges emerged as daughter lodges from the Carl zur Eintracht lodge, from which further lodges in turn. Carl zur Eintracht is thus the "mother" of all Masonic lodges in Mannheim.

Lodge house

The original box house was inaugurated in 1885 and was located in L 8, 3 . At the beginning of the First World War, the lodge house served as a reserve hospital. After it was destroyed in March 1945, the lodge in the immediate vicinity in L 9 was able to receive a new piece of land as compensation for the expropriation at the time. The new house was inaugurated in 1952.

Known members

literature

  • The ger. and fully Sct. Joh. Lodge Carl zur Eintracht im Orient Mannheim / announcement of the re-establishment , [Mannheim] [1842] ( digitized version )
  • Installation celebration of the reactive ger. u. fully St. Joh. Lodge Carl zur Eintracht im Orient from Mannheim on August 23, 5846 , [Mannheim] [1846] ( digitized version )
  • Heinrich Boos: History of Freemasonry , Aarau 1906
  • Masonic Lodge Carl zur Eintracht (Ed.): 225 Years of Freemasonry in Mannheim , Mannheim 1981
  • Masonic Lodge Carl zur Eintracht (Ed.): 250 Years of Freemasonry in Mannheim , Mannheim 2006
  • Humanity 7/1987
  • Peter Lauber: Freemasons in Baden-Württemberg , Stuttgart 1999
  • Quatuor Coronati Annual Book 1988 , Bayreuth 1988
  • Quatuor Coronati Annual Book 1998 , Bayreuth 1998
  • Wilhelm Schwarz: History of the Freemason Lodge Carl zur Eintracht in Mannheim , Mannheim, 1896
  • Julius Waldkirch: Freemasons in Mannheim , Mannheim 1991
  • Friedrich Walter: Mannheim in the past and present (1) , Frankfurt / Main 1907

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Lauber: Freemasons in Baden-Württemberg , Stuttgart 1999
  2. ^ Friedrich Walter: Mannheim in the past and present (1) , Frankfurt / Main 1907
  3. ^ Wilhelm Schwarz: History of the Freemason Lodge Carl zur Eintracht in Mannheim , Mannheim 1896

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Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 54.5 ″  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 3.3 ″  E