Evangelical Konvikt Halle (Saale)

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Evangelisches Konvikt Halle - study house of the church province of Saxony
Evangelical Konvikt Halle
Type Evangelical Konvikt
address Franckeplatz 1 House 8/9
06110 Halle (Saale)
state Saxony-Anhalt
country Germany
Regional church Evangelical Church in Central Germany
university Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Residents (total) 71
Ephorus Jörg Ulrich
Study Inspector Hans-Martin Krusche-Ortmann
Senior Anneliese Feilcke (summer semester 2018)
Head of Studies Erik Dremel
Website URL www.evangelisches-konvikt.de

The Evangelical Konvikt Halle is a study Konvikt in the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale) . It was created by merging the Tholuckschen Konvikt with the Sprachenkonvikt . The location in the Francke Foundations has a long tradition as student accommodation: when it was built in 1715, these rooms were made available to theology students who could live here freely and had to teach the children in the schools of the foundations.

prehistory

The Evangelical Konvikt combines the history and traditions of three previous Convicts : the Silesian Convict , the Tholuck Convict and the Language Convict .

The beginning: The Silesian Konvikt as the first Konvikt in Halle (1866–1937; 2005 – today)

The Schlesisches Konvikt in Emil-Abderhalden-Straße 10

In 1866 the Schlesisches Konvikt was founded at Wilhelmstrasse 10 (today Emil-Abderhalden-Strasse) under the advisory board of the theologian August Tholuck . According to the will of its founder, Count Karl Philipp von Harrach, the Konvikt was intended to support theology students from Silesia, Harrach's homeland. Tholuck took over the ephorate of the Silesian Konvikt from 1869 until his death in 1877. The founding inspector of the Konvikt was the theologian Martin Kähler (1835–1912) , who had previously taught in Bonn . With the beginning of the National Socialist rule in Germany, the Halle Konvikte were threatened in their continued existence (despite their legal independence from church, university and state). For example, the German student body tried to convert the convicts into comradeship houses - a project that was ultimately only implemented at the Konvikt of the Academic Foreign Service and the Language Convict . The preliminary end of the Silesian Konvikt was initiated by a dispute over Reinhard Ring, the then inspector of the Tholuckkonvikt. Ring was a member of the Confessing Church and was briefly suspended from his office because he wrote a letter to the theology students critical of a decree by the Reich Ministry of Science. After some unlawful changes to the board of trustees and the resulting conflicts between various bodies, the Reich Ministry of Science gave the rector of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg authorization to close the Tholuck and Silesian Convicts on April 2, 1937 ; its implementation took place on June 4, 1937. The Konviktualitas of the Silesian Konvikt was merged with that of the Tholuckkonvikt, whose closure on October 28, 1937 was lifted. The Silesian Konvikt building was rented to the Evangelical Church Music School in Halle on October 1, 1938 as a classroom and residential building . This did not change in 1946 when the original legal situation for the Silesian and the Tholuckkonvikt was restored. The building has been used as a Konvikt again since 2005 and the church music school had moved four years earlier: the Silesian Konvikt Foundation is responsible for ensuring that students of church music, theology and other disciplines find a Christian-Protestant dormitory.

Tholuckkonvikt (1871–1997)

As early as 1839, Tholuck expressed his wish to his second wife Mathilde to open a “student convict” on Mittelstrasse. Due to a lack of financial resources, this wish could not be fulfilled at this time.

The first house on Mittelstrasse

First location of the Tholuckkonvikt
Memorial plaque in memory of Friedrich August Gottreu Tholuck on today's house in Mittelstrasse

In 1870, on the fiftieth anniversary of Tholuck's appointment as a licentiate in theology, he was presented with a foundation of 4,000 thalers. However, this money had been collected for a university scholarship and could therefore not be used for the realization of a Konvikt. However, his wife Mathilde picked up the idea again and, with the help of a friend, was able to finance the purchase of a neighboring house. After a renovation phase, the Tholuckkonvikt in Mittelstrasse was ready for occupancy in October 1871. One year after Tholuck's death in 1877, the previously private Konvikt was converted into a public foundation and was given a statute that closely linked it to the Silesian Konvikt. Martin Kähler became Ephorus in the Tholuckkonvikt and also took over the Ephorate of the Silesian Konvikt in 1888. The personal union in the Ephorenamt was also retained by Kähler's successors and only ended with the closure of the Silesian Konvikt in 1937.

Moving to a new house

Second location of the Tholuckkonvikt

After Mathilde Tholuck's death in 1894, the foundation's assets were no longer sufficient to stay in the buildings on Mittelstrasse. However, the sale of the land made such a high profit that it was possible to finance a new building in Kronprinzenstrasse 8 (now Herweghstrasse). In October 1899 the Tholuckkonvikt moved into this house. Since there was a close personal connection with the Silesian Konvikt, the Tholuckkonvikt was also the subject of the dispute during the National Socialist era, which ultimately led to the end of the Silesian Konvikt. On October 13, 1937, both the Tholuck and the Schlesisches Konvikt were brought into line and housed in the building in today's Herweghstrasse. The Tholuckkonvikt thus remained in existence, but was now led by a board of trustees that was controlled by state organs and consisted of only three people. However, since the beginning of the war in 1939, this board of trustees has not met: two of the members served as soldiers, so that their offices were held by Gerhard Heinzelmann as a substitute.

Another move

Third location of the Tholuckkonvikt

After the end of the war in 1945, the Russian military administration confiscated the Konvikts building, so that the foundation only had income from the lease with the Protestant Church Music School . Although the Russian troops left the building two years later, the structural condition did not allow it to be used again immediately. However, not only the Tholuckkonvikt Foundation was interested in re-use; The language convict and the state authorities were also interested in the building. For reasons unknown, Ephorus Julius Schniewind offered to lease the building in Herweghstraße to the state government, provided that the foundation was provided with another building suitable for Konvikt purposes. The former house of the student association “ Germania ” on Jägerplatz was considered adequate, so that after a few further negotiations - at the end of which the lease of the building in Herweghstrasse was not leased - the lease agreement could be signed in 1948. After some modernization measures, the Tholuckkonvikt was reopened on November 26, 1949. Nevertheless, the foundation put on a disproportionately high financial burden year after year: since the two former convict buildings, which still belong to the foundation's assets, were only rented, the foundation also had to pay for repairs to these buildings. The first plans to sell the former building already existed in the 1950s, but financial relief could not be realized until 1974: the lease with the Evangelical Church Music School was converted into a usage agreement, while the building in Herweghstraße was transferred to Martin Luther -Universität Halle-Wittenberg could be sold. However, the attempt to acquire the building on Jägerplatz failed. During these years, from 1972 to 1991, Friedrich de Boor headed the Konvikt as Ephorus. After reunification in 1990, the student association "Germania", as the previous owner of the building, expressed interest in returning to its former location; The association announced in a letter that the Konviktualen could continue to live in the house, but that the reallocation of the rooms would be regulated by the association. The Board of Trustees found it unsafe to stay at Jägerplatz, so it was decided to find a new location. In connection with the merger with the Sprachenkonvikt in 1997, the Tholuckkonvikt finally moved to House 9 in the Francke Foundations, which is right next to the Sprachenkonvikt .

List of ephors in the Tholuck Konvikt (1869–1998)

Language Convict (1929–1997)

The third line of tradition of the Evangelical Konvikt is the Language Convict in the Francke Foundations. In 1929 a new residential building for theology students was set up here - also in the tradition of the Tholuckschen and Silesian Konvikts.

The establishment in the "Long House" of the Francke Foundations

The Language Convict in the Francke Foundations in 1938

The establishment of a language convict in 1929 was not least due to the fact that very few students at that time had learned Latin or Greek, so they had to learn these languages ​​at the beginning of their studies. Since such classes were not offered at the universities at that time, other suitable ways had to be found.

At the instigation of the theologians Erich Klostermann and Georg Wehrung , a Konvikt was founded, which was given the task of not only providing accommodation for students, but also especially taking care of their training in the ancient languages ​​at the beginning of their studies. Unlike the other convicts, however, it was not a foundation, but an association that supported the language convict. Klostermann became Ephorus of the new Konvikt for the summer semester of 1929, which he remained until 1938. His private assistant Hans Besch was appointed the first inspector . In Rudolf Sellheim, the Sprachenkonvikt even had its own language teacher. Nevertheless, the Sprachenkonvikt had had financial difficulties since its existence, so that after the National Socialist seizure of power Ephorus Klostermann only saw the conversion of the Sprachenkonvikt into a camaraderie as the only possibility of survival of the Konvikt. For the winter semester of 1934/1935, the Sprachenkonvikt was recognized as a comradeship, combined with the requirement to install a comrade leader in the house instead of the senior and to open the house to students from other faculties as a place to live. The consequences of the conversion should, however, become apparent as early as 1937, when an attempt was made to build the Sprachenkonvikt into a German-Christian counterpart of the Tholuck and the Silesian Konvikt; In this way, the dean of the theological faculty was able to convert the church scholarships into free places in Konvikts and leave these free places to the German-Christian theological department. The Second World War passed the Sprachenkonvikt largely without a trace. In 1946, however, the building stock of the Francke Foundations was transferred to the university - a decision by which the Sprachenkonvikt de facto also lost its right to stay on the foundation's premises. After a lengthy legal tug-of-war with various state authorities, the Language Convict has been tacitly tolerated by the Francke Foundations since 1953. In 1950 the Sprachenkonvikt association was dissolved as the sponsor of the house. In order to ensure the continued existence of the Language Convict, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Anton Werther, tried to win the Consistory of the Church Province of Saxony as a new sponsor. The consistory, after some hesitation, only agreed to this request in 1952.

List of the Ephors of the Language Convict (1929–1997)

Brief transitional quarters for the city mission

Transitional quarter of the Sprachenkonvikt

The Sprachenkonvikt could remain in its original location, but due to its only tolerated status, the university, as the new owner of the foundation's premises, only undertook the most necessary repairs, so that the building structure of the Sprachenkonvikt continued to deteriorate over time. Though they thought about moving the Sprachenkonvikt, the plans were not pursued for various reasons. After German reunification, the Sprachenkonvikt, like most of the Francke Foundations' building stock, was in dire need of renovation. Since the university saw itself released from its repair obligations immediately after the restoration of the foundations as a legal entity and the building stock could only be transferred to the foundations three years later, the urgently needed repairs were delayed further. In 1994, the reconstruction and redesign of the house began, which, however, made it necessary to relocate the Sprachenkonvikt. During this time, the Halle City Mission offered accommodation for twenty students in its rooms on the Weidenplan. During the "exile" of the Language Convict in 1995, a contract was signed between the Francke Foundations, the Church Province of Saxony and the Halle Student Union , which aimed to establish and operate the Evangelical Convict in Halle. After three years of renovation, the Sprachenkonvikt was able to return to its old location in House 8 of the Francke Foundations in November 1997; the adjoining house 9 was made available to the Tholuckkonvikt, so that there was now space for 72 students.

Evangelical Konvikt (since 1997)

The Evangelical Konvikt in the Francke Foundations in 2009

The more recent story

When the Sprachenkonvikt and Tholuckkonvikt were united in 1997, Hermann von Lips was appointed Ephorus and Pastor Michael Lehmann was appointed inspector; Lehmann was previously the inspector of the Sprachenkonvikt (since 1991). In 1999 pastor Irene Schiefke-Taatz took over the post of inspector until autumn 2005. Her successor was Daniel Cyranka in October 2005 - at that time still part-time . Until his full-time position in April 2006, Roswitha Förster was responsible as executive repeater. With the assumption of office by Daniel Cyranka, a closer connection to the theological faculty of the Martin Luther University was again established, since he is also active there as a university professor. In autumn 2008, Hermann von Lips gave up the office of Ephorus after his retirement, and Professor Hermann Goltz was appointed as his successor. In the summer semester of 2008, the tenth anniversary of the Evangelical Konvikt was celebrated as part of the annual Konvikt festival. As a result of the merger of the two regional churches, the ecclesiastical province of Saxony and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia, to form the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM) in January 2009, the Konvikt is financially supported by the EKM. Due to the foundation law, the name “Study House of the Church Province of Saxony” is retained. After the death of Hermann Goltz on December 9, 2010, Professor Jörg Ulrich took over the office of the Ephor in the 2011 summer semester . From September 2012 to 2018 Pastor Kay Weißflog was an inspector. He was also employed at the theological faculty as a research assistant in the subject of the Old Testament .

Life in the Konvikt today

After some renovations, the Evangelical Konvikt currently offers 71 theology and other subjects a place to live and work. During the lecture period, devotions take place every weekday at different times in the St. George's Chapel , as well as house services at the beginning and end of the semester. In addition, the Konviktualen (residents) find support in the tradition of the Halle Konvikte with their studies as well as their own educational offers. The library in the Konvikt currently has a stock of around 10,000 books. Every semester there is a Konvikt program with various exercises; in addition to the “classic” language exercises, there are also exercises such as “devotional planning for non-theologians”, a guitar course or “culinary Konvikt”. In the summer semester, on Ascension Day, a trip to Petersberg is traditionally on the plan, where a picnic takes place after attending the service. In the winter semester there is the possibility to take part in a Konviktsfahrt; the trip extends over the period of a weekend and has different destinations. In addition to the already mentioned Konviktsfest, which takes place every summer semester, there is a house music evening and the Feuerzangenbowle in the winter semester. There is also a tradition of pranks between the Konvikt: the aim here is to steal items from another Konvikt and to fulfill a condition for surrendering the booty (usually in the form of a joint barbecue evening). The "living room" is a common room for the residents and is used for various homework and free evenings.

View of the living room
List of ephors in the Evangelical Konvikt (1997-today)
List of seniors in the Evangelical Konvikt (2004 – today)
  • Winter semester 2003/2004: Sophie Geißler
  • Summer semester 2004: Kathleen Schnecke
  • Winter semester 2004/2005: Cornelia Ketter
  • Summer semester 2005: Michaela Jecht
  • Winter semester 2005/2006: Matthias Müller
  • Summer semester 2006: Martin Hesse
  • Winter semester 2006/2007: Stefan Richter
  • Summer semester 2007: Stefanie Köller
  • Winter semester 2007/08: Theresia Schreiber
  • Summer semester 2008: Denny Mattern
  • Winter semester 2008/09: Tobias Neumeister
  • Summer semester 2009: Sarah Wetterau
  • Winter semester 2009/10: Martin Mücke
  • Summer semester 2010: Christoph Stewig
  • Winter semester 2010/11: Lars Fiedler
  • Summer semester 2011: Christoph Harendt
  • Winter semester 2011/12: Marlen Ködelpeter
  • Summer semester 2012: Ulrike Freihofer
  • Winter semester 2012/13: Nadja Thiel
  • Summer semester 2013: Katharina Lüder
  • Winter semester 2013/14: Annika Johansson
  • Summer semester 2014: Jenny Beck
  • Winter semester 2014/15: Martin Schlorke
  • Summer semester 2015: Jakob Simon
  • Winter semester 2015/16: Claudia Renner
  • Summer semester 2016: Florian Bühnemann
  • Winter semester 2016/17: Patrizia Reimann
  • Summer semester 2017: Sascha Ebner
  • Winter semester 2017/2018: Thomas Marcak
  • Summer semester 2018: Anneliese Feilcke
  • Winter semester 2018/19: Luisa Imhof
  • Summer semester 2019: Swaantje Tantzen
  • Winter semester 2019/20: Esther Holtschulte

Timeline of the Evangelical Convict


literature

  • Friedrich de Boor and Michael Lehmann: Study and community under the Gospel. Contributions to the history and perspectives of the Evangelical Konviktes in the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale), Halle 1999.

Individual evidence

  1. In this decree u. a. Attending substitute courses in the denominational church is prohibited and calls for a boycott against professors of the denominational church.
  2. In the period up to 2005, the Silesian Konvikt Foundation was co-administered by the Tholuck and Evangelical Konvikt.
  3. These were the Dean of the Faculty of Theology , one from the Reich Church Minister appointed a Protestant clergyman from the province of Silesia and the province of Saxony and one appointed by the Reich Ministry of Science headmaster.
  4. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz:  Heinzelmann, Gerhard. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 688.
  5. ^ Eckhard PlümacherKlostermann, Erich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 89-92.
  6. ^ Matthias Wolfes:  Defense, Georg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 1516-1542.
  7. ^ Rainer Hering:  Besch, Hans Willi. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 124-128.
  8. Klostermann hoped to receive higher non-church funding in this way.

Web links

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