German Order Research Center

Bruno Platter, Helmut Flachenecker and Edda Weise

The Research Center for German Orders (FDO) is a research facility at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . It is dedicated to the history of the Teutonic Order with particular reference to the national history of Franconia .

Background and task

As early as 1219, members of the order had settled in Mergentheim in Tauber Franconia . In 1527 Mergentheim became the seat of the order's headquarters. The order was also established in Würzburg early on. That is why Dieter Salch, who was born in Bad Mergentheim, asked the University President of the University of Würzburg in 2010 to examine the implementation of a Teutonic Order research center at the university.

The project was realized from September 2013 in the abandoned Leighton Barracks of the 1st Infantry Division (United States) . After the conversion to the Hubland Nord campus , the former elementary school was renewed and opened for use. The University Archives of Würzburg and the Institute for University Studies have also moved in . The three institutions use and manage the common reading room and technical facilities such as the new mobile shelves in the archive. Bruno Platter , Friedhelm Hofmann , Dieter Salch, Josef Schuster , Alfred Forchel , Paul Beinhofer , Christian Schuchardt , Bernhart Jähnig , Arno Mentzel-Reuters , Udo Arnold , Oliver Jörg and Edda Weise came to the inauguration on July 3, 2014 . Numerous guests came from Poland, Belgium, Austria and Italy.

The FDO is based at the Chair for Franconian Regional History. Helmut Flachenecker sees the challenge in locating history both in a long temporal overview and in regionally diverse areas. The German Order Research Center is dedicated to a comparative European regional history with diverse political, religious and cultural references. At the same time she researches the history of the Ballei and today's Commandery Franconia of the Teutonic Order.

The majority of the renovation costs of € 400,000 came from the Free State of Bavaria . Support came from the German Society for University Studies , the Deutschherrenbund , Society of Friends and Patrons of the Teutonic Order of St. Mary in Jerusalem and the Dieter Salch Foundation Pro Universitate .

literature

Dieter Salch: The research center of the Teutonic Order at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 10, 2014, pp. 293-298.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Helmut Flachenecker: The research center for the history of the Teutonic Order at the University of Würzburg. (pdf) In: The virtual archive of the German Order. Maria Magdalena Rückert, accessed on March 3, 2016 (1.1 MB).
^ Udo Arnold: I had a dream. On the history of the Research Center for German Orders. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. 10, 2014, pp. 299-303; here: p. 300
^ Dieter Salch: The research center of the Teutonic Order at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. 10, 2014, pp. 293-298; here: p. 296

[PB-1] A ^b ^c ^d Helmut Flachenecker: The research center for the history of the Teutonic Order at the University of Würzburg. (pdf) In: The virtual archive of the German Order. Maria Magdalena Rückert, accessed on March 3, 2016 (1.1 MB).

[2] Udo Arnold: I had a dream. On the history of the Research Center for German Orders. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. 10, 2014, pp. 299-303; here: p. 300

[3] Dieter Salch: The research center of the Teutonic Order at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. 10, 2014, pp. 293-298; here: p. 296