Waldau Forestry School

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The forestry school in Waldau was a forestry school established by the Hessian Landgraviate for foresters of the upper and higher careers. From 1798 to 1815 it was in the village of Waldau (Kassel) . Its founder and director was the then chief forest master Friedrich Ludwig von Witzleben .

founding

The reasons for the establishment of our own forestry school were preceded by personal reasons. In the time around 1760 there was a lack of professionally trained staff in the ranks of the Hessian forest officials, especially in legal and cameralistic matters. In many places, these positions were therefore filled with people from other European countries. A fundamental reform of the training of foresters in Hesse should compensate for this deficiency.

The then head forester Friedrich Ludwig von Witzleben therefore founded the Waldau forestry school in order to establish improved theoretical instruction for forest officials. The forestry candidates for the higher forest management should be prepared for their later academic career in the college. He was supported by the Marburg political scientist Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling in founding and developing the educational institution .

classes

The first years of the forestry school students were initially all members of the so-called hunter corps . Her training in the college included a two-year course in spelling, the drafting of written protocols and essays, trigonometry , geometry and arithmetic as well as the so-called lower forest science . Over the years, the subjects of forest constitution as well as building and wood studies were added. Due to the tight spatial conditions, between 1798 and 1806 no more than eight students could use the school at the same time.

In the early years there was a lack of qualified teaching staff. In order to be able to guarantee regular instruction, they resorted to compulsory forest officials from the surrounding area and to newcomers from outside the field.

The building of the educational institution is still in the center of Waldau today. The street name - Am Försterhof - indicates the historical use.

Relocation to Fulda

Around 1816 the educational institution was relocated to Fulda due to the Napoleonic wars and declared a state institution. The Electorate of Hesse , however, invested little in the equipment of the educational establishment, both in Waldau and in Fulda complaints were repeatedly made about a lack of space, scanty furniture, dirt and cold, as well as missing instruments and books. In 1822, two or three forestry school students had to share a bed in Fulda.

Relocation to Melsungen

When the forestry school moved from Fulda to Melsungen in 1825, the library consisted of a single book with logarithmic tables and three measuring instruments, only one of which was usable. In Melsungen it was now possible to use larger rooms, the specialist library and forest collections were increased and a forest botanical garden could be created. Compared to the neighboring states of Prussia , Saxony , Bavaria and Hessen-Darmstadt, the Electorate of Hesse invested comparatively little money in forest training.

The Melsunger Forstlehranstalt was closed at the end of May 1868 after the annexation of the spa state in 1866 as a result of the German War .

In the previous year, the incumbent school director Grebe, with the support of the finance department of the Prussian administration in Kurhessen and the new senior president v. Möller made one last unsuccessful attempt to save the forestry school by relocating it to Marburg .

Sources and literature

  • About the electoral Hessian forestry schools. By A. Bonnemann. Volume 56: JD Sauerländer's Verlag
  • Jung-Stilling, Johann Heinrich: Staatswirthschaftliche Ideen. First issue. Marburg (new academy bookstore) 1798.
  • Promemoria of the chief forester J. Chr. Reichmeyer (copy / Wehlheiden, 3rd Sept. 1768), StA MR Best. 40a Hess. Chamber rubr. 12 No. 86.
  • Annex A: Statement of the Committee for Culture and Education on the report of the Economic Committee on the proposal of the Member of Parliament Dr. Löbell (Kassel, February 20, 1865), StA MR Best. 41 Kurhess. Ministry of Finance No. 8144. Report v. Joke life cf. also Bonnemann, Forstlehranstalten, p. 5.
  • Expert report by Jung-Stillings (Marburg, February 4, 1797), StA MR Best. 5 Hess. Secret Council No. 13923.
  • 1st report of Joke life to Landgrave Wilhelm IX. (Kassel, Nov. 18, 1798), StA MR Best. 5 Hess. Privy Council No. 13923. For the first course, which began on June 17, 1797, four NCOs and 12 soldiers of the Jäger Corps were assigned. See resolution of the Privy Council (Kassel, April 11, 1797), StA MR Best. 5 Hess. Secret Council No. 13923.
  • 2nd report v. Joke life to Landgrave Wilhelm IX. (Praes. Kassel, May 18, 1797), StA MR Best. 5 Hess. Secret Council No. 13923.
  • 3rd report v. Joke life to Landgrave Wilhelm IX. (Kassel, April 8, 1797), StA MR Best. 5 Hess. Secret Council No. 13923.
  • 4th report v. Joke life to Landgrave Wilhelm IX. (Praes. Kassel, Jan. 15, 1798), StA MR Best. 5 Hess. Secret Council No. 13923; Reports from the director of the Hundeshagen forestry school to the Oberforstdirektion (Fulda, March 6, 1822 and February 4, 1823), StA MR Best.
  • Grebes report (Melsungen, January 16, 1867), StA MR Best. 54e Melsungen Forestry School No. 69; v. Möller to the Ministry of Finance (Kassel, February 15, 1867), StA MR Best. 41 Kurhess. Ministry of Finance No. 7986.
  • Hundeshagen's report (director of the forestry school) to the Oberforstdirektion (Fulda, March 6, 1822), StA MR Best.54e Melsungen forestry school, No. 2.
  • Murk, Karl, recruitment and training of forest officials in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel and in the Electorate of Hesse, in: "Because wood is a delicious true" - forest and forest between the Middle Ages and the modern age, edited by Andreas Hedwig, Marburg 2006, p. 105-123.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Promemoria of the chief forester J. Chr. Reichmeyer
  2. ↑ Appendix A
  3. ↑ 1st report from Joke life to Landgrave Wilhelm IX.
  4. ↑ Expert report by Jung-Stillings
  5. ^ Jung-Stilling, Johann Heinrich: Staatswirthschaftliche Ideen. First issue. Marburg (new Akad. Buchhandlung) 1798., p. 7 ff
  6. ↑ 2nd report from Joke life
  7. ↑ 3rd report from Joke life
  8. ↑ a b 4th report v. Joke life
  9. ↑ Hundeshagen report
  10. ↑ a b A. Bonnemann. Volume 56
  11. ^ Grebes report