Aschaffenburg Forestry University

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Bavarian Forestry School 1847
Bavarian forestry school around 1854
Current construction situation next to the Sand Church, 2011

The Aschaffenburg Forestry University was a training center for forest officials in the Kingdom of Bavaria . It existed under different names from 1807 to 1910, with an interruption from 1832 to 1844, in Aschaffenburg .

history

The history of the university began with a private forest institute founded in 1807 by Bernhard Sebastian von Nau , Johann Josef Ignaz von Hoffmann , mathematics professor at the Aschaffenburg Charles University and Eduard Knodt von Helmenstreit (1778–1864). The institute was taken over as a state institution as early as 1810. When Aschaffenburg came to Bavaria in 1814, this facility was the only one of its kind in the kingdom.

At the end of the third year after their “more solid foundation” in the school year 1818/19 under the name Königlich Baierische Forst-Lehranstalt zu Aschaffenburg, 66 of 143 students were in the first and 77 in the second year, 34 of them foreigners. In addition to the financial support of the school from the state treasury, 17 students received a scholarship. In 1832 the institute was temporarily closed, probably because of the presumed revolutionary activities of the students.

The forestry school was re-established on April 19, 1844, initially with only 25 students. On this occasion, King Ludwig I provided the school with a representative building two years later on Alexandrastrasse not far from the Sand Church . When the Abitur became an entry requirement in 1858 , it was renamed Centralforstlehranstalt for the Kingdom of Bavaria . The name of the forest university was given to the school in the summer semester of 1899. In 1878 part of the forest school was relocated to Munich. In 1910, the entire university was relocated to Munich and converted into the forest science faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

The building on Alexandrastraße was then used for the secondary school in Aschaffenburg and demolished in 1968. Today there is a multi-storey residential complex with an underground car park ("Parkhaus Alexandrastraße").

Teachers

In the last decades of its existence in Aschaffenburg from 1878 to 1910, the university was headed by Hermann von Fürst (1837–1917), to whom the university owes its good reputation. A small chemical institute was established under Max Conrad.

Other teachers were:

  • Johann Josef Ignaz von Hoffmann (1777–1866), mathematics, from 1807 to 1832 rector of the institution
  • Christoph Egerer (1781-1815)
  • Sebastian Mantel (born July 15, 1792 in Langenprozelten, † July 27, 1860 in Wasserlos) 1844–1859 director of the reopened royal forestry school in Aschaffenburg
  • Franz Anselm Strauss (1780–1830), chemistry and physics
  • Max Conrad (1848-1920), chemistry
  • Max Guthzeit (1847-1915), chemistry
  • Ludwig Andreas Schleiermacher, Mathematics (1855–1927)
  • Hermann Dingler (1846–1935)
  • Karl Gayer , Forest Science (1822–1907)
  • Stephan Behlen (1784–1847)
  • Julius von Kennel (1854–1939)
  • Lorenz Wappes , research assistant (1860–1952)
  • Martin Balduin Kittel (1798–1885)
  • Conrad Bohn (1831–1897), physics
  • Adolph Pfaff (1805-1856)
  • Carl Stumpf, Forest Science
  • Eduard Philipp Döbner, natural history
  • Georg Langmantel, mathematics, physics, measurement exercises
  • Ebermayer, chemistry, agriculture
  • Karl, also Carl Scheppler, district forester extra statum, forestry construction and surveying knowledge
  • Ludwig Wörner, teacher of plan drawing
  • Carl Ludwig Louis (1794–1854), teacher of mathematics (theoretical and applied geometry), construction and drawing at the old forestry school, from 1849 to 1854 drawing teacher at the re-established institute; also from 1833 to 1853 at the agricultural and trade school teacher of mathematics and physics (natural history), art education and crafts; freelance as an architect and site manager (including site manager of the Pompejanum ), later city planning officer . August Ganghofer's father-in-law and Ludwig Ganghofer's grandfather .

Traces in the cityscape

  • Andrians biscuits in the pheasantry

  • Memorial of the Corps students in Friedrichstrasse

  • Tomb of the Corps Hubertia in the old town cemetery

  • Deer head - today in the pheasantry

The buildings used by the forestry college are no longer preserved. In the cityscape today (as of 2011) there are still some traces of the university and its students.

  • The “Andrians place” in the Fasanerie is a reminder of a particularly tragic event . A duel took place here, remembered by a memorial stone in the form of a broken column stump: On September 6, 1824, the 17-year-old "forest candidate" Ferdinand Anton Freiherr von Andrian-Werburg died as a result of a duel with him that had been arranged in the pheasantry Würzburg student Johann Baptist Berg. Today there is a small square with a memorial stone ("duel column"), which was built by the family and is restored at regular intervals.
  • Between 1901 and 1903 the Corps Hubertia built its own memorial in the Aschaffenburg old town cemetery, which still exists today.
  • The cast iron (according to other sources: bronze) deer head, which originally hung above the entrance to the forestry college and was attached to various buildings in the nearby Spessart for decades , was brought back to Aschaffenburg in 2009 and placed on a stone plinth at the Aschaffenburg municipal forestry office in the pheasantry .
  • A quartz boulder that was present next to the entrance of the school building in the front garden was moved to the green area in front of the State Building Authority after the building on the opposite side of Alexandrastrasse was demolished.
  • At the lower end of a former forest garden in the forest west of the Kippenburg, a rondola can still be seen in the ground relief.

particularities

The forest candidates (students) were also called "Forstpollacken" after their color . The young boys were in their "full wank" a feast for the eyes in the Aschaffenburg population.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carsten Pollnick: Forge of science. History: Aschaffenburg lost its forestry school 100 years ago . In: Main-Netz.de from August 5, 2010
  2. ↑ Papius: The description of the natural conditions of a wood economy: (together with a report on the Baier. Forestry School in Aschaffenburg) , Aschaffenburg, 1822. P. 50 f
  3. ↑ It was not until 1999 that this course was outsourced to the Technical University of Munich, see “History of Forest Science Education in Bavaria” ( Memento of December 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Max Adolf Guthzeit (born August 10, 1847 in Königsberg (Pr); † 1915 ibid); Doctorate in 1880 with Wislicenus in Würzburg, from 1881 Aschaffenburg, from 1888 to 1902 Leipzig, as Councilor; s. also GND 117591424 .
  5. ↑ Carsten Pollnick: "As a person he was adorned with a cheerful and stimulating being". Carl Ludwig Louis - the construction manager of the Pompeian House in Aschaffenburg. In: Mitteilungen aus dem Stadt- und Stiftsarchiv Aschaffenburg, Vol. 4, H. 2, June 1993 , Pp. 106-110.
  6. ↑ Peter Burkart, Gisela van Driesum, Martin Kempf, Peter Ziemer: wayside shrines, field monuments and crosses in Aschaffenburg , Aschaffenburg 2003, pages 72–79 ( Andrian monument in the pheasantry )
  7. ↑ a b c d Theodor Ruf: How the king formed his subjects. Schools and politics under Ludwig I in Aschaffenburg.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.main-netz.de   In: Spessart. Monthly magazine for the Spessart cultural landscape . September 2009
  8. ^ Hubertia tomb in the old town cemetery Aschaffenburg ( Memento from December 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
  9. ↑ Peter Körner: Magnificent deer of the forestry college: He's back! in main-netz.de from July 21, 2009