Freemasonry in Flensburg
The Freemasonry in Flensburg dates back to about the year 1809th The first lodge was founded in Flensburg in 1809 by Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel . In 1863 a new Johannisloge was founded under the name "Frederik". The Danish king had ordered that she should work in both languages. The lodge was closed due to the Prussian-Danish War in 1868. In 1868 the Johannisloge "Wilhelm zur Nordic Treue" was founded. It was after the Prussian king and later Emperor I. Wilhelm named. The Andreas Lodge “Constantia” in Flensburg acquired the “Bellevue” inn in 1873 for the meeting of the lodges.
Between 1902 and 1903 the "Wilhelm zur nordischen Treue" established the lodge house Flensburg at Nordergraben 23. At the turn of the century the lodge "Wilhelm zur nordischen Treue" had more than 300 members and in the 1920s over 250 members. In the area around Flensburg there were other lodges, for example in Aabenraa , Hadersleben , Sonderburg in the north, Kappeln , Husum and on the islands in the southern part of South Schleswig .
In 1923 the wreath "Zur Freiheit und Bruderliebe" was formed, which was supported by the Kiel Masonic lodge "Freie Nordmark", which belonged to the former, irregular grand lodge "Freemasons Association of the Rising Sun". She worked in the rooms of the Good Templar Order in the Flensburg Schloßstraße. On June 24, 1930, the "Zur Freiheit und Bruderliebe" lodge, which emerged from this in 1927, joined the newly established, regular "Symbolic Grand Lodge of Germany" as the Johannis lodge "Lamp in the North" in the Orient in Flensburg.
In the Third Reich Freemasonry was forbidden, the lodges were disbanded 1935th On December 27, 1945, the American military government allowed it to reopen. The first ritual work resumed on June 23, 1947. The lodge "Wilhelm zur Nordic Treue" received the lodge house back in December 1950.
The mayor of Flensburg, Friedrich Drews (1945 to 1955), was one of the members of the “Leucht im Norden” lodge . It currently has 55 members.
In June 2014, after a lead time with the Lodge Zu den Nordische Rosen, a women's lodge was founded, which gathers in the lodge house in Nordergraben and is connected to the women's grand lodge of Germany .
literature
- Klaus CF Feddersen: Freemason in Flensburg, a source study on the cultural and intellectual history of the city; researched, collected and summarized in the context of the history of the city, Volume 1, 1998
- On the history of the Andreas Lodge Constantia in Flensburg. 31 pages, Flensburg, approx. 1960.
- Franz Dethleffsen: Contribution to the history of freemasonry in Flensburg 1809-1869 , Meyer, 1928
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://freimaurer-wiki.de/index.php/Freimaurerbund_zur_aufnahm_Sonne
- ↑ http://licht-im-norden.de/wordpress/
- ↑ http://www.freimaurerorden.de/index.php/der-orden?id=161
- ↑ http://logenhaus-flensburg.de/logenhaus/
- ↑ http://licht-im-norden.de/wordpress/unsere-loge/
- ↑ On the way to the northernmost women's lodge https://www.shz.de
- ↑ Our lodge. (No longer available online.) To the Nordic Roses e. V., archived from the original on December 30, 2017 ; accessed on December 30, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
