To the noble view

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The Masonic Lodge "Zur Edel Aussicht" is a regular Masonic lodge in Freiburg im Breisgau that has existed since 1784 .

history

On June 22, 1784, Freemasons residing in Freiburg founded the first local lodge under the Grand Lodge of Austria with the name Zur noblen Aussicht .

Founding members were among others Goethe's brother-in-law Johann Georg Schlosser , as well as the minster pastor and university director Prof. Karl Schwarzl .

Cover sheet of the statutes

From 1813 to 1848 Freemasonry was forbidden in Baden , so that state politicians like Karl von Rotteck and Joseph von Weißeneck found an opportunity to exchange ideas in the now “secret” lodge. These lodge members as well as Jacob Venedey were participants in the Hambach Festival . During the Baden Revolution , the lodge brother Gustav Rée (member of the Frankfurt National Assembly ) was charged with high treason. During the time of the ban, the Freemasons from Friborg organized themselves in the “La Parfaite Harmonie” lodge in Mulhouse in Alsace , while they sold the lodge property and donated the proceeds to an orphanage and widows in need.

Thanks to the commitment of the Polish philosopher Bronislaw Ferdynand Trentowski , August Ficke and Hermann Meinhard Poppen (owner of the Freiburger Zeitung ), the Freiburg Lodge experienced a real boom from 1857 onwards. At that time it was also possible to build a private box house, the facade of which is still preserved in the old plans.

Facade of the old lodge house

In 1935, under pressure from the National Socialist regime, the lodge was sold after more than 100 years and the proceeds were given to charitable organizations such as the Evangelical Monastery Administration . The lodge was destroyed during an air raid. On February 28, 1946, the first general meeting after the war was called. Since the government forbade the use of the old lodge name - possibly to avoid reparation claims - the name “Humanitas zur free castle”, derived from a former Odd Fellow association , was chosen . The United Grand Lodge of Germany , founded in 1949, transferred the constitution patent of the predecessor lodge "Zur edlen Aussicht" with matriculation number 142 to the successor lodge "Humanitas zur free castle" at the request of the Freiburg chair master Ernst Leppert . Since August 5th, 2002 the lodge has been working again under its old name “Zur noble Aussicht”, at the endeavors of the Freemasons Rolf Fauter and Günter Martin Schnitzer , the master of the chair at the time.

Personalities

In Freiburg itself there are numerous references to the activity of the lodge. So z. B. the founding of the ethnological museum , the trade school and the workers' education association can be traced back to members of the lodge.

Well-known personalities such as Gustav Rée , Jacob Venedey , Johannes Matthias Alexander Ecker , Karl von Rotteck , Hermann Gottlob von Greiffenegg or Johann Evangelist Engesser and Ignaz Engelberger belonged to their ranks and left visible traces in street names.

Executives from the region met in the Freiburg Lodge, including the print shop owners Hermann Poppen and Eduard Poppen (from September 30, 1906), theater director Gustav Krug (from February 1, 1896), the Black Forest factory owner Kurt Siedle (from September 27, 1924), Oskar Ketterer (from June 20, 1909) and Johann Nikolaus Tritscheler (from 1860).

Registered honorary members such as Prince Wilhelm Margrave of Baden (from 1861) visited the Lodge Zur noble Aussicht .

literature

  • Bronislaus Ferd. v. Trentowski / Aug. Ficke: Freemasonry system of the lodge “To the noble view” in Freiburg im Breisgau. HM Poppen & Sohn, Freiburg im Breisgau 1866–67. (Digitized version)
  • Hugo Ficke: History of the Masonic Lodge for the noble view in Freiburg in Baden. Freiburg i. Br. 1874. (digitized version)
  • Hugo Frank: History of the Masonic Lodge for the Noble View in Freiburg in Baden. Part II: from 1874-1914. 1922. (digitized version)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Bergunder : Religious pluralism and Christianity (church - denomination - religion). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001, ISBN 3-525-56547-X , p. 36. (online)