Masonic lodges in Hanover

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Lodge house to the white horses , Köbelingstrasse 6
Logenhaus Herrenstrasse 9
Logensaal Herrenstrasse 9
Logenhaus, Schiffgraben 18
Secret society or ethics school ? Freemasons in Hanover , banner for the exhibition in the Historical Museum Hanover until January 6, 2013

Masonic lodges have existed in Hanover since the middle of the 18th century. Currently (as of: 04/2014) there are eleven boxes in the capital of Lower Saxony, including two women's boxes. All lodges are autonomous and each work independently .

Exhibitions

Lodges in Hanover

Men's boxes

The older lodges in Hanover traditionally only accept men. Each lodge belongs to one of the five grand lodges , which in turn are organized under the common roof of the United Grand Lodges of Germany . Of the currently eleven working men's boxes in Hanover were founded

  • 1746: Friedrich on the white horse
  • 1774: To the black bear
  • 1777: To the Ceder
  • 1900: Wilhelm to German loyalty
  • 1906: Baldur
  • 1946: light and truth
  • 1949: To the rising light
  • 1973: Lodge Bridge of Fellowship
  • 1987: Georg am Hohen Ufer
  • 2014: Albert Pike Lodge
  • 2017 Friedrich Wilhelm to bliss

Women's boxes

In 1999 women founded the lodge Im Kreise des Granatapfels in the lodge house on Lemförder Strasse. She later moved to the Logenhaus on Heiligengeiststrasse. She belongs to the Frauen-Großloge von Deutschland eV based in Berlin. In 2013 a second women's lodge was founded in Hanover. The “Infinitas” lodge has been working in the lodge house on Heiligengeiststrasse since October 2013.

Charity

The Hanover lodges "usually hold a collection of the poor after every ritual work ". These financial resources are passed on to needy organizations and institutions or individuals or donated to social and cultural projects . These are supplemented charities from foundations , which hold the majority of the Hanoverian lodges or where boxes are jointly involved.

The " ladies " of male Hanoverian Freemasons have also been organizing a bazaar for Christmas with donated products for decades . The proceeds will be used to support “ unemployed needy people, unemployed sick people, children from poor households, single mothers, homeless people , disabled people in residential facilities and self-help groups ”.

Locations (incomplete)

Former locations

  • With interruptions from the compulsory dissolution in 1936 during the time of National Socialism , the following meeting places were the meeting points of the Hanover lodges:
  • from 1746: Apartment of court squire Adam Gottlieb von Reden in Osterstrasse
  • from 1749: Dohmen-Schenke. in Burgstrasse 4
  • from 1753: House Plentenburg. Osterstrasse 1
  • from 1754: New tavern on Isern Porte , Marktstrasse. Corner of Röselerstrasse
  • 1779: Purchase of the lodge house at 6 Köbelinger Strasse by the lodge Zum white horses
  • 1849–1855: Purchase and construction of the (then “new”, today “old”) “Logenhaus” at Herrenstrasse 9 ;
  • 1935–1943: During the Nazi era, some “brothers” met in Hildebrandts Weinstube , Andreaestrasse, for the purpose of solidarity. Corner of Mehlstrasse
  • From 1946 the brothers met temporarily in a barrack owned by Hans Hildebrand , alternatively on a provisional basis in rented rooms, for example in the old town hall , in the Braunschweig-Hannoversche Hypothekenbank in the Landschaftstrasse , in the Künstlerhaus or in the Leineschloss .

Current locations

The members of the various lodges are currently meeting in the following facilities:

  • Since 1905: Logenhaus Lemförder Straße 7 ( → map )
  • Since 1966: Willy-Täger-Haus. Heiligengeiststraße 1 ( → map )
  • The Georg box on the high bank. works at the Kastens Hotel Luisenhof ( → map )

Masonic Library Association

The Masonic Library Association was founded in 1978 after the engineer Erich J. Lindner , member of the lodge to Ceder , a collection mostly Masonic graphics and illustrated books donated . The collection was then taken over by the (today's) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library . ( → map )

In the meantime the Masonic Library Association had formulated its purpose :

"... to expand the collection of Masonic literature in the Lower Saxony State Library , to make it accessible to the public, to promote scientific research in the field of Freemasonry and thus to awaken and deepen the understanding of brotherhood , tolerance and international understanding ..."

The association, whose board works on a voluntary basis , finances the antiquarian expansion of the collection from membership fees and donations , while the library expanded the collection to around 4,000 volumes (as of 2012) by accepting donations and purchasing new publications from home and abroad. The collection has now risen to become the second largest in Germany.

Well-known Hanoverian Freemasons (selection)

On the city ​​maps of Hanover there are almost one hundred streets that bear the names of personalities who “carried out tasks that were important for the public” or who “had a significant impact” on the history of the city of Hanover . Well-known personalities include:

See also

literature

  • Siegfried Schildmacher (Ed.): Freemasons - Secret Society or Ethics School? History and current work of the Freemasons in Hanover. Accompanying volume to the exhibition in the Historical Museum Hanover from September 5, 2012 - January 6, 2013. Verlag der Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library, Hanover 2012, ISBN 978-3-943922-01-1 .
  • Rainer Schatzke, Siegfried Schildmacher: Freemasonry has existed in Hanover since 1746. Today around 600 members work in 2 of their own lodge houses. Information sheet Hannoverscher Logen. Self-published, Hanover around 2012.
  • Anonymous: Freemasonry in the Oriente of Hanover: Reminder sheets for the festivals of January 14th and 15th, 1857. Rümpler, Hanover 1859, OCLC 46281525 . (Reprint: Books on Demand, 2011, ISBN 978-1-247-73974-8 )
  • Ernst Nasemann: Catalog of the common Masonic book collection of the Freemason Lodge Friedrich on the white horse, the black bear and the ceder in Hanover. Main volume , Hannover 1912, OCLC 251702176 .
  • Victor Weber: Brief outline of the history of Freemasonry in the Orient from Hanover in the context of the picture decorations of the lodge house on Herrenstrasse. Hanover 1931, OCLC 247105552 .
  • Dieter Rücker: St. Johannis Masonic Lodge "To the Black Bear" Hanover: 1774–1994. Festschrift for the 220th Foundation Festival, Hanover 1994, DNB 950201502 .
  • Hartmut von Hinüber, Peter Krüger, Siegfried Schildmacher: The Hinübersche Garden in Hanover-Marienwerder. A masonic garden. ed. from the Freemason's lodge "Friedrich zum white horses". Self-published, Hanover 2011.
  • Siegfried Schildmacher (Red.): 1746–1996. 250 years of the Freemason's lodge "Friedrich zum white horse" Hanover. ed. from the Freemason's lodge "Friedrich zum white horses". Self-published, Hanover 1996, DNB 948988061 .
  • Siegfried Schildmacher: 1746–2006. History of the Freemason Lodge "Friedrich zum white horse" Hanover. with the collaboration of Winfried Brinkmann, Gustav Gogowski and Edmund Woerner, ed. Self-published by the Freemason Lodge "Friedrich zum white horses", Hanover 2006.
  • Georg Ruppelt (Ed.), Sabine Arndt (Red.):
    • ON TRANSPORT. German stations of “seized” Jewish and Masonic libraries from France and the Netherlands (1940 - 1949). (= LESESAAL Hannover , Volume 18), accompanying volume for the exhibition ON TRANSPORT. in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library from April 12 to May 18, 2005. Niemeyer, Hameln 2005, ISBN 3-8271-8818-0 .
    • On transport! German stations of "seized" Jewish and Masonic libraries from France and the Netherlands (1940-1949) (Dutch), accompanying volume for the exhibition in the Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (NIOD) in Amsterdam from April 5 to June 30, 2006 "een Duits-Nederlandse tentoonstelling the locationheid van de terugkeer van tijdens de bezetting geroofde libraries 60 years geleden in Amsterdam ”. Amsterdam 2006.
  • Klaus Mlynek : Masonic lodges. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 190.

Web links

Commons : Freemasonry in Hanover  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Rainer Schatzke, Siegfried Schildmacher: Freemasonry has existed in Hanover since 1746. 2012.
  2. ↑ Stephan Weil : Greeting. In: Siegfried Schildmacher (Ed.): Freemasons - Secret Society or Ethics School? P. 6f.
  3. ^ Johannisloge Wilhelm on German loyalty .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Gustav Gogowski: Data and facts from the history of the Freemason lodge "Friedrich zum Weißen Pferde" in Hanover from 1746 to 1996. In: Siegfried Schildmacher (Red.): 1746–1996. 250 years of the Freemason's lodge "Friedrich zum white horse" Hanover. 1996, pp. 8-17.
  5. ↑ Compare the lithograph by Wilhelm Kretschmer
  6. ↑ The reconstruction of lodge life after the Second World War. In: Siegfried Schildmacher (Ed.): Freemasons - Secret Society or Ethics School? 2012, pp. 50–53.
  7. ↑ a b c Siegfried Schildmacher (Ed.): Freemasonic Library Association. In: Freemasons - Secret Society or Ethics School? 2012, p. 77ff.
  8. ^ A b Georg Ruppelt: The Freemason Library Association Hanover - an address of thanks. In: Siegfried Schildmacher (Ed.): Freemasons - Secret Society or Ethics School? 2012, p. 8f.
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g Siegfried Schildmacher (Ed.): Friedrich to the white horses. In: Freemasons - Secret Society or Ethics School? 2012, p. 60ff.
  10. ↑ Klaus Mlynek: KÖNIGSTREU, Mehmet von, Ludwig Maximilian. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 204f .; online through google books
  11. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : over, Jobst Anton from. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. P. 169f. online through google books
  12. ↑ Klaus Mlynek: Deicke, Georg Heinrich. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. P. 92. online via Google books
  13. ^ Hugo Thielen : Schmorl & von Seefeld. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 546.
  14. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Masonic lodges. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 190.
  15. ^ Heinrich Goertz: Ewald Brandt - his life. In: Heimar Fischer-Gaaden: Ewald Brandt. Sculptures and drawings 1948–1982 , booklet accompanying the exhibition in the KUBUS at the Aegidienkirche from December 1 to 22, 1985, ed. and organized by the Association of Visual Artists Lower Saxony. Self-published, Hanover 1985.
  16. ↑ Jürgen Holtorf: The lodges of the Freemasons, Nikol Verlags GmbH, Hamburg ISBN 3-930656-58-2 , p. 143