Fricktalisch-Baden Association for Local Studies

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Fricktalisch-Baden Association for Local Studies
purpose Local history exploration of the Fricktal and the Baden neighborhood, nature and heritage protection, publications, lectures and excursions.
Chair: David Waelchli
Establishment date: September 6, 1925
Number of members: 650 (as of 2017)
Seat : Rheinfelden AG
Website: Homepage of the Fricktalisch-Baden Association for Local Studies (FBVH)

The Fricktalisch-Badische Vereinigung für Heimatkunde (FBVH) is a history association under Swiss law that works on the Upper Rhine region on the Swiss and German sides.

Development of the name

When it was founded in 1925, the name Fricktalisch-Badische Vereinigung für Heimatkunde and Heimatschutz was chosen. At the annual meeting on May 31, 1953, the name was shortened to Fricktalisch-Badische Vereinigung für Heimatkunde . While the term Heimatschutz is politically charged in Germany, it has a completely different meaning in Switzerland - Swiss Heimatschutz advocates that monuments in Switzerland from different eras are preserved from demolition and that they continue to live. The deletion of the addition did not mean distancing itself from homeland security, but was intended to avoid confusion with the homeland security organizations and make it clear that they had in the meantime fully taken over the tasks and covered them.

Work area

The activity relates to the historically and culturally linked landscapes of Dinkelberg , Fricktal , Wehratal and Hotzenwald with the centers Rheinfelden AG / Rheinfelden (Baden) , Wehr , Frick , Bad Säckingen and Laufenburg AG / Laufenburg (Baden) .

These areas north and south of the Upper Rhine belonged to the Upper Austrian Breisgau until the Napoleonic reorganization in the southwest of the then Holy Roman Empire and the Old Confederation . Today they belong politically to the Swiss canton of Aargau and its districts of Laufenburg and Rheinfelden or to the German state of Baden-Württemberg and its districts of Lörrach and Waldshut .

In the Rheinfelden (Baden) and Wehr (Baden) area there is an overlap with the work area of ​​the Markgräflerland history association and in the area around Bad Säckingen and Laufenburg (Baden) with the work area of ​​the Hochrhein history association, with which we cooperate.

membership

In addition to the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its surroundings , the FBVH is the only regional history association in southern Baden that works across borders. However, the proportion of German members in the total membership is only around 10 percent.

As is usual with regional history associations, there are individual members (natural persons) as well as collective members (legal entities), including a number of German and Swiss communities from the association's area of ​​activity.

history

The prehistoric and early historical research work of individuals on both sides of the High Rhine led them to the awareness in the 1920s that they were in a unified prehistoric landscape in which the same prehistoric cultures were to be found. This promoted the exchange of experiences on a personal level and triggered the desire for a common organizational platform. On the Baden side , Emil Gersbach , the voluntary district curator of prehistoric and early historical antiquities in the district of Säckingen , was the driving force. On the fricktal side, Josef Ackermann, Hans Rudolf Burkart, Albert Matter and Karl Fuchs should be mentioned. The archaeologists Reinhold Bosch and Eugen Tatarinoff encouraged them . A first meeting in the summer of 1924 was followed on December 14, 1924 by a conference on prehistoric research in Säckingen and in July 1925 the conference of the Swiss Society for Prehistory in Säckingen and Rheinfelden, where the founding of a historical association in Fricktal-Baden was targeted. Their founding meeting then took place on September 6, 1925 in Stein . Folkish tones by the Swiss Albert Matter led to some dissatisfaction. In Rheinfelden in Aargau, there were reservations about the cross-border organization. By the end of 1926, 320 members had been recruited.

At the beginning of the 1930s, the association already had large quantities of prehistoric finds from their excavation work, for which there was no space and certainly no exhibition space. After the city of Rheinfelden AG received the Haus zur Sonne from an estate in 1929 - combined with the requirement to build a Fricktaler local history museum there - the association looked there for a domicile for the finds. The association received two seats on the museum commission and established the prehistoric and Roman sections of the Fricktaler Museum , which opened in 1934. Meanwhile, the focus on prehistory was controversial in the association . In addition to the finds, the association's library is also housed in the museum. Efforts to revive traditional rural costumes were also among the association's early activities.

After the National Socialists came to power in Germany, there were strong efforts in Switzerland to transform the association into a purely Swiss one and to end all cooperation with the German side. This did not take place, but there was a considerable decline in membership, which put its survival in question. When in 1953 the addition of Heimatschutz was deleted in the name of the association, there were again proposals to delete the Baden language in the name as well, but this was rejected by the majority.

Publications

At the beginning of 1926, the FBHV announced the 1884 Franz August Stocker , founded and led until his death in 1892 magazine "From the Jura to the Black Forest. History, legend, country and people. Published with the participation of a number of writers and people's friends . ” With a new subtitle - “ From the Jura to the Black Forest. Leaves for local history and homeland security ” . This journal is continued as a yearbook to this day. The years up to and including 2015 are available as digital copies at E-Periodica .

Special editions such as Landeskunde: Neighbors on the Upper Rhine and the legend book : Tannhupper and Leelifotzel complement the published offer.

literature

  • Local history research yesterday and today: the short presentations at the anniversary meeting on March 25, 2000 in Bad Säckingen. In: Vom Jura zum Schwarzwald: Blätter für Heimatkunde und Heimatschutz, Volume (year): 74 (2000), pp. 89-102 at e-periodica.ch
  • Albin Müller: From the history of the Fricktalisch-Badische Vereinigung für Heimatkunde 1925-1975. In: From the Jura to the Black Forest. Volume 49 (1975), special issue 50 years of the Fricktalisch-Badische Vereinigung für Heimatkunde 1925-1975. e-periodica.ch

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to Homepage of the association
  2. ↑ see 1953 annual report of the association.
  3. ↑ List of member communities on the FBHV homepage; accessed on June 7, 2020
  4. ↑ on this section see Müller
  5. ↑ ZDB -ID 542546-3