Friedrich August Koehler

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Friedrich August Köhler (born August 14, 1768 in Hornberg ; † February 23, 1844 in Marschalkenzimmern ) was a Protestant pastor from 1804 to 1844 in the village of Marschalkenzimmern, today a district of Dornhan in the Rottweil district . He wrote topographical and historical writings about the Kingdom of Württemberg and collected student songs and regional ghost stories . With his depictions of the south-western regions of the Kingdom of Württemberg, the " Memminger of the upper Neckar area" prepared the ground for the official descriptions of the Oberamt.

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Friedrich August Köhler was born on August 14th, 1768 in the Oberamtsstadt Hornberg as the eldest child of the deacon Friedrich Köhler and Elisabeth Margarethe Hosch. His family environment was pietistic . The uncle Pastor Wilhelm Ludwig Hosch influenced his upbringing as a private teacher. From 1786 to 1792 he studied philosophy and theology at the University of Tübingen .

Before he held the pastoral position in Marschalkenzimmern from 1804 to 1844, he supported his father in his official business until his death. Until 1801 he passed through several vicariates. From 1801 to 1803 he was tutor in the service of Baron von Seckendorf . After a vicariate in Gutenberg, he received the pastor's position in Marschalkenzimmern in 1804. At first he lived with his mother and siblings in the local rectory. In 1813 he evaded his appointment to the parish in Dornhan. After he was born Christine in 1827. Weisser from Marschalkenzimmern had married, he moved with the large family into the house he had built below the church, today Brunnenstrasse 15. The initials of the couple FCK and the year of construction 1835 are carved on the door frame. After his death he was buried at his own request "in the garden belonging to him, next to the churchyard under an apple tree".

Marschalkenzimmern Friedrich August Koehler's house

Köhler's work springs from his interest in geography and history. He liked to deal with spectacular events such as catastrophes, wars and criminal cases. Little by little he withdrew to the field describing the place. He dedicated his old work to the official description of the country. In 1838, in a wave of appointments, he was made a corresponding member of the Association for Patriotic Studies. The statutes of the association created the obligation to carry out orders, answer inquiries and notify the statistical-topographical office of the Kingdom of Württemberg . In 1840 the association issued an invitation to keep local chronicles. Pastor Köhler then sent in extracts from the chronicles of his district.

According to the assessment of the holdings in the State Archives, a significant part of his regional studies is based on well-known printed representations and reference works, such as the Swabian Chronicle by Martin Crusius ( =>. Annales Suevici ) and its sequel Johann Jacob Moser , the Wirtembergische Geschichte von Sattler , the work About Binder's church and teaching posts in Württemberg , as well as newspapers, especially the Swabian Merkur . The references are usually cited. Regardless of this, he probably also evaluated archival sources in parish archives, community registers and private archives. He probably drew his detailed knowledge from them.

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The literary estate is essentially spread over four documentation institutions.

  • Baden-Württemberg State Archive
    • HStAS J 15 Köhler Collection (Friedrich August Köhler, pastor, * 1768, † 1844 collections of materials, notes and elaborations) 1791-1843 (207 Bü 2.4 running meters with a list of the manuscripts from Pastor Köhler's estate )
    • StALu E 258 VI State Statistical Office. Country description (1489 -) 1820-1951
  • Stuttgart, Württemberg State Library
    • cod. hist. 4 ° 285 ac Excerpts from files in the Sulz City Archives (notes from criminal files, war files, trial files and church convention protocols (1647-1751))
    • cod. hist. 4 ° 459 letters from the family of pastor Friedrich August Köhler 17 fasc. (capsule) 1757-
    • cod. hist. 8 ° 140 ai 60 diaries and excerpts 60 cardboard volumes. approx. 1785-1843
    • cod. poet. et phil. 8 ° 47 Collection of poems and songs (including from the student days in Tübingen) 1789-1825
    • cod. theol. et phil. 4 ° 595 Collection of ghost stories (not quite complete) 2 vol. (217 p. P., 172 p. P.) Approx. 1800-1809

A collection of newspaper clippings on Köhler, Friedrich August is also kept in the Ba-Wü regional archive.

  • HStAS J 191 Newspaper Clippings Collection Köhler, Friedrich August (1768-1844) ( Permalink )

Fonts

  • Leinstetten with Bettenhausen and Lichtenfels . 1816 (with supplements up to 1837) (paperback edition edited by Fritz Peter [2016]).
  • Attempt to describe and describe the history of the city of Oberndorf and its administrative districts . (not edited). 1826.
  • Friedrich August Köhler: Tuttlingen. Description and history of this city and its Oberamts district. A strange contribution to patriotism . Tuttlingen 1965.
  • Eckart Frahm (ed.): A trip to the Alb in 1790: on foot from Tübingen to Ulm. A reader on the historical landscape with contemporary engravings and maps . Tübingen 1978, ISBN 978-3-88213-009-6 .
  • Eckart Frahm (ed.): A trip to the Alb in 1790: on foot from Tübingen to Ulm. A reader on the historical landscape with contemporary engravings and maps . Tübingen 1984, ISBN 978-3-89151-001-8 .
  • Carola Lipp (Ed.): Nehren: a village chronicle of the late Enlightenment . Tübingen Association for Folklore, Tübingen 1981.
  • Parish, school and local chronicles of marshal's rooms . Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2000, ISBN 978-3-89570-650-9 .
  • Eckhart Frahm and Wilfried Setzler (eds.): "Everything united in the small": a description of Tübingen from 1791 . Tübingen 2000, ISBN 978-3-928011-42-6 .
  • City and office of Dornhan: a historical description from 1839 . In: Bernhard Rüth (Ed.): Documenta Suevica . Kempten 2006, ISBN 3-86142-397-9 .
  • with F. Jarmont: Attempt to describe and present the history of the Nagold Office . Ed .: Association for Local History Nagold e. V. 1st edition. Nagold 2010.

literature

  • Friedrich August Köhler: Parish, school and local chronicle of marshal's rooms . Geiger-Verlag, Horb 2000, ISBN 3-89570-650-7 , p. 47-51 . (= Autobiography of Friedrich August Köhler)
  • Bernhard Rüth : Friedrich August Koehler. A pioneer of historical regional studies . In: Manfred Bosch, Ulrich Gaier, Wolfgang Rapp et al. (Eds.): Schwabenspiegel. Literature from the Neckar to Lake Constance 1800-1950 . 2.1: Articles. Riederich 2006, ISBN 3-937184-05-8 , pp. 61-67 .
  • Bernhard Rüth: Köhler, Friedrich August (1768-1844) . In: Manfred Bosch , Ulrich Gaier, Wolfgang Rapp et al. (Eds.): Schwabenspiegel, literature from the Neckar to Lake Constance 1800–1950 . 1.2 Lexicon of authors, bibliography. Riederich 2006, ISBN 3-937184-04-X , p. 83 f .

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personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Friedrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Hornberg
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1844
Place of death Marshal rooms