Friedrich Grimm (Steinau)

Friedrich Grimm the Younger (born March 11, 1707 in Hanau ; † March 20, 1777 in Steinau an der Strasse ) was a German pastor of the Reformed Confession and grandfather of the Brothers Grimm .

Life

His father of the same name, Friedrich Grimm the Elder (1672–1748), was the chief clergyman of the same creed in the county of Hanau-Munzenberg .

Friedrich Grimm the Younger studied at the Hohen Landesschule in Hanau, the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Gymnasium Illustre in Bremen . From March 1730 until shortly before his death he was pastor at the Katharinenkirche in Steinau an der Straße for 47 years . He worked there as a “loyal pastor and pastor”.

Friedrich Grimm the Younger married Christine Elisabeth Heilmann on October 6, 1734 in Birstein (born October 22, 1715 in Birstein; † February 17, 1754 in Steinau). Her father, Georg Heilmann, was initially in the service of the Isenburg-Birstein family and later was court judge in the county of Hanau-Munzenberg and city ​​school in the old town of Hanau.

The couple had seven sons and three daughters, eight of whom died as children or adolescents. One of the sons, Karl Friedrich Grimm (1738–1772), became a pastor again, studied in Marburg from 1757 and was last pastor at the Reformed Church in Hanau from 1770–1772 .

The death of his wife Christine Elisabeth Heilmann, who died in childbirth in 1754 , hit Friedrich Grimm extremely hard. He had his wife buried in the crypt of the Katharinenkirche between the altar and the pulpit . Until his own death in 1777, he visited his wife's grave every Sunday and on public holidays. The most important descendants of Friedrich Grimm for the Grimm family history are Juliane Charlotte Frederike Grimm (1735–1796), married Schlemmer, "Aunt Schlemmer", and Philipp Wilhelm Grimm (1751–1796), father of the Brothers Grimm. After her mother's death, Juliane Charlotte Frederike Grimm also took over the upbringing of the younger siblings who were still alive.

Friedrich Grimm the Younger was buried in the new cemetery in Steinau outside the city in 1777, where his surviving children had a stately tombstone placed for him . In 1997, for urgently needed restoration and conservation reasons, the tombstone was moved to the Katharinenkirche, where it can be viewed today. The graves of the Grimm family have now all been destroyed and abandoned.

Significance and aftermath

Friedrich Grimm the Younger continued the Reformed church tradition established by his father in the Grimm family. In Steinau he was considered an influential and energetic man. He probably even had his own small back entrance built into the Katharinenkirche so that he no longer had to go from his apartment around the town hall to the main portal of the church on the way to the church service. In Steinau he was known for his carefully elaborated sermons . He also tried hard to prepare his son Philipp Wilhelm Grimm for a future career as a pastor. The father's sermons, however, rather bored him; instead, he carved his initials into the hymn book board of the pew during the service . Even if Philipp Wilhelm Grimm later became a lawyer and not a pastor, he raised his own sons Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in accordance with family tradition in awe and in remembrance of the pastoral work of his own father Friedrich Grimm strictly in the Reformed faith .

For Jacob Grimm, therefore, the late grandfather was always present in Hanau during the first years of his life. Jacob Grimm later recalled that he had once climbed up on a chair and preached, because his parents originally intended for him a career as pastor like the one that his grandfather had practiced in Steinau. Jacob Grimm felt deeply connected to his own Reformed faith, especially in the memory of his grandfather. Jacob Grimm still remembered his own confirmation and the work of his grandfather after more than 30 years with the following words : Greater devotion has never been kindled in me than how I was on my confirmation day after first received healing. Last Supper my mother also saw my mother walking around the altar of the church in which my grandfather had once stood on the pulpit.

The altar Bible by Friedrich Grimm is today ... the museum on the street Museum Steinau issued.

literature

• Max Aschkewitz: Pastor history of the Hanau district ("Hanauer Union") until 1986 , 2 parts = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 33. Marburg 1984, part 2, p. 767f.
• Peter Gbiorczyk: Work and effect of the reformed theologian Friedrich Grimm (1672-1748). Religious traditions in the family history up to the Brothers Grimm. Shaker, Aachen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8440-2226-1
• Ruth Michaelis-Jena : The Brothers Grimm . Munster 1980.
• Hermann Gerstner : Brothers Grimm . Reinbek near Hamburg 1994.
• Martin Hoppe: Hanau and the Brothers Grimm . Hanau 2007.
• Sabine Hock : Grimms Hessen. A literary travel guide on the trail of the Brothers Grimm . Frankfurt 2007.
• Hans-Georg Schede: The Brothers Grimm . Munich 2004. Extended new edition. Hanau 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Aschkewitz, Part 2, p. 767; Steinau an der Straße. A fairytale city hr-online from May 4, 2005
2. ↑ Brothers Grimm in Steinau  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. German fairy tale route  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Hock: Grimms Hessen, p. 28
4. ↑ Aschkewitz, Part 2, p. 767.
5. ↑ Aschkewitz, Part 2, p. 767.
6. ↑ Aschkewitz, Part 2, p. 767.
7. ↑ Aschkewitz, Part 1, p. 32.
8. ^ Letter from Wilhelm Grimm to Achim von Arnim of December 26, 1826; quoted in Hock: Grimms Hessen, pp. 28/29.
9. ^ Hock: Grimms Hessen, p. 30.
10. ^ Hock: Grimms Hessen, p. 29.
11. ↑ Hock: Grimms Hessen, pp. 30–41.
12. ^ Jacob Grimm: Reflections from my life, 1814; quoted from Schede: Die Brüder Grimm, pp. 8-10.
13. ^ Jacob Grimm: autobiography 1830; quoted from Hock: Grimms Hessen, p. 28.
14. ↑ The city, the history, the personalities Museum Steinau ... the Museum an der Straße.