Gerold Bönnen

Gerold Bönnen (born January 17, 1964 ) is a German historian and director of the Worms City Archives and the Worms Jewish Museum .

Life

Bönnen studied history , political science and German at the University of Trier . In 1993 he received his doctorate there on “The episcopal city of Toul and its surroundings during the high and late Middle Ages” . From 1994 he completed the training for the higher archival service, which he completed in 1996 with the archival state examination. Since 1996 he has been director of the city archive and the Jewish Museum in Worms .

As managing director of the Worms Antiquities Association , Bönnen is co-editor of the Der Wormsgau yearbook . He is a lecturer in medieval history at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg ; In 2011 he was appointed honorary professor there.

Research priorities

Bönnen's main research interests are the comparative city ​​history with a focus on Lorraine and Rhineland , the history of medieval religious institutions, the history of the city of Worms and its surrounding area, and archives .

Bönnen is a member of the Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt , the Commission for the History of the Jews in Hesse , the Society for Research into the History of the Jews and the Advisory Board of the Southwest German Working Group for Urban History Research . He is head of the working group of the municipal archives in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland.

Works (selection)

sorted by year of publication

Authorship

• The episcopal city of Toul and its surrounding area during the high and late Middle Ages = Trier historical research vol. 25. Trier 1995. ISBN 978-3-923087-24-2
• Liebfrauen Worms 1298 - 1998: 700 years of the monastery - 100 years of the parish = sources and treatises on church history in the Middle Rhine, vol. 86. 1998. ISBN 978-3-929135-18-3
• The Worms City Archives and its holdings . Koblenz 1998. ISBN 978-3-931014-40-7
• Bishop Burchard (1000 - 1025) - a thousand years of Romanesque in Worms: publication accompanying the exhibition in the Museum of the City of Worms . Stadtarchiv Worms 2000. ISBN 978-3-9806754-1-3
• Rashi of Troyes and Worms: Brochure from the Jewish Museum Worms accompanying the Rashi Year 2005 . Worms 2005. ISBN 978-3-9809002-4-9
• The Bishop of Worms Johann von Dalberg (1482–1503) and his time = sources and treatises on church history in the Middle Rhine region 117. Mainz 2005. ISBN 978-3-929135-51-0
• Worms Jewish artists, art life and art sponsorship around 1900 - 1933. Bertha Strauss and Alfred Hütenbach. Accompanying documentation for the exhibition of the Jewish Museum Worms in the Raschi-Haus and the Kunstverein Worms . Worms-Verlag, Worms 2007. ISBN 978-3-936118-40-7
• Editorial staff. State Office for Mobility Worms and Worms City Archives (ed.): The new Rhine bridge in Worms. Commemorative publication on its completion in 2008 . Worms-Verlag, Worms 2008. ISBN 978-3-936118-34-6
• The Worms town hall and the town hall district from the Middle Ages to the present day . Stadtarchiv Worms, Worms 2008. ISBN 978-3-936118-15-5
• Together with Ferdinand Werner : The von Heyl industrial family from Worms. Public and private work between the bourgeoisie and the nobility . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 2010. ISBN 978-3-88462-304-6
• Policy deficits and reactions. State and municipal housing policy from 1890 to 1914 using the example of Worms and the Grand Duchy of Hesse . In: Ferdinand Werner : workers' settlements. Workers' houses in the Rhine-Neckar area = contributions to Mannheim's architecture and building history 8. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2012. ISBN 978-3-88462-330-5 .

Editing

• Together with Leo Hanselmann : Worms . Sutton, Erfurt 2000. ISBN 978-3-931014-40-7
• History of the city of Worms . Theiss, Stuttgart 2005. ISBN 978-3-8062-1679-0
• Together with Volker Gallé : Legend and fairy tale motifs in the Nibelungenlied. Documentation of the third symposium of the city of Worms and the Nibelungenlied-Gesellschaft Worms eV from September 21 to 23, 2001 . Stadtarchiv Worms 2006. ISBN 978-3-936118-05-6
• Together with Volker Gallé: The Nibelungs in the Modern Age. Documentation of the 5th symposium of the Nibelungenliedgesellschaft Worms eV on August 17th, 2003 . Worms 2006. ISBN 978-3-936118-07-0
• Together with Volker Gallé: The Nibelungs in Burgundy. Documentation of the symposium of the city of Worms and the Nibelungenlied-Gesellschaft Worms eV on September 30, 2000 . Stadtarchiv Worms 2006. ISBN 978-3-936118-04-9
• Together with Volker Gallé: The murder and the lament: the Nibelungenlied and the cultures of violence. Documentation of the 4th symposium of the Nibelungenliedgesellschaft Worms eV from October 11th to 13th, 2002 . Stadtarchiv Worms 2006. ISBN 978-3-9809002-2-5
• Together with Volker Gallé: A song from yesterday? On the reception history of the Nibelungenlied. Documentation of the 1st scientific symposium of the Nibelungenliedgesellschaft Worms eV and the city of Worms from October 5th to 6th, 1998 . 2nd Edition. Worms-Verlag, Worms 2009. ISBN 978-3-936118-25-4
• Publisher: Fifty years of rededication of the Old Synagogue in Worms . Worms-Verlag, Worms 2011. ISBN 978-3-936118-60-5
• "A terribly serious time ...". Worms, the region and the "Great War" 1914 to 1918 . Worms-Verlag, Worms 2014. ISBN 978-3-944380-03-2
• History of the city of Worms . 2nd Edition. Theiss, Darmstadt 2015. ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8
• Edited together with Thomas Goller : What Germany on a large scale is Osthofen on a small scale. The diaries of Johann Weißheimer II. (1797–1883) . Hessian Historical Commission , Marburg 2016. ISBN 978-3-88443-328-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerold Bönnen in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg: Personalalien , accessed on March 7, 2011
2. ^ The members of the GEGJ: Bönnen, Dr. Gerold. Society for Research into the History of the Jews V., archived from the original on April 22, 2015 ; Retrieved October 23, 2010 . 
3. ↑ Advisory Board. Southwest German Working Group for Urban History Research, accessed on October 23, 2010 .