Grand Ducal Saxon Forestry School in Eisenach

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Former main building on Frauenberg (2010)

The Großherzoglich-Sächsische Forstlehranstalt Eisenach was a technical college for forest sciences in the state of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach , based in Eisenach . In 1905 the institute was renamed a forest academy . The university existed until 1915.

history

The Eisenacher Forstlehranstalt emerged from a master school for foresters founded by the later Chief Forestry Councilor Gottlob König in 1805 in Ruhla and its content was based on the forestry training designed by Carl Christoph Oettelt ( Ilmenau ) and Johann Heinrich Cotta (Forstlehranstalt from Zillbach ). It was moved to Eisenach in 1830 and initially managed privately. The first seat of the state-supported forestry teaching institute in Eisenach was in the house Schmelzerstraße 14 . After the death of King, the building in Frauenberg 17 was occupied.

As a forester in Ruhla, König had dealt intensively with the reforestation of the desolate forest and heather areas in the high elevations of the Thuringian Forest and the Rhön and had also approached the state government with corresponding memoranda and petitions . He was therefore considered to be the most suitable specialist for the reorganization of forestry required in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach and the necessary introduction of forest taxation.

In 1848 the school was taken into state care and in 1854 the forest institute became a forest school. It served the training of candidates for the state middle forest service. The school had three teaching forests for practical training: they were around Ruhla, Wilhelmsthal and Eisenach. For the practical training in Eisenach, König also set up a plant garden and forest botanical system in the Haintal, which was located on the southern edge of the Roeseschen Hölzchen, which had been planted with numerous foreign trees in 1787 .

In 1905 the school was converted into a forest academy. With the beginning of the First World War , the training of foresters came to a standstill and the academy was dissolved in 1915.

Personalities

Directors

Teacher

An advertisement in the state gazette of the Grand Duchy names the teaching staff for the summer semester of 1899:

  • Go Oberforstrat Hermann Stoetzer: Introduction to forest science, forest management, forest use
  • Forestry Councilor Huldreich Matthes: Silviculture, economics, finance
  • Dr. Büßgen : mineralogy, geognosy, botany
  • Dr. Liebetrau: zoology
  • Prof. Dr. Höhn: mathematics, trigonometry
  • Forest assessor Axthelm: meteorology, measuring exercises
  • District Judge Lincke: Legal studies

Also taught in Eisenach:

student

Student associations

Four student associations formed at the school : Hubertia, Silvania, Tanne and Alania. Two connections adopted the corporation principle relatively late and together they formed the senior citizens' convention in Eisenach. The Eisenach Forest Corps had considerable difficulties in joining the larger associations, suffered from a lack of members and had to be suspended relatively often . This was not least due to the fate of the Eisenach Academy. After the forest academy was dissolved, the two Eisenach corps moved to the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and initially joined the smaller Rudolstadt senior citizens' convention . The tradition of both connections of the Eisenacher SC was taken over by the Corps Rheno-Nicaria Mannheim after the Second World War .

Hubertia

In 1848 a table society "Mohrenkneipe" was founded, after the inn "Zum Mohren" not far from the forestry school on Eisenacher Frauenplan . This changed in 1862 into the initially black connection Hubertia . In 1865 it was reformed into a colored country team (light green-gold-black, light green striker), to which almost exclusively foresters belonged. The most prominent members of the Hubertia were the two honorary members Georg and Wilhelm Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein. After a longer suspension (1896–1905) and reconstitution, first as a union, then again as a country team, Hubertia adopted the corp principle in 1908. In 1914 an application was made to join the WSC, but the application apparently fizzled out. With the beginning of the First World War, the active operation was stopped. Hubertia renounced in the Rudolstädter Senioren-Convent (RSC), was reciprocated in 1922 to be suspended again in the summer semester of 1929. In 1930 the old rulers left the RSC, a merger with Rheno-Nicaria Mannheim led to the short-lived (until 1936) fraternity Hubertia-Rhenonicaria zu Heidelberg. When the Rheno-Nicaria was reconstituted as a corps in the WSC in 1953, the merger with Hubertia was confirmed and Hubertia got into the WSC after all.

Silvania

The Silvania Student Forestry Association was founded in 1850 as a table society "Löwenkneipe" (after the Goldener Löwe inn ). It was converted into a colored compound in 1865, and in 1880 it had to be suspended due to a lack of members. In 1884 it was reconstituted as a forest academy association; Converted into a corps in 1911. It existed until the forest academy was dissolved in 1915 and moved to Giessen in 1921. In 1922/23 she took up the suspended connection Thuringia Eisenach . After merging with the Kartellcorps Salingia Berlin / Halle (1931), Silvania changed to the Naumburg Senioren-Convent (later Naumburger Thing, which was based on the German peasantry ), which was dissolved as early as 1935 as a "rural peasantry" in 1933 . In April 1954, Silvania also merged with Rheno-Nicaria Mannheim. The common old gentlemen's association adopted the name "Association of Alter Rhein-Neckarländer, Huberten and Silvanen e.V. in Heidelberg".

fir

The Tanne Forest and Hunting Science Association was founded in 1867 and renamed the Tanne Academic Association in 1877. He used the colors green-silver-red, later green-white-red. It was suspended and reactivated several times. The old gentlemen's association merged in 1922 with the Rhenania Munich fraternity, now the Arminia-Rhenania fraternity in Munich .

Alania

The Alania Forest Association was founded on December 18, 1898. She used the colors green-white-black and the motto "United makes you strong" ; EMSt., Colors, compasses, date of foundation and deer head in the four-part coat of arms and existed until after 1906.

Literature (selection)

  • Ekkehard Schwartz : Gottlob König 1779–1849. A life for forest and landscape (= life pictures of important Thuringian forest people ). Kleinhampl, Erfurt 1999, ISBN 3-933956-02-1 .
  • Helmut Witticke, Martin Heinze: Forest training in Thuringia. Schwarzburg 1946-2008 . EchinoMedia Verlag, Bürgel 2009, ISBN 978-3-937107-18-9 .
  • August Roese The Roese stick. (= Contributions to the history of Eisenach. Issue VIII). Eisenach 1898
  • Hermann Stoetzer: The Eisenacher Forste (Eisenach, Ruhla and Wilhelmsthal). An economic picture . Hofbuchdruckerei von H. Kahle, Eisenach 1900.
  • Carl Grebe: The teaching forests of the Eisenacher forest school . 1858.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Weigel: The Dr. Thank God König near Eisenach . In: Eisenacher Hefte . tape 3 . Eisenacher Bild- und Schriftverlag W. Setzepfand, Eisenach, S. 12-21 ( n.d. [1993]).
  2. ↑ Gerd Bergmann: The Roesesche sticks . In: MFB Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Eisenach (ed.): StadtZeit. City journal with information from the Wartburg district . June issue. Druck- und Verlagshaus Frisch, Eisenach 1998, p. 36-38 .
  3. ↑ a b c SC to Eisenach and Weinheimer SC
  4. ↑ a b c SC to Eisenach and Weinheimer SC (1914). corpsarchive.de, July 2011, accessed on February 23, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Paul Gerhardt Gladen : history of the student corporation associations. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2007.
  6. ↑ Studentenkrug glaswolf.de

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 19.9 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 25.1 ″  E