Laucherthal hut chapel

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The Laucherthal Hüttenkapelle is a factory and miner 's chapel founded in 1926 by the former Princely Hohenzollern Hüttenwerke in Laucherthal an der Lauchert, a district of the Sigmaringendorf community in the Upper Danube Nature Park . It is the only music band in the form of a factory and miners' band in the Sigmaringen district and the Tübingen district .

prehistory

The eight founding members of the Hüttenkapelle in 1908

The hut band has its origins in the Sigmaringendorf band that was founded in 1847. Some members of the Sigmaringendorf band worked at what was then the Fürstlich Hohenzollern steelworks and had the idea of ​​founding a hut band . On April 1, 1908, the first rehearsal of the steel works' provisional factory band consisting of eight musicians took place. The band had their first appearance at the wedding of Josef Speh called the Boller Sepp . One problem for the band was the procurement and financing of the instruments. A common wood or brass instrument at that time cost the approximate monthly wage of a worker in the iron and steel works. The musician and master carpenter Gelle took out a loan on behalf of the band from the Sparkasse und Leihkasse Sigmaringen . In 1912 the band took part in the music festival in Bingen and played the overture The Little General there . During the First World War , gaming was suspended. In 1919 the band formed anew with a strength of ten to eighteen men.

founding

In 1926 the chapel was officially founded. Miners' band uniforms were purchased for the entire musicians on behalf of the Princely Hüttenwerke and made available to the musicians for the duration of their active season. On June 9th and 10th, 1928 the band took part with 17 musicians in a competition of the upper school in Gammertingen with the festival overture by Gottlöber and achieved the top prize with certificate and trophy . At the district music festival on July 25, 1937 in Riedlingen , the upper school band played the overture to the opera The Barber of Seville by Rossini and came second behind the Buchau am Federsee town band . On August 13, 1938, the band went on a two-day excursion to Innsbruck . The Christmas party on December 22, 1940 had to be broken off shortly after it began because there was a risk of an air raid . During the Second World War , the game was suspended.

After the Second World War

On June 2, 1949, the chapel was re-established in a meeting with the director of the iron and steel works. On May 25, 1955, the Südwestfunk Studio Tübingen made recordings of the chapel in the glow hall. Then she played the Hungarian Fantasia by Bedrich Smetana and the Finnish Reitermarsch . On the mediation of Prince Friedrich von Hohenzollern, the Hüttenkapelle took part in the music festival in Vandans in Vorarlberg in 1960. A separate record was recorded in 1982 with four marches, including the Hohenzollern March , and sold through the souvenir shop at Sigmaringen Castle . In 1987 the band appeared at the stand of the Princely Hüttenwerke at the Hanover Industry Fair . There, the reception of the Minister of Economics of Baden-Württemberg with the Hüttenkapelle was broadcast in real time by the NDR . In 2002, after more than thirty years, the conductor Hermann Schwald handed over the baton to Richard Reck. When he died unexpectedly in 2003, honorary conductor Hermann Schwald initially took over again as a conductor, before Bernd Ott from Langenenslingen was hired as the new conductor in January 2004 . In 2007, Ott handed over the musical direction of the Hüttenkapelle to Reiner Sigg from Wilflingen for professional reasons . In 2008 the company band played on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the ironworks.

On September 22, 2010, members of the Laucherthal Hüttenkapelle kept vigil at the coffin of their employer, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm von Hohenzollern , who had died on September 16, 2010. On September 23, 2010 the band played Chopin's funeral march at the end of the Requiem for the prince in the Erlöserkirche of Hedingen Monastery , the burial place of the Hohenzollern .

literature

  • Adolf Freisinger: Minutes of the Lauchertal Hüttenkapelle from 1926 to 1962.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Schwäbische Zeitung : The last honor: a crown adorns the coffin from September 22, 2010
  2. Schwäbische Zeitung : Six foresters carry the prince to his final resting place on September 23, 2010