Habertshof
On the Habertshof near Schlüchtern-Elm there was an evangelical-religious rural commune from 1919 to 1933 , which was initially based on common property .
The founder was the youthful, vegetarian gardener Max Zink, the father of Jörg Zink . The financial situation developed so unfavorably that in 1922 the Neuwerk movement with the evangelical pastor Emil Blum took over the farm. This ran the establishment of a country folk high school on the farm, which increasingly became the main business. In 1925, zinc left the place, with which the public service train was increasingly lost. Blum and his school wanted to be Protestant and at the same time be close to the socialist labor movement . That is why mainly proletarian children were accepted. During the global economic crisis , the economic basis collapsed, Blum left at the end of 1931, now voluntary labor camps were held here and leadership cadres were trained for labor service . The farm was finally expropriated in 1933. The last Whitsun meeting of the Neuwerk movement took place in Schlüchtern in 1933.
literature
- Emil Blum : The Habertshof. Becoming and shaping a folk high school . Neuwerk-Verlag, Kassel 1930.
- Antje Vollmer : The Neuwerk Movement 1919–1935. A contribution to the history of the youth movement, religious socialism and workers' education . Verlag Blasaditsch, Augsburg 1973 (also: Inaugural dissertation, Berlin 1973).
- Ulrich Sinn : Back, oh human, to mother earth. Rural communes in Germany 1890–1933 . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-423-02934-X , pp. 241-267.
Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 31.7 ″ N , 9 ° 33 ′ 29.2 ″ E