Local calendar for the Fichtel Mountains, Franconian Forest and Vogtland

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The local calendar for the Fichtelgebirge, Franconian Forest and Vogtland is an annual calendar in which, in addition to a calendar, local history articles from the north- east Upper Franconian area and the neighboring areas in Saxony have been published since 1948 .

The founding fathers of the home calendar are the mayor of Wunsiedel , Georg Meyer, the archivist Artur Zechel from Cheb , and the local researcher and artist Karl Bedal , who at a meeting in 1947 agreed to publish the home calendar and, under the Allied occupation, gave the Rudolf-Zitzmann-Verlag permission to print got. Ackermann-Verlag, founded by Zechel in 1950, later directed by Helmut Süßmann, later took over the production. The initial title Der Fichtelgebirgsbote changed in 1951 to Oberfränkischer Volkskalender - Fichtelgebirgs- und Frankenwaldbote, home calendar for northeast Bavaria . In 1953 it was renamed the Heimatkalender for Fichtelgebirge and Franconian Forest and since reunification it has been called the Heimatkalender for Fichtelgebirge, Franconian Forest and Vogtland . The Vogtland mainly extends to areas in what is now Saxony, but it also includes the border areas in Bavaria (compare Hofer Land , Regnitzland ) and in the Czech Republic (compare Egerland ). The binding, designed by Karl Bedal with traditional ornaments since 1951, with the embedded coat of arms of the administrative district of Upper Franconia on a green background ensures recognition value. Schmidt & Buchta from Helmbrechts took over the production in 2012. The 2015 edition was the first to be edited by Thomas Kropp.

The calendar at the beginning of the booklet leaves space for entries and provides monthly information about name days, holidays, sunrise and sunset, moon phases and course, constellations and peasant rules . The local history contributions range from anecdotes, stories and legends to natural history, geological and local history treatises. The contributions are related to articles in the membership booklets of FGV and FWV and the Kulturwarte discontinued in 1991 . Authors include Karl Bedal , Dietmar Herrmann, Otto Knopf , Kurt Mühlhäußer , Friedrich Wilhelm Singer and Alfred Völkel .

literature

  • Thomas Kropp: Home calendar, the seventieth . In: Home calendar for the Fichtelgebirge, Franconian Forest and Vogtland , issue 2017. Helmbrechts 2017. pp. 31–33.
  • Karl Bedal : 30 years of the home calendar for the Fichtelgebirge and Franconian Forest . In: Heimatkalender für Fichtelgebirge and Frankenwald , volume 1977. Hof 1976. S. 32f.
  • Karl Bedal: 50 years of the home calendar - a look back . In: Heimatkalender für Fichtelgebirge, Frankenwald and Vogtland , issue 1998. Hof 1998. pp. 32–35.