Home calendar for the Eckartsberga district
The local calendar for the Eckartsberga district , until 1926 the calendar for local history and local history in the Eckartsberga district , was published in 46 years from 1896 to 1941.
Structure and content
Each year, which comprised between 76 and 196 pages, was basically divided into two sections: the calendar section with richly decorated pictures for the months of a year and popular, contemporary stories as well as a historical section with reports on local history and local history.
Exemplary topics of the calendar part were: lists of church consecrations of the district, but also important regional and supra-regional markets, pictures and paintings with poems, the genealogy of the princely houses, anecdotes, short biographies. Events from the world were also reported again and again. The industrial development in agriculture, innovations from the world exhibition in Paris, but also events such as the beginning of flight history, from the first dirigible airship and the first airplanes, have been published over the years.
Exemplary topics of the historical part were: the fire of the city Wiehe in 1659, field names of the administrative district Herrengosserstedt, burdens of the court rule Burgheßler in the seven years war , the ruins of the two Saxon castles on the Unstrut, the Gernstedt gate estate around the middle of the 16th century, families Kölledas , the Wends in our area, strange trees in the Eckartsberga district, from the deserted areas of the district, from the church book in Großmonra , annual chronicle of the district.
history
On March 25, 1895 the calendar for local history and local history was founded in the Eckartsberga district in Kölleda. The founders included Superintendent Johann Allihn from Leubingen , Pastor August Kohlrausch from Großmonra , Pastor Emil Strümpel from Herrengosserstedt and Pastor Otto Kabisch from Wohlmirstedt .
The cover picture of the calendar, which existed from the 1st to the 30th year, was designed by Johannes Allhin and painted by the Schneider Art Institute in Erfurt. The Sachsenburgen, the Eckartsburg and the Beichlingen Castle can be seen on it . In addition to the coats of arms of Kölleda , Heldrungen , Eckartsburg, Wiehe and Bibra, ornaments in the form of loops and twisted branches can also be seen.
The printing was organized from 1896 to 1899 in the August Schneider print shop by Max Nethe at Brückenstraße 3 in Kölleda.
With the appearance of the first edition, a small circle chronicle was part of the calendar, in which special occasions such as golden weddings, church buildings, anniversaries and deaths of personalities were remembered.
But also lists of the district administration, the ephoral areas, the administrative districts and registry office districts, arbitration offices, associations as well as a directory of the localities and individual farms in the former Eckartsberga district, shaped the picture from then on.
With the fifth year, printing to Wiehe was transferred to Otto Kirschbaum at Kirchgasse 54, and later, from the eleventh year, to Leopold v. Ranke Strasse 59 relocated to Wiehe.
The interior of the calendar changed with the upheaval, which was promoted by the editor and pastor Otto Kabisch as early as 1899. So the focus of the first part was placed more on agriculture.
From 1901, in addition to the monthly calendars, pictures and paintings with poems, stories, anecdotes and short biographies were added, and from 1902 an administrative report with many statistics.
From 1916 the First World War moved into the focus of the calendar records, with cited letters from the field post and memorial plaques for the fallen, from 1917 with plaques of honor for war awards.
The 31st year of 1926 had a new cover picture. The picture designed by Heinrich Pfeil has a baroque frame with the Eckartsburg, centered between two bases and a broken segment arch.
From 1927 until the war-related termination in 1941, the cover picture was replaced by the painter Fritz Amann from Naumburg. From then on it adorned a peasant smoking a pipe in front of a field of wheat and the Eckartsburg in the background.
There was also a change of name to the home calendar for the Eckartsberga district ; printing was relocated to the Eckart House printing house in Eckartsberga. The responsible editors until the end were Pastors Pauls, Heinrich Pfeil and Benno Liebers.
From the 1930s, more lectures by the castle team at Eckartsburg found space in the calendar.
The 46th year 1941 was also the last year. After that the pressure was stopped due to the war. The Kölleda city archive and the Sömmerda district archive still contain complete original records.
Personalities and companions
A number of pastors and personalities, who increasingly supported the calendar as writers and sponsors, were repeatedly honored in the calendar with commemorative writings. The five most important were:
Johannes Allihn, Superintendent (founder) b. December 22, 1842 in Halle / Saale, died August 22, 1907 in Sachsenburg Superintendent District School Inspector of the Ephorie Beichlingen from 1892 to 1907, merits: founding father of the calendar
Otto Kabisch, pastor (co-founder and editor) b. June 11, 1849 in Kötzschau near Merseburg / Lützen, died January 29, 1936 in Halle / Saale, convent student in Schulpforte and pastor in Wohlmirstedt from 1875 to 1915, merits: co-founder of the calendar for local history and local history in the Eckartsberga district. He was the editor in charge from 1899 to 1923, eight years of which was an editor.
Ernst Friedemann Freiherr von Münchhausen , District Administrator (sponsor) b. on July 5, 1865 in Schleswig, died November 21, 1936 in Herrengosserstedt, convent student in Roßleben and from 1899 to 1929 district administrator of the Eckartsberga district, merits: sponsor of the Finnebahn and the calendar. He has saved the calendar from the end several times through extraordinary grants from the district administration.
Benno Liebers , teacher (author) b. November 1, 1892 in Eckartsberga, died February 13, 1962 in Kassel, convent student in Schulpforte, teacher in Naumburg and Kassel, merits: With 58 publications, he wrote the most contributions. From 1937 to 1941 he was editor of the calendar, in 1925 he founded "the Burgmannschaft zur Eckartsburg".
Louis Naumann , Superintendent (Author) b. July 10, 1845 in Seehausen, died February 2, 1925 in Naumburg Senior Pastor, Superintendent and District School Inspector of Ephorie Eckartsberga from 1882 to 1910, Merits: At 29 years old, he was the most faithful writer of the calendar from 1896 to 1925. During this time he has published 43 articles.
Data
On 4489 pages (total number of pages including advertising: 4672 pages) 673 historical articles were written during this time. This results in between six (e.g. in 1904) and 27 contributions (e.g. in 1932) per year, which were written by 196 different clergy, scholars and veterans. The names Benno Liebers (58 publications), Louis Naumann (43 publications), Heinrich Pfeil (27 publications) and Otto Kabisch (22 publications) must be clearly highlighted here.
In the 46 years of its existence, eight different editors / editors, three different printers, and four different publishers were busy to publish 94 subjects. It was about 166 localities, regions and areas, regional as well as national. The most frequently addressed locations were Eckartsberga (Amt, Stadt und Ephorie) with 57 contributions, Kölleda with 41 contributions, Wiehe with 29 contributions and Memleben with 23 contributions.
The year 1925 was the year with the highest circulation with 5500 copies. The calendars found their place in almost every second household in the district. It related z. B. Saubach and Lossa annually 100 pieces each, Herrengosserstedt 80 calendars and Bucha or Memleben 60 calendars. During this time, however, 500 calendars were also sent or obtained to households outside the district. Often they were places in the neighboring district of Naumburg, but also to former residents / personalities in Australia, German East Africa and the United States of America (USA).
literature
- Calendar for local history and local history in the Eckartsberga district. 1896 to 1926
- Home calendar for the Eckartsberga district. 1927 to 1941
- Series of publications of the AMF (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mitteldeutsche Familienforschung e.V.) No. 123 Articles about local history in the calendar for local history and local history in the Eckartsberga district (1896–1941) by Günter Kriependorf from January 2009