Heimatverein Kempten

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Heimatverein Kempten eV
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purpose Home care in the Allgäu
Chair: Markus Naumann
Establishment date: May 9, 1884
Number of members: 403 (2017)
Seat : Kempten (Allgäu) ,
Schützenstrasse 7
Website: www.heimatverein-kempten.de

The Heimatverein Kempten eV is a home protection movement in the form of an association founded in 1884 in the Allgäu . The association was originally founded as the Allgäu antiquity association to research the Roman Cambodunum , but quickly went beyond archeology and Kempten in terms of space and content . An important introduction to historical research was the Allgäuer Geschichtsfreund , a publication that has been published annually since 1888 with scientific articles on regional history, which has since been expanded to include a further series of publications. The Heimatverein Kempten is a member of the Heimatbund Allgäu, founded in 1948 .

history

The association has its headquarters in the listed Imperial City Mint .

As the Allgäu Alterthumsverein , the association was founded on May 9th, 1884 by the Kempten mayor, councilor and local researcher Adolf Horchler . The first undertakings were excavations and researches on the Roman Cambodunum on the Lindenberg in Kempten. In 1889 the association showed activities in the Bavarian-Swabian Allgäu. From 1904 to 1909 the association's activity declined until the association was renamed the Historical Association for the Promotion of Local Lore of the Allgäu and in 1912 the Historical Association for the Allgäu zu Kempten , at the same time interest in the association increased thanks to well-known speakers and interesting research results.

In 1938 the association was renamed to Heimatdienst Allgäu . During this time the pressure from the dictatorial ruling NSDAP increased , for this the work of the Heimatverein had to be put “in the service of the present and future work of the National Socialist State”. The research work of the association had to give way to the propagandistic purposes of the blood-and-soil ideology . The results were no longer to be published in a scientific form, but in a popular version.

In the post-war period in 1948 the association became a member of the almost identically named umbrella organization Verband Heimatdienst Allgäu . This association, which has meanwhile been renamed the Heimatbund Allgäu , was founded by Alfred Weitnauer and Otto Merkt . The Kempten local association was given the name Heimatverein Kempten in 1956. In 2002 the association's office moved from Bodmanstrasse to Schützenstrasse into the building of the listed Imperial City Mint , the minting site of the imperial city of Kempten.

Club names

  • 1884: Antiquities Association for the Allgäu or Allgäuer Alterthumsverein
  • 1909: Historical association for the promotion of local history of the entire Allgäu
  • 1912: Historical association for the Allgäu in Kempten
  • 1938: Homeland Service Allgäu
  • since 1956: Heimatverein Kempten

Members

Chairperson

The mayor Adolf Horchler was chairman of the association from 1884 to 1908, until this position was filled by Albert Fehlner in 1909. Otto Merkt , whose term of office is called the era, was head of the association from 1920 to 1948, as well as from 1948 to 1951. In the meantime, when Merkt was not chairman, Karl Flach held this position for a short time in 1948. Eugen Schraudy was chairman of the association from 1951 to 1954, Gustav Voll from 1954 to 1958 and Richard Knussert from 1958 to 1966. Robert Hüttinger, who was in office from 1966 to 1976, was succeeded by Magnus Stadler from 1976 to 1986. The building director Tilman Ritter of the Free State of Bavaria has been chairman of the association since 2001 and thus successor to Anton Joseph Keil. Keil held the office of chairman of the association from 1986 to 2001.

  • 1884–1908: Adolf Horchler
  • 1909–1919: Albert Fehlner
  • 1920–1948: Otto Merkt
  • 1948: Karl Flach
  • 1948–1951: Otto Merkt
  • 1951–1954: Eugen Schraudy
  • 1954–1958: Gustav Voll
  • 1958–1966: Richard Knussert
  • 1966–1976: Robert Hüttinger
  • 1976–1986: Magnus Stadler
  • 1986–2001: Anton Joseph Keil
  • 2001–2019: Tilman Ritter
  • since 2019: Markus Naumann

Known members

The co-founders Joseph Buck and Adolf Leichtle (1841–1913) were among the well-known members, i.e. people from the very beginning and early deserving personalities . Other people were the bookseller Ludwig Huber (1848–1900) and the merchant August Ullrich (1857–1928). The Reichsarchivdirektor Franz Ludwig Baumann belonged as well as the legal counsel Martin Kellenberger (1857-1939) from Central Swabia and Oberstudienirektor Max Förderreuther from Franconia to the regionally prominent historians and local researchers. The historian and teacher Josef Rottenkolber (1890–1970) was also a member of the association, as was the district nurse Alfred Weitnauer . In addition, there are the city archivists Friedrich Heinrich Hacker (1880–1950) from Old Bavaria , Friedrich Zollhoefer and Wolfgang Haberl (1927–2012).

Publications

Above: Allgäu history friends, the title page of the first bulletin is printed on the right book.
Below: The new publication introduced in 2006, the first volume of the Allgäu research on archeology and history .

In addition to the written publications, there are also lectures, excursions and excursions every year.

Allgäu history friend (AGF)

The Allgäu history friend is an annual publication of the Heimatverein Kempten. The newsletter, published for the first time in 1888, was intended to strengthen the intimate connection between the club's management and members "to awaken and stimulate historical sense and striving from July 1, 1888 as historical communications in the form of informal papers". The AGF was the first medium to publish the findings of the research and excavations on the Romans in Kempten. Within a short period of time, other subject areas, such as finds of coats of arms, seals and coins, were also addressed in the History Friend. Legends, customs, poetry, interpretations of sources and the systematic research into the castles and stables of the Allgäu were gradually examined. In recent history, biographies of various personalities in the region have also been added. In the years 1904 to 1908 and from 1944 to 1948 no bulletins were issued.

Allgäu research on archeology and history (AFAG)

The publication of some of the topics elaborated by archaeologists and historians did not have a sufficient platform, and the annual publication of the AGF did not offer space for long scientific articles. In 2006 the Allgäu research series on archeology and history was introduced. In the series abbreviated as AFAG, new research findings in particular should find a suitable medium. In the first edition, which described the Prince Abbey of Kempten and its history, the theory of the Kempten monastery relocation, which had been established without foundations for over a century (see Alfred Weitnauer ), was refuted. The second edition deals with coin finds in the Allgäu. A representation by the architect Andor Ákos is to be published in one of the next volumes.

Volumes

  • Volume 1: Various editors and authors: "More than 1000 years ..." The Kempten Abbey between founding and closing from 752 to 1802. Likias Verlag, Friedberg 2006, ISBN 3-9807628-6-6 .
  • Volume 2: Harald Derschka : Fund coins from Kempten. Catalog and evaluation of the coins and coin-like objects from the Middle Ages and modern times found in Kempten (Allgäu). Likias Verlag, Friedberg 2007, ISBN 3-9807628-7-4 .
  • Volume 3: Markus Naumann: Traces in the forest. Messerschmitt / Werkzeugbau Kottern and the subcamp in Fischen. Likias Verlag, Friedberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-9817006-6-4 .
  • Volume 4: Brigitte Klingmann: The portrait gallery of the prince abbots of the prince monastery Kempten. Likias Verlag, Friedberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-9820130-2-2 .

Further publications

In 2012, the Heimatverein Kempten published the children's non-fiction book "Reise nach Cambodunum: A visit to Roman Kempten" together with Ilse Roßmanith-Mitterer as the author and Roger Mayrock as the illustrator . In 2014 this series was continued with “With Leo into the Middle Ages” .

meaning

The existence of the Heimatverein with its members was of decisive importance for the construction of the Heimatmuseum, today's Allgäu-Museum including the city archive in the Neubronner house and the old customs office . The museum holdings were also built up, collected or acquired by association members. The association's close proximity to the city archive is particularly evident in the fact that the Allgäuer Geschichtsfreund publications are stored in a separate room. The city ​​library, which is now located in the orangery, is based on a library that used to be run voluntarily in the local history museum, which was also influenced by the local history association. The Roman Museum in the Zumsteinhaus (with a natural science and geological exhibition) could only continue to be opened regularly until it closed in May 2015 due to savings made by the city of Kempten, only with the help of the Heimatverein.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Stodal: Kiechle praises and discusses in the Heimatverein. In: Kreisbote.de, March 28, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c The Heimatverein Kempten. In: Allgäu my home. Heimatbund Allgäu (Ed.), 3/1992, 7th year, p. 15.
  3. ↑ a b Franz-Rasso Böck : 125 years of the Heimatverein Kempten. In: Allgäu history friend. No. 109, Kempten 2009, ISBN 3-9810073-5-2 . P. 14.
  4. ^ Franz-Rasso Böck , Ralf Lienert , Joachim Weigel (eds.): Century views of Kempten 1900–2000 . Verlag Tobias Dannheimer - Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten (Allgäu) 1999, ISBN 3-88881-035-3 , p. 162 .
  5. ↑ a b Franz-Rasso Böck : 125 years of the Heimatverein Kempten. In: Allgäu history friend. No. 109, Kempten 2009. ISBN 3-9810073-5-2 , p. 16.
  6. ↑ Franz-Rasso Böck : The "Horchler era". The mayor and his politics. In: Allgäu history friend. No. 103, 2003, ISBN 3-00-013396-8 , p. 172.
  7. ↑ a b Franz-Rasso Böck : 125 years of the Heimatverein Kempten. In: Allgäu history friend. No. 109, Kempten 2009, ISBN 3-9810073-5-2 , p. 23ff.
  8. ^ Obituaries of the bereaved relatives of Wolfgang Haberl and the city of Kempten in: Allgäuer Zeitung , September 1, 2012, No. 202, p. 43.
  9. ↑ Otto Merkt: Heimatpflege in der Stadt. In: The Swabian Museum. 1932. p. 65.
  10. ^ Holdings of the Allgäu history friend in the German National Library, with numerous individual volumes
  11. ↑ Alterthumsverein Kempten (Ed.): Allgäuer Geschichtsfreund. No. 1, 1888, pp. 1f.
  12. ↑ Heimatverein Kempten (ed.): The 'Allgäuer Geschichtsfreund' sheets for local research and local care. ( Memento from February 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: heimatverein-kempten.de, accessed on September 15, 2012.
  13. ↑ Birgit Kata and a. (Ed.): More than 1000 years: The Kempten Abbey between founding and releasing 752–1802. Allgäu research on archeology and history, No. 1. LIKIAS, Kempten / Friedberg 2006, ISBN 3-9807628-6-6 , pp. 7-11.
  14. ↑ Christine Tröger: "Keys to history in Kempten." In: Kreisbote.de , August 2, 2012. (accessed on September 29, 2012)
  15. ^ Tilman Ritter: Annual Report 2003. In: Allgäuer Geschichtsfreund. No. 103, 2003, ISBN 3-00-013396-8 . P. 183.

literature

  • Clemens Maria Haertle: The coins and medals of the monastery and the city of Kempten. Vol. 2, Dannheimer, Kempten 1993, ISBN 3-88881-014-0 .

Web links

Commons : Heimatverein Kempten  - collection of pictures

Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 29.2 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 7.5 ″  E