Heinrich Georg Rung
Heinrich Georg Rung (born February 26, 1854 in Dernbach (Palatinate) , † February 22, 1931 in Ramberg (Palatinate) ) was a priest of the Diocese of Speyer , dean, episcopal clergyman , historian and local researcher.
Life
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Heinrich Georg Rung, born in Dernbach in southern Palatinate, studied in Würzburg , where he joined the Catholic student union Normannia in the KV . He was ordained a priest on August 11, 1878 in Speyer and officiated as chaplain from September 16, 1878 in Bexbach , from September 22, 1879 in Ludwigshafen and from September 11, 1882 in St. Ingbert .
On September 20, 1883 Rung received the appointment as administrator, from February 21, 1884 to pastor of Ebernburg . This is still the northernmost parish of the Speyer diocese, now a district of Bad Münster am Stein , which in turn already belongs to the neighboring diocese of Trier and was formerly Prussian - in contrast to Ebernburg in Bavaria. Here in Ebernburg, Pastor Rung worked continuously for 43 years, until his resignation on June 30, 1926. Then he moved as emeritus to his homeland in the south of the Palatinate, to Ramberg , to which parish his birthplace Dernbach belonged. There he died on the evening of February 22nd, 1931, the first Sunday of Lent, and was buried on February 25th in the Ramberg cemetery.
Act
In Ebernburg, Pastor Rung pursued the replacement of the Simultaneum - that is, the mutual use of the church. With great enthusiasm he collected donations and contributed his savings of 20,000 marks. He succeeded in having his own Catholic church and rectory built. The house of God, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a work of the Heimat style and was consecrated in 1918. A member of the Catholic church administration also recorded this achievement on the grave and said at the funeral: “As long as the church is standing, the name of our former pastor Rung will live on in Ebernburg.” Later, Rung became dean and headed the entire dean's office in Kirchheimbolanden-Rockenhausen , to which Ebernburg belonged, as well as the "district school inspector" he was responsible for the school supervision.
Heinrich Georg Rung was very interested in local history and church history all his life. In 1904 he was one of the co-founders of the still existing North Palatinate History Association and wrote articles in its magazine "Nordpfälzer Geschichtsblätter" ; Hardly a year before 1927 that does not contain several articles on Rung's local history. For a long time he was the second chairman of the association, between 1922 and 1925 he was even the first chairman, and then served as the second board member until he left the northern Palatinate. When he moved into retirement in Ramberg, the priest resigned from all active association offices. The August 1926 issue of the "Nordpfälzer Geschichtsblätter" contains the following thank you article:
“In July, Dean and Spiritual Counselor Rung resigned from his position as 2nd chairman of our association in Ebernburg, because he is leaving the North Palatinate to spend the rest of his days in his home town of Dernbach. On this occasion, the association would like to express its sincere thanks to him for everything he has done for him since it was founded in 1904. Both in his capacity as 2nd board member and through his tireless collaboration on our papers, Mr Rat Rung tried to promote the association's efforts. Almost no board meeting was held that he did not take an active part in. His publications testify to his great love for the North Palatinate, which had become his second home, and to thorough research into its past. With very special care he worked on the history of his parish Ebernburg, in which he worked for almost half a century. The indelible thanks will follow him into his retirement. "
Rung wrote complete parish stories for Ebernburg, Ramberg and Dernbach. In his retirement he did particular research into the history of the last two places mentioned, where he now lived again. There and at the nearby Neuscharfeneck Castle , the princes of Löwenstein-Wertheim were once wealthy and he maintained lively contact with this branch of the Wittelsbach family , which played an important role in the Catholic Church during the time of Pastor Rung. He came into contact with the heads of the families, Prince Karl zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg and Prince Aloys zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg , both presidents of the Central Committee of German Catholics, the former as a widower, from 1908 even a religious priest in a monastery. He had them send him bundles of historical files from the princely house archive, deciphered them, copied them and evaluated them for the parish and home history. In the last years of his life, Pastor Rung was in severe pain. He used to say that studying the old files and history would give him relief, as he would “forget the pain” .
His friend and Normannia federal brother, the high school teacher Dr. Lukas Grünenwald , also a passionate local historian and from Dernbach. Bishop Ludwig Sebastian von Speyer and the President of the Palatinate Government Theodor Pfülf personally attended the funeral.
Others
In the Speyer anecdotal collection "Pälzer Parre" by Richard Erb an incident about Dean Rung is recorded. There it is said that Pastor Rung from the Palatinate-Bavarian town of Ebernburg went for a walk with his dog in clerical clothing in the neighboring, already Prussian Bad Münster and was suddenly “snarled” by a gendarme who was “drilled in the spirit of the Kulturkampf”: “Mr. Pastor, I have to record you, you let your dog run here; he polluted the facilities, that is forbidden! ” When taking the personal details, the policeman would have asked the priest whether he also had a“ sideline ”. Rung replied: "Yes, district school inspector," whereupon the law enforcement officer, saluting as if electrified, took up an attitude and left as quickly as possible. Apparently he assumed that the designation “inspector” had to be a high police rank that it was better not to mess with.
literature
- “Obituary, obituary and report on the burial” , Pilger , Speyer, nos. 9 and 10 from 1931
- "Farewell appreciation" , North Palatinate History Papers, No. 8, 1926
- “100 Years of the North Palatinate History Association” , commemorative publication by Armin Engel and Edgar W. Fried, Donnersbergkreis district administration, Kirchheimbolanden, 2004
- Richard Erb: “Pälzer Parre” , Pilger-Verlag, Speyer, no year (approx. 1990), pages 118–119
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rung, Heinrich Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Roman Catholic clergyman and local historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dernbach (Palatinate) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1931 |
| Place of death | Ramberg (Palatinate) |