Heinrichsblatt

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Heinrichsblatt
Logo Heinrichsblatt
description Subscription weekly newspaper
publishing company Heinrichs publishing house
First edition October 4, 1893
Frequency of publication weekly
Sold edition 20,319 copies
( IVW  Q1 / 2018)
Editor-in-chief Andreas Kuschbert
Web link Heinrichsblatt
ZDB 1032563-3

The Heinrichsblatt is the Catholic weekly newspaper for the Archdiocese of Bamberg .

In terms of content, it is about reporting on the life of the church - from the parish to the pope, with a special focus on the archdiocese as a distribution area, the classification of what is happening in the church and the world through commentary, faith and life support, culture, social affairs and Service.

history

The beginnings (1893–1922)

The first issue of a Bamberg church newspaper appeared on October 4, 1893 as a “weekly paper for the Catholic people”. In 1910 the church newspaper appeared under the title “St. Heinrichsblatt ”, but only three numbers long. The planned further development of the church newspaper began with an expanded scope and a new title: “The Cross. Formerly St. Heinrichs and Ottoblatt ”.

With the number 1 of 1913 the old title “St. Heinrichsblatt ”used a newly designed header. Seven years later, the St. Heinrichsblatt was conceived as a church newspaper for the entire archbishopric and merged with the church newspaper for Nuremberg , the "Sunday Peace", previously published by the Sebaldus Verlag Nuremberg , at the request of the Archbishopric of Bamberg.

Own publishing house (1922–1945)

In 1922 , the St. Otto publishing house was founded in Bamberg with Archbishop Jacobus von Hauck and Auxiliary Bishop Adam Senger at the helm. In 1923 the publishing house took over the St. Heinrichsblatt, the Bamberg Volksblatt and the printing company. On June 1, 1923, the state secretary of the “Catholic Press Association for Bavaria”, later prelate Georg Meixner , was appointed director of the publishing house and editor of Volksblatt and St. Heinrichsblatt.

With the outbreak of the First World War , the focus of the St. Heinrichsblatt shifted from articles with religious content to the reporting of secular, especially military events. During the Third Reich , the work of the St. Heinrichsblatt was only possible to a limited extent; in June 1937 the St. Otto publishing house was expropriated. On May 31, 1941, the publication of the St. Heinrichsblatt was suspended for several years.

Post-war period (since 1945)

In October 1945, for the first time, female carriers delivered the "Bamberg Parish Gazette - Bulletin of the Catholic Parishes of Bamberg and the Surrounding Area" to previous subscribers to the St. Heinrichsblatt for 50 pfennigs free of charge. In November it was expanded to become the "Bulletin of the Archdiocese of Bamberg". From May 1946 the St. Heinrichsblatt appeared again, diocesan gazette for the archdiocese of Bamberg, which was later merged with the "Pfarrblatt".

On August 1, 1959, Dr. Hans Zech for the first time a lay editor-in-chief of the St. Heinrichsblatt. He was assisted by a priest as spiritual director who was a member of the General Spiritual Council and the Metropolitan Chapter. In 1992 Marion Krüger (from the Diocese of Osnabrück ) took over the management of the Heinrichsblatt and was the first woman in Germany to head a diocese newspaper.

Publisher, regional editions and edition

In 2000 the St. Otto Verlag went into liquidation. The Heinrichsblatt has been published as a diocesan paper on behalf of the Archbishop's Ordinariate in the newly founded Heinrichs Verlag since December 2000 . In 2007 Heinrichs-Verlag (Heinrichsblatt, Bayerische Verlagsanstalt Bamberg) was one of the first users to move to the renovated diocese of St. Otto on Heinrichsdamm.

For each of the five regions of the archbishopric there is a regional supplement with news and information from the deaneries and parishes in each issue .

In the third quarter of 2017, the weekly newspaper had a total circulation of 23,533 copies, with a sold circulation of 20,632 copies, of which 18,872 were subscribers.

Chief editor

  • 1959–1983 Dr. Hans Zech
  • 1983–1992 Konrad Held
  • 1992–2005 Marion Krüger
  • since 2006 Andreas Kuschbert

Scientific evaluation

In the 2001/2002 winter semester, the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg dealt with the Heinrichsblatt. The Heinrichsblatt was examined from three points of view:

  1. The media offer is steadily increasing - do you still notice a church newspaper?
  2. Globalization - with the flood of news from all over the world, the local news might go under?
  3. Secularization and changing values - does a church newspaper still have space?

This resulted in questions that were dealt with with subscribers , readers and discussion groups:

  • Which readers is the Heinrichsblatt currently reaching? How is the reader satisfaction, what are the reader requests?
  • Which people does the Heinrichsblatt not reach, in particular: Are there identifiable groups of non-readers who could be won over to the publication with a changed offer? What were the reasons why former readers no longer read the paper?
  • To what extent can a church newspaper in general and the Heinrichsblatt in particular assert itself within the growing media offer and gain attention? To what extent can the Heinrichsblatt assume a regional and religious bond function?

The results were given to the Archdiocese of Bamberg and can be requested from the university.

Article series

  • Ludwig Schick : Our father. (2004), Paulus (2008), The Creed (2011), What the Bamberg Cathedral can tell us. (2012). The new praise of God (2014/15).
  • Luitgar Göller: Witness to a great past. Facilities and buildings in the Archdiocese of Bamberg (2011–2013).
  • Norbert Jung : Symbols (since 2011), Art in Bamberg Cathedral (2012). Monasteries in the Archdiocese of Bamberg (2013).
  • Barbara Stühlmeyer : Year of Mercy (2015/16).
  • Ludger Stühlmeyer : Hymnology and Church Music (since 2009).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IVW : Heinrichsblatt (woe) , accessed on November 12, 2017
  2. ↑ The basis of the study , accessed on June 27, 2012.
  3. ↑ Published as a book: Ludwig Schick: Our father. Reflections by Archbishop Ludwig Schick. Press office of the Archbishop's Ordinariate Bamberg 2004.
  4. ↑ Published as a book: Ludwig Schick, Paulus in Christus für Christus. Reflections by Archbishop Ludwig Schick. Heinrichs-Verlag, Bamberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89889-137-0 .
  5. ↑ Published as a book: Ludwig Schick: What the Bamberg Cathedral can tell us. From Archbishop Ludwig Schick. Heinrichs-Verlag, Bamberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89889-186-8 .
  6. ↑ Published as a book: Luitgar Göller: Witnesses to a great past . Publications of the Diözesanmuseum Bamberg, Volume 20, Bamberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-931432-19-5 .
  7. ↑ Published as a book: Norbert Jung: Christian symbols. Heinrichsverlag Bamberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89889-211-7 .
  8. ↑ Published as a book: Barbara and Ludger Stühlmeyer: Das Leben singen. Christian songs and their origins. Verlag DeBehr, Radeberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-939241-24-9 .