Hermann to the land of the mountains
| Masonic Lodge: "Hermann to the Land of the Mountains" |
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| Orient: | Wuppertal (Elberfeld) |
| Matr.-No .: | 256 |
| Date of establishment: worked until: again from: |
April 9, 1815 1935 1947 |
| Grand Lodge: | AFuAM |
The Johannisloge Hermann zum Lande der Berge is the oldest Masonic lodge in Wuppertal . It belongs to the Grand Lodge of the Old Free and Accepted Masons of Germany (AFuAM) and through their association with the United Grand Lodges of Germany (VGLvD) Brotherhood of Freemasons to the worldwide league of Freemasons .
The lodge was founded on April 9, 1815 in the then independent town of Elberfeld - today a district of Wuppertal - and has matriculation number 256.
history
In the valley of the Wupper , in the then independent towns of Elberfeld and Barmen as well as the surrounding area, there lived several Freemasons around 1810 who had come into contact with Freemasonry on trade trips and belonged to various lodges in Prussia, in the Rhineland and in the Netherlands . In 1812, 23 Freemasons joined together to form a bricklaying association, which later became a public reading association, the " Museum ". The offer to found a Masonic lodge under French suzerainty was turned down. When Napoleon abdicated in April 1814, an application was made to the Great National Mother Lodge for the Three Worlds in Berlin to found a Masonic Lodge and on April 9, 1815 the Masonic Lodge "Hermann zum Lande der Berge" was founded in Elberfeld.
In 1819 the lodge moved into its first lodge house on Kasinostraße, which had been built together with the “Museum” association.
In 1834 the "Museum" became the "Casino" company , after which a street in Wuppertal is still named today. At the beginning of 1858 the lodge house burned out completely.
The casino and the lodge separated and the lodge Hermann zum Lande der Berge built its own lodge house on the existing site, opposite today's central library , and moved into it in 1861.
In April 1866, 29 Freemasons founded the “Lessing” lodge in Barmen, the neighboring town of Elberfeld. Among the founding members were many brothers of the Hermann Lodge for the Land of the Mountains . Both lodges remained on friendly terms in the future.
In 1885 the box house on Kasinostraße (today Kolpingstraße) was completely renovated and in 1890 received a structured facade. The lodge resided in this house until it was forcibly dissolved by the National Socialists in 1935. The building went up in flames in the air raid on Elberfeld in June 1943. During the Third Reich, Masonic life came to a complete standstill. The brothers had to limit themselves to private contacts.
After the Second World War , 16 brothers from the lodges Hermann zum Lande der Berge and “Lessing” came together and in 1947 were able to revive the lodge “Hermann zum Lande der Berge”. The “Lessing” lodge was declared dormant as a deputation lodge. In 1955 the existing rooms of the civil society "Union" in Friedrich-Engels-Allee were converted to meet the needs of the lodge and a long-term lease was signed. The Lodge celebrated the 150th foundation festival in these rooms in 1965.
After the lease had expired, the lodge converted the vacant rooms in the house of the lodge "Zur Bruderkette im Wuppertal" according to their ideas.
Until August 2015, the "Logenhaus" at Friedrich-Engels-Allee 165 in Unterbarmen was the common domicile of the four existing lodges in Wuppertal.
The "Hermann zum Lande der Berge" lodge and the "Lessing" deputation lodge have been working in the rooms of the Wuppertal Concordia Society in Barmen since September 2015.
Well-known members of the lodge
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The independent town of Elberfeld (today a district of Wuppertal) was a trade and production center for textiles with extensive international trade relationships in the 18th and 19th centuries. The lodge was made up of representatives of the city's most important families
| Surname | Life dates | description |
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| Johann Gerhard Siebel | 1784-1831 | Merchant, politician, art collector, co-founder and first "master of the chair" of the lodge |
| Heinrich Kamp | 1786-1853 | Merchant and city councilor, president of the Elberfeld and Barmen Chamber of Commerce |
| Christian Heyden | 1803-1869 | Church builder, representative of neo-Gothic |
| Johann Carl Fuhlrott | 1803-1877 | Teacher and discoverer of the Neanderthal man |
| Rüttger Brüning | 1775-1837 | Merchant and first mayor of the city of Elberfeld |
| Rudolf Küpper | 1848-1920 | Owner of the Küpper brewery |
| Moritz von Bethmann | 1768-1826 | Owner of Bethmannbank in Frankfurt |
| Peter of Carnap | 1752-1824 | Merchant |
| Johann Stephan Diemel | 1763-1821 | Surgeon, initiator of the hard systems in Wuppertal |
| Johann Carl Erbschloe | 1772– | Merchant and art collector |
| Wilhelm Robert Funck | 1858-1923 | Mayor of Elberfeld from 1900 to 1919 |
| Gustav Gebhard | 1828-1900 | Merchant and Persian consul, theosophist |
| Eduard Roeder | 1818-1890 | Farmer in Harris County USA |
| Carl Rumpff | 1839-1889 | Businessman, board member of paint factories formerly Friedrich Bayer & Co. |
| Johann Peter Schlickum | 1758-1841 | Merchant and City Councilor |
| Johannes chimney | 1789-1853 | Music director, initiator of the Lower Rhine Music Festival (1818–1958) |
| Carl Wilhelm Sternberg | 1824– | Mayor in Velbert |
| August Viefhaus | 1837-1902 | Factory owner, president of the royal trade court and city councilor |
| Julius Theodor Baedeker | 1814-1880 | Publisher, bookseller and editor |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Our story ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the lodge's website, accessed January 2013.
literature
Web links
- http://hzldb.de/ Website of the lodge