Historic vigilante guard Ehingen

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The Historic Civil Guard Ehingen is to the year the city was founded Ehingens in 1230 reaching back vigilante , now in the legal form of a registered association in Ehingen Donau . The vigilante guard is the largest vigilante group in the "State Association of Historic Vigilantes and City Guards Württemberg and Hohenzollern". Its job is to represent the city at home and abroad. She takes part in secular festivals, such as the swearing-in of recruits by the Bundeswehr , as well as in religious celebrations, such as Corpus Christi processions .

history

In 1343, after the Berger Count House died out , the town of Ehingen was sold to the House of Habsburg . From this point on it was exempt from all foreign military services. In 1500 Emperor Maximilian stayed within the walls of Ehingen several times. The Ehingen-born Winckelhofer brothers, the poet Jakob Locher and the sculptor Jörg Muskat belonged to his circle of friends .

Evidence of the vigilante guard

The oldest evidence of the vigilante group can be found in a description of the order of procession shortly after the Thirty Years of War from 1618 to 1648 on May 12, 1668. During this procession, the shrine with the relics of St. Florentius was brought from the convent of the Franciscans in Ehingen from the Klause in Groggenthal to the Riedlinger city gate on Ochsenberg to the St. Blasius Church. The train described as endless had twelve groups:

  • First presentation: Division of uniformed riders with their war flag
  • ...
  • 5th Municipal Music Corps
  • ...
  • 7. Four councilors as reliquary bearers on both sides accompanied by the citizen guard on foot .
  • ...

After the Thirty Years' War , Ehingen was a regular meeting place for the Swabian-Austrian estates. In 1684 Austria started to form its own standing army. The vigilante guard remained the task of a kind of riot police within the regular city guard and representation tasks such as participating in Corpus Christi processions. Another proof of the existence of the vigilante guard is a city treasury account from 1780. According to this, the city treasury paid a lieutenant, ensign, five musicians, four drummers, six corporals, forty-eight men on foot, twenty-four horsemen and four dragoon officers.

Further evidence of the vigilante guard is a motif in the Ehinger Museum from 1817 - also shown on the outer cover of the Ehinger Heimatbuch by Pastor Franz Michael Weber with the title “History of an Upper Swabian Danube City”. The picture shows the arrival of a wagon after the great famine on July 28, 1817.

It can therefore be assumed that the vigilante guard was re-established in 1817 at the latest. After the Austrian city was incorporated into the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1809, it was dissolved by decree by the new sovereign King Friedrich I.

In 1861/61 the civil guard was re-established as an association with statutes. From this point on, all minutes of the association are available for inspection.

Today's vigilante guard

The hist. Bürgerwache Ehingen consists of five trains. The music train is provided by the music association Lyra Stadtkapelle Ehingen. Important events of the vigilante guard in chronological order from the last century to the present were:

  • 1904 New rifles were procured
  • 1914 flag consecration of the civil guard
  • 1920 memorial service for those who fell in the war
  • 1928 1st shooting line shooting
  • 1937 120th anniversary of the civil guard - meeting of the regional association
  • 1946 first deployment on Corpus Christi after World War II
  • 1953 Adoption of sponsorship for the Dietenheim vigilante group
  • 1964 Bivouac at altitude 732 - field camp in Lautertal
  • 1964 Captain Markus Engelhardt leads the vigilante guard
  • 1966 1st appearance of the historical procession on Corpus Christi
  • 1968 1st winter hike by the civil guard
  • 1969 Resumption of rifle line shooting with new regulations - 4th Spielmannszugtreffen Critique game and flag consecration of the flag of Hist. Train
  • 1970 Decision to build the civic guard's own shooting range
  • 1974 20th regional meeting, Ehingen becomes a major district town
  • 1977 150th anniversary of the Ehingen vigilante guard with the consecration of the 1st platoon
  • 1981 Foundation of sponsorship with the Bundeswehr in Münsingen
  • 1984 29th national meeting with 3000 participants
  • 1990 Harald Neu leads the vigilante guard
  • 1994 34th national meeting in Ehingen Foreign trip to Esztergom (Hungary)
  • 1995 Ehingen Vigilante Guard frames the state visit by Chinese President Jiang
  • 1996 1st Guard Regiment on foot of the Kgl. Swedish Life guard in Ehingen
  • 1997 trip abroad to Stockholm (Sweden)
  • 1998 Forest festival after the shooting range was built
  • 2000 trip abroad trip to Esztergom (Hungary)
  • 2001 trip abroad to the regional meeting of the military historical groups from Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland in Wiener Neustadt
  • 2002 trip abroad to Kungsänge and Stockholm (Sweden)
  • 2004 39th regional meeting with criticism game of the SZ. Signing of the sponsorship certificate with the staff and support battalion 200 Ulm
  • 2007 trip abroad to Rome (Italy)
  • 2012 Harald Neu resigns as commander of the vigilante guard
  • 2012 New club management - first chairman Alfred Kloker, commander Josef Stocker
  • 2012 state meeting in Ehingen on the occasion of the state anniversary of Baden-Württemberg
  • 2012 150 years of the Ehingen vigilante after re-establishment in 1862 (1862–2012)
  • 2015 Johann Krieger takes over the office of first chairman
  • 2017 Josef Stocker becomes the commander of the Hist. Vigilante guard Ehingen elected

The marching band, music parade, 1st train and 2nd train wear the same brown uniform. The III. Zug represents the time around 1770 and wears a white / red uniform. The civil guard has its own shooting range.

The Great Zapfenstreich is a traditional, military-solemn ceremony, which is performed in Ehingen on the eve of Corpus Christi day by the "Historical Citizen Guard Ehingen" as an annual highlight on the market square. The vigilante guard had 807 members in 2009.

Sponsorships

partnership

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Senior Student Councilor Dr. Henle: Historical research on Ehingen and the surrounding area
  2. ^ Südwest Presse : Bürgerwache before the festival year , viewed on December 8, 2010