Historical association for Upper Franconia
| Historical Association for Upper Franconia (HVO) |
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| purpose | Promotion of science, education and culture and research into Upper Franconian history |
| Chair: | Wilhelm Wenning |
| Establishment date: | March 28, 1827 |
| Number of members: | 1120 ( as of September 22, 2009) |
| Seat : | Bayreuth |
| Website: | www.hvo.franken.org |
The Historical Society for Upper Franconia , based in Bayreuth , was founded in 1827 and is the oldest historical society in Bavaria.
history
In the Romantic era, people went back to their local history , collected historical objects in museums and dedicated themselves to the preservation of monuments. At the same time there was a rapid growth of the cities, which in their medieval design could not cope with the onslaught of many new residents. Historically valuable building fabric was lost. Many historical documents were also destroyed under Napoleon and through secularization. History lovers tried to preserve what they could. In Bayreuth, the Hagen secret chamber council published the weekly historical news from 1766 to 1769 in order to provide interested citizens with an overview of the state of historical research.
On March 28, 1827 in decided Himmelcron the first legally qualified mayor of Bayreuth, Christian Erhard von Hagen , Regierungsrat Schunter and the clergy Konsistorialrat Dr. Kaiser and the later pastor from Himmelkron, Theodor Dorfmüller, set up a historical association. With the signatures of 260 “Friends of Patriotic History”, the Association for Baireuth History and Archeology was brought into being. The founders wanted a comprehensive historiography for “the great change in the various forms of land ownership and farming habits, the history of the Church, the judiciary, the rights and orders of cities and markets, the history of art, trade and commerce and like that ”. With the archive for Bayreuth history and archeology , the members should be informed about the relevant research.
Three years after the founding, King Ludwig I signed a decree to set up an association for the home care of the entire Upper Main District. Shortly afterwards, the Bamberg archivist Österreicher invited all history lovers of the city and the surrounding area to an interview with the aim of founding an institution for the care of the homeland. This is where the Bamberg Historical Association has its roots. The King's recognition of the Bamberg Association would have pushed the Bayreuth Association into the background and so Mayor Hagen did not agree to the Austrian proposal. On June 28, with the announcement of the cabinet order, he officially declared the Bayreuth Association to be the Historical Association of the Upper Main District. A little later, however, the clubs agreed to a proposal by the king, who suggested close cooperation and the exchange of results and documents between the two institutions. It was also decided to publish two independent organs, the Archive for History and Archeology of the Upper Main District and the Archive for History and Archeology of the Principality of Bayreuth .
From 1830 the Bayreuth Association was referred to as the Association for History and Archeology, Geography and Statistics of the Upper Main District . Since 1835, at the request of the king, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the historical associations have worked closely together, which meant a further boom in club life. The Bayreuth Association has been officially called the Historical Association for Upper Franconia since 1837 .
In the year 1842 the chronicle of the association reports that in the meantime one was in constant contact with "all domestic associations" and "six foreign organizations", which shows the importance of the Bayreuth round. The 19th century, which was fruitful for the association, was followed by years of regression in the 20th century. Due to the war, all contacts with foreign organizations were broken off. The publication of the archive for the history of Upper Franconia , which had been published regularly until then, did not take place during the First World War . After the turmoil of the war, a new issue was published in 1921. When Adolf Hitler came to power , the association was given financial support and other offers to research Germanic history. The work could be continued until 1944, when the last edition of the association's news appeared, until it had to be stopped after the defeat of the German troops and the ban on all associations and institutions. The then Lord Mayor Dr. Meyer was able to get the American governor to give lectures again. The election of a board of directors ordered by the American military government in 1947 can be described as the rebirth of the association. Under the chairmanship of Wolfgang Winkler, the association has undertaken various initiatives and campaigns over the last 20 years, in which he endeavors through lectures and exhibitions to deal critically, for example, with the Third Reich . During this time, the presentation of the archive for the history of Upper Franconia was revised and the work was given its current appearance.
Structure of the association
The organs of the association are according to the statutes of March 2002
- the board,
- the board of directors and
- the general assembly
There are five regional local groups in Naila , Pegnitz , Rehau , Wunsiedel and Neustadt am Kulm .
Publications
The historical association publishes self-published works at irregular intervals. So far have appeared in this way:
- Camille de Tournon, Statistique de la Province de Bayreuth - About the Principality of Bayreuth in Napoleonic times , published 1809, reprinted in 2002
- Rainer-Maria Kiel, The Library of the Historical Association for Upper Franconia , 1994
- Hans Hofner (ed.): The land register of the St. Klara monastery in court edition of the manuscript from 1499, continued until 1658.
- Wilhelm Müller, Land and History , 1976
Since 1828 the association has published the Archive for the History of Upper Franconia , in which regionally-related articles by members and non-members are combined into an annual publication.
Club facilities
In addition to the association's own library with archive and the archaeological museum, the association has a graphic collection, as well as a map and coin collection.
Association library
The founders' intention to set up a source collection was already evident in the invitation in 1827. In it “individually existing documents , manuscripts, rare printed matter , inscriptions, coats of arms, coins and antiquities should be collected by the editorial team and, for safety, in the city archive of Bayreuth , as the central point”. At the beginning there was a distinction between a “Conservatory”, in which all unprinted documents were to be collected, and a library for printed documents, but after a short time manuscripts and archival materials also appeared on the library shelves. The librarian also held the post of curator and managed the antiquarium from which the prehistoric and early historical collection later emerged. The club archive, which was separated from the library, later developed from the Conservatory.
A district library founded in 1835 by the curator of the association, Ferdinand von Andrian Werburg, which was to become a special collection of Upper Franconian literature and which competed with the association library and the state chancellery library in the 1830s, was handed over in 1840 and in 1908/09 finally incorporated into it. The collection was expanded further with the takeover of the library of the Royal Bavarian Chevaulegers Regiment No. 6 , which was last stationed in Bayreuth and was dissolved in 1919.The considerable library for the training of Chevaulegers officers contained books on military history as well as numerous general educational literature. The association's own collection has been in the Bayreuth University Library since 1987 . It contains 17,000 pamphlets and 320 manuscripts that have been purchased or donated by members and booksellers since it was founded.
Club archive
The association's archive emerged from the Conservatory founded together with the library. In contrast to the first-mentioned collection of printed sources, all unprinted documents and archive materials are stored in the archive. It is located in the Bayreuth City Archives .
Archaeological Museum
The Archaeological Museum is the only museum in Upper Franconia that specializes in prehistoric and early historical finds.
The foundation stone for the museum was laid in the year it was founded as the collection of the historical association. Since then, it has been expanded by the association's own excavations in the 20th and 21st centuries and by loans and gifts. In the fifties, the exhibition moved to the Italian building of the New Palace in Bayreuth , which was built from 1759 to 1762 , before being redesigned in 1993. Since then, display boards have been explaining the exhibits.
The finds from the Stone Age and the Middle Ages , mainly from eastern Upper Franconia, are presented in a total of eight rooms. The regional focus is on Franconian Switzerland and the Bayreuth area. The exhibition begins with the club's history and an introduction to archeology . A rare work of art from the Mesolithic is presented with a bone splinter with a fine, reticulated engraving . It was found on Hohlstein in Klumpertal near Pottenstein . The collection has been richly decorated eyeglass spirals from the Bronze Age two years earlier near Bayreuth / Saas since 1827 .
The working methods of the Neolithic Age are made visible through the possibility of grinding grain or drilling stone yourself . Spinning whorls and weaving weights from the Bronze Age are shown on the history of textile production . The further historical development towards the Hallstatt period is shown on a display wall with 80 clay vessels, which come from burial mounds near Mistelgau , Kasendorf and Drosendorf , among others , while vessels made with the help of a turntable show the technical progress of the Celts in the early La Tène period .
From Drosendorf near Hollfeld come garment fibulae , which are called bird's head fibulae because of the depiction of stylized water birds. A pair of bronze rings with pairs of animal heads testifies to the state of Celtic handicrafts in Upper Franconia.
Personalities
literature
- Eva Kunzmann: History of the historical association for Upper Franconia . In: HVO (Hrsg.): Archive for the history of Upper Franconia . tape 51 . Self-published, Bayreuth 1971, p. 47 .
- Rainer-Maria Kiel: The royal Bavarian 6th Chevaulegersregiment and its library . In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia . 67th volume. Bayreuth 1987. pp. 313-337.
- Reiner Maria Kiel: The library of the historical association for Upper Franconia . Ed .: HVO. Self-published, Bayreuth 1994, p. 195 .
- Rainer-Maria Kiel: History of the Bayreuth Chancellery Library 1735–1985. Bayreuth 1985, DNB 860228185 .
- Various authors: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia . Ed .: Historical Association for Upper Franconia. Self-published, Bayreuth (1927 – today).
- Gertrud Stetter: The development of the historical associations in Bavaria up to the middle of the 19th century . Munich 1963, DNB 481952381 , p. 4 .
- Wilhelm Freiherr von Waldenfels: One hundred years of the Bayreuth Historical Society . In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia . 1927.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Eva Kunzmann: On the history of the historical association for Upper Franconia. Special print from the AO, Volume 51, p. 232.
- ↑ Report on the development, training and current situation of the Historical Association of Upper Franconia in Bayreuth. 1842, p. 73.
- ↑ Gertrud Stetter: The development of the historical associations in Bavaria up to the middle of the 19th century. P. 8.
- ^ Eva Kunzmann: On the history of the historical association for Upper Franconia. Special print from the AO, Volume 51, p. 242.
- ^ Eva Kunzmann: On the history of the historical association for Upper Franconia. Special print from the AO, Volume 51, p. 244.
- ^ Eva Kunzmann: On the history of the historical association for Upper Franconia. Special print from the AO, Volume 51, p. 246.
- ^ Eva Kunzmann: On the history of the historical association for Upper Franconia. Special print from the AO, Volume 51, p. 270.
- ^ Articles of Association of the Association, p. 3.
- ↑ Reiner-Maria Kiel: The library of the historical association for Upper Franconia. P. 16.
- ↑ Reiner-Maria Kiel: The library of the historical association for Upper Franconia. P. 28.