Hubert Rickelmann

Hubert Rickelmann (born April 20, 1883 in Mettingen ; † June 30, 1961 in Ibbenbüren ) was a German homeland researcher and author .

Above all, he has dealt intensively with the history of his home community of Mettingen and the Tüötten being, but also with the Ibbenbüren coal mine . In addition to Mettingen through the ages , he laid the foundation for the standard work Der Ibbenbürener Steinkohlenbergbau from the beginnings to the present, which was later expanded by Hans Röhrs .

Live and act

Hubert Rickelmann was the son of from Ankum originating wind miller Bernhard Rickelmann and his wife Caroline from the Mettinger Fahlbachtal. From the age of ten he spent part of his youth in the house of the respected Wieher Tüötten family Hettlage and thus grew into the world of Tüötten and merchants. His two younger brothers Heinrich and Theodor fell in the First World War .

Hubert Rickelmann worked in the administration of the Ibbenbüren mine and researched its history

Hubert Rickelmann later lived in Ibbenbüren. There he worked for 43 years in the management of the local mines of Preussag , which 24 years as an office manager . For many years he was a member of the Preussag Choral Society and the Bergkapelle.

At a young age he turned to the local movement and local research, collected publications on local history as well as traditions, legends and folk songs from Mettingen and the surrounding area. He published this in the home sheets of the Rote Erde, edited by Karl Wagenfeld , and in the Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung . Since 1922 Rickelmann, who had command of the Low German language in writing and speaking , was also an employee of the Westphalian Folklore Commission, which was formed in Münster in 1920 . He managed to save many traditions from being lost.

Hubert Rickelmann was considered the best expert on the history and folklore of Mettingen and its surroundings. His three major book publications, all of which are to be regarded as standard works, played a major role in this . With the history of the Ibbenbürener coal mine up to the 20th century. 400 Years of Ibbenbüren Mining , Rickelmann published his first book in 1935. It was the first comprehensive account of Ibbenbüren's mining history.

A comparable pioneering work was his book Mettingen through the ages , on which he had worked for 16 years before it was published in 1953 with the support of C. & A. Brenninkmeyer and the Mettingen community. The local researcher Anton Rosen from Ibbenbüren took over the editing .

Hubert Rickelmann was the first to comprehensively portray the history of the place Mettingen and the Tüöttenwesens

Rickelmann had collected extensive local history material over the years and had been able to set aside numerous building blocks for his homeland book from his work on his mining book. Nevertheless, he entered uncharted territory with an overall view of Mettinger's local history, because the only more extensive presentation to date was the publication Memoirs of the Catholic Church Mettingen 1777–1927 , published in 1927 with significant participation by Siegfried Schneider . Rickelmann therefore had to conduct intensive basic research himself, made more difficult by the fact that many files were destroyed by authorities and church offices or were relocated during the Second World War and therefore were not accessible for several years. In his research, Rickelmann was dependent on oral traditions in many respects , but he was well aware of the frequent shortcomings. Overall, Mettingen was seen as the best local history of the Westphalian region up until then.

Shortly before his death in 1961, Hubert Rickelmann managed to complete the manuscript for his third book Die Tüötten in their trade and change and wool and linen production in the Tecklenburger Land . He had worked for decades on this comprehensive representation of the Tüötten being.

While originally Rickelmann his books mostly in self-publishing had published, made his son Hubert Rickelmann jr. later for the fact that updated new editions were brought out, which the publishing house Ferdinand Schöningh , Paderborn , agreed to do . Mettingen through the ages has been revised and supplemented by an editorial team from the Mettingen Heimatverein under the leadership of Bernhard Nonte. Even Friedrich Ernst Hunsche participated in it. Rickelmann's mining book from 1935 was published in 1983 in a revised and updated new edition, which was concerned by Hans Röhrs, under the title The Ibbenbürener Steinkohlenbergbau from the beginnings to the present . Also in 1983 the third, unchanged edition of Die Tüötten in their trade and change was published by Schöningh .

In 2010 the Heimatverein Mettingen published what it saw as the “most valuable book about Mettingen” in an unchanged new edition. This became possible after Hubert Rickelmann's grandchildren, Richard and Hans-Hubert Rickelmann, as legal heirs, had given the Heimatverein the rights to the book. In his childhood and youth, Richard Rickelmann not only lived in a house with his grandfather in Ibbenbüren, but also often accompanied the local researcher on his explorations in the neighboring town of Mettingen.

Also published in the Rickelmann Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung feature articles and essays on regional sandstone industry , over the milling industry and the domestic salt production , the limestone deposits and the brewing industry . Folk and local history work also dealt with the Bringenburg in Wersen , Ibbenbüren an der Plane and with the Langenhof.

Rickelmann also wrote poems and songs, including the Ibbenbürener Bergmannslied , which Karl Schreiber set for male choir and Rudolf Rieping as a folk tune. For his songs Der Bergmann and his Grubenlicht , birthday serenade and Maiwanderlied he wrote the text and melody himself. He also devised a melody for the Mettinger Heimatlied , composed by the Mettinger master shoemaker Heinrich Beckemeyer . The Mettinger Tüöttenlied also comes from his pen.

Hubert Rickelmann died at the age of 78 on June 30, 1961 in Ibbenbüren. He found his final resting place in the central cemetery there . The grave site no longer exists today; it was leveled in 1997 after the rest period had expired. However, the parent grave of the Rickelmanns has been preserved in the old cemetery in Mettingen. As part of the redesign of the facility in 2010, the tombstone was repositioned elsewhere on the cemetery grounds and is intended to continue to commemorate the family in the future.

Honors

Hubert Rickelmann was honored several times during his lifetime for his local history work, for example in 1957 by the Mettingen community and the Heimatverein. In 1958 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class .

The community of Mettingen honored Rickelmann by naming the street Hubertushöhe after him. And in the Laggenbeck settlement of Fisbecker Forst, the city of Ibbenbüren has dedicated Rickelmannstrasse to him.

Fonts

• History of the Ibbenbüren coal mine up to the 20th century. 400 years of Ibbenbürener Bergbau , Ibbenbüren 1935 (new edition, revised and updated by Hans Röhrs under the title Der Ibbenbürener Steinkohlenbergbau from the beginnings to the present , Paderborn, Munich, Vienna and Zurich 1983; 2nd, revised edition, Paderborn, Munich, Vienna and Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-506-77224-4 )
• Mettingen im Wandel der Zeiten , Lengerich 1953 (2nd, improved edition Paderborn 1978, ISBN 3-506-77222-8 ; 3rd, unchanged edition Mettingen 2010)
• as compiler / editor: 50 years of Tecklenburger Nordbahn , 1905–1955 , Ibbenbüren 1955
• The Tüötten in their trade and change and the wool and linen production in the Tecklenburger Land. A contribution to the history of the Tecklenburg district , Ibbenbüren 1961 (3rd, unchanged edition under the title Die Tüötten in their trade and change and the wool and linen production in the Tecklenburger Land. A contribution to the economic, social and family history in the former Upper County Lingen, the county of Tecklenburg and the neighboring areas , Paderborn 1983, ISBN 3-506-77221-X )

A Low German dictionary in Mettinger dialect developed by Rickelmann did not appear as an independent work, but found its way into the 2nd edition of Mettingen through the ages .

literature

• Bernhard Nonte: Hubert Rickelmann in memory . In: Birgit Meese (Red.): Mettingen. Home book for the 900th anniversary celebration in 1988 . 2nd, revised edition with unchanged content. Mettingen 1988, ISBN 3-921290-27-9 , pp. 13-15
• NN: For the hundredth birthday: Remembering Hubert Rickelmann. He was a writer, poet, local history researcher, collector and folklorist. In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from April 20, 1983
• Fännand (di Ferdinand Schulte): memorial sheet for Hubert Rickelmann. In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from July 1, 1961

Web links

• Literature by and about Hubert Rickelmann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Rotte: Personal: Hans Röhrs 75 . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from October 13, 2007
2. ^ ^{A b c} Oliver Langemeyer: Mettinger family history behind conifers . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung , online version of May 11, 2010  ( 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. ; Retrieved February 4, 2011  
3. ^ Bernhard Nonte: Hubert Rickelmann in memory . In: Birgit Meese (Red.): Mettingen. Home book for the 900th anniversary celebration in 1988 . 2nd, revised edition with unchanged content. Mettingen 1988, ISBN 3-921290-27-9 , p. 13
4. ↑ ^{a b} N.N: For the hundredth birthday: Memory of Hubert Rickelmann. He was a writer, poet, local history researcher, collector and folklorist. In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from April 20, 1983
5. ↑ NN: "... who loves his home country like you". Hubert Räckelmann 75 years old tomorrow - hard work and success. In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from April 19, 1958
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Bernhard Nonte: Hubert Rickelmann for memory . In: Birgit Meese (Red.): Mettingen. Home book for the 900th anniversary celebration in 1988 . 2nd, revised edition with unchanged content. Mettingen 1988, ISBN 3-921290-27-9 , p. 14
7. ↑ ^{a b} cf. NN: Heimatverein Mettingen experienced a festive evening. Constituent Assembly - Board of Directors and Advisory Board elected - Hubert Rickelmann lively celebrated and honored. In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from May 14, 1957
8. ↑ Hubert Rickelmann in the foreword to the first edition 1953, also printed in Mettingen im Wandel der Zeiten , 2nd, improved edition, Paderborn 1978, p. 10
9. ^ Hubert Rickelmann in the foreword to the first edition in 1953, also printed in Mettingen im Wandel der Zeiten , 2nd, improved edition, Paderborn 1978, p. 9
10. ↑ Dietlind Ellerich (-del-): Mettinger Heimatverein has big plans . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung ( online version of December 27, 2009  ( 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 .; Accessed on 31. January 2010)  
11. ↑ Oliver Langemeyer: The Tüöttendorf Mettingen rediscovered . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung , online version of September 29, 2010  ( 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. ; Retrieved November 16, 2010  
12. ↑ ^{a b} Fännand (di Ferdinand Schulte): memorial sheet for Hubert Rickelmann. In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from July 1, 1961
13. ↑ Some of the songs mentioned are also printed in Mettingen im Wandel der Zeiten , 2nd, improved edition, Paderborn 1978, p. 665ff.
14. ^ NN: Hubert Rickelmann received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class yesterday. Honorable award for recognized local writer. In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung from 23 August 1958