Industrial and Cultural Association Nuremberg
The industrial and cultural association was founded in 1819 - with the declared aim of promoting culture, science and social life.
The foundation goes back to the initiative of Johann Jakob Weidenkeller . He was the founder of the association and its 1st chairman from August 1819 until his death in 1851. He owned an agricultural property in what was then the Nuremberg suburb of Glockenhof and was familiar with the problems of agriculture at that time.
So-called branch offices were created for individual tasks of the association. In the early days of the association, a large number of such institutions emerged, from the lending institution (purpose: granting loans at low interest to farmers in need) to the institution for the promotion of patriotic horse breeding. In 1827, Goethe accepted an honorary membership in the industrial and cultural association. In 1832 the association issued mortgage-backed shares to expand the establishment for the promotion of patriotic horse breeding and the establishment of a foal farm in the Retzat district . A horse shortage was to be remedied with the foal farm. The shares were linked to a kind of lottery. An annual drawing was planned in which the papers were redeemed with 5% interest and prizes such as horses, foals or cash could be won. Foal breeding had to be given up in 1835 due to setbacks. From the Fohlenhof a technical and economic poor boys' educational institution emerged as a further branch. An agricultural school developed from this institution, which was taken over by the state of Bavaria in 1853 and later became the Nuremberg district agricultural school.
Another branch establishment was the women's association (later Theresien-Frauen-Verein), whose members took care of needy women who had recently given birth , for whom they made baby clothes and diapers, for example. The literary establishment published a newspaper, first with the title Bayerische Landeszeitung , later with the title "Intelligence Gazette of the Industry and Culture Association".
As long as Johann Jakob Weidenkeller was in charge of the association, its focus was more on the economic and social than on the cultural area. The social life in the club played only a subordinate role in this phase. After Weidenkeller's death, the goals of the association gradually changed. Most of the branches gradually dissolved and only a few were newly established. One of these new foundations was the Gesangsgesellschaft in 1861.
In 1905 they moved into a club house on Frauentorgraben. This gained notoriety in the Third Reich when the Berlin Reichstag passed the Nuremberg Laws there on September 15, 1935 . In the 1920s, the after-work company was re-established. Their aim was to promote and convey all arts - the fine arts, literature and music. At the same time, a student aid scheme was set up to provide grants and loans to needy and talented students in technical subjects. In 1970 a new club house was moved into in the Nuremberg city park , which has rooms with a capacity of up to 750 people.
Today's goals of the association are a mixture of entertainment and pleasure, of cultural enjoyment and cultural promotion (annual grants to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum , the Natural History Society Nuremberg , the Altstadtfreunde Nuremberg , the Philharmonic Choir), deepening of knowledge and education in many areas (lectures, Visits etc.), and close connection of the members to common activities.
literature
- Hans-Georg Glasemann: Industrial and Cultural Association of Nuremberg 1832–1969. In: HP magazine for historical securities & valid small caps. No. 6, 1988, pp. 10-11.
- Hans-Georg Glasemann: Fohlenhofanstalt 1832. In: HP magazine for historical securities & valid secondary values. No. 2 1990, p. 28.
- Chronicle of the Industrial and Cultural Association Nuremberg eV - online
Individual evidence
- ↑ Glasemann (1988), p. 10
- ^ Chronicle of the Nuremberg Industrial and Cultural Association
- ↑ Glasemann (1990), p. 28.