Jageteufel Foundation

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The Jageteufel College , founded by the Szczecin Mayor Otto Jageteufel in 1412, is called the Jageteufel Foundation .

history

The founder, who remained childless, ordered in his will, written in 1399, the establishment of a school with boarding school, in which 24 poor boys should receive accommodation, food, clothing and education. They had to perform the church chant in the Stettin Marienkirche , but also had to contribute to their maintenance through public singing in the streets of the city in exchange for alms .

The will was carried out by the municipal syndic . The foundation was headed by an official. A vicariate was set up at the Marienkirche . The vicar was responsible for education. The heads (provisional) of the foundation included the elderly man of the bone carvers, bakers and shoemakers from Stettin. The foundation was first mentioned on May 18, 1423 and must have existed for several years at that time.

The first seat of the college was possibly in a house of Otto Jageteufels, which this the Duke Swantibor III. von Pomerania had bequeathed for life and that fell back to the foundation after Swantibor's death in 1413. Through further legacies, the school became a wealthy institution, which also acted as an important bank for the Szczecin family. In 1469 the knight Dinnies from the east donated the house opposite the bell tower of the Marienkirche with the courtyard of his deceased son in the small Domstrasse No. 5, in which the college was located from 1473.

The financial situation worsened during the Reformation . Church and school visits in 1535 and 1539 under the direction of Johannes Bugenhagen and Paul vom Rode were followed by numerous changes and the reorganization of the financial situation. The lessons were taken over by the council school after 1550. The foundation's activities continued throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. The sieges of Stettin, which belongs to Swedish Pomerania, in 1677 and 1713 by Brandenburg-Prussia impaired the foundation's finances. After Stettin's transition to Prussia, a commission appointed by King Friedrich Wilhelm I carried out a visit to the college in 1740 . This ordered a new regulation of the school and foundation regulations. She also tried to improve the financial situation, which had become particularly difficult due to the lack of further foundation funds and bequests.

Around 1780 the financial situation was such that, with the exception of an admission fee, the students did not have to pay any housing or school fees; however, they generally had to pay for their clothes, bed linen and teaching materials themselves. There was also only a limited number of so-called free tables available, at which particularly poor students could be fed free of charge. The other students had to take care of their own meals and, if possible, look for free meals with private families outside the college. The former student Christian Friedrich Wutstrack reports that in the winter of 1779/1780 he once had no more money for books and food and then, after starving for three days, asked a family from Szczecin who had already granted free meals whether he could also get a free table. After he was promised this, he voluntarily fasted two days later out of gratitude in order to be as little burden as possible to the family.

When the Szczecin Ratslyzeum was merged with the Marienstiftsgymnasium in 1805 , the college had to accept students from both schools. During the Wars of Liberation from 1813 to 1815, the number of students went down to one. In 1816 the college again consisted of 14 students. After the school was split up in 1869, the foundation was incorporated into the municipal high school. From 1870 appointments of civil servants in the foundation had to be confirmed by the Szczecin magistrate. In 1882 the college moved to a new building at Kurfürstenstrasse 9.

Until 1919, students from the city high school who came from poor families were accepted into the institution. The foundation existed until the mid-1940s. The whereabouts of the foundation files that were relocated during the Second World War are unknown apart from a few preserved fragments.

Known students

Numerous graduates studied theology and worked as clergy in Pomerania and Prussia.

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  1. ↑ Fr. Thiede: Chronicle of the City of Stettin - Edited from documents and proven historical news. Stettin 1849, pp. 282-284 .
  2. ↑ Christian Friedrich Wutstrack (Ed.): Brief historical-geographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania. Stettin 1793, pp. 333-336.