Johannes Polke

Johannes Hermann Polke (born May 20, 1931 in Ludwigsdorf ; † August 7, 2013 in Bad Kreuznach ) was a German Protestant theologian , local researcher and journalist .

Life

Johannes Hermann Polke was born as the eldest of eight children of the architect Hermann Josef Alfred Polke and his wife Hanna Lotte. Raschdorf was born in Ludwigsdorf, Oels district , Silesia . His siblings included the artists Wilfrid Polke and Sigmar Polke . He himself was also artistically, musically and literarily gifted, but more historically and theologically interested.

After attending school in Oels and Dingelstädt , he studied Protestant theology in Halle (Saale) , Berlin , Springfield (Ohio) ( Master of Divinity ) and Göttingen . After the vicariate in Baumholder , Bensberg and Neukirchen-Vluyn , he was ordained pastor on June 29, 1960 by President Beckmann. From 1963 to 1996 he was the pastor in Hüffelsheim and Traisen, Bad Kreuznach district, Rhineland-Palatinate. During his tenure, he was responsible for the renovation of the Evangelical St. Lambertus Church in Hüffelsheim (from 1966 to 1970) and the Evangelical St. Laurentius Church in Traisen (1974).

From 1971 to about 2011 he directed and conducted the Evangelical Church Choir Hüffelsheim-Traisen. Several of his choral compositions were published in the Naheländisches Chorbuch (1990).

From 1964 to 1999 he was an editor at Glaube und Heimat , Simmern . For the public gazette , Bad Kreuznach, he regularly wrote “Words on Sunday” (since 1962) and “Fixed points” (since 2004) on theological topics.

He documented his historical research, beginning with the collection and analysis of extensive archive holdings, in lectures, essays and books on the history of the two churches and the village of Hüffelsheim, Ebernburg and Naheland. In addition, he published some columnist travel reports.

He took on special tasks as a synodal youth pastor , synodal assessor , member of the Rhenish Synod and member of the board of the Ebernburg Foundation.

In 1994 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Publications

• 425 years of the Reformation at Nahe and Glan. Cologne 1983. (Co-author: H.-Chr. Brandenburg)
• Nice church Hüffelsheim. The Protestant village church in its history and shape. Hüffelsheim 1988.
• Hüffelsheim in the old days. From the history of a nearby village. Simmern 1993.
• Hüffelsheim in recent times. From the history of a nearby village (approx. 1800–1946). Simmern 2004.
• Sri Lanka means Magnificent Country. In: Belief and Home , 1975.
• Sri Lanka - Ceylon. A second look. In: Belief and Home , 1979.
• From the history of the Protestant parish Baumholder. In: Chronicle of the Evangelical Church Community Baumholder-Nahe , 1958.
• A small rural church order from the Ebernburg office. In: Belief and Home , 1972.
• "Although it was a glorious and well-built house." The end of Ebernburg in 1523 as reflected in Hessian documents. In: Ebernburg-Hefte , 1973.
• Typical or unique - Silesian idioms. In: Hajo Knebel : Typically Silesian. 1979.
• On the organ history of the evangelical community in Hüffelsheim. In: Monthly Issues for Protestant Church History of the Rhineland , 1980.
• The old Norheim-Traisen church book. An overview. In: Bad Kreuznacher Heimatblätter , 1983.
• The Rhine Countess of Norheim. In: Bad Kreuznacher Heimatblätter , 1983.
• The old Hüffelsheim town hall. A historical review. In: Bad Kreuznacher Heimatblätter , 1983.
• The records of Pastor Carl Ludwig Born (1785–1792) about the parish of Gebroth. In: Monthly Issues for Protestant Church History of the Rhineland , 1983.
• Mr. Johann Arnold von Sickingen's unhappy Vestigia. In: Ebernburg-Hefte , 1986.
• Church contingent in Waldalgesheim for the poet of our national anthem. In: Glaube und Heimat / Oberländische Chronik , 1987.
• Captured, tortured and judged. A witch trial before the embarrassing court in Hüffelsheim 1591. In: Bad Kreuznacher Heimatblätter , 1987.
• The abolition of the Disibodenberg monastery during the Reformation. In: Ebernburg-Hefte , 1987.
• A list of the church equipment from Münster am Stein. In: Belief and Home , 1991.
• A list of the Lutheran parishioners from 1730 in the city of Kreuznach. In: Palatinate-Rhenish Family Studies , Volume 12, No. 8/9, 1992.
• “That’s still a long time”. An investigation into the misinterpretation of a dialect expression in parlance. In: Bad Kreuznacher Heimatblätter , 1996.
• On the early history of the Ebernburg. In: Ebernburg-Hefte , 1997.
• A walk through the Nunkircher market. In: The Nunkircher Markt, a small illustrated story of a Hunsrück folk festival. Argenschwang 1997.
• The Ebernburg is owned by the Counts of Sponheim. In: Ebernburg-Hefte , 1999.
• The evangelical pastors in the sickingian rule Ebernburg. (Co-author: A. Kuby). In: Ebernburg-Hefte , 2000.
• The founding of the Ebernbug Association. In: Ebernburg-Hefte , 2001.
• Festive days for the 50th anniversary of the Ebernburg Association. In: Ebernburg-Hefte , 2001.
• Was Hüffelsheim once a castle and valley settlement? In: Naheland Calendar 2002.
• Jews in Hüffelsheim. In: Bad Kreuznacher Heimatblätter , 2003.
• A man with rough edges. Obituary for Hajo Knebel. In: Sunday greetings , February 12, 2006, Saarbrücken.
• A royal reception. (Erasmus Prize to Sigmar Polke). In: Naheland calendar. Bad Kreuznach 2006.
• For the people on the Hunsrück. (The Protestant Sunday paper “Glaube und Heimat” for the region between Nahe, Moselle and Rhine appeared for the first time in 1924. A look back.) In: Sonntagsgruß , Saarbrücken, No. 49 / December 3, 2006.
• Balanced play of colors. (Johannes Polke, 35 years honorary editor of “Glaube und Heimat”, remembers his time in the editorial office of the Hunsrücker Sunday newspaper, for which he was responsible alternately with Hajo Knebel.) In: Sonntagsgruß , Saarbrücken, No. 49/3. December 2006.
• Of Noah and other people's drunkenness. In: Naheland calendar. Bad Kreuznach 2007.
• 450 years of the Reformation in Kreuznach. Lecture on the 450th anniversary of the Reformation on October 2, 2007. In: Faith has a future. Contributions to the 450th anniversary of the Reformation in Bad Kreuznach. Bad Kreuznach 2008. p. 616.
• The desolate housing on the Ebernburg. In: Naheland Calendar 2009, pp. 152–156.
• The young Raugraf and the Fraulein von Blamont. In: Naheland Calendar 2009, pp. 172–176.
• Hüffelsheim mother joke. In: Naheland Calendar 2010. pp. 102–108.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://trauer.rhein-zeitung.de/Trauerbeispiel/johannes-polke
2. ^ Architect Hermann Polke i jego trzech bardziej znanych synów. Retrieved July 25, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung Bad Kreuznach from June 30, 2010.

Web links

• Online biography of Johannes Polke