Johannisloge Victoria zur Morgenröthe
The Johannisloge Victoria zur Morgenröthe is a Masonic lodge in Hagen .
history
The lodge was founded in 1858 by personalities of the city with the help of lodge brothers from Iserlohn and Schwelm . The first chairman of the lodge master, Peter Adolf Reincke , was the founder and chief physician of the General Hospital in Hagen.
The lodge received its constitution from the Grand Lodge in Berlin on September 14, 1857. Inspired by the recent engagement of the English Princess Victoria to Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia, who later became Emperor Friedrich III. , the lodge is named "Victoria zur Morgenröthe".
Initially, the lodge brothers met in an inn , but as early as 1872 a house with land was acquired in Elberfelder Strasse. However, this turned out to be too small for the 25th anniversary of the foundation festival. Further modifications in the following years were also insufficient due to the rapidly increasing number of members. 1898, the old lodge house was demolished and replaced by a new building, except the lodges rooms and a large banquet hall , lounges, bowling alley , wine cellar contained etc.
The house was inaugurated a year later. It was a meeting place for serious work and cultural events. The First World War, however, claimed its victims in the brotherhood and interrupted the steady upward trend up to then. After the end of the war, the strongest membership growth to date began.
The völkisch movement after the lost World War I formed the basis for attacks on Freemasonry. On July 4, 1934, the Hagen lodge house was occupied and looted by the SS . As a result of this attack, among other things, the archive with all historically relevant documents was lost. In 1935 all German lodges were generally dissolved. The city of Hagen took over the lodge house without compensation and used it as the air raid protection office until it was destroyed in an air raid on March 15, 1945.
Few members had maintained solidarity during the prohibition period. After the end of the war, attempts were made to regroup the scattered members. But it was only after the British military government gave permission to rebuild the lodge in early 1947 that a new start was possible. After years of negotiations, the reparation negotiations led to a settlement , so that a new building could be built at the corner of Bergstrasse and Konkordiastrasse, which was inaugurated on the occasion of the 100th anniversary in January 1958.
Today the lodge has 35 members and takes part in cultural events in the lodge house Bergstr. 96 regularly in public, also in cooperation with the Theater Hagen .
Even today, the Hagen Lodge does not see itself as a closed circle, but has been pursuing an offensive information policy with public events and lectures as well as guest evenings for interested gentlemen for many years.
literature
- Wilhelm Reinecke: In memory of the celebration of the 100th foundation festival, combined with the consecration of the great temple. Johannisloge Victoria zur Morgenröthe zu Hagen 1858–1958 . Hagen 1958
- Ernst Glaser-Gerhart: On the history of the great state box of the Freemasons of Germany in Berlin 1920-1970 . Schröder Verlag, Uetersen 1970
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hubertus Heuel: With the Freemasons, secrecy is a virtue. October 8, 2016, accessed on February 29, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Andreas Reitmajer: Lodge brothers clear up legends. Westfalenpost, January 13, 2011, accessed on February 29, 2020 .
- ↑ C. Lenning: General Handbook of Freemasonry . FA Brockhaus, 1863 ( google.de [accessed February 29, 2020]).
- ^ Johannisloge "Victoria zur Morgenröthe". In: Great State Lodge of the Freemasons of Germany - Order of Freemasons. Retrieved March 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Freemason Newspaper . M. Zille., 1858 ( google.de [accessed February 29, 2020]).
- ↑ a b c d e f g Ralf Blank: Bijou of the Johannisloge "Victoria zur Morgenröthe". In: westfalen.museum-digital.de. Retrieved March 30, 2020 .
- ^ Theater Hagen: Event view: Theater in der Loge. Retrieved March 30, 2020 .
- ^ Ernst Glaser-Gerhard: On the history of the great state box of the Freemasons of Germany in Berlin 1920-1970 . Schröder, 1970 ( google.de [accessed March 30, 2020]).