Josef Konrad Scheuber

Josef Konrad Scheuber (born September 29, 1905 in Ennetbürgen , † January 28, 1990 in Attinghausen ) was a Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and writer for young people and people.

Life

Josef Konrad Scheuber was born as the son of the shoemaker Konrad Scheuber and his wife Marie, b. Odermatt († June 26, 1919), born and had seven siblings. After his mother's death, his father married Maria Josefa Wyrsch in 1921, and together they had another son. He grew up in the "Schlüssel" guest house directly on Lake Lucerne and from 1919 to 1926 attended the St. Fidelis College in Stans as an external .

In autumn 1926 he entered the St. Luzi seminary in Chur with Regens and auxiliary bishop Antonius Gisler . On January 5, 1930 Josef Konrad Scheuber celebrated Primiz in Ennetbürgen. He studied philosophy and theology at the St. Luzi seminary in Chur. Bishop Georg Schmid von Grüneck sent him in 1930 to his first pastoral post as vicar in Schwyz . These years were marked by his youth work: from 1931 he was President of the Catholic youth team ; In 1934 he became a co-founder of the Swiss Young Guard Association ; he addressed a leisure workshop and founded a boys' choir, he founded the Forest boys hut Hirschgärtli , was the community work forest Jacks camps involved, organized the Schwyzer crib and was at the of Eugen Vogt organized rally ZUJUTA of young men passing and young teams to train youth conference on August 20, Involved in 1933.

On August 1, 1937, he took on a new task at St.-Karli-Quai 12 in Lucerne : youth pastoral care at the General Secretariat of the Swiss Catholic Young Team Association (SKJV) as an employee of Josef Meier (1904-1960), was editor , course leader and traveling preacher in the German Switzerland . Josef Konrad Scheuber was the founder of the theater department and the magazine Der Filmberater ; In 1939 he led the young team pilgrimage to Rome and Assisi and organized a Rütli conference on September 8, 1941 for the 650th anniversary year of the Swiss Confederation under the motto Rütli-Füür with around 8,000 young men from central Switzerland . In 1940 he was appointed field preacher captain by the Federal Military Department and assigned to Territorial Regiment 73 on the Gotthard . He was in active service for a year and later served in the Army and House Department , which was responsible for spiritual national defense . For the soldiers he wrote a soldier's prayer book , for which General Henri Guisan wrote the preface. In 1964, Scheuber was released from conscription .

He was vicar in Näfels from 1943 to 1946 and, with a view to the canonization of the Blessed von Ranft , Niklaus von Flüe , to whom he was related, was appointed pilgrimage chaplain and co-organizer of the upcoming canonization celebrations to Werner Durrer in the fraternal Klausen chaplain appointed to Sachseln . During his work there until 1948, he took care of the renovation of the sanctuaries in Sachseln, Flüeli and Ranft, laid a forest path to the Ranftklause, planned and designed the fairground with the big brother Klausen figure by the sculptor Albert Wider (1910–1985) von Widnau and headed a press and information office with a view to the festive event. In close cooperation with his former music teacher Johann Baptist Hilber (1891–1973) at the St. Fidelis College, a festival mass was created. For the celebrations in Sachseln he also wrote a homage devotion to St. Brother Klaus and worked as a co-author on the official memorial book of the canonization of Brother Klaus.

The Wattigwilerturm has housed the Tell Museum in Bürglen since 1966.

Tell Chapel in Bürglen

From 1948 to 1949 Josef Konrad Scheuber lived in the parsonage of his cousin, Pastor Karl Scheuber, in Bürglen and during this time he built the Riedertal Way of the Cross and had the Tell Chapel restored; frescoes from 1588 were uncovered. He later remained connected to Bürglen, so he founded the Tell Museum Society in 1956 and the Tell Museum in Bürglen in 1966, which is housed in the Wattigwilerturm, a simple residential tower from the 13th century, of which he was the first curator .

From 1949 to 1990 he was a parish assistant in Attinghausen. The pastor's helper service comprised above all the weekday morning mass, the Sunday service with sermon, religious instruction for the first confessional and first communion children and in the upper school, the Sunday Christian teaching, house and sick visits, summer blessings in stables, cattle and the Alps, management of the young team and Jungwacht, numerous celebratory sermons and the writing of prayer books. After his resignation as a parish assistant in 1978, he continued to look after the afternoons of old age.

He lived in the parish ministry, to which he gave the name Brückenhaus and which today houses the church archive and parts of the church treasury. From here Josef Konrad Scheuber developed a diverse work. In addition to pastoral work, it included working on the radio program Uri and Central Switzerland with hundreds of programs, writing literary books, religious poetry and non-fiction books ( pseudonym Pilgrim ), organizing the home theater and the anniversary and consecration games as well as his work in the Central Switzerland writers' association. He was one of the founders of the Central Switzerland Writers' Association (ISSV), which was founded in 1943 and which he chaired from 1961 to 1973 and of which he became honorary president in 1973.

At the beginning of 1948 he took over the leading articles in the Catholic weekly magazine Der Sonntag , which he wrote until 1985, before that he had already written articles for the Bündner Tagblatt , the Entlebucher Anzeiger and the Vaterland (today: the Luzerner Zeitung ). In 1952 he was elected President of the Program Commission by the newly founded radio company Uri (RGU) and was also President of the RGU from 1967 to 1971. From 1954 to 1971 he was also a member of the program committee of the Central Switzerland Radio Society (IRG) as Vice President. From 1956 to 1965 he was a member of the Board of Trustees of Pro Helvetia . In his will, he established a foundation named after him for the administration of his estate.

Honors

• 1963: Central Switzerland Radio Prize
• 1968: Central Switzerland Culture Prize
• 1968: Honorary citizen of Bürglen
• 1971: Appointed honorary citizen of the Canton of Uri
• 1973: Honorary President of the Central Switzerland Writers' Association ISS

Fonts (selection)

• Forest boys. From the diary of a young team . Zug, Rex 1933.
• Still the rascal . Einsiedeln, Benziger 1936.
• Defiantly with the green cap . Einsiedeln, Benziger 1939.
• The Hermit Way of the Cross . Einsiedeln, Eberle publishing house 1941.
• Nazareth. An advice and prayer book for mothers in the cradle of life: Completely re-compiled by Josef Konrad Scheuber based on an old template . Lucerne, Räber 1944.
• People of god. A guided tour through the most beautiful pages of Swiss history from the Pilgrim . Lucerne, Rex 1945.
• Potsli meets his brother Klaus: a homeland book for young Swiss . Einsiedeln, Benziger 1946.
• Homage to Holy Brother Klaus. For the canonization celebrations in Sachseln . Sachseln, Bruderklausenbund 1947.
• Prayer and novena to Holy Brother Klaus . Sachseln, Bruderklausenbund 1947.
• Restoration of the Tell Chapel in Bürglen in 1949 . Historical New Years paper Uri 1949/50.
• Tarcisius. Story for communion children . Lucerne, Räber 1957.
• Border stations of life. Experiences from a pilgrim's hiking book . Lucerne, Rex 1981.

Web links

• Lukas Schenker: Scheuber, Josef Konrad. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Homepage of the Josef Konrad Scheuber Foundation
• Homepage of the Tell Museum in Bürglen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Museums Uri: Kulturraum Brückenhaus Attinghausen. Retrieved March 23, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Melanie Hediger: The image of Swiss women in Swiss magazines: studies on "Annabelle", "Schweizer Illustrierte" and "Sonntag" from 1966 to 1976 . Saint-Paul, 2004, ISBN 3-7278-1505-1 , pp. 87 ( limited preview in Google Book search).