Josef Sommer (local history researcher)

Josef Sommer (born June 10, 1877 in Kallerheistert , Eifel, † March 25, 1951 ) was a German educator and local researcher.

Sommer was initially a teacher at the elementary school in Wildenrath from 1899 to 1905 . In 1905 he switched to the elementary school in Merken , where he worked as the main teacher until 1922 and then as its principal until 1946. In addition to his school activities, he devoted himself to the historical research of his closer home. He wrote numerous works on the history of Merkens, most of which were published in the local history supplement of the Dürener Zeitung .

On October 11, 1906, he married Gertrud Arnolds, who came from Wildenrath.

Works

• Merkener Geschichte, Volume I: The Dingstuhlzeit der Heimat, The History of the Merkener Church. Düren 1985
• Merkener Geschichte, Volume II: The history of the school of Merken, geological history of the Rur-Inde triangle, the surface image of the homeland, the settlement image of the homeland, the settlement image of Merkens. Düren 1998
• Memorized History, Volume V: The French Period at Home. Düren 2005

Publications

1. Heimatblätter supplement to the Dürener Zeitung

• Rurlied (poem), in: Heimatblätter 1, 1924, No. 22
• Thoughts on the origin and development of the shooting societies, in: Heimatblätter 1, 1924, No. 22 and No. 23
• Tithe right and tithe obligation - in the old Dingstuhl Pier and Merken, in: Heimatblätter 1, 1924, No. 35, No. 36 and No. 37.
• What the Feldflur tells, in: Heimatblätter 2, 1925, No. 2
• Zwangsmühlen im Dingstuhl Pier and Merken, in: Heimatblätter 2, 1925, No. 3
• Old customs for Lent, in: Heimatblätter 2, 1925, No. 6
• On fires in the old days, in: Heimatblätter 2, 1925, No. 22, No. 23, No. 24 and No. 25
• The fire of the Merkener pastorate in 1790 - a picture of the time, in: Heimatblätter 2, 1925, No. 33 and No. 34.
• Die Heerstraße, in: Heimatblätter 3, 1926, No. 6 and No. 7
• Merkener pastors between 1600 and 1800, in: Heimatblätter 3, 1926, No. 30, No. 31 and 32.
• On the history of the rural school, in: Heimatblätter 4, 1927, No. 21, No. 22 and No. 23
• The reconstruction of the Merkener parish church after the great fire of 1673, in: Heimatblätter 4, 1927, No. 27 and No. 28
• On the history of the court and the chapel of Vilvenich, in: Heimatblätter 5, 1928, no.17
• On the history of the Kevelaer procession in Düren, in: Heimatblätter 5, 1928, No. 21 and No. 22.
• Proverbs and proverbs in folklore, in: Heimatblätter 5, 1928, No. 28
• The St. Brigida altar and the vicars of the parish church to note, in: Heimatblätter 6, 1929, No. 27, No. 28 and No. 29
• Das Kirchwasser, in: Heimatblätter 6, 1929, No. 36
• Chat about an old arithmetic book, in: Heimatblätter 7, 1930, No. 4 and No. 5
• The Merzenicher Erbwald, in: Heimatblätter 9, 1932, No. 1 and No. 2
• Remember - Marcodorum? in: Heimatblätter 9, 1932, No. 14 and No. 15

2. Our homeland, local supplement to the Dürener edition of the Aachener Volkszeitung (later Dürener Zeitung)

• The French calendar in the homeland, in: Our homeland 1, 1949, No. 10

Web links

• Literature by and about Josef Sommer in the catalog of the German National Library