Pumpkin hut
The Kürbishütte (also Kürbislaube, KürbsHütte) was the muse of a literary circle of friends in Königsberg i. Pr.
history
In the middle of the Thirty Years' War , which Koenigsberg spared, the councilor Robert Roberthin founded the Society for the Mortality of Devout in 1636 . On beautiful summer evenings, the 10 to 12 friends met in an arbor on the Pregel and cultivated the spiritual song. The circle of friends and poets included Simon Dach (1605–1659), the court conductor Johann Stobäus (1580–1646), the hymn poet Georg Werner (1581–1661), Valentin Thilo the Younger (1607–1662), Johann Franck (1618– 1677) and Georg Weissel (1590–1635), the electoral councilMichael Adersbach († 1640), Christian Rose (1609–1677), the physician Christoph Tinctorius (1604–1662), the Elbingen councilor Gottfried Zamel (1629–1684) and the cathedral organist Heinrich Albert (1604–1651), who owned the arbor .
The garden was the Schwedenschanze, located on the Lomse at the mouth of the Lindengraben in the Pregel. The Kneiphöfsche Rat had given it to its organist in 1630. Albert grew pumpkins in his arbor, and his friends carved their shepherds' names into their shells. Martin Opitz visited his friend Simon Dach here in 1638 .
As soon as it was laid out, Albert was expropriated by the city in 1641, as the city needed the garden and hut to build on the city's Weidendamm - for Simon Dach a symbol of the change and decline of all earthly history.
Here is Pregel's walk ,
Besides which the great crowd of tired horses drank .
Here is their cool bath, here the
Reussen are so often situated , so with corn we tend to provide
And other truths more, here many a night
The Dudden and Schalmey have brought us to
sleep , Here the city plow in by land and flood
To drive large crowds to Steinbeck, Selgenfeld and Neuendorff
and to Jerusalem, you can see the meadows ,
where the young people go after plowing flowers .
If you didn’t hear
the lad going around in the evening around the Kneiphoff and playing on the pages ,
That city and air sounded; the rich burghers drove
home to the Pregel with laughter and
screams, partly from the country, partly from their beautiful gardens,
And had, Bacchus, Venus
sampled you as a companion and greeted us there; In a word, that was a
house of good rest, a real joy place .
Oh, but short time! How nice it stood before
Sun did, ALSs loneliness is none of that exists ,
as horror, fear and remorse, it kränckt me to stand here ,
for dejection I can almost not go over .
- Simon Dach, around 1650
literature
- Leopold Hermann Fischer: Poems by the Königsberg group of poets from Heinrich Albert's arias and musical pumpkin hut (1638–1650) . Niemeyer, Halle 1883; in addition: music supplements. Niemeyer, Halle 1884 ( archive.org ).
- Walther Franz: The Königsberg pumpkin hut . The Ostpreußenblatt , vol. 10, April 11, 1959, ISSN 0947-9597 , p. 10.
- Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg i. Pr. Vol. 1. Böhlau, Vienna 1965, p. 468.
- Alfred Kelletat (ed.): Simon Dach and the Königsberg poet circle . Reclam, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-15-008281-1 , pp. 383-386.
- Albrecht Schöne : Kürbishütte and Königsberg. Model attempt at a socio-historical decipherment of poetic texts; using the example of Simon Dach . CH Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-05878-7 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt : Königsberg from A to Z. A city dictionary . 2nd Edition. Ascent, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7612-0092-7 .
- ↑ Klaus Garber in Neue Rundschau , vol. 100 (1989), ISSN 0028-3347 , p. 12.
Coordinates: 54 ° 42 ′ 15.1 ″ N , 20 ° 30 ′ 57.7 ″ E