Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Beyer
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Beyer (born March 25, 1803 in Weimar , † September 1, 1887 in Kelbra ) was a German innkeeper and occasional poet.
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Beyer was born on March 25, 1803 in Weimar as the son of landlords. After the inn was destroyed in the battle of Jena and Auerstedt in 1806 , the impoverished parents moved to Kelbra. Nothing came of the planned study of theology; there was no money. Friedrich Beyer went to the higher boys' school in Frankenhausen and then received a commercial apprenticeship in Naumburg (Saale) . When he returned to Kelbra, he opened a small shop.
Restaurant on the Rothenburg
In 1836 Beyer received the concession for an inn on Rothenburg from the Schwarzburg government .
The inn, which was opened on August 1, 1839, was an occasional meeting point for "subversives", which is why the economy was spied on again and again. On June 8, 1843, a singers' meeting with around 200 participants took place here. Events of similar size were also held on the Rathsfeld. At Pentecost 1849 another big meeting took place. The preacher Eduar Balzer (free religious community Nordhausen) came out with criticism of the ruling feudal state. Beyer was then declared an “object of suspicion and suspicion”, but nothing could be proven. But after the death of the Schwarzburg prince in 1867, his license was revoked. A source of mistrust is likely to have been the builder H. Bloßfeld from Kelbra. He wrote about Beyer: “In the years of 48 he was right in the middle of the revolutionary struggle. His special friends were the fraternities of Jena and Halle, who often secretly gathered at Rothenburg. "
A major problem for the "hermit" was the water supply. Initially Beyer fetched the water with two donkeys from the Tannenbergstal, later (in 1840 the Kyffhäuserstraße and the waterway were completed) from the "Wasserkunst". With the animals he also took the other things that were needed from Kelbra. He used the "crooked way" through the Tannenbergstal, as "road money" had to be paid on the new Kyffhäuserstraße. Today's forester's house on the border was the so-called "receipt".
After the closure, Friedrich Beyer worked with his wife in a small shop in Kelbra and died there on September 1, 1887. There is a memorial plaque on the house at Lange Str. 14.
circle of friends
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Beyer had contact with the following personalities or were visitors to his "hermitage"
In a 1929 publication it is claimed that even Prince Friedrich Günter von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was one of Beyer's guests. He stayed occasionally at his Rathsfeld hunting lodge.
Poet and singer
Beyer occasionally wrote poetry. Above all, his poem about the Golden Man has come down to us. The "Golden Man" is a mountain on the northern edge of the Kyffhäuser Mountains. It owes its name to a legend:
A farmer wanted too much gold quickly. The devil offered him a bet. The farmer should run from the valley to the mountain without looking around, not to the right and not to the left. If he can do that, he should get more gold than he could ever carry away. The farmer agreed and ran. To the right and left of its course the devil let golden trees grow - but the farmer ran on and did not look to the side. The devil made even bigger and more beautiful golden trees grow, but the farmer did not look. Shortly before the summit, the devil let large gold stones rise from the ground beside the path; then the farmer became weak and looked to the side. Immediately the devil turned the peasant into a stone that can still be seen today. Friedrich Beyer wrote:
A man walks along the forest
in a dark midnight;
His shy gait
is even more sinister, what watches in his bosom.
Greed has seized his heart,
avarice for gold and goods,
who loves no one, yes, who also hates
his own flesh and blood.
He gave
his soul to the devil for vain gold ;
he is now in his pay
and makes hell 'in hot.
In the
stone
valley , Satan's rock castle, he
enters full of trepidation,
the thunder rolls through the valley,
shaking his bones.
He calls Satan. Then
the monster of
the night grows more ; it howls, the forest flames,
Satan stands before him.
"The mountain, if you climb it first,
gold is your property!"
Grins Satan: "But don't be a gate,
and never look around!"
Do not look to the ground,
otherwise you will turn to stone yourself;
you will never return,
and your soul is mine.
Now the devil has sure game
and ensnared his man;
for he is now getting closer to the goal
than he warns of danger.
And at the same time now
Satan's deception and appearance seduce him ;
wherever he sets his foot, it shines
like gold and precious stones.
Seductively here and there a dwarf
gazes out of mountain crevices,
and the mountain becomes higher for him
and his strength weaker.
And it flickers more and more and brightly;
Blinded by the glow, he
looks at the earth and becomes the place of
his own corpse stone.
The gold addiction is still rummaging here, but
instead of gold it found earth.
The mountain, the stone is still called
the golden man today.
Beyer also wrote religious verses and love poems. Often his homeland was the subject of the poems.
Works
- Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Beyer: Poems of the Rothenburg hermit , Eupel i. Comm, 1841
- Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Beyer: Poems of the Rothenburg Hermit [d. i. Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Beyer]. Edition 2, Brockhaus Verlag, 1853
literature
- City of Kelbra (Ed.): 700 Years of Kelbra , 1974, p. 30ff.
- H. Ahr, Liberaldemokratische Zeitung, April 9, 1954, ( Spengler Museum Archive , No. 4042b)
Individual evidence
- ^ Rasehorn, Kutzner, Popp and Hennig, Heimatbilder from the Sangerhausen district and its peripheral areas, Part II, 2nd edition, published by Julius Beltz Berlin-Leipzig, 1929, p. 64
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beyer, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 1887 |
| Place of death | Kelbra |