Karl Koellner

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Karl Köllner around 1840

Philipp Peter Karl Köllner , also Carl Köllner (born March 3, 1790 in Idstein , † March 22, 1853 in Korntal ) was a German social pedagogue and pietist who was active in Christianity society. He founded a home for neglected children in Sitzenkirch and was later head of the rescue houses for neglected children in Korntal.

Life

The Köllner stone marks the place where Karl Köllner collapsed and died on March 22, 1853
Gravestone in the old cemetery in Korntal

Karl (often also Carl) Köllner was the son of pastor Wilhelm Köllner (the elder) and his wife Charlotte.

Köllner completed an apprenticeship as a commercial assistant in Frankfurt am Main . After a serious nervous disease, he got a foothold at the Keerl wine merchant in Segnitz and there came into contact with the awakening movement . He became an active member of the Frankish subdivision of the Christianity Society . After Keerl's early death, Köllner not only continued his wine shop on behalf of the widow, but married Maria Amalie Johanna Keerl, nee. Schumann. Christian Gottlob Barth belonged to the other family members and was involved in the upbringing of the Keerl children.

When the Christianity Society in Basel under Christian Friedrich Spittler took off and the idea of proselytizing the Jews took hold, Köllner's widowed father first moved to Basel.

In 1819, Köllner and his family moved from Segnitz to Würzburg , where the pietist was soon entrusted by the Catholic majority with the administration of all the poor in the city. While Köllner took care of world mission projects, his wine trade withered.

On a trip to Württemberg in 1820 to visit friends of the mission idea, the Köllner couple were won over by Carl Friedrich Adolf Steinkopf , the foreign secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society , and Christian Gottlieb Blumhardt , inspector of the Basel Mission . They also visited Basel and Schloss Bürgeln , which was being considered as a domicile. In 1822 the Köllners moved to Sitzenkirch , where they bought the former Meierhof of the Bürgeln Propstei after the purchase of the castle could not be realized.

On behalf of the Society for the Spread of Christianity among the Jews , which emerged from the Christianity Society , Köllner set up an educational institution for Jewish children. The foreign pietist initially met with great rejection from the locals and was seen as a sectarian. Children of impoverished Jewish families from Baden, Switzerland and Alsace were to find a home in Sitzenkirch. The mission to the Jews ran into great difficulties because, on the one hand, the poor Jews also found it difficult to give their children a Christian upbringing, and on the other hand, the Strasbourg rabbis intervened against the “enticement”. The Köllners therefore converted their home into an institution for neglected Christian children. H. a sister facility to that in Beuggen Palace , which was headed by Christian Heinrich Zeller .

In the years 1833-36 Köllner came under the influence of the so-called " Exodusgemeinde " - a sect that temporarily settled in the Köllner estate. After this mystical phase, Köllner turned back to down-to-earth things and was elected mayor of Sitzenkirch in 1839. In this position he earned recognition from citizens and higher authorities.

In 1845 Köllner's wife died and shortly afterwards he sold the estate in Sitzenkirch and went to Korntal , where he was offered the position of head of the poor institutions.

On March 22, 1853, Köllner died near Korntal.

marriage and family

Maria Amalie Johanna Keerl, b. Schumann (born January 12, 1777; + July 30, 1845), whom he married on July 17, 1814, brought five children into the marriage; the Köllner couple had four more children.

literature

  • Rolf Scheffbuch: Not on my own. From the beginnings of Korntal, Volume 2. Self-published: Korntal 2003. Excerpts available online as part of a presentation of the family history of the Köllners: [1] PDF (there p. 4–13)
  • Wally Grether, Fred Wehrle: Life and work of the Pietist Karl Köllner in Sitzenkirch. In: Das Markgräflerland , Volume 2/2005, pp. 121–130 digitized version of the Freiburg University Library

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grether p. 124.
  2. ↑ Scheffbuch p. 9.
  3. ↑ from 1852 “Nazarene Community”.
personal data
SURNAME Köllner, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Köllner, Philipp Peter Karl (full name); Köllner, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social pedagogue and pietist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Idstein
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1853
Place of death Korntal