Karl Nahrgang

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Karl Nahrgang (born April 9, 1899 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 23, 1967 in Eppstein ) was a German local historian , district floor conservationist, founder and director of the Dreieich Museum and archaeologist . He is the founder of the local museums in Dreieichenhain and Rüsselsheim .

Life

Karl Nahrgang attended the Kaiser Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main and took part in the First World War as a one-year volunteer . After completing an apprenticeship as a banker, he devoted himself to local research in particular. In particular, the early settlement history in Frankfurt and the exploration of the Dreieich became the focus of his work. He followed the recording and listing of the ground monuments of the city (1959) and district (1967) Offenbach am Main particularly intensively and was assistant at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz (1925–1940) for 16 years .

From 1921 on, Nahrgang has been researching the early settlement history in Frankfurt. In his writings, summarized in a historical-geographical study of Frankfurt's old town published in 1949 , he documented the course of the oxbow lakes of the Main, Kinzig and Nidda in the Frankfurt city area, developed theories about the location of Frankenfurt and the Carolingian Palatinate and described the structural development of the City, its road network and territory until the high Middle Ages.

From 1923 on, Nahrgang worked on a voluntary basis in the Hessian land monument preservation. In 1924/25 he undertook excavations in Dreieichenhainer Burggarten at Burg Hain in Dreieich . From 1941 he devoted himself to building up the picture archive and the specialist library in the Frankfurt Heimstättenamt. He published from 1931 to 1935 a. a. a periodical magazine, the Ländlein Dreieich in Langen . After a general ban by the National Socialist regime, then from 1936–1943 Landschaft Dreieich as a supplement to the Sprendlinger Anzeiger and the Langener Zeitung . At the same time, he published in numerous specialist journals and monographs - including the atlas for settlement studies, transport, administration, economy and culture for the urban and rural district of Offenbach and archaeological finds from prehistory and early history in the urban and rural district of Offenbach am Main . Nahrgang was also significantly involved in researching the Seligenstadt fort and its vicus .

Nahrgang's archaeological achievements were honored in large numbers, for example by being awarded honorary memberships in historical associations, and the Federal President also awarded him the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class, in recognition of his work . The Karl-Nahrgang-Schule in Dreieich-Götzenhain was named after him in recognition of his historical achievements. In Dreieichenhain Castle , a memorial stone was attached to the round tower (keep) with the inscription: Karl Nahrgang, 1899-1967, local researcher from Dreieich . His estate is in the Institute for Urban History in Frankfurt.

literature

  • Reinhard Frost: Nahrgang, Karl in the Frankfurter Personenlexikon (status of the article: October 13, 1993), also in: Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 80-81 .
  • Werner Jorns : Karl Nahrgang †. In: Find reports from Hessen. 7, 1967, ISSN  0071-9889 , pp. 1-3.
  • G. Hoch: In Memoriam Karl Nahrgang: (April 9, 1899 to March 23, 1967). In: Landschaft Dreieich, Vol. 1 (2), 1977, 18-20.
  • Ingeborg Dittler: On the scientific work of Karl Nahrgang. In: Landschaft Dreieich, 1997, 33–51.
  • GJ Grein: Karl Nahrgang on his 100th birthday. In: Landschaft Dreieich, 1999, 7–29.

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personal data
SURNAME Food, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local historian and Roman provincial archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1967
Place of death Eppstein