Karl Trunzer

Karl Trunzer (born April 11, 1856 in Neckarburken ; † September 30, 1927 in Buchen ) was a German teacher working in the Odenwald . The Mosbach – Mudau railway line can be traced back to his plans and negotiations ; he also founded the Buchen District Museum and the local history series Between Neckar and Main, which is still published today .

Life

Trunzer's residence in Buchen, the Alte Spital, is now part of the district museum he founded as the Trunzerhaus

Memorial plaque at the Trunzerhaus

After his school days Trunzer went hiking through Switzerland in 1873/74. Even later he was to remain a great hiker who explored large parts of the Odenwald on foot. After attending the teachers' college in Ettlingen , he was a sub-teacher in Schollbrunn , Aglasterhausen and Eberbach . There he married Stefanie Bonath in 1880, with whom he had nine children. In 1883 he was the main teacher in Höpfingen and founded the Odenwald-Sängergau, which he chaired for several years. Later he was the main teacher in Limbach , from where he worked out plans for the Mosbach – Mudau railway line and from 1897 to 1899 chaired the railway committee founded for this purpose. He used up all of his fortune for the railway project, which was ultimately built due to Trunzer's great personal commitment. In 1899 he was promoted and transferred to Buchen, where he founded the Buchen District Museum in 1911 with a mass of folk art he had collected and from 1920 published the series Between Neckar and Main . In 1921 he was appointed district curator of the art and antiquity monuments in the district of Buchen . On his 70th birthday in 1926, he was honored by numerous well-wishers.

Trunzer had his residence in Buchen in the Old Hospital, which is now part of the district museum as the Trunzerhaus . The Karl-Trunzer-Schule and Karl-Trunzer-Strasse in Buchen are also named after him today.

literature

• Gerlinde Trunk: Karl Trunzer - founder of the district museum. In: Der Wartturm 2, 1986
• Dietmar Weber: The narrow-gauge railway Mosbach-Mudau (= Between Neckar and Main 29 ), Buchen 1999, p. 38.