Catholic State University of Ellwangen
The Catholic-Theological Friedrichs-Universität Ellwangen was an independent small university , which was founded on October 18, 1812 by King Friedrich I of Württemberg in Ellwangen (Jagst) . It only existed until 1817, when its theological faculty was incorporated into the University of Tübingen .
The main purpose of the establishment was an educational facility for Catholic priests for Neuwuerttemberg , which in 1806 had been incorporated into the predominantly Protestant Kingdom of Württemberg . The university, which was criticized from the start, was limited to only a few subject areas, but produced important theologians.
history
After the secularization of the prince provosty Ellwangen in the years 1802-1803 was determined by the Württemberg King Friedrich I. Ellwangen as the seat of a Catholic regional bishop for New Württemberg. As a result, a general vicariate , the Catholic-theological Friedrichs University and a Catholic seminary were founded by decree in September 1812 . In December of the same year, all facilities were able to start operations.
Very soon critical statements about this "state university" were loud in Württemberg. 15 Catholic members of the Württemberg assembly of estates declared that the training of young clergymen at a university with only one theological faculty must remain “always incomplete and one-sided”. However, this criticism had no effect for the time being. Only after King Wilhelm I came to power in the autumn of 1816 did a change become apparent. The new minister of church and school system was Karl August Freiherr von Wangenheim , President of the High Tribunal and the Higher Education Directorate and curator of the University of Tübingen. On May 20, 1816, he asked the three-member trustee of the Ellwangen teaching institution “to report on the current state of the Catholic State University of Ellwangen, its needs and resources, and at the same time to comment on the question of whether the Catholic theological study system would be perfected not to be desired, and under what provisions it would be feasible to establish a faculty for Catholic theology at the University of Tübingen with the abolition of the University of Ellwangen [...], and thus to use the study aids of this high school for the purposes of the Catholic Church . "
In the autumn of 1817, the Friedrichs University of Ellwangen was incorporated into the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen as the Catholic Theological Faculty . The vicariate general was relocated to Rottenburg, the Wilhelmsstift in Tübingen and the seminary in Rottenburg were re-established . The Rottenburg diocese was established there in 1821 due to its more central location in Württemberg and its proximity to the seat of government in Stuttgart .
Scepter of the Friedrichs University Ellwangen
After the university was founded, on March 5, 1813, to express its outward dignity, it was ceremonially handed over a scepter, which is more simply designed than the other two Tübingen scepter. When the faculty moved to Tübingen in 1817, this scepter passed to the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.
University building
The auditorium of the Friedrichs University was housed in the former collegiate town hall on the market square. This building, designed by Balthasar Neumann , now houses the Ellwangen Regional Court . In the building of the former seminary on the Schönenberg there is now an educational facility of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart and premises of the Redemptorist Order .
University education in Ellwangen
Since the state authorities withdrew from Schloss ob Ellwangen in 2005 , which is owned by the State of Baden-Württemberg, there has been discussion about a new university facility in Ellwangen.
In the winter semester 2009/2010 a study center of the private SRH Fernhochschule Riedlingen started in the rooms of the Peutinger-Gymnasium .
literature
- Eugen Haug: History of the Friedrichs Universität Ellwangen 1812-1817. Reminder for the opening ceremony of the Königl. Württemb. Gymnasium Ellwangen, on November 4, 1817. Ellwangen o J. [1917].
- Rudolf Reinhardt: The Friedrichs-Universität Ellwangen, 1812-1817. Prehistory, ascent, end. In: Ellwanger Jahrbuch 27, 1977/78, pp. 93–115.
Web links
- History of priest training in Württemberg on priesterseminar-rottenburg.de
- Rector's staff of the former Catholic University of Ellwangen
Individual evidence
- ^ Commemorative publication on the reconstruction of the Wilhelmsstift . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Ulm, 1981, p. 87.
- ^ Letter from the President of the Upper Tribunal and the Senior Academic Directorate and Curator of the University of Tübingen, Karl August Freiherr von Wangenheim, dated November 20, 1816, Archive Konviktsbibliothek Wilhelmsstift Tübingen.