Kolping family Feldkirch
The Kolping Family Feldkirch is a national Catholic social and workers' association based in Feldkirch in Vorarlberg , Austria . It is named after Adolph Kolping (1813-1865), the second Präses of Johann Gregor Breuer 1846 in Elberfeld founded gesellenverein was founded and many other places more journeymen's associations.
In addition to the Feldkirch Kolping Family, Vorarlberg also has the Vorarlberg Diocesan Association, the Altach Kolping Family , the Bezau Kolping Family , the Bludenz Kolping Family , the Bregenz Kolping Family , the Dornbirn Kolping Family and the Götzis Kolping Family .
The core and focus of the work of the Feldkirch Kolping family is commitment with and for the family . The Kolping greeting is "Treu Kolping" with the answer "Kolping loyal".
history
As in other countries, the Kolping Society in Feldkirch began as a Catholic community for journeymen . The association was founded in Feldkirch in 1859 as the “Catholic journeyman association” by pastor Fidel Häusle (died June 8, 1869) at the suggestion of the carpenter journeyman Lorenz Ris from Amberg . It is the oldest still existing journeyman's association in Vorarlberg. The approval of the association's statutes took place on December 8, 1858, the actual founding date is February 2, 1859. This means that the Feldkircher journeyman association is also one of the earliest founded in the entire Kolping Society in Austria. Adolf Kolping personally visited the association in Feldkirch. In the following year the association was founded, the association had 70 members.
On the occasion of the founding of the association, a service was held in the Catholic basilica in Rankweil and an evening festive event. The assembly appointed pastor Fidel Häusle as the first association president , and the vicariate general secretary Thomas Fritsch from Feldkirch became his deputy . Thomas Fritsch (d. November 11, 1875) succeeded him as President in 1869.
In 1865 a library was established for the members of the journeyman's association. In 1867 this library consisted of 306 volumes .
According to the annual report of February 7, 1868, the association had 78 honorary members at the end of 1867. At that time the members were offered social support: free lessons in arithmetic , written essays , calligraphy and declamation . In addition, there was now a club library with 499 volumes and the club health insurance fund contained 78 guilders and 30 kroner . Six journeymen received support from it. From 1872 bookkeeping and religion were also taught and the association also ran a savings bank .
Already 16 years after it was founded, the journeyman's association had 1,099 journeymen as members, a fortune in the journeyman's health insurance fund of 162 guilders and a library with 417 volumes. In 1875 , the "Blumsche Stadel" was bought on Goaßacker Platz, today Jahnplatz , and converted into a journeyman's house (Kolpinghaus) that still exists today. The purchase was made possible by Madam Muther , who is described as a “noble benefactress ” . Thomas Fritsch's successor was Anton Walter (died 1917).
In the association's report of February 3, 1878, it is stated that the association has taken on 1521 journeymen since 1859 (year of foundation) and 72 new journeymen joined in 1877. More than 100 journeymen found accommodation in the Kolping House in 1877. In this report by the President, Anton Walter, reference is made to the social question : With the maintenance of the Catholic journeyman's association, part of the social question is resolved, and people in higher circles are slowly beginning to show an interest in the poorer working population. Had this happened earlier, socialism would not have been able to gain this expansion.
On November 16, 1887, “50 gentlemen of the clerical and secular class” gathered in the hall of the Catholic Journeyman's Association in Feldkirch to discuss the establishment of a teachers' college in Vorarlberg led in the Catholic spirit. This should in commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I to be built. On 26 November 1888, the new could Lehrerbildungsanstalt with 24 candidates and three teachers from the Order of Christian Brothers are opened .
The expansion of the Kolping House was a constant concern and in the report of September 18, 1895 it is stated: The means for expanding our house are still quite in a mess. We hope to be able to improve our finances with the drama in Dornbirn. These events were financially successful and on February 3, 1900, the founding party was held in the newly restored hall .
On September 12, 1909, the 50th anniversary of the journeyman's association in Feldkirch was celebrated with a festive mass at 10:30 a.m. and a subsequent procession through the city, and at 8:00 p.m. with a festive event in the hall of the Kolping House, which was also attended by the president of the main journeyman's association arrived from Vienna.
After the municipal administrations had taken on social tasks in the inter-war period , the journeyman's association in Feldkirch also lost its importance and influence , at the latest at the beginning of the Second World War .
With the consent of the association, the first constituent state committee meeting of the Vorarlberg state committee took place in the house of the journeyman's association ( memorial plaque at the entrance). The state committee is initially also in office in the Kolping journeyman's house, and from the beginning of June in the former Chamber of Commerce in Feldkirch. After the Second World War, the Kolping House in addition to their association's activities under the Church President Pastor Kilga and Father Raimund Zaggl was also different Feldkirch clubs , schools and social institutions and the Old scout group Feldkirch provided and from 1951 to 1960 was led by Fidel Schurig again a Kolping theater group. There was also a municipal kindergarten on the first floor at times. Since the end of the 1960s, women and girls in Feldkirch have also been able to become members of the individual Kolping Families and the renaming of the "Catholic Journeyman's Associations and Houses" in Austria to "Kolping Families and Kolping Houses" took place.
After the expansion of the attic and further adaptation work, the club's premises were moved to the attic and there are events as well as free legal advice for club members once a month and Caritas facilities have been housed in the house since 1991 (e.g. emergency sleeping quarters with constant care and refugee aid ).
organization
The association is supported and supported exclusively by voluntary helpers within the framework of the Kolping Society of Feldkirch . The area of activity is primarily concentrated on Feldkirch in Vorarlberg.
Statutory bodies under association law are: chairman (president, currently Laterner Lukas), secretary (currently Sonja Schwendinger-Natter) and treasurer (currently Natter Norbert).
In accordance with Section 17, Paragraph 8.4 of the Articles of Association, certain legal transactions, documents , copies and agreements require approval
- of the economic director,
- Information to the diocesan / provincial council,
- the signing by the head of the economic director, as well as
- the written approval of the President of Kolping Austria:
- Legal transactions that relate to the acquisition and sale, the mortgage lending and encumbrance of the Kolping Family, their property and other assets, long-term lease contracts (contracts that last longer than three years due to legal provisions or agreements) and those that are subject to legal protection against dismissal, as well as Legal transactions in connection with the new construction and renovation of Kolping houses within the meaning of Section 3 Paragraph 2.6, provided that these exceed 10% of the previous year's sales annually. The approval requires the submission of the construction and financing planning as well as the proof of requirements.
- Taking out loans and credits if these exceed an annual volume of 10% of the previous year's turnover.
There are uniform rules of procedure for holding the general assembly of a local Kolping Family , which were decided upon and put into effect by the Federal General Assembly.
Trivia
The Kolping family in Feldkirch is the godfather of the Damtiere Charlotte and Emilia in the Feldkirch Wildlife Park.
See also
- List of spiritual communities of the Roman Catholic Church
- Catholic workers' associations , journeyman's hospice and journeyman's brotherhood
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ ZVR number: 799 382 935
- ↑ ZVR number: 568 921 666. Responsible for the Kolping families in Altach , Bezau , Bludenz , Bregenz , Dornbirn , Feldkirch , Götzis .
- ↑ ZVR number: 808 628 241.
- ↑ ZVR number: 894 837 695.
- ↑ ZVR number: 504 001 306.
- ↑ ZVR number: 792 377 050
- ↑ ZVR number: 780 870 781.
- ↑ ZVR number: 721 509 263.
- ↑ The further statements without their own citation are taken from a historical overview of the Catholic journeyman's association in Feldkirch / Kolping family Feldkirch by Ida Natter from November 2004.
- ↑ See also: In principle: Hope. Workers 'movement in Vorarlberg 1870-1946 Bregenz 1984 , p. 6, since up to the Association Act of 1867 every attempt at self-organization of the workers was strictly opposed by the authorities and in 1877 almost all workers' education associations were banned in Austria because of their " social democratic orientation". Catholic journeyman's associations based on the model of Adolf Kolping were workers' associations which, however, were allowed to remain.
- ↑ Robert Hoffmann (ed.), Citizen Between Tradition and Modernity . Workers' associations had already existed before, but were voluntarily or compulsorily dissolved again after a short time, p. 371 ff.
- ↑ The Catholic journeyman's association, which still exists today, was founded in Bregenz in 1860 and in Dornbirn in 1861 - both of which are now the "Kolping Family". See also: Industry Province: Vorarlberg in the early industrialization 1740-1870 , p. 341.
- ↑ Robert Hoffmann (ed.), Citizen between Tradition and Modernity , the association in Dornbirn 60, in Bregenz 30 and in Bludenz 20 members, p. 371.
- ↑ Christoph Volaucnik, Reading clubs in Feldkirch in Feldkirch aktuell , p. 3.
- ^ Vorarlberger Volksblatt of February 8, 1867.
- ↑ Katholischer Gesellenverein Feldkirch , Association Blossoms: Leaves for instruction and entertainment, Volume 3, supplement to the Vorarlberger Volksblatt , p. 38 f, message from February 10, 1875.
- ↑ s'Meschiger Kirchablättle , Götzis , p. 6. The Catholic teachers 'seminar was then founded in 1888 (see: Catholic teachers' seminar in Feldkirch currently from September 29, 2007, p. 5).
- ^ With a decree of May 24, 1945, the French military government in Vorarlberg under General René de Hesdin restored the state's autonomy and appointed this state committee. See also: God bless our work and our country! ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and a memorial for freedom Unveiling a memorial plaque at the journeyman's house in Feldkirch , May 24, 2005
- ↑ In Germany the renaming of the Catholic journeyman's associations took place as early as 1935 in "Kolping Families" in order to escape a ban by the National Socialist dictatorship.
- ↑ Since 2010. Also for the members of the Pensioners' Association in Vorarlberg and Naturfreunde Vorarlberg by lawyer Anton Schäfer .
- ^ Johannes Lampert, Caritas in Vorarlberg Origins - History - Outlook , p. 87.
- ↑ Rules of Procedure for the General Assembly of a local Kolping Family ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
