Regional association Badische Heimat

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Regional association Badische Heimat
purpose Working for home and nationality
Chair: Sven von Ungern-Sternberg
Establishment date: 1909
Number of members: about 3000
Seat : Freiburg in Breisgau
Website: http://www.badische-heimat.de
Freiburg House of the Badische Heimat again in original colors (2019)

The regional association Badische Heimat eV , based in Freiburg, is one of the German homeland and cultural associations . It was founded in 1909 and is a member of the umbrella organization Bund Heimat und Umwelt (BHU) in Bonn .

Office Badische Heimat, Freiburg, Hansjakobstraße still in the previous color (2010)

history

founding

The merger of the two associations "Badischer Verein für Volkskunde" (founded in 1904) and the "Association for rural welfare" (founded in 1902) was decided on July 26, 1908 in Triberg and came into force on January 1, 1909. The union was promoted by the Grand Duke, the government and the ministries, as the associations overlapped in their tasks. The name "Badische Heimat" referred to the territory of the Grand Duchy of Baden . The goals of the association were already formulated back then: “Preserving, protecting and researching folklore and homeland, protecting the local landscape, its art and natural monuments, its flora and fauna, and spreading folklore and local history and soul to promote, to stimulate and cultivate family research and thus to awaken the love of home and to deepen the local culture - overall to work for home and nationality ” .

The first regional assembly took place in Achern in 1909 . The Freiburg librarian Fridrich Pfaff (1855-1917) was elected as the first chairman , the physician Eugen Fischer as his deputy and Hermann Flamm (1871-1915) as secretary . After his death, the Freiburg art historian Max Wingenroth (1872–1922) took over the post of secretary. It enabled the establishment of the first branch in the Colombischlössle in Freiburg.

The twenties

The association had its heyday in the 1920s, which was mainly due to the tireless work of the board of directors and well-known specialist speakers in the broad spectrum of "Baden cultural history, geology and prehistory, house building, settlement and traditional costumes, art history and monument preservation, literature and dialect, but also Family Studies and Heredity ” declined. Represented the editor of the association Hermann Eris buses transfiguring agro-romantic positions, brought the work of anthropologists and racial theorist Eugen Fischer the club early in a dangerous proximity to racial-ethnic groups and paved the way to the vicinity of National Socialism . In its heyday, the years after 1924, the association had 12,000 members. In matters of nature conservation and monument protection, he was heard in almost all projects and campaigned for the preservation of the Black Forest valleys and against the construction of power plants in the Glottertal and against the canalization of the Neckar . Its charisma had an impact far beyond Baden and brought "local groups" as identification cores for former Badner to South America. In addition to the members' magazine “Mein Heimatland” with six issues per year, publications during this period are the yearbook “Badische Heimat” with basic articles from the group of experts working for the association, the series “Vom Bodensee zum Main” and the “Eckhard yearbook” . The regionally oriented annual volumes of the “Badische Heimat” are still indispensable for some areas of regional studies and regional history. In working for a "healthy" nationality, against a soulless deemed currents perceived as a threat to modernity, against "instability and fragmentation, delusion and Irrgang" the association, not least, was less critical distance in the vicinity nationalist-right groupings NSDAP moved without, however, openly assuming their positions. As before, the association wanted to maintain its apolitical attitude.

The Badische Heimat in the Third Reich

Commemorative plaque to the poet Hermann Eris Busse

As a consequence of the view that the new right-wing conservative government made up of the NSDAP and DNVP also shared the essential goals of Baden's homeland, the management of the association saw its role as an active part in the fight against “lack of mind, flatness, and desolation within the people” . In the spring of 1933 Busse referred to his own successes in this work and was sure of the support of the Reich government. The special aims of National Socialism, however, declared anti-clericalism or anti-Jewish criticism of capitalism, were not discussed, but rather ignored. The opportunity was seized to bring the club closer to power with the men who were already involved in the club and now in positions of responsibility. One of these men is above all the folklorist Eugen Fehrle , who had already joined the NSDAP in 1931. The aim of the association was to position it as a "state aid organization in questions of monument and homeland protection" - which, however, turned out to be an illusion in view of the totalitarian efforts of the Nazi regime. Officially, the regional association maintained its party-political neutrality, even if the dawn of the new era was euphorically praised in individual magazine articles and the members in the local groups for their part joined the general approval of the people. In a circular to members, the club management said in May 1933 that they have the "national survey" certainly "aware and warmly welcomed" have, but beyond that would point out to have "done for years patriotic, national working in the best sense of the word " .

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Regarding the question of the association's closeness to the NSDAP , one has to be critical today that of course the basic structure of the "Badische Heimat" and most of its work coincided with the ideas of the national right, that closeness to the Baden government was sought in order to continue to draw their benefit for the association, but that after 1933 there was hardly any doubt that the association could only survive in accordance with the structure of the Third Reich. Spreading thoughts of homeland care in the late 1920s and early 1930s was almost inevitably linked to a fundamentally conservative attitude - which, incidentally, also shared the membership of the association. The DC circuit policies of the Nazi regime was following in 1934, first set the existing statutes repealed, the Baden minister of education appointed the state chairman, his deputy and the editor as well as the chairmen of the local groups. With this, however, the association was also safe from takeover efforts by direct Nazi organizations such as the “ Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur ” and the “ Reichsbund Volkstum und Heimat ”. Despite the intellectual closeness to National Socialism, the association was able to evade the deadly embrace of the regime and maintain its independence. In 1937 an internal paper of the regime classified the editor Hermann Eris Busse as unreliable. The definitive incorporation into the National Socialist national politics took place in 1940 with the expansion of the sphere of activity to the occupied and annexed Alsace , the Badische Heimat became the "Upper Rhine Heimatbund". On August 16, 1944, the Reich Defense Commissioner Robert Wagner decreed that the Badische Heimat - like all other "so-called home and cultural associations" - had to cease its work.

Association ban 1945

The association's involvement in National Socialist politics resulted in the French military government banning the association in 1945, and the "Badische Heimat" house was confiscated. In order to re-establish the association, the appointment of a politically unencumbered founding board was a condition. With the restriction to the French zone, however, the question of the club area arose, since the northern part of the country was in the American zone. The first steps on the part of the occupying power were aimed at the re-establishment of a “Heimatverein für das Alemannische Territory” with the involvement of the Alemannic Institute in Freiburg. Editor-in-chief Hermann Eris Busse was acquitted of the charge of active complicity shortly before his death in 1947 and classified as a “fellow traveler”.

Re-establishment in 1949

The re-establishment of the association turned out to be difficult because the (South) Baden Ministry of Culture initially had different ideas about the work of the home associations and the separation of the occupation zones was seen as an insurmountable obstacle to the association's self- image . Efforts in Karlsruhe in May 1947 to re-establish a local branch of the association put the Freiburg representatives of the association under pressure. In May 1948 a founding committee of five unencumbered people was finally formed in Freiburg, which did the preparatory work for the founding meeting on October 23, 1949. In the meantime, in the wake of the founding of the western state by the Allies, the Baden question had become virulent and a question of conscience: only in the state of (southern) Baden were the club area and state identical, while northern Baden was part of the state of Württemberg-Baden in the American one Become an occupation zone. The key question was whether the association should, could, and was allowed to join the current discussion about the formation of a new south-western state. When it was re-established in 1949 in the Freiburg Kaufhaussaal, the old name “Badische Heimat” was retained, but the number of members (7,000) the association was unable to match the pre-war status. In its work, the association paid attention to political neutrality and turned to the issues of landscape protection and regional peculiarities as well as the protection of interests recognized as Baden. In current politics, the association does not represent separatist tendencies, but sees the state of Baden-Württemberg as a common political, economic and social basis for the formerly independent states of Baden, Württemberg and Hohenzollern. The association's members' magazine has been entitled Badische Heimat - Mein Heimatland since 1951 and is published four times a year with currently around 800 pages. The Eckhart-Jahrbuch ( year book for the Badner Land ) was published with an additional 200 to 250 pages, but was discontinued in 1985. With the association's anniversary in 2009, a new series of publications by the Badische Heimat was started.

100th anniversary of Badische Heimat e. V.

On the occasion of its centenary in 2009, the Badische Heimat prepared a traveling exhibition that showed pictures and exhibits from one hundred years of club history, embedded in the history of Baden. A catalog for the exhibition was published for documentation purposes. The starting signal for the exhibition was given by the regional association in the regional council of Freiburg , Basler Hof , where the exhibition took place from February 28th to April 17th, 2009. In all other exhibition locations there was a supporting program that included lectures, dialect evenings, museum educational offers and themed tours.

Domiciles of the regional association

  • 1914 –....: a room in the Colombischlössle, Freiburg
  • 1914 - .... an additional reading room in the old university
  • ....– 1926: in the municipal Augustinian museum in Freiburg
  • 1926 - today: House Badische Heimat , Freiburg, Hansjakobstraße ▼ . The architect Carl Anton Meckel (1875–1938) built it in the style of a residential house with stylistic elements from the late Gothic and Baroque periods, which could be converted into a residential building if necessary. After a renovation in 2017, the house is back in its original color ox blood red .

Chairperson

Tasks and organization

The association with around 3,000 members in 15 regional groups is non-profit and politically neutral. The home is protected in the area of ​​tension between tradition, continuity and progress, persistence and departure. The national association takes a stand on the conflicting goals of our society between growth and the natural environment.

Creed

Maintaining the culture of remembrance of Baden history is a central concern of the association, but it does not see itself as a pure history association. Just as important as the culture of remembrance is the timeliness of the home environment. Today's habitats have expanded territorially due to mobility and differentiated in their problems. Home, understood as a concrete living space, is therefore much more than just a historically determined (retreat) space. The association therefore deals with issues that characterize these living spaces. It is a recognized nature conservation association according to § 29 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act and issues opinions.

“The youth avoided the parents' suspicious ties to traditions and associations. The state association, however, consistently continued its work for culture, society and the environment in the now larger federal state of Baden-Württemberg and, as a co-designer of an attractive and diverse Europe of the regions, is given a significant and important field of activity within the grown European Union. "

Goals, areas of responsibility and structure

The goals and areas of responsibility of the state association are:

Knowledge transfer

Work of the regional groups

The association is divided into various regional groups that organize lectures, tours and trips independently and on their own responsibility. Currently (2011) there are regional groups in the following cities: Baden-Baden , Bad Säckingen , Bruchsal , Freiburg , Heidelberg , Karlsruhe , Konstanz , Lahr , Lörrach / Markgräflerland, Mannheim , Pforzheim , Rastatt , Schwetzingen , Waldshut-Tiengen and Wiesloch .

Publications

The regional association initially published two magazines: “Mein Heimatland”, the so-called yellow booklets (1914–1942) and the “Badische Heimat”, the so-called gray booklets (1914–1941). “Mein Heimatland” appeared as a single or double issue between one and eight times a year. The “Badische Heimat” was published from 1914 to 1922 as a single issue between one and three times a year. From 1923 onwards, annual volumes of the “Badische Heimat” were only up to 600 pages thick, each devoted to a single region or city. In 1940 and 1941 these volumes were published under the title “Oberrheinische Heimat”. In addition there was the series “Vom Bodensee zum Main” (47 issues between 1920 and 1939) and the “Ekkhart”, a “calendar for the Baden region” (published annually 1920–1943). The publications were discontinued during the Second World War "due to a lack of paper".

From 1950 the two magazine series "Mein Heimatland" and "Badische Heimat" appeared again in the 30th year, but now united under the title "Badische Heimat - Mein Heimatland", the so-called white booklets. The magazine was mostly published four times a year, with some issues also being combined into double issues. From 1956 the Ekkhart yearbook appeared again, initially independently of the magazine series, then from 1972 to 1985 as the fourth annual issue of the “Badische Heimat”.

Two new series of publications, namely the series of important works from 1953, which appeared in four editions, and the “Neue Badische Reihe” from 1965, which contained only one volume on the draftsman Ernst Rieß , remained unsuccessful.

Today the issues of the regional association BADISCHE HEIMAT appear quarterly under the same title. The magazine is dedicated to regional and folklore , nature , environmental and monument protection . Topics relating to Baden history naturally play an important role, as the magazine has a chronicler duty. In recent years, the changed concept of home has made it increasingly interesting for the journal's editors to turn to current topics relating to the “home habitat”. The option of bathing as part of the Upper Rhine area necessarily means opening up for topics that go beyond the closer Baden homeland. The magazine is the forum of the regional association and connects the association with the regional groups and the interested public.

Of the historical booklets of Baden's homeland, the following are particularly worth mentioning:

  • 1963 special issue Heidelberg
  • 1965 250 years of Karlsruhe
  • 1966 Überlingen-Bodensee
  • 1999 and September 2013 Freiburg

Web activity

In addition to its own internet presence, the Badische Heimat maintained the internet portal "Landeskunde online" until 2017, which is one of the largest non-commercial digital encyclopedias in German with around 23,000 pages. Based on the cultural heritage of the old state of Baden, "Landeskunde online" had developed into a comprehensive platform in the almost 20 years of its existence, on which the networking of the cultural heritage across the modern borders of countries and states was made clear. Since 2017 the website has been an independent project under the name "kulturer.be".

Library

In the Badische Heimat house in Freiburg im Breisgau, the library has access to magazines from various associations in the Baden region as well as numerous specialist books on the cities of the Baden region. The holdings are constantly being expanded through legacies of local Baden residents and the liquidations of local and regional libraries.

Joint award ceremony with the Swabian Heimatbund

The regional association Badische Heimat eV performs its task in monument and nature protection in different ways. Together with the Swabian Heimatbund and the Baden-Württemberg Monument Foundation , the Badische Heimat regional association awards the Baden-Württemberg Monument Protection Prize every two years . With this award, the association honors and promotes private monument preservation services.

Similar clubs in other regions

Associations with the same or similar area of ​​responsibility in the other German federal states are:

literature

  • 75 years 1909–1984. Landesverein Badische Heimat eV Chronicle. In: Badische Heimat 3/1984
  • The regional association Badische Heimat. In: in this country . The regional magazine of Rhein, Neckar & Main. Number 42, 2009, p. 12
  • 100 years of Baden. The regional association Badische Heimat 1909–2009. Exhibition catalog. In: Badische Heimat 1/2009
  • 100 years for Baden. Chronicle of the regional association Badische Heimat 1909 - 2009. Edited by Sven von Ungern-Sternberg and Kurt Hochstuhl. (= Series of publications of the Badische Heimat 1). Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2009.

Web links

Commons : Haus Badische Heimat (Freiburg im Breisgau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Journal Badische Heimat  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lahr: An old association with new goals , Badische Zeitung, January 22, 2010, accessed on September 14, 2011
  2. ↑ a b Hans Sigmund: The house of the Badische Heimat has its original color again. Badische Zeitung, March 25, 2019, accessed on March 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 100 years for Baden. Chronicle of the Landesverein Badische Heimat 1909–2009 , p. 359.
  4. ↑ 100 years for Baden. Chronicle of the Landesverein Badische Heimat 1909–2009 , p. 364ff.
  5. ↑ 100 years for Baden. Chronicle of the Landesverein Badische Heimat 1909–2009 , p. 360.
  6. ↑ 100 years for Baden. Chronicle of the Landesverein Badische Heimat 1909–2009 , p. 367.
  7. ↑ 100 years for Baden. Chronicle of the Landesverein Badische Heimat 1909–2009 , p. 370.
  8. ↑ 100 years for Baden. Chronicle of the Landesverein Badische Heimat 1909–2009 , p. 373.
  9. ↑ 100 years for Baden. Chronicle of the Landesverein Badische Heimat 1909–2009 , p. 373.
  10. ↑ 100 years for Baden. Chronicle of the Landesverein Badische Heimat 1909–2009 , p. 386.
  11. ↑ 100 years of Baden. The regional association Badische Heimat 1909–2009. Exhibition catalog. In: Badische Heimat 1/2009, pp. 58, 66.
  12. ^ Landesverein Badische Heimat (Ed.): 100 Baden Years. The regional association Badische Heimat 1909–2009. Badische Heimat magazine, March 2009 issue.
  13. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2010 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.badische-heimat.de
  14. ↑ 100 years of Baden. The regional association Badische Heimat 1909–2009. Exhibition catalog. In: Badische Heimat 1/2009, pp. 24-25.
  15. ^ The regional association Badische Heimat. In: in this country . The regional magazine of Rhein, Neckar & Main . Number 42, 2009, p. 12.
  16. ^ Quotation in the regional association Badische Heimat. In: in this country . The regional magazine of Rhein, Neckar & Main . Number 42, 2009, p. 12.
  17. ↑ Goals according to the statutes for one hundred years.
  18. ↑ Information sheet Landesverein Badische Heimat eV, approx. 2010.
  19. ^ Regional groups of the regional association Badische Heimat
  20. ↑ 100 years of Baden. The regional association Badische Heimat 1909–2009. Exhibition catalog. In: Badische Heimat 1/2009, pp. 66, 90.
  21. ↑ Visit to Haus Badische Heimat on May 28, 2011.