Leopold Feigenbutz

Leopold Feigenbutz (born August 15, 1827 in Mörschenhardt , † August 13, 1904 in Flehingen ) was a Baden local researcher and main teacher in Flehingen.

He edited the estate of Samuel Friedrich Sauter and wrote numerous regional studies on the Kraichgau . Among other things, he wrote regional history books for school use in Baden , the various editions of which were attached to treatises on the respective local history. He was also a member of the commission for the elaboration of Baden's school history and a member of the Baden teachers' association, where he campaigned for the upgrading of the teaching staff.

Life

He was the son of the Mörschenhardt village teacher Liborius Feigenbutz and his parents also pushed him to become a teacher. After training as a teacher in the teacher training college in Ettlingen , Feigenbutz took up a position as a school supervisor in Kuppenheim . During the 1848 revolution he remained apolitical. In 1849 he came to the Schwabenheimer Hof near Dossenheim as a school administrator . Soon afterwards he moved to Kronau and in 1852 to Ladenburg . In 1856 he passed the service examination in Ettlingen. In 1857 he was employed as main teacher and sacristan at the Catholic school in Flehingen , still by means of the barons Wolf-Metternich's right of presentation . There he was again the first main teacher after a long time. His predecessors, both in Catholic and Protestant schools, had fallen out of favor due to their political commitment during the 1848 revolution; their positions had only been filled with assistant teachers.

In Flehingen, Feigenbutz first tried to get the teaching post paid better. His wages were very low in the national average and the benefits in kind that were once part of the wages had gradually disappeared. The situation improved around 1860 when school supervision was transferred to the country. In the period that followed, Feigenbutz had to defend himself against the Flehingen municipal council. B. tried to assert an influence on the school in the dispute over the newly introduced Pflüger'sche reading book . Feigenbutz even threatened to leave, but ultimately stayed in Flehingen.

His commitment to the upgrading of the teaching position soon went beyond the purely local situation and he became a member of the general Baden teachers' association . In it he campaigned for improved teacher training and for the Baden simultaneous schools .

Feigenbutz was also interested in local history and literature. He made a contribution to the publication of the literary legacy of Samuel Friedrich Sauter (1766-1846), schoolmaster, village poet and archetype of Biedermeier , whose best-known poems are Wachtelschlag and Das Lied vom Poor Dorfschulmeisterlein . In 1875 Fegenbutz Sauters published old news from Flehingen, backed up, brought in chronological order and supplemented with additional notes . A little later, Feigenbutz's first work of his own followed in 1878 with the book Der Kraichgau und seine Orte . On 405 pages he brought together everything worth knowing and then known about the Kraichgau. In 1885 Feigenbutz published together with the castle researcher Julius Naeher a work on the castles, palaces and towns of the upper Kraichgau. A little later he wrote individual historical accounts of the history of Eppingen and of Odenheim .

In the late 1880s, Feigenbutz was elected a member of the commission for the elaboration of Baden's school history. Feigenbutz had access to numerous archives and libraries. In 1890/91 he published history books for the districts of Bretten and Bruchsal for school use. The books contained a natural spatial description, a description of the traffic routes and the economic, ecclesiastical and political conditions as well as historical treatises about the places of office. In the systematization of the place descriptions, Feigenbutz was based on the Württemberg Oberamtsbeschreibung. In quick succession he also wrote historical treatises on individual Kraichgau locations such as Bretten , Münzesheim , Gochsheim , Gondelsheim , Nussbaum and Zaisenhausen , which were attached to the history books of the districts. The presentation and structure of the two history volumes were exemplary for other Baden history books for school use.

In 1891 he was released from school service for a year in order to be able to devote himself fully to studying historical sources. In the mid-1890s, Feigenbutz then concentrated on writing down the part of Baden's school history that was offered to him. His writings already earned him recognition as a local historian during his lifetime.

On the occasion of his 50th anniversary as a teacher on June 9, 1896, the Grand Duke of Baden awarded him the Cross of Merit of the Zähringer Lion . However, his strength had already begun to wane. He retired in 1900 at the age of 72.

Leopold Feigenbutz died on August 13, 1904 and was buried two days later, on the day of his 77th birthday, in the Flehingen cemetery. The grave of the Flehinger honorary citizen is still tended by the community today.

In order to honor his services to the school system and local history research, the municipality of Oberderdingen named their new Realschule Leopold-Feigenbutz-Realschule on June 28, 1994 .

family

Leopold Feigenbutz had been married to Barbara Stumm since 1857. A daughter who died young and the son Eduard Hugo came from this marriage. After his first wife died on February 10, 1862, he married Sofie Kugler from Flehingen that same year. The couple had six sons and two daughters, three of whom were sons and one daughter. His second wife died on June 4, 1884. On July 30, 1887, he was third married to Karoline Sickler from Diedelsheim , who gave birth to a daughter.

Fonts

• Old news from Flehingen, saved, brought in chronological order and provided with additional notes . (1875)
• The Kraichgau and its places. A historical treatise . Bretten (Fr. Leitz) 1878 (Reprint: Magstadt near Stuttgart 1976)
• The castles, palaces and towns of the upper Kraichgau . (1885, with Julius Näher)
• History of the city of Eppingen and the village of Mühlbach . (1886)
• Brief outline of the history of Odenheim and its Benedictine abbey, which later became the knight's monastery in Kraichgau . (1886)
• Brief outline of the history of the city of Bretten with the family tree of the last Kraichgau counts . Buhl (1889)
• District Bretten. Described for the teaching of local studies in our elementary schools. Buhl (1890)
• Bruchsal district. Described for the teaching of local studies in our elementary schools. Wiesental (1891).
• Detailed description of the village of Zaisenhausen, combined with the detailed history of the village of railway bridges.
• A short outline of the history of the town of Zaisenhausen am Kohlbach in Kraichgau with the town of Weistum in the appendix. Bruchsal (1889)
• Detailed description of the market town of Münzesheim, combined with the detailed history of the village of Oberacker.
• Detailed history of the city of Gochsheim.
• Detailed history of the village of Gochsheim, combined with the detailed history of the village of Diedelsheim.
• Detailed history of the village of Nussbaum, combined with the detailed history of the village of Sprantal, and the detailed history of the village of Ruit.
• Detailed history of the village of Flehingen, combined with the detailed history of the village of Sickingen.
• Brief outline of the history of the market town of Kürnbach in Kraichgau. Bruchsal (1888)
• Detailed history of the village of Kürnbach.
• Detailed history of the village of Bauerbach, combined with the detailed history of the village of Gölshausen and a detailed description of the village of Rinklingen.

literature

• Karl Banghard: The chronicler of the Kraichgau - Leopold Feigenbutz 1827-1904 , in: the., Five Snow Balls, Twelve Centuries - Flehingen-Sickingen 779 to 1979 , K. Banghard, Oberderdingen-Flehingen 1979, pp. 130-146.
• Erwin Breitinger: Leopold Feigenbutz - the chronicler of the Kraichgau . In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research . Volume 11, 1989, pp. 116-125.
• Alfred Melter: Leopold Feigenbutz - a Flehingen teacher and local researcher . In: Bretten Yearbook for Culture and History Volume 6, 1983/84, pp. 197–198.