Ludwig Jehle

Ludwig Jehle (born October 4, 1899 in Nürtingen , † June 10, 1960 in Reutlingen ) was a schoolmaster and homeland researcher in Aries . He has also written numerous poems .

Life

Jehle was born in Nürtingen and grew up there. In 1939, now married and father of two children, he took over the management of the elementary school in Aries as the main teacher. His wife stayed in Nürtingen with the children. He moved into the municipal teacher's apartment in the former Gemmingen administrative building , where he took care of himself, with his sister occasionally helping him with the household. In Aries, he soon made a name for himself in local history by digging ahead with the excavations of Widdern Castle on the Schlossberg. He also researched the life and work of the music professor Christian Burckhardt, who was born in Aries in 1830 . Jehle had a memorial plaque attached to Burckhardt's birthplace, initiated the naming of a hill above the city as Burckhardtsruh , re-founded the Burckhardtschor , which had existed since 1825, and then conducted it. In 1940 Jehle wrote the home poem Where Jagst and Kessach unite , which Otto Löffler set to music in 1941 and became the home song of Aries. In 1947 Jehle moved to Hausen near Balingen. In 1958 he moved to a retirement home in Reutlingen, where he died in 1960.

Around 30 poems with local references and various smaller local history contributions on Aries have been preserved by Jehle. A cast plaque made in 1941 with the portrait of Jehle has been preserved in the entrance area of ​​the Widdern school.

literature

• Günter Steinbach: Ludwig Jehle - teacher, local researcher and poet , Aries 2002