Luise Gerbing

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Grave of Luise Gerbing in the forest cemetery

Luise Gerbing (born April 23, 1855 in Rödichen near Schnepfenthal , † February 25, 1927 in Waltershausen ) was a German local researcher and journalist .

Life

Luise Gerbing was the daughter of Gustav Ausfeld, a teacher at the school in Schnepfenthal, and his wife Fanny, a daughter of the Medical Council Richter from Waltershausen; her brother was the historian Eduard Ausfeld . She was also the granddaughter of Christian Gotthilf Salzmann and attended by him, together with Johann Christoph Friedrich Guts Muth founded, Salzmannschule .

After attending school in Schnepfenthal and the Ernestinum Gotha , she spent a year as a piano teacher in a boarding school in Saint-Blaise in French-speaking Switzerland , then returned to Schnepfenthal and began teaching at the Salzmann School.

Supported by the geographers Fritz Regel and Alfred Kirchhoff , she dealt with geographical and cultural-historical problems, with issues of settlement and folklore and with dialectic issues. She received the foundations for her research in the geographic, settlement history and folklore area by studying Regel's development of the localities of the Thuringian Forest , Arnold's settlement and migration of German tribes , Kirchhoff's guidance on German regional and folk research, and August Meitzen's settlements and agriculture of the Teutons .

At the beginning of the 1890s she began her historical studies on Thomas Münzer and the German peasant war and soldier trade by Central German princes . In 1893 she gave her first lecture From the History of the Thuringian Forests .

She published, among other things, in the communications of the Geographical Society in Jena , in the communications of the Geography Association in Halle , in the publications of the Association for Gothaische Geschichte , in the homeland papers from the Coburg-Gothaische Landen, the Thüringer Warte and the Thuringian monthly papers as well as in Das Mareile - Bote des Rennsteigverein , of which she was the editor since 1906.

Among other things, she published a waterway map of Southwest Thuringia , reported on the streets of Southwest Thuringia , Erfurt trade and trade routes , Thuringian carter life in the past few days and articles on the extermination of predators in the Thuringian Forest .

Since it was founded in 1896, it was in close contact with the Rennsteig Association , to which it reported several times in Mareile , including Rennsteig-Riss (July 1898), a draft of a forest fortification under Ernst the Pious in the Georgenthal office in 1657 (October 1899) and about the Ilmquelle (March 1902).

In addition to her work for the Rennsteig Association, she continued her local history studies with Die Grenzen der Wüstung Meinboldisfeldt in the communications of the Association for Gothaic History and Antiquity Research and From the History of the Village of Rödichen as well as with a treatise on Thuringian folk costumes in the magazine for folklore . Her research on folk costumes and a special exhibition that she organized in Eisenach in 1910 meant that she is now considered the nestor of Thuringian costume research.

She dealt very intensively with field name research, which she ended with her work The field names of the Duchy of Gotha and the forest names of the Thuringian Forest in 1910.

After the First World War she was politically active in the German People's Party .

Luise Gerbing was married to her drawing teacher Reinhold Gerbing (1838–1905) since April 18, 1877 . Her son Walter Gerbing (1880–1928) later became a geographer.

Luise Gerbing's house in Walterhausen, Rheinhardsbrunner Strasse in the Rödichen district
Memorial plaque on the residential building

After her husband's death, she moved to live with her son in Berlin , but returned to Thuringia in April 1907, initially in Georgenthal and a few years later to Rödichen.

Her burial took place in the forest cemetery in Schnepfenthal.

Some of their records, collections and manuscripts are in the Gotha State Archives . The Thuringian State Archives in Rudolstadt also have a collection of their publications.

honors and awards

  • She received the honorary title of Thuringian Forest Woman .
  • In honor of Luise Gerbing, the Luise-Gerbing-Strasse in Schnepfenthal was named after her.
  • LUISE , the highest undoped award of the German Trachtenverband to honor the life's work of people who have worked with extraordinary, exemplary and exemplary dedication for the preservation of traditional costumes, the promotion of homeland care and folklore as well as traditional customs, owes its name to Luise Gerbing.
  • In the Salzmann Gymnasium in Schnepfenthal, a statuette commemorates the Thuringian folklorist.

Memberships

  • Luise Gerbing was one of the founders of the anthropological association founded by Karl August Friedrich Samwer in Gotha .
  • In 1895 she signed the call to found a racing club.

Fonts (selection)

  • Thuringian carter life in the past few days . Weimar, Felber 1896.
  • Erfurt trade and trade routes: with an explanatory map . 1900.
  • The Thuringian folk costumes . 1908.
  • Luise Gerbing; Arthur Richter: The Ruhla costume: a folklore hike through five centuries . 1909.
  • From the youth of the Thuringian animal world . 1910.
  • The field names of the Duchy of Gotha and the forest names of the Thuringian Forest between the Weinstrasse in the west and the Schorte (lock) in the east . Jena, G. Fischer 1910.
  • Map of the corridors of the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha and the forests of the Thuringian Forest between the Weinstrasse and the Schorte (lock): according to documented sources . 1910.
  • Rosengarten - Tiergarten - Brühl three heralds of the German past . 1910.
  • Johann Christian Friedrich Guts Muths . Magdeburg: Self-published by the Historical Commission, 1927.
  • The Thuringian costumes: presented and explained in words and pictures . Erfurt 1925.
  • Erfurt trade and trade routes (in Thuringia) with a map of the old streets of Thuringia . Arnstadt Thuringian Chronicle-Verl. Müllerott 2012.
  • The streets of Southwest Thuringia . Arnstadt Thuringian Chronicle-Verl. Müllerott 2014.

literature

  • Walter Schmidt-Ewald: Three Thuringian local researchers to remember (Max Berbig, Heinrich Heß, Luise Gerbing) . Erfurt 1927.
  • Luise Gerbing . In: Communications of the Association for Gotha History and Antiquity Research . 1928.
  • Marina Moritz: Luise Gerbing, the head of Thuringian costume research . Erfurt 2000.

Web links

Luise Gerbing . In: Thuringian Literature Council .

Individual evidence

  1. Luise Gerbing. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  2. ^ Johannes Ludolf Müller, Friedrich Ausfeld: The Schnepfenthal Educational Institution 1784–1934 . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-94275-4 ( google.de [accessed on May 23, 2020]).
  3. ^ Luise Gerbing: Accompanying words to the hydrology of southwest Thuringia. In: Mitteilungen der Geographische Gesellschaft für Thüringen zu Jena, Volume 16. 1898, accessed on May 23, 2020 .
  4. ^ Luise Gerbing: The streets of Southwest Thuringia. In: Mitteilungen der Geographische Gesellschaft für Thüringen zu Jena, Volume 17. 1898, accessed on May 23, 2020 .
  5. ^ Luise Gerbing: Erfurt trade and trade routes. In: Communications of the Association for the History and Archeology of Erfurt, 21st issue. 1900, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  6. ^ Luise Gerbing: Thuringian carter life in past days. In: Zeitschrift für Kulturgeschichte, 3rd volume. 1896, Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  7. ^ Luise Gerling: Contributions to the extermination of predators in the Thuringian Forest. In: Communications of the Geographical Society for Thuringia zu Jena, Volume 14. 1896, Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  8. Luise Gerbing: The limits of the desert Meinboldisfeldt. In: Communications from the Association for Gotha History and Antiquity Research. 1907, Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  9. ^ Luise Gerbing: From the history of the village of Rödichen. In: Communications from the Association for Gotha History and Antiquity Research. 1908, Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  10. ^ Robarts - University of Toronto: Journal of Folklore . Stuttgart [etc.] ( archive.org [accessed on May 23, 2020]).
  11. ^ Markus Walz: Handbook Museum: History, Tasks, Perspectives . Springer-Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-476-05184-4 ( google.de [accessed on May 23, 2020]).
  12. ^ Gerbing, Luise - Thuringia archive portal. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  13. Rennsteig literature. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  14. ^ Deutscher Trachtenverband :: Events :: Luise. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  15. ^ Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein Gotha: Museum of Regional History and Folklore. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  16. ^ Erfurt trade and trade routes. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .