Martinianum

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Martinianum, Münzgasse 13

The Martinianum , also known as Neuer Bau , is a historic building in Tübingen , Münzgasse 13.

Martinianum scholarship

Georg Hartsesser , a Stuttgart canon, and the Tübingen theology professor and collegiate church pastor Martin Plantsch founded the Collegium Sanctorum Georgii et Martini in 1509 , which granted unprofitable students free board and lodging. This Martinianum scholarship was the most important of the Tübingen scholarship foundations. It existed until the foundation's assets were lost in 1923. Today, the Martin Fickler Foundation follows this tradition.

The first college building for initially seven, from 1533 up to 18 students was located in a building complex on the corner of Lange Gasse and Hafengasse. The statutes established by Plantsch in 1528 were valid until the beginning of the 18th century. Since the Martinianum, unlike comparable institutions, had no employees, the community life of the fellows included studying, eating and socializing as well as joint responsibility for the preparation of meals, cleaning and heating of the rooms.

New building in Münzgasse

In 1683 the foundation moved into its “new building” at Münzgasse 13. The current building was built from 1662 to 1665 according to plans by Michael Beer : a “three-storey, plastered solid structure with a profiled arched door, window frames and cornices.” The epitaph is located in the entrance area of the founder Martin Plantsch. The Martinianum scholarship included its own library, the holdings of which were transferred to the university library in 1780 .

The university's chancellor, along with some professors and the administrators of the scholarships, were in charge of the new building. An older student worked as a repetitionist . A caterer was responsible for the catering .

The most famous scholarship holder of the Martinianum was Justinus Kerner , who lived here from 1804 to 1808 during his medical studies. A circle of friends from Tübingen romantics, the Swabian Poet School , met in his booth . A memorial plaque reminds of this; it is a station on the Schwäbische Dichterstrasse .

Later uses

As a successor to the Martinianum scholarship, the dormitory was operated by student aid from 1923. Well-known residents from this time are Theodor Eschenburg and the later Minister of Education, Gerhard Stotz .

During the Nazi dictatorship , the Studentenwerk rented the Münzstrasse building. 13 to the police. From this time comes a former air raid shelter that runs from the Holzmarkt under the south-western facade of the collegiate church and then turns into Münzgasse. Intended for the police and Gestapo offices in the Martinianum and the citizens of the city center, the construction of the air raid shelter was carried out by forced laborers. After the war, the bunker was forgotten and only came back to consciousness with the damage to the collegiate church. After the bunker had been largely filled with concrete, the movement of the collegiate church also stabilized. The police used the rooms until 1976; Since then, the building has been used again as a dormitory for the Tübingen student union, in keeping with its original purpose .

Web links

Commons : Martinianum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Gudrun Emberger: Ain forever scholarship. The Collegium Sanctorum Georgii et Martini - A Tübingen study foundation of the 16th century (= Berlin Medieval and Early Modern Research. Volume 16). V&R unipress, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-89971-998-7 .
  • Gudrun Emberger: Sweeping week and feast. Community life in the Tübingen Martinianum Scholarship in the 16th century. In: Kirsten Bernhardt et al. (Ed.): Hospitality and conviviality in the academic milieu in the early modern period. Waxmann, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8309-7759-9 , pp. 35-48.
  • Wilfried Setzler : Tübingen. Discover new things on old ways. A city guide. 4th edition. Verlag Schwäbisches Tagblatt, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-928011-54-5 , p. 46.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gudrun Emberger: Kehrwoche and Festschmaus. Community life in the Tübingen Martinianum Scholarship in the 16th century . 2013, p. 46 .
  2. ↑ Martinianum (Münzgasse 13, Tübingen). In: leo bw, discover regional studies online. Baden-Württemberg State Archives, accessed on January 1, 2019 .
  3. ^ Hedwig Röckelein: The Latin manuscripts of the Tübingen University Library . tape 1 . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1991, p. 32 .
  4. ↑ There was always table wine: Gudrun Emberger led through the history of the Martinianum. In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt. August 27, 2014, accessed January 1, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '11.9 "  N , 9 ° 3' 19.2"  E