Pastor Bickel

Pastor Bickel was a pastor and alpinist who on July 25, 1669 - according to another statement, 1664 - the first recorded ascent of the Großer Widderstein ( 2533  m above sea level ) in the Allgäu Alps , today in the district of Mittelberg in the Kleiner Walsertal succeeded in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg .

Schröcken pastor and alpinist

Great Widderstein 2012

In some sources of Alpinist as is Schröckener Rev. Peter Bickel and Rev. Peter Bickel from Schröcken referred. In Schröcken , however, there was no Pastor Bickel with the first name Peter at that time. A Peter Bickel was a pastor in Gaschurn from 1643 to 1668 . In his edition of the clan book of Schröcken, 1490-1906 from 2007 called Hans Matschek a Josef Bickel as an author of a notebook , "Diary" called. Accordingly, Bickel came “from Sonntag in the Great Walsertal . When the parish gained independence from the mother parish in Lech in 1648 , Bickel was faced with the task of establishing a possible relationship between the bride and groom before weddings . ... Pastor Bickel was not a local ... Bickel died in 1679. “In 2009 Matschek corrected the first name in another publication to Sebastian Bickel Herbert Sauerwein and Ferdinand Pfefferkorn also name a pastor Sebastian Bickel (* 1620; † 1679) as the author of this diary who wrote this from August 1666 to August 1667. This first name is also used through the history of the parish, in which the following anecdote is passed down:

“The first pastor Sebastian Bickel was touchingly worried about his sheep. He kept the parish registers and a chronicle. He was also to be found as an alpinist, intrepid he climbed the 2536 m high Widderstein in 1664. He supposedly wanted to know exactly - it was actually claimed that there were planks of the biblical Noah's Ark on the summit . When he reached the top, he reflected the rays of the sun with a large mirror as a sign of his presence. On the basis of his newly acquired knowledge, he then preached the following words in his sermon at the next service : ... `Noah's Ark? All nonsense, the people dumber than their imagination! ´ "

According to the history of the Schröcken elementary school , this first pastor was also the first teacher in 1661. He is reproduced there with the name Johann Sebastian Bickel .

According to Andreas Ulmer , Pastor Bickel was a "roughly peasant" and learned man. Accordingly, he also seems to have tried his hand at being a poet . During the first ascent, Pastor Bickel is said to have given signals from the summit with a large mirror to a group that was gathered at a chapel , so that “many people thought they saw a great portentum (= miracle )”.

literature

• Andreas Ulmer , Topographical-historical description of the Vicariate General Vorarlberg, Dornbirn 1924, pp. 893–895
• Herbert Sauerwein, Pastor Sebastian Bickel (1620–1679), in: Walserheimat in Vorarlberg, 3, 1977/1982
• Irmin Schwendinger, Der Große Widderstein tells, Kempten 1983, p. 109f.
• Karl Schott: Noah's Ark on the Widderstein? Stories and history about d. Widderstein. - The beautiful Allgäu 52 (1989) H. 5, 87-89
• Karl Heinz Burmeister, The beginnings of alpinism in Vorarlberg with a view of the neighboring countries, in: Josef Nössing (Ed.), The Alps as a healing and recreation area, 1994, pp. 35–60, here p. 48f. and p. 57f.
• Ferdinand Pfefferkorn. Diary of a mountain pastor. Pastor Sebastian Bickel von Schröcken (1620–1679), in Montfort. Quarterly journal for the past and present of Vorarlbergs 57, 2005, pp. 346–361

Web links

• 200 years of community organization - Almanac for the Vorarlberg community year 2008 , edited by Ulrich Nachbaur and Alois Niederstätter on behalf of the Vorarlberg regional government Bregenz 2009 (PDF; 82 kB)
• Schröcken primary school

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History of the Walser Community Schroecken - Church - Tannbergbrücke , on warth-schroecken.com
2. ↑ walser.heimat.eu
3. ↑ On Gams tracks to the summit  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of September 4, 2007, accessed on July 21, 2012  
4. ↑ List of pastors from Gaschurn on gaschurn-partenen.at
5. ↑ Schröcken family book, 1490–1906 (sources on the history of Vorarlberg; vol. 10), 2007, p. 9f., See the introduction online as a PDF file
6. ↑ Hans Matschek, Das Kippenbuch von Schröcken, on vorarlberg.at (PDF file; 82 kB)
7. ↑ history of the Walser community on www.warth-schroecken.com
8. ↑ The history of our school on www3.vobs.at
9. ↑ Andreas Ulmer, Topographical-historical description of the Vicariate General Vorarlberg, Dornbirn 1924, pp. 893–895
10. ^ Andreas Ulmer , Topographical-historical description of the Vicariate General Vorarlberg, Dornbirn 1924, p. 895