Erichsburg seminary

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The Erichsburg seminary was a theological training center of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover , which existed between 1781 and 1971 and was named after its temporary seat in the Erichsburg near Dassel .

history

At the suggestion of Heinrich Philipp Sextro , at that time pastor at St. Albani in Göttingen, the "Royal Pastoral Institute " was established at the hospital of the University of Göttingen in 1781 , which in 1783 received the status of a public institute. Sextro later became Konsistorialrat in Hanover and tried to set up a similar training facility there. In 1799 the consistory bought the so-called Heilig'sche Haus in Hanover. However, the Napoleonic Wars prevented the start of teaching . Sextro then founded a "Theological Reading Society" in Hanover on its own initiative in 1802 for the scientific and practical training of its members in theological field. In 1805 homiletic , catechetical and liturgical exercises were introduced for candidates of theology. In 1814 the convent of the Loccum monastery agreed to finance the maintenance of two seminarians. In April of that year, seminars began in Heiling's house. Lectures and exercises were given by the court preacher , the clerical members of the consistory, lecturers at the school teachers' seminar and other qualified clergymen. The members of the seminar received free accommodation and an annual scholarship of 220 thalers.

In 1840 the seminar moved into a larger house on Grosse Aegidienstraße, which also enabled the library, which has since grown to 17,000 volumes. The Loccum Abbot Gerhard Uhlhorn , who was director from 1878 to 1890 and chairman of the board of trustees from 1890 to 1901, developed plans for a fundamental reorganization of the seminar in 1885/86. It encompassed the expansion to the area of ​​the entire state consistory (previously it only trained for the consistorial district of Hanover), the increase in the number of seminarians, the employment of a full-time director of studies and the relocation to a rural location, the more rural structure of the state church Should take into account. The choice fell on Erichsburg Castle in the Einbeck district, where the seminary was relocated on April 4, 1891. Philipp Meyer (1891–1895) became the first director of studies . He was later followed by other personalities of the Hanover regional church such as the future Bishop August Marahrens (director of studies 1909-1920), Paul Althaus (appointed director of studies 1919-1920, later professor in Erlangen), Wilfried Wolters (director of studies 1925-1932, later state superintendent in Lüneburg) and Eberhard Klügel (Director of Studies 1937–1950, later State Superintendent in Hanover).

In 1953 the seminar at Erichsburg was initially closed and relocated to Hildesheim, whereby the valuable library was also transferred to Hildesheim. On the Erichsburg, the seminar was resumed a little later in a one-year course (Predigerseminar Erichsburg II, Corvinus Predigerseminar) and the seminar was not finally dissolved until the end of 1970 by resolution of the regional church office. On the Erichsburg, a recreational home of the Einbeck parish was set up for evangelical youth and adult work. In 1980 the regional church office ended the lease.

Graduates

The graduates of the seminary include:

literature

  • Gerhard on the Brinke: seminars for preachers on the Erichsburg . In: Yearbook of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History 98 (2000), pp. 179–207
  • Johann Feltrup: On the history of the Predigerseminar Hannover-Erichsburg . In: Journal of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History 29/30 (1924/25) pp. 1–34
  • Christhard Mahrenholz : Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the Hanover preacher's seminary at the Erichsburg . Hanover 1952

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