Rems newspaper
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| description | Subscription daily newspaper |
| publishing company | Remsdruckerei Sigg, Härtel u. Co. KG |
| First edition | April 11, 1786 |
| Frequency of publication | working days |
| Sold edition | 11,904 copies |
| ( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat) | |
| executive Director | Franziska Sigg, Kerstin Sigg |
| Web link | remszeitung.de |
The Rems-Zeitung is a local daily newspaper in the Ostalb district and is based in Schwäbisch Gmünd in the Remstal . The publisher is Remsdruckerei Sigg, Härtel & Co. KG. The Rems-Zeitung is the oldest daily newspaper still published in Baden-Württemberg and traces its history back to the Reichsstadt Gemündische Nachrichten , which first appeared on April 11, 1786 . The sold circulation is 11,904 copies, a decrease of 32.6 percent since 1998.
history
The Rems-Zeitung emerged from a book printing company that had existed since 1728, which went bankrupt in 1786 and was completely bought by the printer Benedikt Weeber from Dinkelsbühl . Weeber urged the publication of a weekly paper, since the teachers and other well-read people were dependent on papers from Stuttgart , which were brought to Gmünd by merchants. Weeber asked the city for permission to print a weekly paper, and on March 4, 1786, the whole and secret council gave him permission .
On April 11, 1786, the first newspaper printed in Gmünd itself appeared, the legal successor of which is today's Rems-Zeitung . However, Weeber ran into economic difficulties because he had put the purchase of citizenship and that of the printing company on the feet without equity. In 1791 the business went to its main creditor Katharina Barbara Ritter, who handed it over to her 20-year-old son Johann Georg , a trained book printer. He shaped the Gmünder newspaper history in the following 30 years. At the beginning of 1792 the weekly newspaper appeared under the title Reichsstadt Gemündische Nachrichten .
In the only surviving edition of February 2, 1793, there is a detailed account of the execution of the French King Louis XVI. reported, which had taken place on January 21st - a fairly quick report for the time.
All sorts of confusions followed, which at times led to two competing newspapers. They were amalgamated in 1842 under the title Der Bote vom Remsthale, Official and Intelligence Gazette for the Oberamtsiertel Gemünd and its surroundings . In the spring of 1855, the meanwhile owner Joseph Keller sold the publishing house to Friedrich Löchner from Gmünd, who was to decisively promote the development of the newspaper industry in the city. He soon developed the messenger into a modern newspaper with a clear, memorable type area that differs only slightly from today's papers.
With the edition of June 2, 1867, the newspaper took on the name that - apart from the time of National Socialism - has remained with it to this day: Rems-Zeitung .
In 1933, the Rems-Zeitung , at that time closely related to the center as a Catholic newspaper , inevitably came into conflict with the anti-religious NSDAP . Even after the National Socialists came to power in January 1933, she took a sharp position against this party, including in the election campaign for the 1933 Reichstag election .
In order to weaken the newspaper, the National Socialists withdrew the official news. In addition, on behalf of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, the Phoenix GmbH, controlled centrally by Berlin, was founded to buy up Catholic newspapers. On May 14, 1936, the Rems newspaper was forced to sign a purchase agreement with Phoenix. Six weeks later it was forcibly merged with the Remstalpost published by the National Socialists for the Schwäbische Rundschau .
The Rems-Zeitung , which now appeared as the Schwäbische Rundschau , had become a small cog in a large party machine that had to publish National Socialist ideas every day. With number 90 from April 19, 1945, the day before the Americans marched into Gmünd, the Schwäbische Rundschau , two pages thin, ended its existence.
Since 1949 the Rems-Zeitung has been published six times a week by the previous publisher. First of all, the supraregional coat was obtained from the NWZ in Göppingen. These pages have been coming from the Stuttgarter Nachrichten for decades . Since April 1, 2004, the Rems-Zeitung has been printed by Pressehaus Stuttgart Druck GmbH in the Rhenish format , which was used at the end of the 19th century and then again since the 1960s .
Distribution area
The distribution area of the Rems newspaper corresponds almost exactly to the former district of Schwäbisch Gmünd . It includes the cities and communities Abtsgmünd , Alfdorf , Bartholomä , Böbingen an der Rems , Durlangen , Eschach , Göggingen , Gschwend , Heubach , Heuchlingen , Iggingen , Leinzell , Lorch , Mögglingen , Mutlangen , Obergröningen , Ruppertshofen , Schechingen , Schwäbisch Gmünd , Spraitbach , Täferrot and Waldstetten .
The Gmünder Tagespost is also common in the same area .
Edition
The Rems-Zeitung , like most German newspapers in recent years to rest lost. The number of copies sold has fallen by an average of 2.3% per year over the past 10 years. Last year it decreased by 3.3%. It is currently 11,904 copies. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 94.5 percent.
Development of the number of copies sold
particularities
- The Rems-Zeitung was in the early 1990s began the first daily newspaper in Europe, the only digital photography in daily practice
- Theo Sommer and Günter Ogger are prominent journalists who have completed their training at Rems-Zeitung .
literature
- Manfred Laduch: The Gmünder Zeitungskrieg , supplement to the Rems newspaper from August 28, 1999
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to IVW ( details on ivw.eu )
- ↑ according to IVW ( online )
- ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
- ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )