Richard Kallee
Richard Kallee (born December 18, 1854 in Ludwigsburg , † July 15, 1933 in Stuttgart-Feuerbach ) was a German Protestant pastor and local researcher .
Live and act
On October 7, 1877 Kallee was ordained in the town church of Böblingen and then received pastoral positions in Willsbach , Michelbach am Wald and the collegiate church in Öhringen . He married Mathilde Wunderlich, a daughter of the pastor Albert Wunderlich in Echterdingen . The couple had two sons: Walter Kallee (1881–1939) and Albert Kallee (1884–1956).
On September 15, 1896, he took over the parish in Feuerbach . There he founded the nursing association in 1901, which is now called Diakonieverein Feuerbach, and employed the first deaconess for outpatient nursing. On March 15, 1907 he became the first parish priest of Feuerbach when he was elevated to the city. The celebrations took place on September 1, 1907. On July 16, 1916 he received from Queen Charlotte during her visit his nursery the charlottenkreuz . His service ended in October 1923 when he retired.
Archaeological excavations
Like his father, General Eduard von Kallee , Kallee worked as a local historian and archaeologist. In Pfedelbach he found pre-Roman ramparts and burial mounds. In 1903 Kallee discovered the prehistoric fortifications and Fliehburg on the Lemberg in Feuerbach and from 1904 the Alemannic sandstone graves in the cemetery of Stuttgart-Feuerbach , which he devoted himself to researching until the end of his life. 138 graves were excavated from which a total of 760 finds were recovered. Kallee and his helpers took great care to secure the finds from the Alemannic graves: skulls and bones, coins, pottery shards, combs, collars, belt locks, swords, lances, arrows and spurs.
In October 1910, at the instigation of the pastor Richard Kallee and the state curator Eugen Gradmann , the municipal building department carried out archaeological excavations at the end of Feuerbacher Schlosserstrasse (today's Staufeneckstrasse), which unearthed interesting finds. There were three Alemannic row graves from the 7th and 8th centuries, which contained stone coffins. The best preserved stone coffin was brought into the Feuerbach town hall, which was built between 1907 and 1909. The excavations were scientifically published as follows: “In the southern grave, next to the bones, there was a necklace made of charming little pearls, golden yellow, red and green with yellow. So it is probably a woman's grave. The northern grave contained a strong, tall warrior: the remains of a sword lay diagonally across the body. The middle grave is a riddle. It was completely undamaged, but did not contain a complete skeleton, only the head and part of the body. ”Prince Karl von Urach, headed by factory owner Dr. Hauff, visited the tomb and asked Pastor Kallee to explain the details.
In August and September 1912, the finds from the excavations in Feuerbach were presented to a large number of visitors and published for the first time at the Feuerbach trade exhibition. More than twenty thousand visitors came on the first Sunday, and on September 16, King Wilhelm II of Württemberg also took the time to let Kallee show and explain the exhibits to him. The brochure specially published for this exhibition with the title Feuerbach in prehistory, prehistory and early history. A guide through the Feuerbach antiquities collection cost 30 pfennigs.
On November 4, 1926, the Feuerbach Local History Museum was inaugurated under Kallee's direction.
Appreciation
Kallee died only three weeks after his wife and found his final resting place in a grave still preserved today in the Feuerbach cemetery. The mayor of Stuttgart Paulus, representatives of the Tübingen King Society Roigel , the Swabian Schiller Club and the Wednesday Society attended his funeral . Cannstatter city pastor Jöhne praised Kallee's high speaking talent, his open, healthy character, which was not lacking in rough edges, and above all his love for his homeland and its history. The local researcher and local museum curator Peter Goessler said in his obituary: "Kallee was mentally agile, interested in many things, quickly grasped and capable of skilfully reproducing what moved him as a speaker and publicist."
In 1938 the former Paulinenstraße was renamed Kalleestraße in his memory.
Fonts
- Feuerbacher history sheets. Volume 1-5. Reprinted 1995, ISBN 3-939502-06-5 .
- Feuerbach and his pastors in the Thirty Years War, their fates and the like. your families. Episode 2. Ed. City Feuerbach local history museum 1930.
- Heinrich Schickhardt's contribution to the prehistory of the Neckar Canal . In: Special supplement to the State Gazette 1924, 32ff.
- How Magister Schopffius became pastor of Feuerbach in 1585. Edited by City Feuerbach local history museum 1923.
- What the old stones in Feuerbach tell 1923.
- Two old stones again? 1923.
- The Feuerbach church bells 1922.
- Eduard von Kallee: From the political Biedermaier period - memories a. Experiences d. General Eduard Kallee in Württemberg. General Staff, in the War Ministry, in the diplomat. Service u. at the court of King Wilhelm I of Württemberg, as well as abroad. Höfen / Ed. U. probably by Richard Kallee 1921.
literature
- Christian Belschner: Literary. In: Ludwigsburger Geschichtsblätter 10 (1926), p. 105 f.
- Heinz Krämer: Finished Feuerbach! Richard Kallee, pastor and historian. DRW Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2004, ISBN 3-87181-016-9 ( book advertisement ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Kallee was a businessman and head of Walter Kallee & Cie. in Buenos Aires, married since 1911 and father of two daughters, see Andreas Abel: The descendants of the government councilor Carl F. Feuerlein . Todt-Druck, Villingen-Schwenningen 2007, p. 376
- ↑ Susanne Müller-Baji: Charity in Transition: The "Café and Topic" series in the Luther Church was about the future of the Diakonieverein. ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Stuttgarter Nachrichten, "Nord-Rundschau" from January 22, 2011
- ^ Diakonieverein Feuerbach
- ↑ Schwäbische Kronik , October 24, 1910, quoted by Ulrich Gohl in the column “ 100 Years Ago ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. “In Stuttgarter Nachrichten on October 26, 2010.
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SURNAME | Kallee, Richard |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kallee, Richard Ernst |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | City pastor of Feuerbach and local history researcher |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1854 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigsburg |
DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 1933 |
Place of death | Stuttgart-Feuerbach |