Ruprecht to the five roses

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The Johannis Masonic Lodge "R5R" is a Masonic lodge in Heidelberg .

history

The lodge in the network of the United Grand Lodge " Old Free and Accepted Masons " (AFuAM) was founded in Heidelberg in 1856.

The entrance to the Ruprechtsbau in Heidelberg Castle is crowned by a late Gothic keystone showing two angel figures, a wreath with five roses as well as compasses and a square. This stone carving - connected with the name of Count Palatine Ruprecht III. , the builder of the Ruprecht building - was chosen by the brotherhood as a loge mark when the lodge was founded in 1856.

After it was founded, the lodge experienced a rapid boom. In 1861 the historian and philosopher Otto Caspari became a member of the lodge. In 1864, Professor Johann Caspar Bluntschli, an expert on constitutional and international law, joined her. Through his work as a master of the chair, the lodge already had 76 members in 1867. The foundation stone for their own house is laid on a plot of land at the Klingenteich and it is inaugurated in 1870. The outbreak of Franco-German war temporarily turned the lodge house into a hospital. In 1881, the year Bluntschli died, the lodge had 106 members. In 1930/31, in the last existing statistics, there are 127. In the membership lists, names of citizens appear again and again who have made a contribution to the welfare of the city of Heidelberg.

After Hitler came to power and Freemasonry was banned in 1934, the house was made available to a chemical factory. It was not until 1947 that it could be used again in a desolate state. The listed building consumes more and more effort and so the lodge members decide in 1988 to sell the house to the Anthroposophical Society.

In 1990 they moved into a new home at Schwarzwaldstrasse 29–31 in the Kirchheim district. Here, the activities that determine the spiritual life and radiate into the public are increasingly continued. Information evenings about Freemasonry, cultural events and lectures on social and ethical issues alternate. The maxim is always to strive for more humanity in the world. The box has matriculation number 372.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Holtorf: The lodges of the Freemasons, Nikol Verlags GmbH, Hamburg ISBN 3-930656-58-2 p. 141
  2. ↑ Jürgen Holtorf: The lodges of the Freemasons, Nikol Verlags GmbH, Hamburg ISBN 3-930656-58-2 p. 141