Solothurn calendar

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The Solothurn calendar , published between 1856 and 1977 under the title Sankt-Ursen-Kalender (initially in the spelling St. Ursenkalender ), is a people's calendar from Solothurn in Switzerland that has been published annually since 1854. In Solothurn calendar or Sankt Ursen Calendar numerous historical essays and biographical material were published, focusing on city and canton of Solothurn is located.

Publication history

St. Ursus calendar 1856.

The initiator of the calendar was the Solothurn printer Benedikt Schwendimann (1828–1900), who first published it in 1854 and 1855 under the title Solothurn house calendar, and from 1856 as the St. Ursenkalender . Schwendimann was followed by Burkard & Frölicher as publishers from 1887 to 1891 and from 1892 to 1993 (since 1978 the title was Solothurn Calendar ) the Catholic Solothurn printing and publishing house Union . After this got into financial difficulties, the calendar was first published by Franz Kamber from Hägendorf , then for a few years at Merkur Druck AG in Langenthal in Bern , and finally, since the 2013 edition, again at Rothus Verlag in Solothurn . From the time the title was first changed and until 1952, a local association for the distribution of good books acted as the publisher.

In his review of the 125th anniversary, the then editor Otto Heinrich Allemann characterized the Sankt-Ursen-Calendar of the first years as a pious calendar that put everyday life "in the service of religion, morality and church". In addition to the central components of a calendar (the calendar with astronomical symbols and a list of the fairs), it also contained stories, anecdotes and practical advice for the house and garden. More and more sensational current events were reported, for example the accident during the construction of the Hauenstein tunnel in 1857. From 1856 until the late 1880s, a European chronicle was published, the author of which was the conservative politician Karl von Haller (also Carl, 1807-1893), a son of Karl Ludwig von Haller . With the stories of the pastor Laurentius Hirt from Fulenbach , the calendar took on a popular educational character from the 1860s.

From the 18th year the calendar contained a Swiss death calendar, which was initially kept by the then cathedral provost and later Bishop of Basel Friedrich Fiala , after his death from 1888 to 1917 by Ludwig Rochus Schmidlin . The calendar also received a “special historical character” from 1889 onwards from Wilhelm Rust, who was still the editor of the Bündner Tagblatt in Chur (from 1895) and published works in the Sankt Ursen calendar until 1908. The anniversary edition of 1953 contains a register of the numerous local historical works published up to that point.

When the grammar school teacher Otto Heinrich Allemann took over the editing in 1977, he changed the title to the year 1978 in the Solothurn calendar, which he called programmatic: “ From now on, the Roman legionnaire and city patron Ursus is no longer just the godfather for a Roman- Catholic readership. He becomes the ultimate Solothurn man. " From 1983 to 2006 the writer and collector of sagas Elisabeth Pfluger was the editor of the calendar. Under her leadership, the calendar was aligned to the entire Canton of Solothurn . At least one article from each region of the canton should appear in each issue. Elisabeth Pfluger was followed by Heinz Rudolf von Rohr, Monika Frischknecht and Peter-Lukas Meier.

Remarks

  1. ^ Anton Guldimann: One hundred years of the Sankt Ursen calendar . In: Sankt-Ursen-Kalender . 100th year, 1953, p. 34 .
  2. ↑ a b History of the Solothurn calendar . Rothus publishing house. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c Otto Heinrich Allemann: 125 years of the Sankt Ursen calendar . In: Solothurn calendar . 125th year, 1978, p. 31 .
  4. ↑ Allemann wrongly names 1857 (reporting year 1855) as the first year of the European Chronicle . It appeared as early as 1856 with the reporting year 1854 and even refers to a “last year's chronicle”, which, however, did not appear in the Solothurn house calendar . In 1890 the title changes to Welt-Chronik (without naming the author) and from 1891 Bruno Gilgen is named as the author. In the obituary for Haller in the St. Ursenkalender 1894 it is said that he wrote the chronicle “until a few years ago”.
  5. ^ Thomas Wallner: Carl von Haller. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 3, 2011 , accessed July 2, 2019 .
  6. ^ Otto Heinrich Allemann: 125 years of the Sankt-Ursen calendar . In: Solothurn calendar . 125th year, 1978, p. 3 .
  7. ^ André Schluchter : Elisabeth Pfluger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 23, 2009 , accessed July 2, 2019 .