Silesian Konvikt
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 23.2 " N , 11 ° 58 ′ 21.3" E
| Schlesisches Konvikt Halle | |
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| Type | Silesian Konvikt |
| address | Emil-Abderhalden-Strasse 10 06108 Halle (Saale) |
| state | Saxony-Anhalt |
| country | Germany |
| Regional church | Evangelical Church in Central Germany |
| university | Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg |
| founding year | 1866 |
| Residents (total) | 53 |
| Ephorus | Ulrich Barth |
| Study Inspector | Alexander Tiedemann |
| Website URL | www.schlesisches-konvikt.de |
The Silesian Konvikt is the oldest study konvikt in Halle (Saale) .
History (1866-1937)
The Silesian Konvikt was founded in 1866 under the advisory board of theologian August Tholuck as the first Konvikt in Halle. According to the wishes of its founder, Count Karl Philipp von Harrach, it was intended to support theology students from Silesia , Harrach's homeland. Initially housed in a tenement house, the newly built house at Wilhelmstrasse 10 (today Emil-Abderhalden-Strasse) was inaugurated in 1868. Tholuck was the first Ephorus of the Konvikt from 1869 until his death in 1877 . The first inspector was Martin Kähler (1835–1912), who had held a chair at the theological faculty in Halle since 1867 and placed biblical theology at the center of Konvikt life. Kähler, who also acted as the founding Ephorus of the Tholuckkonvikt (since 1872), also took over the Ephorenamt in the Silesian Konvikt in 1888. This personal union was maintained by Kähler's successors until the Silesian Konvikt was closed in 1937.
With the beginning of National Socialist rule in Germany, the Silesian Konvikt, like the other Halle Konvikt, was threatened in its continued existence. While the Sprachenkonvikt was converted into a so-called "Kameradschaftshaus", a dispute over Reinhard Ring, the then inspector of the Silesian and Tholuckkonvikt , served as the occasion to close the Silesian Konvikt. Ring was a member of the Confessing Church and was briefly suspended from his office because he had written a letter to the theology students who had informed the theology students critically about a decree of the Reich Ministry of Science, in which u. a. Attending substitute courses in the denominational church had been banned and a boycott had been called against professors of the denominational church. After some unlawful changes to the board of trustees and the resulting conflicts between various bodies, the Reich Ministry of Science on April 2, 1937, authorized the rector of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg to close the Silesian and Tholuck Convicts; its implementation took place on June 4, 1937. The Konviktualitas of the Silesian Konvikt was merged with that of the Tholuckkonvikt, the closure of which was lifted on October 28, 1937. The Silesian Konvikt building was rented to the Evangelical Church Music School in Halle on October 1, 1938 as a classroom and residential building . This did not change in 1946 when the original legal situation for the Silesian and the Tholuckkonvikt was restored.
Start-up (since 2005)
After the Evangelical College for Church Music in Halle had moved to a new building in Handel-Karree in 2000, the building in Emil-Abderhalden-Strasse was again available for use as a Konvikt. The Silesian Konvikt Foundation, which until then had been co-administered by the Tholuck and Evangelical Konvikt, became an independent sponsor of the newly founded Silesian Konvikt in 2005. The then student pastor Friedrich Kramer acted as its first manager. In June 2018 the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of the Silesian Konvikt was celebrated.
The Schlesisches Konvikt has 53, mostly furnished rooms, in which students of theology and church music, as well as many other courses, live. A special feature is that there are two organs in the house, including a Sauer organ from 1939, and a piano in many rooms. The building also has a large garden. The semester program therefore includes house music evenings as well as barbecue evenings, but also homework, reading groups and excursions.
| List of ephors in the Silesian Konvikt (1869–1998) |
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Kurt Meier: The Theological Faculties in the Third Reich, de Gruyter: Berlin and Boston 2011, p. 260 f.
- ^ Claudia Crodel: Schlesisches Konvikt. This is what life is like in the city's oldest student residence. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . June 22, 2018, accessed January 31, 2020 .
