Sebastian Locher

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Sebastian Locher (born January 19, 1825 in Stetten unter Holstein ; † June 27, 1889 in Sigmaringen ) was a German teacher and local researcher in the Hohenzollern region .

Childhood and youth

Sebastian Locher was born on January 19, 1825 in Stetten unter Holstein . In 1839 he moved with his parents to Benzingen in a mercenary house with a grocery store .

Sebastian Locher as a teacher

In 1840 he was accepted as an "incipient" (teacher-apprentice) with model teacher Joseph Neuburger in Benzingen. In 1842 Sebastian Locher was accepted into the Habsthal Teachers' Training College as a "preparer" . On June 5, 1844, he received the first teaching position as a provisional (= assistant teacher) in Kalkreute with 49 students in the one-class school. Sebastian Locher was transferred to Benzingen on July 17, 1844. In the school garden there were 674 four- and five-year-old pome fruit trees, of which around 300 were grafted. It was here that his interest in fruit tree cultivation developed. On January 1, 1845, he was transferred to Veringendorf as a provisional, where he took over elementary school, Sunday school and the church choir. It was at this time that he began studying music. His transfer to Wald (Hohenzollern) was announced on May 6, 1846 and withdrawn. A week later he was transferred to Dettingen an der Erms , where he took over the lower class and female Sunday school. It was here that he met his future wife, the deer-landlady Philippine Breisinger. In 1848 he took over the one-class school in Glatt on June 13th . Shortly afterwards, on November 8th, 1849, he had to take over the school in Heiligenzimmer . On May 23, 1850, Sebastian Locher asked the princely government to move to Benzingen because his parents are said to have been ailing. His request was granted.

Sebastian Locher and Philippine Breisinger married on September 9, 1850.

On May 1st, 1855, Sebastian Locher fell seriously ill with a stomach ailment with coughing up blood. At the age of 30 he had to ask the princely government to dismiss him from school. With the inheritance of his wife he bought the mill at the Gallus spring in Hermentingen . He improved the dilapidated mill with his own hands, set up a blacksmith's workshop in the spacious kitchen, built an iron bench to work with transmission shafts, and shod his two black horses. In his carpenter's workshop he made furniture and the beehives for the mobile stand that he introduced in Hohenzollern. He worked as a miller, beekeeper, portrait painter and founded a music band.

In 1856 a son was born to him who died four months later. On April 21, 1858, a son was born to him again, who received his first name Paul at the request of his grandfather. Other children were Anna and Maria. The mother-in-law lived in the house.

After Sebastian Locher spent nine years in the Hermentinger Mühle, his health was restored and he longed to go back to his job. So he applied for the teaching position in Veringenstadt and sold his Hermentinger mill.

On October 1, 1863, he moved to Veringenstadt and started the temporary work in Veringenstadt. The school was in the hospital building. He had his apartment on the Schlossberg behind the Strübhaus. He took over the lower class, Sunday and advanced school, fruit tree and beekeeping and was active in the music band. He used all the school holidays to study the Counts of Veringen in the State Archives in Stuttgart and in the Princely Archives in Donaueschingen . He discovered the yellowed files of a witch trial from 1680 under a box in the Veringenstadt town hall. He learned Latin with great enthusiasm, because the minutes of the witch trial contained some Latin passages and he wanted to translate them.

The Royal Prussian Government in Sigmaringen appointed him to the city school in Sigmaringen on September 26, 1866; he took over the upper class there with 60 students in three years. He was asked by the Hohenzollern teaching staff to write a textbook on the innovation of weights and measures according to the decimal system in 1870.

In the words of his son Paul, he was a draconian teacher who was inspired by the desire to teach the students as much as possible.

Sebastian Locher died of a liver disease on June 27, 1889 and was buried in Sigmaringen with the honor he deserved.

Honorary positions

  • Curator of the school teachers - widows - orphans' fund
  • Member of the teacher examination committee
  • Committee member of the Centralstelle für Gewerbe u. Agriculture
  • Teacher Reading Librarian.

Awards

Fonts

Sebastian Locher has written more than 36 publications.

  • Regesta of the Counts of Veringen
  • Here Nellenburg - here Veringen
  • Instructions for knowing the new dimensions and weights
  • Invoice tasks for guidance
  • Historical overview of the four main offices of Hohenzollern
  • Contributions to the history of the city of Sigmaringen
  • Manuscripts on documents: Sigmaringen, Veringen, Rechberg, Hornstein, Hohenfels, Herren v. Neuneck
  • Veringen witch trial - Bader-Ann
  • Manuscripts on church history, monasteries in Hohenzollern
  • Deutstetten pilgrimage church
  • Beekeeping Reports
  • The gentlemen of Neuneck Liehner, Sigmaringen 1884 ( digitized version )

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Archives Sigmaringen Dep. 1 T 6-7 42 Life and Work of Merited Hohenzollern Teachers, Volume II. [1]
  2. ↑ Thomas Fink: Materials on the history of the city of Veringen. 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Locher, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Stetten under Holstein
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1889
Place of death Sigmaringen