Solothurn weekly paper
The Solothurnerisches Wochenblatt was one of the first newspapers in the Swiss canton of Solothurn . It was founded in 1788 by the printer Franz Josef Gassmann , who had taken over the «Hochobrigkeitliche Buchdruckerei» in Solothurn in 1780 , and appeared every Saturday, for the first time on January 5, 1788. With the 1793 year, the title changed to Solothurnisches Wochenblatt .
In terms of content, the weekly newspaper was apolitical and moralizing; In addition to advertisements and advertisements from Ganten and other auctions , market prices and the like, it mainly contained moral and philosophical treatises. Patriotism was often discussed as a virtue. Due to state censorship , it was not possible for the editors to “betray an overly free opinion of their own”, and there are only very few cautious remarks about the course of the French Revolution . The Solothurn weekly paper was economically unsuccessful; Gassmann repeatedly complained about a lack of subscribers. The last issue appeared on December 27, 1794.
Solothurn remained without its own newspaper for two and a half years until Gassmann published a successor in June 1797 with the Helvetic Hudibras .
This Solothurn or Solothurn weekly newspaper should not be confused with the Solothurn weekly newspaper, which was published from 1803 by Ludwig Vogelsang, who had taken over the «high-ranking book printing company».
literature
- Rudolf Baumann: A contribution to the history of the Solothurn book printing and the Solothurn newspapers up to the year 1848. Balsthal 1909.