Stuttgart city bell
The Stuttgarter Stadt-Glocke was a newspaper that appeared from 1844 to 1848 as a day and night paper in Stuttgart .
history
On December 22nd, 1844, the first copy of the Stuttgart City Bell, which was to appear every day except Mondays, came out. It reached a circulation of over 1000 copies after just the first month. The publisher was the city councilor and printer Johann Gottlieb Munder (1802–1870).
The Stuttgarter Stadt-Glocke distributed sequel stories of historical and patriotic content, announced as legends or tales that had been passed down orally or in writing from previous generations. In fact, the texts were fictitious, which the readership apparently did not always realize: The fictional hero of the first series was Anton Webercus , a supposedly more than 100-year-old man who should have written down the moral history of the 18th century in the form of a diary. Webercus, who allegedly died on April 1st while counting 500 clothespins, was included in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie in 1896 . In the subsequent stories, all the important epochs of Württemberg history were gradually dealt with. The locations mostly related to well-known places in and around Stuttgart. To this day, the question of the author or authors of the stories has not been conclusively clarified.
The local researcher and literary historian Julius Hartmann (1836 - 1916) was the first author to claim in 1886 that, according to reliable reports, it was not the printer Johann Gottlieb Munder, but his brother Friedrich, née. in Stuttgart 1799, † as pastor in Eltingen 1851, the author . With this information, Hartmann generally referred to the legends from the town bell, which he called this. Other authors later adopted the message. For example, the legend of Postmichel was attributed to pastor Wilhelm Friedrich Munder, although there is no evidence for it. It appeared in continuation under the title “The stone cross on the Eßlinger Steige near Stuttgart” in numbers 55 to 68 in March 1845 and again in the volume “Die Glocke” from 1849, also published by Munder. This attribution is doubtful because Johann Gottlieb In 1844 Munder brought out a collection of poems under the title Poetic Attempts by a Book Printer in his celebration hours, in which, in addition to the Postmichel topic, other materials that were later processed in the Stuttgart City Bell appear. It is possible that the publisher himself, as Klaus Graf suspects, was the author of the serialized stories.
The assumption that Johann Gottlieb Munder went to America in 1849 or 1850 also goes back to Julius Hartmann . In fact, Munder emigrated with three of his children in 1854. He died in Baltimore on November 9, 1870 .
Aftermath
Not only the high editions and the entry of the fictional Mr. Webercus in the ADB testify to the lively reception of the Stuttgart city bell among the audience. Eduard Mörike, for example, referred to an alleged Eßling house chronicle in his Stuttgart Hutzelmännlein published in 1853 . This “source” was also an invention of the city bell. Words like “Morgenatz” or “Wiegentag”, which Mörike uses with reference to the Marchthalersche Hauschronik, obviously go back to one of the two Munder brothers.
In 1849 the historical entertainment book Die Glocke bei Munder came out, his last publication, in which numerous stories from the former city bell appeared again. Württemberg as it was and is , a series title but originally a folk book from the years 1854/55, which was continuously expanded in the following decades by various publishers and editors, again contained quite a few of these stories. The former Fourier and secretary Friedrich Nick also took over literally several of Munder's texts in his Stuttgart Chronicle and Legends Book (sic!). Wilhelm Seytter used them again in Unser Stuttgart in 1904, and they also reappeared in the saga of the Württemberg folk books of the Teachers Support Association in 1905. Hedwig Lohß drew primarily on Nick with her old Stuttgart sagas and stories published in 1936 and 1960 . Karl Gerok in turn used a number of materials from the Stuttgart city bell for his poems.
The alleged legend of Postmichel probably achieved the greatest popularity. 1916 funded by a foundation was in Esslingen Post Michel fountain erected especially a predecessor fountain in its favor translocated be had. The legend of the innocent executed Postmichel, who after his death appears to the executioner and the real murderer of Amandus Marchthaler as a headless horseman, is illustrated on the reliefs of the well trough.
criticism
In the 20th century, the dissemination of “spurious” sagas was heavily criticized. Friedrich Nick, for example, wrote a story about an alleged Moritz tower in the Leonhard Church in Stuttgart , which does not exist at all. It was invented because in the Annales Suevici of Martin Crusius , which apparently had to be the only source here, an entry about the Augsburg Tower in Augsburg had got into the section about Stuttgart through an error by the printer. Therefore, the title Stuttgart Lies Chronicle was proposed for Nick's book . The Esslingen city archivist Paul Eberhardt, perhaps angry about the Postmichel cult in his city, disparagingly referred to Munder as a “legend manufacturer”.
As "Editor and Publisher" fictitious Johann Gottlieb Munder also allegedly by Poggio Bracciolini wrote Brief History of the death Joh. Huss . This, too, is one of the city bell fakes. A hoax that is difficult to kill ("A Hoax Hard to Kill") was the verdict of Richard G. Salomon in 1956.
On the other hand, JG Munder was not only a member of the city council and temporary head of the Stuttgart book printer in the liberal opposition of the Vormärz . The "Würzburger Journal" published a correspondence from Stuttgart in March 1849, in which Munder was described as the main democratic screamer and general rascal.
Individual evidence
- ↑ In a correction note, Julius Hartmann stated in 1910 that the name Webercus was correctly "Weberous", but that the man should be deleted from the ADB, as it was invented by the publisher's brother, a pastor. Hartmann gave his first name as Wolf Friedrich. The correct name, however, was Wilhelm Friedrich Munder, vg. for example the documents of the state archive . Munder was successively pastor in Ochsenwang , Dörrenzimmern , Ganzlosen and Eltingen .
- ^ Julius Hartmann: Chronicle of the City of Stuttgart: Six hundred years after the first memorable mention of the city in 1286 , Stuttgart 1886, p. VIII and p. 2; Online: [1]
- ↑ Klaus Graf , Sagen um Stuttgart , Braun Verlag 1995, ISBN 3-7650-8145-0 , p. 56. The German-American historian Richard Georg Salomon first mentioned these poetic attempts by Munder in 1956.
- ↑ Emigration from Southwest Germany. Input: Johann Gottlieb Munder.
- ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101096966/j_-g_-munder Munders tombstone
- ^ Graf, p. 58
- ^ Graf, p. 59
- ↑ Andrea Steudle et al., Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 1.2.1. City of Esslingen am Neckar , Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0834-6 , pp. 101 and 113 f.
- ^ Graf, p. 60
- ↑ http://books.google.de/books?id=e-NeAAAAcAAJ ; that is a Reutlingen reprint. The "original" by Johann Gottlieb Munder: Pogius Florentinus .
- ↑ First shown by Josua Eiselein: https://books.google.de/books?id=bzw4AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA44 . Last: http://www.rd.nl/opinie/verslag-poggius-over-concilie-van-constanz-fictie-1.649793 . Doubted by another Dutch theologian: http://www.rd.nl/opinie/poggius-brieven-te-gemakkelijk-weggezet-als-fictie-1.649792 .
- ↑ http://www.jstor.org/stable/750249 (license required).
- ↑ See e.g. B. the writings of Raimund Waibel on early liberalism and municipal elections in Württemberg (1992), Sabine Lang on the political public in the modern state (2001), Karin Rabenstein-Kiermaier on Conrad Haussmann's life and work (1993) and others. at the
- ↑ Würzburger Journal No. 54 of March 3, 1849. Online: [2] The article assumes that Mueller had embezzled ( with entrusted goods ) and that he intended to emigrate to America at that time.