Friedberg Theological Seminary
The Friedberg Theological Seminary was a theological seminary of the Evangelical Church in Hesse with its seat in Friedberg (Hesse) . The teaching building at Kaiserstraße 2 is a listed building.
history
The Friedberg Theological Seminary was founded in 1837. Alongside the preacher's seminars in Loccum, Wittenberg, Herborn and Göttingen, it was one of the first preacher's seminars in Germany.
The initiative for the establishment of the seminary came from the senior consistorial councilor Karl Köhler . He was initially a member of the second chamber of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and, when he was appointed prelate of the first chamber. The second chamber approved in January 1836 the amount of approx. 4000 florins for the establishment of a seminary outside the university town of Giessen. The Friedberg location was chosen because an evangelical teachers' seminar had already been set up there. In this way, the professors of the teachers' seminar were able to recruit candidates from the seminary in non-theological subjects such as B. teach music and the theology professors help support the teachers' seminar. Accordingly, there was often talk of the “teachers and preachers' seminar”. Further synergies arose with the local school for the deaf and mute. Initially, three professors were employed at the seminary.
The first director of the seminar was Philipp Peter Crößmann (1793-1852), who was also Friedberg's parish priest. His specialty was homiletics , his deputy Ferdinand Friedrich Fertsch taught catechetics and pastoral care . These three disciplines were also later the core of the vicar training at the Friedberg seminary.
Library
The seminar library contains around 50,000 volumes. Today the library is supported by the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .
building
The seminary was initially located in the cavalier building of the castle. In the 1840s a new building was built for the seminary. The building site was the former riding arena of the burgraves. This was a free space between the castle and the city, where the new burgraves have been paying homage since 1455. A calmly structured two-storey seminar building in a round arch style with a hipped roof was built . The inauguration took place on October 16, 1848. It is a listed building as a whole. The house is used today under the name Haus Friedberg of the EKHN as the Center for Pastoral Care and Advice (ZSB) of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau.
Professors
- Philipp Peter Crößmann (Director 1837-1852)
- Ferdinand Friedrich Fertsch (1837-1852)
- Friedrich Christian Wilhelm Karl Sell (from 1837, director 1852–1863)
- Franz Schwabe (from 1853, director 1863–1883)
- Gustav Diegel (from 1858, director 1883–1896)
- Karl Köhler (1863–1882)
- Heinrich Adolf Köstlin (1883-1891)
- Julius Smend (1891-1893)
- Friedrich Flöring (1893–1900)
- Heinrich Wilhelm Weiffenbach (from 1882, director 1896–1904)
- Paul von Wurster (director 1904–1907)
- Karl Eger (from 1901, 1907–1913 director)
- Jakob Schoell (from 1907, from 1913 director)
- Wilhelm Diehl (1913–1923)
- Otto Stroh (from 1927, 1948–1959 director)
- Ernst Gerstenmaier (from 1927, 1959–1961 director)
- Walther Fürst (1962–1976)
- Karl Linke (1962–1974)
- Helmut Fischer (1976–1991, most recently director)
- Paul-Gerhard Nohl (1991–1998, 1992–1993 director)
Publications
- Memorandum of the evangelical preacher seminar in Friedberg, different years ( digital version of the 1856 edition )
See also
literature
- Karl Dienst (Ed.): 150 years of the Friedberg Theological Seminar. Festschrift, 1987.
- Wolfgang Lück : Theological influences in the formation of the pastors in Nassau, Frankfurt and Hesse. In: Hessisches Pfarrblatt 4, August 2012 , pp. 81–91, especially pp. 86–88.
- Many professor biographies can be found in Wilhelm Baur: Lebenserinnerungen , 2014, ISBN 9783846098851 , p. 319 ff., Online
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (Ed.): Kaiserstraße 2 - Ev. Theological seminar In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
- Fabian Handbuch: Handbook of the historical book inventory in Germany, Austria and Europe: Library of the Theological Seminary
Individual evidence
- ↑ For his biography see Crößmann, Philipp Peter in the Hessische Biographie
- ^ Website of the center .
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 20.2 " N , 8 ° 45 ′ 12.3" E