Association for German history and antiquity Sondershausen
| Association for German history and antiquity Sondershausen | |
|---|---|
| purpose | Research and communication of the regional history of the city of Sondershausen and the surrounding area |
| Chair: | Karl-Heinz Becker |
| Establishment date: | 1853 (1990) |
| Seat : | Sondershausen |
The Association for German History and Archeology in Sondershausen is an association in Sondershausen that was dedicated to researching and communicating regional history from 1853 to 1945 and has been doing so again since 1990.
history
founding
In 1852, the board of directors of the general association of German history and antiquity associations in Dresden requested Prince Günther Friedrich Carl II of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (r. 1835–1880) to record, store and maintain works of art and archival materials in his principality.
The prince commissioned his former privy councilor Günther von Ziegeler (1775-1853) to form an association with this task, and appointed building officer Carl Scheppig , grammar school director Wilhelm Kieser , grammar school teacher Ferdinand Göbel and pastor Friedrich Apfelstedt as members under von Ziegeler's chairmanship . A first meeting of the body took place on December 20, 1852. Here and in other meetings, additional members were elected and the future areas of work and procedures discussed, with Kieser advocating particularly comprehensive and generous objectives.
On the basis of these preliminary clarifications, the prince issued an “instruction” on May 12, 1853, by which the Association for German History and Antiquity was formally founded and provided with detailed statutes. The (usually so-called) "Alterthumsverein" was subordinate to the ministerial department for church and school matters; its members were appointed by the prince. Along with this decree, on June 4, 1853, a provision of May 28 was published in which the members of the association now appointed by the Prince were named: Friedrich Apfelstedt, Ferdinand Göbel, Wilhelm Kieser, Carl Scheppig and, as chairman, Judicial Councilor Carl Einert as full members; in addition, as corresponding members (who were not connected to participate in the association meetings) another seven people, including the pastor Adolf Magerstedt and the high school teachers Heinrich Hoschke and Johann C. Uhlworm. On August 5, 1853, the grammar school teacher Thilo Irmisch was appointed as a member. When Einert resigned his membership in 1854 for health reasons, Scheppig was appointed to his place; he remained chairman until his death in February 1885.
meaning
For almost a century, almost all regional historical activities of Sondershausen were concentrated in the association. The association had the following tasks:
- Supervision of all prehistoric and early historical finds and of the parish and community archives
- Excavation and processing, storage and presentation of the finds
- Publication of numerous scientific papers and publications, since 1922 in the communications of the Association for German History and Archeology in the former Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, sub-rule department.
- Compilation of the "Schwarzburgica-Bibliothek" from own and taken over holdings of the ministerial library.
Scientific association and museum wreath
In addition to the governmental, strictly structured antiquity association, two informal private associations with largely similar membership were formed.
In January 1863, Karl Chop , Thilo Irmisch, Hermann Töpfer, Adolf von Wolffersdorff and the court pharmacist Adolf Funke decided to meet once a week in a public bar to discuss scientific topics. For their natural science association , they agreed on decidedly informal principles:
- A long, prepared lecture should never be given.
- Each member should bring to the communication what he had noticed in the meantime as remarkable and about which he himself wanted to give instruction or to have clarification.
- Anyone interested in this type of entertainment could join.
- All topics of conversation were recorded in the minutes of the meeting.
Chop acted as chairman at times, after his death Töpfer, then the teacher (and former pupil of Irmisch and Kieser) Edmund König .
Towards the end of the 1890s, special houses interested in local history came together to form a museum wreath , “from which some stimuli came into reality and public opinion that should have originated and maintained in the antiquity association.” Edmund Döring and Günther Lutze were particularly active in this. This is where the first core of the collections was created, which was further developed into the Sondershausen Municipal Museum. The museum existed from 1910 at the latest, with Döring as director, and housed the collections of the Antiquities Association, later also the (formerly) Princely Natural History Cabinet.
Dissolution and re-establishment
After the November Revolution of 1918, the antiquities association was re-registered in 1925 "taking into account the changed political conditions" with a new statute in the register of associations. The former restrictions on membership were lifted by the appointment practice introduced by the Prince. In 1929 the association had 136 members and the number rose in some cases to around 200, but in 1935 it was reduced to 71.
The long history of this association ended for the time being in 1945. It was not until March 20, 1990 that committed citizens from Sondershausen founded a new history and antiquity association. Karl-Heinz Becker became the first chairman.
Directors / Chairmen
- Counselor Carl Einert (1853-1854)
- Building councilor Carl Scheppig (1854–1885)
- Councilor Max von Bloedau (1885–1895)
- Hofjägermeister Adolf von Wolffersdorff (1895–1901)
- School board member Hermann Töpfer (1901–1913)
- Chamberlain Curt von Bloedau (1913-1920)
- High school supervisor Karl Schnobel (1920–1921)
- Senior Government Councilor Ludwig Nockher (1921–1924)
- High school teacher Edmund Döring (1924–1938)
- Teacher Erich Caemmerer (1938–1945)
- Karl-Heinz Becker (1990 -)
Prominent members
- Friedrich Apfelstedt , pastor and local researcher
- Felix Bärwinkel , District Administrator
- Johannes Bärwinkel, high school teacher and archive manager
- Karl Chop , lawyer and naturalist
- Hermann Gresky, teacher
- Thilo Irmisch , high school teacher, botanist and local researcher
- Julius Kaiser, seminar director
- Wilhelm Kieser , grammar school director
- Günther Lutze, secondary school teacher, botanist and local researcher
- Karl Picard , paleontologist and botanist
- Ernst Richter, archivist
- Karl Vollrath, government councilor
literature
- Address books from Sondershausen. Digital copies .
- HF Th. Apfelstedt, local history for the residents of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. 3 booklets. Sondershausen: Eupel. Book 1, 1854 , Book 2, 1856 and Book 3, 1856 .
- Descriptive representation of the older art monuments of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. Under the auspices of the Prince. State government issued by the Prince. Schwarzburg. Antiquities Association. Edited by F. Apfelstedt. First booklet: The subordination. Sondershausen 1886. Second volume: The supremacy. ibid. 1887. Digitized .
- Contributions to the Schwarzburgische Heimatskunde. By Th. Irmisch. [Ed. by Gustav Wilhelm Hallensleben.] First volume, Sondershausen 1905; Second volume, ibid. 1906. (A collection of reprints, with the editor's notes.)
- Edmund Döring, The Association for German History and Antiquity, a review of its origins and its effectiveness so far. In communications from the Association for German History and Antiquity in the former Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Sub-rule department. Sondershausen. Vol. 1, 1922. pp. 5-13.
- Announcements from the Association for German History and Antiquity in Sondershausen. Sondershausen. Vol. 4, 1926 to Vol. 10, 1940 [?].
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scheppig, Kieser and Apfelstedt stayed with the association until they died.
- ↑ Law collection for the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen No. 23 .
- ^ Contributions to the Schwarzburgische Heimatskunde. Vol. 2, pp. 96f.
- ↑ For example, B. Apfelstedt his Heimathskunde understood as an order of the Association; its architectural and art monuments were brought out by the association. Numerous newspaper articles by Irmisch (about coin finds and excavations, for the most part reprinted in the articles etc. ) were based on club activities and were perceived as such. (Döring p. 8 and 9.)
- ^ See Natural Science Association in Sondershausen. In contributions to the Schwarzburgische Heimathskunde vol. 2, p. 146f. (Reprint from government and news bulletin for the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen No. 46 of April 15, 1884, p. 183.)
- ↑ Address book 1882 p. 85 , 1900 p. 124 , 1913 p. 133 and Der Deutsche 1916 No. 19 . See also the obituary for Töpfer in Der Deutsche 1915 No. 86 .
- ↑ Döring p. 11. - The suggestion came from the ancient wreath and the museum society in Arnstadt , of which Döring was a member until 1895. Cf. Franz Boese, How I came to the museum society, and how it became. In Alt-Arnstadt. No. 12, 1939. pp. 103-119 .
- ↑ The museum wreath was formally founded on October 8, 1899 by Döring and Lutze together with Otto Fleischhauer (1861–1939) and Ernst Schedensack (1865–1925); it existed until 1925. See Paths of Life in Thuringia. Fourth collection. Edited by Felicitas Marwinski. Jena 2011. ISBN 9783939718574 , pp. 218 and 290. - Thanks to a bequest from the doctor Dr. Moszeik from 1921 they were able to put up a memorial plaque for Thilo Irmisch in 1922. ( The German 1922 No. 54. )
- ^ Address book 1910 p. 128 .
- ↑ Döring p. 13.
- ↑ Döring was in charge of the museum until his death; see. Address book 1937/38 p. XIV ; also senior teacher Döring - 70 years old in Der Deutsche 1930 No. 7 and the obituaries in Der Deutsche 1938 No. 57 .
- ↑ Address book 1882 p. 23 .
- ^ Address book 1900, p. 93 .
- ^ Address book 1904, p. 85 . - Information on the club management according to Döring pp. 10–12. (Different information in the address book 1904 p. 123 and 1908 p. 130. )
- ↑ Max von Bloedau was an uncle.
- ^ Address book 1919 p. 88 .
- ^ Address book 1937/38 p. 6 .
- ^ Address book 1900, p. 42 and p. 115 .
- ^ Address book 1900, p. 42 and p. 116 .
- ^ Address book 1910, p. 56 .
- ^ Address book 1900, p. 62 .
- ^ Senior teacher Günther Lutze - 90 years old! In Der Deutsche 1930 No. 5 .
- ↑ Address book 1877 p. 49 .
- ^ Address book 1877 p. 57 .