Baarverein

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Association for History and Natural History of the Baar (Baarverein)
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founding 1805
Seat Donaueschingen
purpose Promotion of science and knowledge transfer in the field of history and natural history of the Baar and neighboring regions
Chair Friedemann Kawohl, Thomas Kring
Members about 500
Website www.baarverein.de

The Association for History and Natural History of the Baar eV ( Baarverein ) based in Donaueschingen was founded in 1805 "at the sources of the Danube" and is considered the oldest regional association in Germany (→ see also: Natural Research Society ).

history

After several years of preparation, the Immendingen Baron Friedrich Josef Anton von Schreckenstein and a group of active scholars, including the Germanist and manuscript collector Joseph von Laßberg , founded the "Society of Friends of Patriotic History and Natural History at the Sources of the Danube" on January 19, 1805 .

In the manner of an academy, only recognized experts were elected and invited to become members. After fruitful activity, mainly in the natural sciences, the society was weakened economically by mediatization and Napoleonic rule, but continued to work under the landscape physicist Meinrad von Engelberg until 1820. Individual scholars continued to work until 1835, so Wilhelm Rehmann, and later his nephew, Emil Rehmann. They also built up the Princely Collections .

So the new beginning in 1842 could follow seamlessly. The driving force was the grammar school director Carl Borromäus Fickler Karl Alois Fickler , whose activities also changed the direction of research: archaeological and historical research came to the fore. The structure of the scholarly circle was retained. This second phase came to a halt as a result of the revolutionary events of 1848/49 and the motivated departure of Fickler. Once again, however, staff continuity was maintained with Emil Rehmann, who also continued to look after the Princely Fürstenberg Collections.

Prince Karl Egon III. zu Fürstenberg had meanwhile opened his private library Hofbibliothek Donaueschingen to scientifically interested citizens and had a new building built for the collections in 1868. Inspired by this, on January 19, 1870 - on the 65th anniversary of its foundation - the association was re-established under princely protectorate.

With the extended aim of stimulating the general sense of history and the natural sciences, the elite scholarly circle was transformed into an open association with a large number of members. Since then, the writings of the Association for History and Natural History of the Baar have been published annually at the beginning, later mostly every two years and since 1995 as an annual edition, meanwhile 60 volumes that are considered far beyond Baden-Württemberg.

The association is in mutual exchange of documents with around 125 institutions and cooperates with associations with similar goals. Since 1968 it has also been registered as a non-profit association.

activity

His activities include lectures on history (art, cultural, church history, economic and social history, territorial history, archeology and monument conservation) and natural history (earth sciences, climate science, fauna, flora, geobotany, ecology, agriculture and forestry) in the area of ​​the Baar and neighboring areas. In addition there are several mostly half-day excursions and at least one full-day annual excursion.

They apply either to individual specialist topics or, especially on full-day excursions, to all aspects of regional history. “Little evenings” give members the opportunity to report on their own studies or study trips.

Publications

Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of the Baar 1870 Titel.jpg

The yearbooks writings convey research results on this area in a generally understandable form and are a forum for larger investigations as well as for small messages and discoveries that are worth knowing for members and an interested public. So far (2019) 62 volumes have been published:

  • Volume 1 (1870) to Volume 26 (1966) under the title Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of the Baar and the adjacent parts of the country in Donaueschingen.
  • from Volume 27 (1968) under the title Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of the Baar.

Special volumes such as the excursion guide "The Baar - Walks through Landscape and Culture" (1972), the conference volume "The Baar between early history and the present" (1999) and an excursion guide "Baar walks - forays through landscape and culture with celebrities from the region" (2004) complete the spectrum.

More publishments:

  • Contributions to the Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg Region, Volume 1: Remembering and Forgetting: Stories from Memorial Sites in the Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg Region (2015)

Chairperson

History Department:

Natural History Department:

  • 1870–1897: Anton Hopfgartner
  • 1900: Burger (candidate for teacher training)
  • 1903–1930: Karl Neff
  • 1930–1932: Otto Mack
  • 1932–1962: Karl Wacker
  • 1964–1978: Günther Reichelt
  • 1978–1987: Wilhelm Hector Paul
  • 1987–1996: Karl Kwasnitschka
  • 1996-2003: Wolfgang Martin
  • 2003-2006: Gerrit Müller
  • 2006–2011: Hans Keusen
  • since 2017: Thomas Kring

Web activity

The Baarverein's website includes a digital library with numerous links to books, articles, maps and views relevant to regional history.

Library

The club library is a special scientific library on regional history . It is open to the public and connected to the loan system of German libraries. The core of the library is currently around 30,000 volumes of local and regional history and natural sciences, which have been acquired since 1871 by exchanging documents with historical and natural sciences institutions at home and abroad. In the old collection there are some historical and scientific monographs, which also include very rare works. Since the association was founded in 1805, the association's library was integrated into the Fürstlich Fürstenbergische Hofbibliothek Donaueschingen and was available to members and the interested public in the library building on Haldenstrasse. In the course of the sale of large parts of the court library and the evacuation of the library building, the association library was removed from the holdings of the court library and housed in Schulstrasse 6 in Donaueschingen . Since 2007 members of the association under the direction of Susanne Huber-Wintermantel have been involved in cataloging the holdings on a voluntary basis.

The inventory is continuously expanded and updated through purchases, gifts, bequests and review copies.

The library is open to everyone on Mondays from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. during business hours. The library is a reference library. Borrowing is only possible for members. Individual articles can be photocopied for a fee.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. SWBdok
  2. Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of the Baar and the neighboring parts of the country in Donaueschingen , course of publication: Issue 1 (1870/1871) to Issue 21 (1940); Issue 22 (1950) to Issue 26 (1966)
  3. Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of the Baar. Association for History and Natural History of the Baar, Donaueschingen 1968 ff. (Volume 27 ff.)
  4. DNB 1069342785
  5. Digital library