Walter Rudersdorf

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Walter Rudersdorf (born May 26, 1926 in Ellar ; † June 1, 2015 in Gießen ) was a German teacher and local researcher in the Westerwald .

Walter Rudersdorf in the Ludwig-Bös-Haus in Ellar on August 5, 2012

Life

After primary school and a year at an agricultural vocational school, Rudersdorf attended high school in Limburg from 1941 to 1948 . However, this time at the grammar school was severely affected by the war. In February 1944, Rudersdorf was called up to the Reich Labor Service and then to the infantry. After being wounded near Kaminken (in today's Lithuania) in early 1945 and a few months in English captivity, the high school student returned to school. After graduating from high school, Rudersdorf studied English and Geography in Frankfurt and was often to be found in the History, German Linguistics and Romance Studies faculties. He completed his legal clerkship for teaching in Hadamar and Wiesbaden and then got a permanent position at the Wöhlerschule in Frankfurt am Main, where he was promoted to senior student council in 1966.

In 1967 his book "Im Schatten der Burg Ellar" was published, a detailed account of the history of Ellar from the earliest times. Rudersdorf's lecture series had been under this title since 1948, the beginning of which was a historical slide lecture in the Ellarer house of the Dernbacher sisters and which then regularly attracted numerous visitors from the entire region. He gave the last lecture in this series in March 2008, again in the Ellar Sisters' House. As early as 1998, Rudersdorf entered the Guinness Book of Records with its large number of lectures on cultural history .

Under the guidance of Rudersdorf, the Ellar Local History Museum was built in 1992 in the Ludwig-Bös-Haus, the former Ellar school building on Hintermeilinger Strasse. He had collected the exhibits in his home for many years. Between 2002 and 2005 the museum was expanded.

Other initiatives by Rudersdorf concerned the restoration and preservation of old buildings in Ellar, such as the medieval castle ruins , the remains of the old city wall and city gate, a draw well and the historic forge. He also campaigned for the establishment of a nature reserve around the little Heidenhäuschen south of Ellar .

In September 2011, at the age of 85, Rudersdorf handed over his collection of historical materials to the community of Waldbrunn. The collection also includes an extensive personal archive with more than 8,500 own publications on all topics related to the history of the Ellar area, plus around 35,000 slides set to music, as well as a cultural history library, which includes numerous village chronicles, specialist journals, festival journals and encyclopedias. The Ellar Culture and History Association began electronically recording the associated written documents in 2012.

The village chronicles of the Waldbrunn districts have always been of particular concern to Walter Rudersdorf. A village chronicle of Waldbrunn-Hausen has been in book form since 1998 . Numerous publications about Waldbrunn-Fussingen in the official gazette "Waldbrunner Nachrichten" followed. This was followed by a series of more than 100 articles on the history of the Waldbrunn district of Hintermeilingen , which should come to an end in 2012. Since 2012 - again in the "Waldbrunner Nachrichten" - an article series about the history of Waldbrunn-Lahr has been published .

In 2012 Rudersdorf presented the Ellar School Chronicle, for which he had transferred around 1000 original pages from the old German manuscript into Latin script.

Honors

Fonts

  • Walter Rudersdorf: In the shadow of Ellar Castle . Ed .: Municipality of Ellar / Westerwald. Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1967, DNB  457982160 .
  • Walter Rudersdorf: Waldbrunn / Westerwald. From farming village to climatic health resort . Ed .: Community of Waldbrunn Westerwald. Geiger, Horb 1986, ISBN 3-89264-015-7 .
  • Yiddish and Hebrew traces in the standard German language and in our dialect: "off to Kassel", "meschugge", "schofel" or "daggof" , a linguistic historical investigation. District Home Office, Limburg 1995, DNB 944055753 .
  • Chronicle Hausen: History of a Westerwalddorf The community council, Waldbrunn 1998, DNB 955 190 150 .
  • The district committee of the district Limburg-Weilburg (Hrsg.): Yearbook for the district Limburg-Weilburg . In this:
    • What does the place name "Limburg" mean? 1991, p. 94
    • What did witch trials cost? 1992, p. 117
    • From compulsory labor to monetary levies. 1993, p. 184
    • From praying to health. 1994, p. 77
    • How did the Marian pilgrimage site “Seven Pains” come about near Oberzeuzheim? 1995, p. 172
    • “Entire villages fled into the woods” (Lahr and Frickhofen parishes 1792-1797). 1996, p. 106
    • 15 Westerwald villages in revolt: The “lace dispute” in 1736. 1997, p. 223
    • Wilhelm Breithecker - on the 100th birthday of the priest and confessor. 1998, p. 64
    • "Westerwald" was written like this 950 years ago. 1999, p. 133
    • "Up on the yellow car" (postal history). 2000, p. 181
    • Relief from a heavy burden (tithe replacement). 2001, p. 145
    • Pastor and Inspector Eberhard Artopaeus. 2002, p. 192
    • Local history museum Ellar. 2003, p. 81
    • Cathedral dean Johann Wilh. Jost. 2004, p. 211
    • Krista Jaschinski-Ehlers. 2005, p. 227
    • Wilhelm Breithecker - priest and confessor. 2006, p. 239
    • Poem. 2007, p. 179
    • 600 years of Bacharach's award. 2008, p. 104
    • Diezer Landesburg Ellar. 2010, p. 127

literature

  • Wolfgang Schoppet: Walter Rudersdorf, Eugen Heyn Medal . In: Yearbook 1995 in the Limburg-Weilburg district, p. 99.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfred Sehr: Life's work given to the community. Walter Rudersdorf's legacy means a gift and a mandate for future generations. In: Nassauische Neue Presse. September 21, 2011, accessed August 1, 2012 .
  2. ^ Alfred Sehr (Abbreviation: sal): Modern times in the museum. In: Nassauische Neue Presse. July 10, 2012, accessed August 1, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Volker Thies: The Ellar School Chronicle is now available as a book. In: Nassauische Neue Presse. May 18, 2012, accessed August 1, 2012 .
  4. ↑ State Gazette for the State of Hesse, No. 2, page 166; January 12, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Rudersdorf, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Ellar
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 2015
Place of death to water