Weinsberger Zeitung

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The Weinsberger Zeitung was a regional daily newspaper that appeared from 1875 to 1934 in Weinsberg , the upper administrative city of Württemberg .

Around 1870 Weinsberg was one of the few cities in Württemberg that did not have its own newspaper. In 1875 Konstantin Bareis from Weinsberg and Georg Kohler from Fluorn near Oberndorf founded a book printing company in a house on the Weinsberg market square with the intention of publishing a newspaper. The first edition of the Weinsberger Zeitung appeared on March 5, 1875 in the format 24 × 46 cm.

Konstantin Bareis died shortly after the newspaper was founded. The newspaper developed well and was soon printed in the larger 27 × 50 cm format. In 1876 the newspaper was recognized as an official gazette and from then on bore the addition of the gazette in Weinsberg . The entertainment supplement Weibertreu appeared for the first time in 1882 .

In December 1895, Kohler sold the publishing house and newspaper to the printer Albert Ungerer, who expanded the premises to include the neighboring former Gasthaus Zur Sonne . Because of the new owner's reporting on local grievances, the city accused him of misusing his newspaper to publish personal biases. In March 1898, the local council decided to stop using the newspaper as an official gazette, which is why it began using the subtitle Intelligence Journal for the first time on April 1 . In order to force the unloved newspaper (“Nörgelblättle”) out of the market as far as possible, four respected Weinsberg citizens founded a competing newspaper that appeared on May 1, 1898 under the title Weinsberger Tagblatt . However, the daily newspaper could not hold up, not even after a change of ownership, and was last published on June 21, 1901.

Ungerer sold the Weinsberger Zeitung in 1901 to Viktor Kraemer , the publisher of the liberal Neckar-Zeitung from Heilbronn . Under the new owner, the newspaper appeared again as the official gazette of the Oberamt Weinsberg and the towns of Weinsberg and Löwenstein . The city edition of Löwensteiner Chronik was published for Löwenstein for 15 years .

In 1934 Kraemer's successor, his son of the same name, Viktor Kraemer junior , was forced out of business by the Heilbronn National Socialists around the district manager Richard Drauz , and his publishing house was taken over by the publishing house of the Nazi newspaper Heilbronner Tagblatt . All of Kraemer's newspapers, including the Weinsberger Zeitung , were discontinued in 1934.

literature

  • The "Weinsberger Zeitung" . In: Fritz-Peter Ostertag, Rolf Becker (Ed.): Weinsberg - Pictures from his past . Röck, Weinsberg 1970. pp. 86-88
  • Uwe Jacobi: 250 years Heilbronner Presse: History of the media in the Unterland and Hohenlohe 1744–1994 . Verlag Heilbronner Voice, Heilbronn am Neckar 1993, ISBN 3-921923-11-5 ( Heilbronner Voice: book series . 5)