Wittgensteiner Heimatverein
The Wittgensteiner Heimatverein e. V. is a homeland association in the Wittgenstein region, the Wittgensteiner Land or simply Wittgenstein . The geographic catchment area is essentially based on the boundaries of the former Wittgenstein district . It includes today's municipalities of Bad Berleburg , Bad Laasphe and Erndtebrück , but also the "Höhendörfer" Hoheleye , Mollseifen , Neuastenberg and Langewiese , which have belonged to the town of Winterberg since 1975 . It was founded on September 4, 1913 as the "Association for History and Folklore Wittgenstein" and in 2013 celebrated its centenary. It has had its current name since 1956.
aims
In the statutes of the association it says: The association pursues exclusively and directly charitable purposes.
- a) The purpose of the association is to promote and maintain the idea of home and local research.
- b) The purpose of the statutes is realized in particular through research in all areas of local history and local customs and their dissemination through writings and lectures, but also through home-related events and home care and the establishment and management of local home museums.
Club history
The history of today's Wittgensteiner Heimatverein goes back to 1913. At that time the "Association for History and Folklore Wittgenstein" was founded, which soon had 700 members. The main goal of the association was stated in its name: research into the history of Wittgenstein. At the time, this was primarily served by the publications in "Mitteilungen". The First World War, which began shortly after it was founded, and the subsequent economic situation meant that the association's activities came to an end as early as 1927 - but the association was not dissolved.
In the period that followed, there was the opportunity to publish historical articles in the magazine "Das Schöne Wittgenstein" published by the Schmidt printing company in Laasphe, until the Second World War drew a line here.
Professor Wilhelm Hartnack , who, like his father Karl Hartnack, was very keen to research the history of Wittgenstein, came to Laasphe after the Second World War. After the currency reform he tried together with Pastor Gustav Friedrich Bauer to revive the old history association under a new name as "Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV". However, the time was not yet ripe for this. It was not until 1954 that there were concrete approaches that finally led to success on April 14, 1956. A new statute of the "Wittgensteiner Heimatverein e. V. “was decided. The then senior district director Gustav Richter took over the chairmanship. The organ of publication of the association was from now on the magazine "Wittgenstein - Blätter des Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV". In 1963, Gustav Richter gave up the chairmanship, followed by Oberkreisdirektor Wilfried Lückert, who headed the association until 1990. From 1990 to February 2015 lawyer Gerhard Karpf was chairman of the association. Otto Marburger (Bad Berleburg-Schwarzenau) has been in charge of the association since April 25, 2015.
The aims of 1913 were taken up in an expanded form as the area of activity of the re-established association: the research and presentation of the history and regional studies of Wittgenstein. Since then, the booklets of the magazine "Wittgenstein" and larger supplements and special publications serve this purpose. The first supplements were “Das Wittgensteiner Landrecht ” and “Die Berleburger Chroniken ”, both of which were frequently cited volumes. In addition, other special publications such as “Die Vogelwelt Wittgenstein” by Albrecht Belz and Heinz König or the four-volume story of Bad Berleburg between 1900 and 1949 by Heinz Strickhausen appeared.
Over the years, all areas of Wittgenstein's regional studies have been included in the magazine “WITTGENSTEIN. Leaves of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV ”. Even if the general history and local knowledge were in the foreground, there are still many important contributions on contemporary history, economic history, natural history and, last but not least, family history topics. All publications of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein (and many more) are compiled in the " Bibliography on Wittgenstein Territorial History - Bibliography Wittgenstein ", a regional bibliography .
In addition, the association maintains a library in which all the publications of the Heimatverein and its predecessors, as well as other publications on the Wittgenstein region, are collected.
The Wittgensteiner Heimatverein e. V. approx. 800 members.
Anniversary stamps
To mark the centenary of the founding of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein, or rather its predecessor, four stamps were created. The self-adhesive postage stamps ( Individual brand of Deutsche Post) have the face value 45 cents and 58 euro cents. They are 33 mm × 55 mm in size and twenty copies each were printed on a DIN A4 sheet. The first stamp was created shortly before Christmas 2012. The circulation of this stamp was 40 copies, the face value 45 cents. The motif shows the title page of the first issue of the communications of the Wittgenstein Society for History and Folklore from 1913.
Two more brands were commissioned from Deutsche Post in spring 2013. The stamp with a face value of 45 cents has an edition of 240 copies. The motif shows a collection of Wittgensteiner Heimatbücher and the Wittgenstein magazine , Blätter des Wittgensteiner Heimatverein e. V., supplemented by the title bar of the Wittgenstein magazine and the coat of arms of the former Wittgenstein district . The circulation of the other stamp, with a postal value of 58 cents, is 1200 copies. The motif essentially corresponds to the "first attempt" with a slightly changed image section, the text on the image was supplemented by the information "1913 - 2013" and "e. V. ". A fourth stamp, with an edition of 1000 copies and a value of 58 cents, was created in autumn 2013. The motif also shows homeland books and the Wittgenstein magazine . Leaves of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV
Publications
In addition to the magazine “WITTGENSTEIN. Blätter des Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV “the association has published various supplements, offprints and other publications.
WITTGENSTEIN magazine. Leaves of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV
The WITTGENSTEIN magazine. Blätter des Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV is the main organ of the association, it appeared quarterly from 1956 to 2013, in 2014 the frequency of publication was changed to four months. The annual volume of the booklet is around 200 pages. The magazine deals with all topics that are to be understood in the broadest sense under regional history, cultural studies and natural history of Wittgenstein.
Booklets
- Wilhelm Hartnack (Ed.): The Wittgensteiner Landrecht . 1960
- Wilhelm Hartnack (ed.): The Berleburger Chroniken . 1964
- Eberhard Bauer and Andreas Krüger: Bibliography on Wittgenstein Territorial History - "Bibliography Wittgenstein" , 5th edition 2019
- Christian Hackler: Feudingen in its dialect . 1974
- August Lange: The Wittgensteiner Bleßvieh. 1976
- Paul Messer: 50 years of aviation in Wittgenstein . 1981
- A. Treude: Stories. 1987
- Werner Wied : The development of schools in the county of Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein . 1992
- Eberhard Bauer: From the past of the Princely Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein private archive in Bad Laasphe . Published by Ulf Lückel on behalf of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein e. V. Bad Laasphe 2017, 75 pages
- Ulf Lückel: The Evangelical Church Girkhausen - fate of a pilgrimage church - . Published by Ulf Lückel on behalf of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein e. V. Bad Laasphe 2019, 84 pages
Other publications
- Albrecht Belz and Heinz König: The bird world of the Wittgenstein district . 1983 (together with the Federation for Nature Conservation and Ornithology)
- Eberhard Bauer: Laasphe and the upper Lahn valley in old pictures . 1979 (together with the city of Laasphe)
- Werner Wied (Ed.): Puderbach in the Wittgensteiner Land . 1983 (together with the local homeland association Puderbach)
- Helmut Richter (eds. Werner Jakobi and Werner Wied): Pictures from Wittgenstein . 1986 (together with the Wittgensteiner Art Society)
- Jürgen Weiß: Bells ring in Wittgenstein . 1991, audio cassette and explanatory booklet
- Werner Wied (Ed.): The Feudinger Höfe . 1994 (together with the local homeland association "Auf den Höfe")
- Leaflets: Historical trails .
- On fabulous paths to an old healing spring .
- Laasphe - Stünzel .
Reprints
From some articles in the magazine “WITTGENSTEIN. Blätter des Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV ", especially if they appeared in sequels, special prints and volumes were created, so among others:
- 150 years of the Wittgenstein district 1816 - 1966 , 1966
- Schameder (Eds. Eberhard Bauer and Werner Wied), 1972
- Saßmannshausen (Eds. Eberhard Bauer and Werner Wied), 1975
- Heinz König: Investigations into mouflon in Wittgenstein , 1973
- Wilhelm Völkel: Wittgenstein in the Second World War , 1976
- Heinz König: Red deer in Wittgenstein , 1978
- Horst Dickel: Magic in Wittgenstein , 1979
- Hans-Jürgen Schrader: Berleburg's Contribution to the History of Religious and Literary Tolerance in Germany , 1981
- Hans Steinberg: How the reformed town church in Berleburg came about , 1984
- Richstein 600 years in Wittgenstein , 1985
- Werner Wied: 400 years of Jeide-Hof in Girkhausen , 1987
- Werner Wied: 750 years of Grafschaft Wittgenstein "1238 - 1988" , 1988
Library
The library of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein contains more than 1000 books, magazines and brochures. All of the association's journals, Mitteilungen (1913–1926), Das Schöne Wittgenstein (1927–1931), as a newspaper supplement (1937–1942) and “WITTGENSTEIN. Leaves of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV ” (1956 - today). The collection contains all home books on (complete) Wittgenstein and on individual locations, supplements, offprints as well as a number of dissertations and examination or diploma theses. The collection also includes publications on: geology and geography (geological maps, original measuring table sheets), botany and zoology, buildings and art (church measurements, floor plans, frescoes in the churches of Raumland and Feudingen), music ( Friedrich Kiel ), church history, emigration ( Lists of emigrant ships), economics, family history, and genealogy. In addition, there is statistical material since 1886, address books, lists of residents, telephone books and the rare report by District Administrator von Schroetter from 1875.
The third large collection area of the library of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein are the so-called "exchange copies". The Heimatverein exchanges its publications with more than 30 associations, archives and libraries, which is why it has an extensive collection of publications from Wittgenstein's neighboring areas (Kassel / Hessen, Biedenkopf, Herborn, Siegen, Olpe, etc.).
Editor
As editor of the magazine “WITTGENSTEIN. Blätter des Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV "and responsible for the publications were (and are):
- 1956–1958: Wilhelm Hartnack and Fritz Vitt
- 1959–1960: Wilhelm Hartnack and Philipp Dickel
- 1961–1962: Wilhelm Hartnack
- 1963–1990: Eberhard Bauer and Werner Wied
- 1990–2006: Eberhard Bauer and Eckhard Linke
- 2006–2010: Eckhard Linke and Eberhard Bauer
- 2010–2013: Ulf Lückel and Johannes Burkardt
- since 2014: Ulf Lückel
literature
- On our own behalf: 40 years of the “Wittgenstein” magazine . In: Wittgenstein. Leaves of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein e. V. , vol. 60 (1996), issue 1, p. 2 f.
- Half a century of "Wittgenstein" magazine! . In: Wittgenstein. Leaves of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein e. V. , vol. 69 (2005), issue 4, p. 118
- On the history of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein . In: Wittgenstein. Leaves of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein e. V. , vol. 71 (2007), issue 1, p. 1 f.
- Bibliography on Wittgenstein's territorial history - "Bibliography Wittgenstein" , 5th edition, Bad Laasphe 2019
- Postage stamps - a small contribution to the anniversary of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein e. V. In: Wittgenstein. Leaves of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein e. V. , vol. 77 (2013), issue 1, p. 5 f.