To true unity
The “just and perfect lodge” to true unity was founded on March 12, 1781 in Vienna by fifteen members of the Masonic lodge to the crowned hope . Your first master of the chair was the court doctor Ignaz Fischer. On March 9, 1782 he was succeeded by Ignaz von Born , who had entered in the year it was founded. By Born was to preserve harmony a Eliteloge with a scientific focus and the center of Vienna Illuminati .
A peculiarity of the lodge was that its drawings (lectures held at the meeting of the brothers) were published as Physical Works by the Unified Friends in Vienna - seven editions appeared between 1783 and 1788. The lodge had its own library and maintained a natural history cabinet founded by Born.
On December 11, 1785, Emperor Joseph II issued the so-called Masonic Patent , which limited the number of lodges and required official registration of the members. As a result, the Lodge at the Three Eagles , the Palm Tree , the Three Fires and the True Unity merged on December 28, 1785 to form the Lodge Zur Truth , in which Born initially acted as master of the chair, but weakened by increasing disputes and formally dissolved in April 1789. 1793 eventually came the self-dissolution of the other two remaining lodges Vienna, 1795 forbade Emperor Francis II. That Freemasonry throughout the monarchy.
Members
The lodge's list of presence has been preserved in the Austrian house, court and state archives .
Among the more than two hundred brothers there are prominent artists, scientists and intellectuals such as the musicians Joseph Haydn and Johann Holzer , the writers Aloys Blumauer , Johann Baptist von Alxinger , Joseph Franz von Ratschky , Cornelius von Ayrenhoff , Johann Georg Schlosser , Johann Pezzl , Carl Leonhard Reinhold and Otto Heinrich von Gemmingen-Hornberg , the sculptor Franz Anton von Zauner , the botanist Emmanuel von Canal , the mineralogist Carl Ludwig Giesecke , the judicial and administrative reformer Joseph von Sonnenfels , the theologian Carl Wilhelm Hilchenbach and the botanist Franz von Mückusch and Buchberg . Angelo Soliman , the “High Prince Mohr”, held the office of Preparatory Brother, later that of Vice-Master of Ceremonies.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , member of the Lodge Zur Charity , was a frequent guest at the work of the Lodge Zur Wahr Eintracht and was promoted to journeyman there.
literature
- Edith Rosenstrauch-Königsberg: Freemasonry in Josephine Vienna . Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller, 1975.
- Hans-Josef Irmen : The minutes of the Viennese Masonic Lodge "To true harmony". 1781-1785. Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1994.
- Heinz Schuler: The St. Johannis Masonic Lodge “For true harmony”. The members of the Vienna Elite Lodge 1781 to 1785. , in: Genealogisches Jahrbuch 31 (1992), Neustadt / Aisch 1992, pp. 5–41.
- The practice boxes of the just and perfect Lodge on True Unity in the Orient in Vienna 1782–1785. Edited by Erich Lessing. Vienna, Grand Lodge of Austria , 1984.