Pegnesischer Blumenorden

The Pegnesischer Blumenorden (English: Pegnitz Flower Society; Latin: Societas Florigera ad Pegnesum; abbr.

The stated goal of the society was the "support and improvement of German language and poetry.

The 1660s and 1670s saw the society at its most fertile; its members produced many pastorals in the style of Virgil and Opitz.

His successors Martin Limburger [de] and Magnus Daniel Omeis [de] were not especially successful in their attempt to promote and propagate the florid Baroque style in the 18th century, by which time the more structured neoclassical style had become the norm.

Nevertheless, the society has continually maintained a membership of some sort, and remains active to this day.