Andreas Herold

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Andreas Herold,
copperplate engraving by Moritz Bodenehr

Andreas Herold (born March 16, 1623 in Nuremberg , † September 16, 1696 in Dresden ) was a German piece and bell founder .

Life

Andreas Herold came from a well-known family of bell founders ; Grandfather Balthasar Herold (1553–1628) already poured at the Nuremberg Frauentor . Several children emerged from the marriage of the piece and bell caster Georg Herold (1590–1632) and his wife Katharina († 1660), daughter of the notary Hieronymus Örtel . Andreas Herold was the third of the couple's five surviving sons, the others were Balthasar (1620–1683), Hans Georg (1621 to after 1671), Johannes (1625–1656) and Wolf Hieronymus (1627–1693). The widowed mother married the piece and bell caster Leonhard Löw († 1658) in 1643 , who trained his step-sons in this craft.

Towards the end of the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) he accompanied his older brother Balthasar to Warsaw , where he worked for the royal piece caster. It was probably around this time that he came into contact with the Electoral Saxon court in Dresden. Elector Johann Georg I signed him up in 1649, three years later Herold received the electoral privilege to cast bells in Saxony. He worked as the successor to Hans Wilhelm Hilliger in the electoral foundry, which had been built next to the Dresden armory in 1567 .

Herold was married to the Dresden merchant daughter Anna Katharina Schmidt (1627–1700). Of the couple's 15 children, only four have reached adulthood. One son was Adam (1659-1711), a Lutheran theologian and superintendent. Andreas Herold died in Dresden in 1696 and was buried in the Gothic Frauenkirche . His tomb has not been preserved.

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Middle bell, today in the Emmauskirche Kaditz
Big bell, also in Kaditz today

Bells

Due to his privilege, Andreas Herold cast bronze bells for the entire Electoral Saxony area. As a result of new castings and the metal collections during the two world wars, many of the bells he cast are no longer available. Among other things, he poured:

  • 1657, Mochau church (near Döbeln): small and large bells
  • 1667, Trinitatiskirche Zscheila (near Meißen): small, medium and large bells; The carillon has been preserved in its entirety and is therefore of particular monumental and artistic importance.
  • 1669, Hennersdorf church (near Görlitz): small bell, 530 kg, ⌀ 97 cm, strike as'; The bell handed in during World War II has been preserved and came from the Hamburg bell cemetery to the Oldenburg Lambertikirche around 1950 .
  • 1672, Christ Church Bischofswerda : bell; From the Hilliger bells that melted during the town fire in 1671 and another one, this ring was created, which was destroyed in the town fire in 1813 . Friedrich Gruhl cast new bells from the metal.
  • 1676, church Altenberg (Erzgebirge): middle bell, inscription: "Verbum Domini manet."; It was delivered together with the large bell (1675, from Bohemia) in 1942 for war purposes and melted down .
  • 1681, Leubnitzer Church (near Dresden): small and medium-sized bell; melted down for war purposes
  • 1692, (old) Nikolaikirche Chemnitz : small bell (or entire three-way ringing); Raised in 1887 to the new Nikolaikirchplatz, 1917 for war purposes melted
  • 1695, Church Weida (near Riesa): two bells; receive
  • Herrenhaus Hermsdorf (near Döbeln): large (and small?) Bell

Other works

As the job title of piece and bell founder suggests, his main task was to cast pieces. These guns , often elaborately decorated, are now often - if still preserved - outside of the Saxon area, which is due to the many wars that Saxony has lost. In Stockholm, for example, the bronze caster Georg von Herold , a descendant of the Nuremberg founders, has four cannons cast by Andreas Herold in 1678 around the monument to Charles XII that he cast in 1868 . let set up.

Based on the models by the sculptor Wolf Ernst Brohn, Andreas Herold cast the bronze figures for the epitaph of Duchess Sophie Hedwig (1630–1652; 1650 ⚭ Prince Moritz ), which is considered Brohn's main work. It was located on the north wall of the choir of the Dresden Sophienkirche .

On behalf of the Elector Johann Georg II , the sculptor Christoph Abraham Walther made a crucifix for the Dresden Elbe Bridge based on an older model by the foundry Johannes Hilligers . It came to Dresden in 1658, where a cast was made before it was erected. The crucifix, based on the cast by Andreas Herold in 1670 and erected in September of that year, fell into the river when the Elbe flooded in 1845 and has been lost ever since.

literature

Footnotes

  1. ^ A b Johann Gottfried Michaelis : Dreßdnische Inscriptiones und Epitaphia . Self-published by the author, Dresden 1714, p. 51 ( online in Google Book Search).
  2. Cornelius Gurlitt : The Bartholomäuskirche. In: Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. Booklet 21: City of Dresden . Meinhold, Dresden 1900, p. 170 ( digitized version )
  3. Cornelius Gurlitt: Mochau. In: Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. Issue 25: Döbeln Official Authority . Meinhold, Dresden 1903, p. 160 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Church Dittersbach: Bells. Dittersbach-Eschdorf parish, accessed on September 12, 2019 .
  5. ^ A b Rainer Thümmel : Bell casting in Saxony. In: Museumskurier, 17th edition of the Saxon Industrial Museum, August 2006, accessed on February 8, 2013 .
  6. ^ The bells of St. Lamberti. Retrieved April 6, 2013 .
  7. The bells of the Christ Church (timeline). United Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Bischofswerda, accessed on April 12, 2020 .
  8. Cornelius Gurlitt: The St. Matthäikirche. In: Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. Issue 25: Döbeln Official Authority . Meinhold, Dresden 1903, p. 126 ( digitized version ).
  9. Hans-Dietrich Lemmel: The Lemmel family and August the strong. In: Genealogy and family history Lemmel / Lämmel / Lemlein. 1999, accessed March 4, 2018 .
  10. Riesa-Weida Church. Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Riesa, accessed on September 12, 2019 .
  11. Cornelius Gurlitt: Hermsdorf. In: Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. Issue 25: Döbeln Official Authority . Meinhold, Dresden 1903, p. 84 ( digitized version ).
  12. ^ Walter Hentschel : Dresden sculptors of the 16th and 17th centuries . Böhlau, 1966, p. 93, 157 (also in this: Monuments of Saxon Art: The Losses of the Second World War , Akademie-Verlag, 1973, p. 59.).
  13. Augustus Bridge . In: Dresden and Saxony. Archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; Retrieved December 17, 2014 .

Web links

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