Anselm Franz Bacon

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Anselm Franz Speck (* probably 1728 in Kirrweiler ; † late February 1798 in Heidelberg ) was a bell founder in Heidelberg.

Life

He was the son of the bell founder Johann Jakob Speck (1700–1753). At first he worked together with his father, who moved the foundry from Kirrweiler to Bruchsal around 1745. In 1751 he married Maria Catharina Knebel from Langenbrücken. In 1753 he moved the foundry from Bruchsal to Heidelberg. In 1765 he received an electoral privilege to deliver bells to the more remote areas of the Electoral Palatinate . Further privileges from 1774 and 1777 practically created a monopoly position for the Speck foundries and the Frankenthal bell caster Schrader for the delivery of bells and fire brigade syringes to all municipalities in the Electoral Palatinate. Around 1800 the Speck'sche foundry was located in Heidelberg at Neuenheimer Landstrasse 4. This is where the Silberner Anker restaurant was later built , and remnants of the foundry were found when it was demolished.

He was married to Maria Catharina Knebel. His sons Michael Aloys Speck (1753–1806), Lucas Joseph Speck (1755–1819) and Wilhelm Speck also became bell founders. Michael moved to Mannheim until 1780 and worked there, Wilhelm had been active in Frankenthal since 1774 and Lucas continued his father's workshop in Heidelberg.

Anselm Franz Speck's oldest verifiable bell is a non-preserved bell from 1744 for the Reformed Church in Gaiberg. The oldest surviving bell is in the Catholic Church of St. Appolonia in Wierschem and dates from 1752. A total of almost 200 bells are known from the production of Anselm Franz Speck, of which, however, only one remains due to the bell deliveries for armaments purposes in the two World Wars small part is preserved. From 1788 onwards, several bells signed jointly by Anselm Franz and Lucas are known, including those for the Remigius Church in Nieder-Ingelheim in 1789 . From 1791, Lucas Speck signed alone, while bells signed by Anselm Franz Speck continued until his death in 1798.

Preserved bells (selection)

  • Bell of the Catholic Church of St. Appolonia in Wierschem (1752)
  • Bell of the Protestant Church in Freimersheim (1755)
  • Bell of the Protestant Church in Pfinztal-Söllingen (1756)
  • Bell from Waldhilsbach in the Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg (1762)
  • Bell of the Catholic Church in Neidenstein (1762)
  • Bell of the Protestant Ulrichskirche in Neulingen-Göbrichen (1764)
  • Bell of the Protestant Church in Sinsheim-Steinsfurt (1767)
  • Bell of St. Bartholomew in Bruchsal-Büchenau, now Kraichgau-Museum Bruchsal (1768)
  • Bell of the Evangelical Church in Dolgesheim (1768)
  • Bells of the Evangelical Church in Schönbrunn-Haag (1770 and 1773)
  • Christ Bell and Mary Bell in Kisslau Castle (1775)
  • Bells of the catholic hospital church St. Matthew in Mannheim (1777 and 1791)
  • Bells of the Catholic Church of the Birth of Mary in Sinsheim rows (1778 and 1783)
  • Bell of St. Cäcilia in Mosbach (1778, originally in St. Juliana in Mosbach)
  • Bell of the Protestant church in Kirchardt-Berwangen (1780)
  • Cemetery bell in Sinsheim-Hilsbach (1780)
  • Bell at the town hall in Dielheim-Horrenberg (1781)
  • Bell at the town hall in Ittlingen (1781)
  • Bell from the Catholic Church Rauenberg in the Rauenberg Wine Museum (1783)
  • Bell of the castle school in Heppenheim (1787)
  • Three bells of the Protestant town church St. Salvator in Neckarbischofsheim (1788)
  • Bell of the Catholic Church of St. Andreas in Lampertheim (1789)
  • Bell in the Simultankirche St. Albanus in Bechenheim (1789)
  • Bell of the Petruskirche in Mannheim (1791)
  • Town hall bell in Epfenbach (1791)
  • Bell of the Catholic Church of St. Vitus in Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim (1791)
  • Bell from the gate tower of Heidelberg Castle (1792)
  • Bell of the Konkordienkirche in Mannheim (1794)
  • Three bells of the Protestant church in Helmstadt-Bargen (1794)
  • Bell of the Protestant Church in Neunkirchen-Neckarkatzenbach (1794)
  • Church bell and cemetery bell in Waldsee (1794/1796)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ferdinand Pauly : The St. Kastor Abbey in Karden on the Moselle ( Germania Sacra New Part 19: The Dioceses of the Church Province of Trier. The Archdiocese of Trier, Volume 3). de Gruyter, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-11-010445-8 , p. 30 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ^ Hans Rolli : Glockengießer-Tradition in Heidelberg , in: Badische Heimat 1963 , p. 84.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Bacon, Anselm Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bell founder in Heidelberg
DATE OF BIRTH 1728
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirrweiler
DATE OF DEATH February 1798
Place of death Heidelberg