Bernstorff & Eichwede

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The Ernst August Memorial in front of Hanover Central Station

The company Bernstorf & Eichwede was a fine art foundry in Hanover whose history dates back to the 18th century and whose products can still be found today, for example, as monuments in Hanover and Berlin . The location of the “Hof-Bronzefabrik und Kunstgießerei C. Bernstorf und Eichwede” was the site between Eichstrasse 22 and Bernstrasse in what is now the Oststadt district of Hanover .

history

From belting to bronze goods factory

"Platoon leaders, Immortellen wreaths , banners of the Bernstorff & Eichwede factory";
"[Image] panel II" from the Ernst August album from 1862 on the occasion of the parade at the unveiling of the Ernst August monument
The Sachsenross in front of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover
The Victory Column in Berlin has reliefs by Bernstorff & Eichwede
Bernstorff & Eichwede minted Waterloo medals without a die cutter - engraving

In 1792 Johann Friedrich Bernstorff (* July 22, 1766 in Hanover; † December 16, 1809 there) opened a belt shop in Osterstrasse . His son Christian (born December 24, 1794 in Hanover; † April 7, 1869 ibid) and his grandson Christian Eduard Eichwede (born April 20, 1818 in Hanover; † March 26, 1890 ibid) converted the craft business step by step into the Metal goods factory and bronze foundry Bernstorff & Eichwede .

In 1844 and 1855 the company's products were awarded a gold medal, especially because they made the import of argantan goods superfluous.

After expanding production, the company developed into an important bronze foundry, which was allowed to bear the quality label Hofbronzefabrik from 1852 .

After the Ernst August memorial was built , the bronze foundry workers and other construction workers took part in the procession to inaugurate the memorial in 1861. The Ernst-August-Album contains images from the inside of the company and the workers dressed for the pageant.

At the World Exhibition in London in 1862 , the company presented one of Adolf Rosenthal's lions and won a medal with it . In addition, the "Official Report on the Industrial and Art Exhibition in London in 1862" noted: "This casting was to be called excellent in every respect".

In 1862 two streets were laid out that bordered the company premises: Bernstrasse and Eichstrasse are reminiscent of the bronze foundry.

After the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia in 1866 , the company traded in the city of Hanover's address book in 1867 as " Court supplier to Sr. Majesty, metal goods and military effects factory , art foundry".

Hanover foundry and rolling mills

After the proclamation of the German Empire in 1873, the company was taken over by the Hannoversche Gieß- und Walzwerke and from then on was called "Hannoversche Gieß- und Walzwerke, formerly Bernstorff & Eichwede". Now there was also production for railroad and war needs.

Hannoversche brass and iron works

On September 29, 1882, the company was converted into a stock corporation under the new company name Hannoversche Messing- und Eisenwerke AG . The product range was divided into a large number of very different, sometimes outdated “specialties”, including brass spoons, iron coal boxes and frames for skylights, but also steam engines . Several patents acquired, such as the resulting “Patent Lorenz Bearing” or the “Frictions Coupling , Patent Lorenz” brought about an at least temporary economic upturn. Above all, the "machine factory department" pushed for a spatial expansion. In order to get out of the already built-up confinement at the previous location, the entire plant was relocated to the former village of “ Wülfel vor Hannover” in 1889 , where, after specializing and concentrating on transmissions under the new company managers Carl Wundsch and Wilhelm Ellmenreich, from 1893 onwards With a new objective it was renamed "Eisenwerk Wülfel, Wülfel before Hanover", or Eisenwerk Wülfel for short .

Works

The company's works include

literature

swell

Web links

Commons : Bernstorff & Eichwede  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Bernstorff, Johann Friedrich. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon.
  2. ↑ a b c Helmut Zimmermann : Bernstrasse and Eichstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , pp. 39 and 69
  3. ^ Paul Rademacher BDG, Dieter Baatz et al. (Photos, Ill.): Steam engine and total drive , in this: Through quality work to a global company. 75 years of Eisenwerk Wülfel , Darmstadt: Hoppenstedt, 1957 (with section headings, but without page numbering)
  4. ↑ a b c d Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Bernstorff & Eichwede. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover.
  5. ↑ Ernst August Album. Digitized by The Getty Research Institute via Internet Archive , p. 24 .
  6. ↑ Ernst August Album. Digitized by The Getty Research Institute via Internet Archive , p. 94 .
  7. ↑ Official report on d. Industrial and Art Exhibition in London i. J. 1862. Berlin 1864
  8. ↑ Maike Buß: Uni-Löwen as EXPOnat . In: Universität Hannover intern. Issue 1, 2000, p. 8
  9. ↑ Rita Seidel: Pictures, Figures, Monuments / The Welfenschloss. In: Sid Auffarth , Wolfgang Pietsch (Hrsg.): The University of Hanover / your buildings / your gardens / your planning history. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2003, ISBN 3-935590-90-3 .
  10. ↑ Note: According to Rita Seidel , however, the plaster model for the bronze so-called “Sachsenross” was brought to the “foundry of Bernstorff and Eichwede in Sedanstrasse” in 1862. Source: Rita Seidel: Pictures, Figures, Monuments / The Welfenschloss. In: Sid Auffarth , Wolfgang Pietsch (Hrsg.): The University of Hanover / your buildings / your gardens / your planning history. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2003, ISBN 3-935590-90-3 , pp. 105ff .; here: p. 111.
  11. ↑ Dieter Brosius : 1873. In: Hannover Chronik . S. 133. (online)
  12. ^ Paul Rademacher BDG, Dieter Baatz a. a. (Photos, Ill.): Steam engine and overall drive. In: A global company through quality work. 75 years of Eisenwerk Wülfel , Darmstadt: Hoppenstedt, 1957 (without page numbering)
  13. ↑ Paul Rademacher BDG et al .: Two men with a new goal , as well as Wülfel transmissions gain international reputation
  14. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Eisenwerk Wülfel. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 157f.
  15. ↑ see this photo
  16. ^ A b Hermann Lüer, Max Creutz: History of Metal Art. Volume 1, 1904.
  17. ↑ Alheidis von Rohr : Earned and Earned, medals yesterday and today. Booklet accompanying the exhibition in the Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer. Hanover 1981, p. 14.
  18. ↑ Compare the documentation at Commons (see under the section Weblinks )
  19. ↑ Auction result 2809

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 41 ″  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 2.8 ″  E