Beseler (bell founder)

The Beseler family was a family of gun and bell founders in Rendsburg .

history

The family went back to Barthold Jonas Beseler the Elder , who in 1757 bought the royal Danish privilege for casting bells and guns. With that he opened his own foundry in Rendsburg. The parishes in the region no longer had to get bells from Lübeck and Hamburg , which was tedious and expensive.

Members of the family cast around 380 documented bells, most of which were destroyed during the world wars. How many guns and consumer goods came from the Beselers' huts is unknown. The production, which made Rendsburg known nationwide and helped the family to esteem and prosperity, ended in 1871.

seal

In their workshop, the Beselers used a seal depicting a gun barrel, a bell and a mortar. They also provided their works with the inscription THE PIECE AND BELLS GIESER BESELER IN SIEGEL IN RENDSBURG AO. 1758

family members

Members of the family included, in chronological order:

• Barthold Jonas Beseler the Elder (1721–1803)
• Barthold Jonas Beseler the Younger (1764–1814)
• Barthold Christian Beseler (1789–1821), bell founder
• Jakob Friedrich Beseler (1790–1876), bell founder
• Barthold Heinrich Michael Beseler (1812–1895), bell founder

literature

• Herbert Beelte: Beseler . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 2. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1971, pp. 54–55