Christian Ludewig Meyer

Christian Ludewig Meyer (* before 1662 ; † 1725 in Braunschweig ) was a German bell and gun founder .

Life

Christian Ludewig Meyer was the eldest son of the bell and gun founder Heiso Meyer , who moved from Wolfenbüttel to Braunschweig in 1702 . After his death in 1704, Duke Anton Ulrich granted him the privilege of his father, renewed in 1714, to cast the church bells in the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel by himself. In 1711 he married Magdalena Elisabeth Körner († 1735) in Wolfenbüttel.

Meyer created around 50 church bells for churches in the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. Signed bells from his workshop can also be found outside the state of Braunschweig, for example in Mühlhausen / Thuringia (1701), Ballenstedt (1719) or Quedlinburg (1708/09), where he cast three bells for the market church of St. Benedikti , including a 100 hundredweight heavy specimen with a diameter of 2.26 m. The last bells were cast in Meyer's year of death in 1725, including those for the churches in Klein Flöthe and Werlaburgdorf . With Christian Ludewig Meyer's death, the three-generation bell-casting family, which went back to his grandfather Heise Meyer, who cast the oldest known bell for the church in Alvesse in 1603, ended .

Many of the church bells cast by Meyer have survived to this day. They are kept comparatively simple, but the quality of the production gave them a shelf life of several centuries.

Works (selection)

Schrader gives a list of the church bells cast by Christian Ludewig Meyer, some with measurements. If details are missing after the place name, the bell was no longer there as early as 1935.

• 1704 Arholzen , Holzminden district , diameter 72 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1704 Kalme , Wolfenbüttel district , height 67 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1704 Lichtenberg , district of Salzgitter
• 1704 Hötzum , Wolfenbüttel district
• 1705 Alversdorf , former village near Schöningen , gave way to open- cast lignite mining in 1974 , height 62 cm, diameter 67 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1705 Stadtoldendorf , Holzminden district, diameter 113 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1705 Süpplingen , Helmstedt district , height 85 cm, diameter 109 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1706 Amelungsborn Monastery
• 1707 Rottorf , district of Königslutter am Elm , height 55 cm, diameter 59 cm, preserved (2020)
• 1707 Immendorf , district of Salzgitter, height 72 cm, preserved (2020)
• 1708 St. Stephani in Helmstedt
• 1708 St. Andreas in Seesen
• 1708 Groß Brunsrode , Helmstedt district
• 1709 Heckenbeck , Northeim district
• 1709 Bettmar, height 123 cm, diameter 123 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1710 Büddenstedt , Helmstedt district
• 1710 St. Martin in Dannhausen , Northeim district, height 45 cm, diameter 59 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1710 Holenberg , district of Holzminden, preserved (2020)
• 1711 Collegiate Church in Bad Gandersheim , diameter 117 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1711 Vallstedt , Peine district
• 1711 Bornhausen , part of the city of Seesen
• 1712 St. Johannes in Ildehausen , district of Goslar , height 73 cm, diameter 96 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1712 Büddenstedt (cf. 1710), preserved (1935)
• 1713 Lauingen , Helmstedt district
• 1713 Dettum , Wolfenbüttel district, height 82 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1714 Dettum, height 100 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1714 Lichtenberg (cf. 1704)
• 1714 St. Nicolai in Braunschweig, two bells, still preserved in 1935, destroyed in the war in 1944
• 1714 Stiddien , City of Braunschweig, height 55 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1714 Marienkirche in Wendeburg , Peine district, height 102 cm, diameter 105 cm, preserved (2020)
• 1714 Epiphany Church in Destedt , Wolfenbüttel district, diameter 77 cm, preserved (2020)
• 1714 Epiphany Church in Destedt, diameter 53 cm, preserved (2020)
• 1716 Hedeper , district Wolfenbüttel, preserved (1935)
• 1716 St. Vincenz in Schöningen, height 153 cm, diameter 165 cm, preserved (2020)
• 1717 Grave , Holzminden district, height 68 cm, diameter 81 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1717 Collegiate Church in Königslutter, height 110 cm, diameter 135 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1717 Hemkenrode , district Wolfenbüttel, height 60 cm, diameter 60 cm, preserved (2020)
• 1717 Hehlen , Holzminden district, height 74 cm, diameter 93 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1719 St. Petri in Börnecke , Harz district, height 50 cm, diameter 64 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1719 Andreaskirche in Braunschweig, destroyed in 1944
• 1720 Lesse , district of Salzgitter, diameter 145 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1720 Leinde , district of Wolfenbüttel, height 91 cm, diameter 91 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1720 Leinde, district of Wolfenbüttel, height 55 cm, diameter 60 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1720 Warberg , district of Helmstedt
• 1722 Vechelde , Peine district, height 62 cm, diameter 68 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1722 Wendeburg (cf. 1714), district Peine, height 110 cm, diameter 116 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1722 Eschershausen , Holzminden district
• 1722 Amelungsborn Monastery (cf. 1706), two bells
• 1723 Sauingen , district of Salzgitter, height 78 cm, diameter 83 cm, preserved (1935)
• 1723 Hahausen , district of Goslar

literature

• Jürgen Diehl: Meyer, Christian Ludewig . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 496-497 .
• Wilhelm Schrader : The Wolfenbüttel bell foundry family Heiso Meyer and its works . In: Braunschweigische Heimat 1935, 26, pp. 84–88.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Schrader: The Wolfenbüttel bell foundry family Heiso Meyer and his works . In: Braunschweigische Heimat 1935, 26, pp. 87-88.
2. ↑ Parish Association Königslutter
3. ↑ Destedt private website