Christoph August Becker
Christoph August Becker (* before 1747, † after 1790) was an in Hildesheim active Glockengießer .
Life
Christoph August Becker lived and worked in Hildesheimer Almensstraße in the middle of the 18th century . There in 1747 he cast the so-called “apostle bell” weighing 66 cents and 12 pounds for the Hildesheim Cathedral for 380 Thaler, which was inscribed with chronological verses written by the cathedral vicar Nicolaus Meyer : “Clango Deo vero, voco Vulgus, servio Clero , Explice festa Chori, dirigo festa fori. “But after just over a dozen years after it was cast, the apostle bell shattered on August 20, 1760.
Works (if known)
- 1747: "Apostle Bell" for Hildesheim Cathedral; Burst in 1760
- 1749: Bells as a supplement to the two existing bell bells for the Church of St. Andreas in Hildesheim; the bell was in the 1988 Church St. Jakobi translocated
- In 1775 the community of Bültum procured two new bell bells from Becker in Hildesheim. The larger of the two was delivered for armaments purposes during the First World War in 1917. When a replacement bell was installed by the Schilling company as the first bell in 1938, it was the remaining old bell from the Beckers foundry.
- 1790: Casting a broken bell for a new one in Hildesheim's St. Andreas Church
literature
- Hans-Georg Eichler (author), Barbara Poettgen: Manual of the piece and bell founders based on the bells handed down in central and eastern Germany (= writings from the German Bell Museum , volume 2), German Bell Museum at Greifenstein Castle (DGM), Greifenstein : DGM, 2003
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Johann Daniel Gerstenberg (Ed.): Contributions to Hildesheim history containing the related essays of all Hildesheim weekly and some small occasional publications up to the year 1828 , Hildesheim: in der Gerstenbergschen Buchdruckerei, 1829, pp. 60f .; limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ a b c o. V .: Hildesheim, St. Andreas on the page kirchengemeindelexikon.de [undated], last accessed on May 11, 2019
- ↑ top v .: Bültum on the website of the historical parish lexicon of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover [undated], last accessed on May 11, 2019
- ↑ Document information from the Technical Information Library (TIB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Becker, Christoph August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bell founder in Hildesheim |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1747 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1790 |