Christopher Horenbarch

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Christopher Horenbarch (also Christoffer Hornbarch , Christoffer Hornberg , Christopher Horenburg , Christofer Horenbach and Christofer Horenbarch ; † after 1599 ) was a German piece and bell caster .

Life

family

It is certain that Christopher Horenbarch belonged to the old Hanoverian family Horenbarch , "who named themselves after the well-known village." These included, for example, the Gropengießer Bartelt Horenbarch , who in 1469 acquired citizenship of the city of Hanover. The town's house book for the years 1456 and 1465 also includes the councilor and master coppersmith Dietrich Horenbarch. A son or brother named Hans Horenbarch cast three guns for the city of Hanover in 1599.

Career

Christopher Horenbarch worked as a master in the Older Municipal Gießhof at the end of Burgstrasse outside the city ​​wall, financed by the City of Hanover in 1581 . There, in 1583, Horenbarch cast 20 medium-sized guns of poor quality, the last of which were not cast until the Thirty Years' War in 1628-1630 .

Works

Eight church bells from the Hanover area by Christopher Horenbarch are known. These were in Schulenburg (1565), Leveste (1567, from "Christopher Horenburg"; bell unusable due to cracks since 1760, sold in 1813.), Bilm (1578), Bönnien (1581), Wunstorf (1582), Kolenfeld (1584) , Hohnhorst (1588) and Petze (1599).

The 20 guns from 1583 include the “Gans” (signature as “Christofer Horenbach”) and the “Adler” (signature as “Christofer Horenbarch”).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Arnold Nöldeke : Older Städt. Gießhof / Hüttenmeister , in this: The art monuments of the city of Hanover , part 1 and 2: Monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hanover , in: The art monuments of the province of Hanover, vol. 1, no. 2, part 1, Hanover, self-published by the provincial administration , Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932, p. 404; Digitized via archive.org
  2. ↑ a b Christine Wulf: DI 88, Hildesheim district, No. 268
  3. ↑ a b c Sabine Wehking : DI 36, City of Hanover, No. 151 †
  4. ^ A b Wilhelm Mithoff : Horenbach, Christopher , in ders .: Medieval artists and master craftsmen in Lower Saxony and Westphalia . Hellwing'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1866, p. 80; Digitized via Google books
  5. ↑ a b Sabine Wehking: DI 36, City of Hanover, No. 152 †
  6. ↑ Riemer: For city Hanoverian architectural history. The buildings of the Renaissance period , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , Volume 17 (1914), pp. 102–295; here: p. 270; limited preview in Google Book search
  7. ↑ Peter Kühlechner: The bells. St. Agathenkirche Leveste. (PDF; 1.45 MB) Church council of the Ev.-luth. Krchengemeinde Leveste, 2013, p. 9 , accessed on August 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Horenbarch, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horenburg, Christopher; Hornbarch, Christoffer; Hornberg, Christoffer; Horenbach, Christofer; Horenbarch, Christofer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanoverian piece and bell caster
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH after 1599