Conrad Hölling

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Conrad Hölling (also: Conrad Hoelling ; * around 1651; † March 21, 1720 in the Calenberger Neustadt in front of Hanover ) was a ducal Braunschweig-Lüneburg stone and iron cutter and electoral Hanoverian and Royal British court goldsmith and jeweler as well as merchant , deacon and Church leader .

Life

Conrad Hölling was born a few years after the end of the Thirty Years War around 1651 as the son of the same name merchant and merchant Conrad Hölling and the ducal court jeweler Cord Hölling (1604–1656) and Maria Meineking or Maria Meinekings, daughter of the mayor of Neustadt. A relief of the family can be found in the family tombstone created by the sculptor of the Leibnizhaus , Peter Köster , near the south portal of the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis of the Calenberger Neustadt .

Hölling was already a citizen and established goldsmith in Hanover as well as a duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg's bestallter stone and iron cutter in cell when he married Fraulein Anna Dorothea von der Lippe on August 21, 1677 in the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis , Daughter of the "castle and merchant alhier", Ludewig von der Lippe. Between 1678 and 1681 the couple had six children baptized , most of whom died early, but one daughter was beyond childhood and the sixth child, the son born in 1687, later theologian and superintendent Johann Conrad Stephan Hoelling . The couple had a total of 13 children, including their daughter Anna Maria Hölling, who married the Electoral Medalist Ehrenreich Hannibal on May 12, 1707 . Another daughter married the court gold worker Alexander Heinrich Diester .

Meanwhile, Conrad Hölling had been referred to as a goldsmith as well as Höker and Krüger in 1689 at the age of 38 - he lived in a house on " Calenbergstrasse " at the time . His staff included the apprentices Christian Froböhse and Carl Junge and his journeyman Heinrich Uchtemann.

From 1706/1707 Hölling worked on various works, including a gilded “toilet”, with the Celle court goldsmith Lewin Dedeke . Since the same time, Hölling as the electoral court goldsmith received an annual salary of 40 Reichstalers . In 1707 he was also referred to as the "resident, citizen [... and] premier deacon of the Hof- und St. Johanniskirche Hannover-Neustadt". After the beginning of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover , Hölling was finally known in 1714 as a “noble citizen and trader, also Kgl. Great Britain Court gold worker, also premier head of the Kgl. Hof- und S. Johanniskirche “.

After Hölling's death on March 21, 1720, his son Johann Conrad Stephan Hölling wrote the funeral speech that was printed in Hanover in the same year and has been preserved in the Göttingen University Library . The deceased's salary was awarded to his widow on April 23, 1720, who had the work in the court carried out by her son Gabriel Hölling, who was a goldsmith, in 1721 and 1722 .

Maker's mark and hallmark

The initials CH between two three-leaf clover leaves above and below are, for example, Hölling's master's mark , while the hallmark , a soaring lion in a coat of arms, points to Neustadt near Hanover.

Works (selection)

According to the chamber accounts

According to the chamber accounts of the court, Conrad Hölling created, among other things, an elaborate silver-gilt “toilet” from 1706 to 1707, and later also cut numerous seals , including a “great majesty or feudal seal”, which the iron cutter Ehrenreich Hannibal then engraved. After the death of Electress Sophie , Hölling renovated the silver dishes in the deceased's living room, and later also repaired candlesticks, mirrors, blakers and other silver " furniture ".

Preserved works

Hölling's preserved works include

In addition, Conrad Hölling manufactured church equipment such as wafer boxes , communion jugs , pantene , chalices for churches and chapels in Nienburg / Weser , Wunstorf , Hüpede , Mandelsloh , Eldagsen near Springe , Ricklingen Castle , Hämelschenburg and Polle as well as for the Neustädter Church and the Reformed Church in the Calenberger Neustadt.

Two 37 cm high chain bottles with the coat of arms of the Duke of Cumberland were shown at an exhibition in Vienna in 1889 .

literature

  • Johann Conrad Stephan Hölling: Mourning Memory, As The Weyland Wol-Noble, Vest- and Grand Eight-Bier, Mr. Conrad Hölling, Bite into the 35th year well-deserved church deacon at the Hoff Church in the New City of Hanover, and Royal Great Britannian and Chur Prince. Braunschw. Lüneb. Hoff gold and silver workers, as well as citizens and traders here, March 21, 1720. at night between 11 and 12 o'clock in the gentleman , Hanover: [o. A.], 1720; Digitization of the Göttingen digitization center

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Wolfgang Scheffler : Conrad Hölling , in the .: Goldsmiths of Lower Saxony. Dates, works, characters , half volume 1: Aerzen - Hamburg , Berlin: de Gruyter, 1965, p. 249, 250, v. a. P. 753; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b c Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Hoelling (Johann Conrad Stephan) , in ders .: Das Gelehre Hannover or Lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover since the Reformation and still live, compiled from the most credible writers , Schünemann, Bremen 1823, p. 374f .; Digitized via Google books
  3. ↑ a b c Daniel Farenholtz : Complete message from Mr. Gen. Sup. Höllings Leben , in: Acta historico-ecclesiastica , or collected news of the latest church stories , first part, third edition, Leipzig and Weimar: Siegfried Heinrich Hoffmann, 1737, p. 655ff; here: p. 658; Digitized via Google books
  4. ↑ Annette von Boetticher : Gravestones, epithaphe and memorial plaques of the Evangelical Lutheran. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis in Hanover. Ed .: The church council of the ev.-luth. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis Hannover, Hannover: 2002, p. 17
  5. ^ Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical purposes , Volume 7: Treated persons with the numbers R6001 - R7000 , Boppard am Rhein: 1972, p. 87; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : A family of pigeons - the contractor's outdoor advertising? , in ders .: Vom Kröpcke to Ihmeufer (= forays through Hanover's history ), Harenberg Verlag, Hanover 1984, ISBN 3-89042-011-7 , pp. 87–92; here: p. 89
  7. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : Personalunion , in Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.), Dirk Böttcher , Hugo Thielen (collabor.): Stadtlexikon Hannover . From the beginning to the present , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 498
  8. ^ Johann Conrad Stephan Hölling: Trauer-Gedächtniß ... , Hannover: [oA], 1720
  9. ↑ Joachim Bühring (edit.), Guido Große Boymann, Jürgen Klemcke (collabor.): The art monuments of the district of Hameln-Pyrmont in the administrative district of Hanover in the series The art monuments of Lower Saxony. Publication of the Lower Saxony State Administration Office , Volume 35, Volume 2 (illustrated book), Munich [u. a.]: Deutscher Kunstverlag, [1972], p. 214; limited preview in Google Book search
  10. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Mausoleum. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (Ed.): Hannover. Art and culture lexicon . Handbook and city guide. 4th, updated and expanded edition. New edition. zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 92
personal data
SURNAME Helling, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoelling, Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanoverian court goldsmith and jeweler as well as Protestant church governor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1651
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1720
Place of death Calenberger Neustadt in front of Hanover