Eifel bell foundry

The Eifeler bell foundry is a bell foundry in Brockscheid in the Eifel . Bell founders from the Mark family can be identified from around 1620. The company headquarters in Brockscheid was established in 1840. In December 2019, the company filed for insolvency at the Wittlich district court, as the company, like many other bell foundries, ran into financial difficulties due to the decline in demand for bells. As a result, the 10 employees were dismissed for reasons of bankruptcy law. However, business operations will continue until it has been clarified whether further operations will be possible in terms of content and arithmetic, whereby the wages of the employees are secured within the framework of the insolvency money.

At the end of June 2020, it was announced that the company premises had been sold. The new owner would like to use most of the site for his own company, but the bell foundry is also to be continued, albeit on a much smaller scale, by Julius Maas, the son of the previous owner Cornelia Mark-Maas, so that it will also be Tourist attraction can still be obtained.

The larger works of the Eifel bell foundry include, for example, the 13-part chime of Minden Cathedral and the 6-part chime of the Liebfrauenkirche in Hamm , the largest bell of which weighs 5,430 kg. The heaviest bell cast in Brockscheid is the 7,283 kg Christ bell by St. Johannes Baptist in Neheim . One of the lighter, large bells cast in Brockscheid is the only 2,698 kg bell with the chime a ° of the chimes of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Bonn-Röttgen .

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  Maxima (f ⁰ )
  in the Bell Museum in Herrenberg (Guss 2000)

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  Joseph Bell  (d ¹ )
  in Cologne Cathedral (cast 1998)

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  Bells for the crossing tower in Minden Cathedral (Guss 2011)

Web links

Commons : Eifeler Glockengießerei  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Marlon Gego: The bell foundry in the Vulkaneifel. In: Aachener Zeitung. August 5, 2015, accessed September 24, 2015 . 
• The last of his class? - The bell founder from the Eifel on YouTube .

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 59 ″  N , 6 ° 50 ′ 52 ″  E

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mario Hübner: Economy: Bell foundry from the Eifel files for bankruptcy. Retrieved April 25, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Angelika Koch: Foundry: New perspectives without bells? Retrieved April 25, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Angelika Koch: Bells will continue to be cast in Brockscheid. Retrieved April 25, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Matthias Dichter alias "Engerlingkunden": 13-part full bells in Minden Cathedral. Retrieved April 25, 2020 . 
5. ^ Full bells of the Liebfrauenkirche in Hamm. Retrieved April 25, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Bronze bells - Eifeler bell foundry Mark Brockscheid - Vulkaneifel. Archived from the original on September 10, 2019 ; accessed on April 25, 2020 . 
7. ^ ^{A b} Walter Schäfer: Bells in Germany. January 2020, accessed April 25, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Full bells of the Christ Resurrection Church in Bonn-Röttgen. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .