Ernst (bell foundry family)

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Ernst is the name of two families who worked as metal and bell founders in the (extended) southern German area for several generations . One of them operated metal and bell foundries in Lindau (Lake Constance), Memmingen and Ulm, the other in the Munich area.

people

Master lists derived from the NDB

Tribe list family 1
  1. Leonhard Ernst I (* 1561?) Rotschmied from Nuremberg, active in Lindau since 1586 , founder of the Lindauer Gießhütte, the most important preserved work is the bell of the Lindau St. Stephen's Church
    1. Johann Baptista Ernst I (* 1588) active in Lindau; detectable on bells until 1628; working in the style of his father
      1. Peter Ernst I (* 1627; † approx. 1700) active in Lindau; Employee at Theodosius Ernst I
        1. Johann Baptista Ernst III (* 1678), piece and bell caster in Lindau, between 1704 and 1710 founding community with Andreas Aporta from Feldkirch (from 1707 Bregenz), on bells a. a. traceable in Isny ​​and Tettnang from 1700 to 1715;
          1. Peter Ernst II (* 1701), bell founder and councilor in Lindau, verifiable on bells in the Swabian Oberland and Bavarian Swabia from 1721 to 1762
            1. Johann Heinrich Ernst (* 1739; † after 1781), from 1763 to 1781 on bells in the Swabian Oberland and Bavarian Swabia (6th and last generation)
            2. Johann Melchior Ernst (1702–1782), piece and bell caster, trained in Frankfurt am Main from 1717 to 1721, took over the Memmingen foundry in 1724, and between 1733 and 1766, according to business books, 218 bells in the Bernese Oberland and Bavarian Swabia
              1. Johann Georg Ernst (1741–1808), between 1766 and 1808, according to business books, 336 bells in the Bernese Oberland and Bavarian Swabia (last bell founder of the family)
    2. Leonhard Ernst II (1593-1670); Casting hut in Memmingen
      1. Johann Baptista Ernst II (* 1623; † after 1691), bell founder in Kempten
      2. Sara Ernst (* 1626) ⚭ Otto Sartor from Saarbrücken; introduced the so-called cartilage style on the Memminger bells
    3. Hans Georg Ernst (* 1597); traceable in Graubünden until 1631
    4. Theodosius Ernst I (* 1603); verifiable on bells cast in Lindau from 1638 to 1673; already active in Graubünden in 1632; took over Lindauer Gießhütte; introduced cartilage style and reliefs that were still used
      1. Leonhard Ernst III (1634–1686) foundry community with cousin Peter, from 1684 head of the municipal foundry in Ulm
        1. Theodosius Ernst II († 1726), cousin of Johann Baptista III, took over the Ulm foundry from his father Leonard III in 1886, was a leader in the gun foundry and expert for the water supply, special works: chandeliers for the Ulm town hall and abbot for Obermarchtal.
          1. Leonhard Ernst IV (* 1699), initially an employee of the brother-in-law, from 1735 fireworks of the Swabian district and Württemberg gun caster
          2. NN (daughter) ⚭ 1716 Gottlieb Korn (1692–1763) from Leipzig
            Korn was accepted into his father-in-law's foundry around 1718/20 and took over the Ulm foundry in 1726; he cast the bells for Ludwigsburg.
Tribe list family 2
  1. Bernhard Ernst (* approx. 1597; † after 1681) from Warth, district of Dingolfing,
    ⚭1 1625 Maria Frey, widow of the bell founder Dionysius Frey from Munich; ⚭2 1633 Maria Derfl
    1625–1681 verifiable in Munich, privilege of the Bishop of Freising 1625 for what is today the area of ​​the diocese of Munich-Freising (1913 still 213 bells from the years 1625–1670 verifiable); significant gun production.
    1. Johann Melchior Ernst (* 1639; † approx. 1680), ⚭ Magdalena Ernst b. Mörz, worked in the father's
      foundry from 1670 to 1679 The foundry was passed on to the bell founder Paulus Kopp from Würzburg in 1682 via the widow Magdalena in her second marriage (⚭ 1680).
      Magdalena married a third time, this time the bell founder Johann Matthias Langenegger from Schlackenwerth
      1. Josef Ignaz Ernst (* 1664; † before 1706), piece and bell caster, bought the Munich foundry in 1699 from Maria Magdalena widowed Kopp and married her.
        1. Anton Benedikt Ernst (verifiable since 1717; † 1749), accepted into the foundry of his step-grandfather Matthias Langenegger in 1718, with whom he worked until 1738.
  2. Stephan Ernst, piece and bell caster
Other bell founders not yet assigned by the name of Ernst
  • Hans Ernst († before 1493 in Stuttgart; 1483–1491 verifiable), bell founder from Heimsheim near Leonberg (Württemberg), citizen of Stuttgart, is known for two famous bells (1490), the 2.12 m large volley bell of the Munich Frauenkirche, the he cast in Regensburg on behalf of Albrecht IV and the Hosanna bell in Weingarten monastery; between 1483 and 1489 also documented as a liner for Count Eberhard.

Works

Distributor piece of the old Ulm water supply system decorated with an angel's head, cast from bronze by Theodosius Ernst the Younger in 1712

A bell in Feldkirch's cat tower, the Rochus , was made in 1665 by the older Theodosius Ernst, who at that time was apparently still based in Lindau. The bell, which cost 7,000 guilders and weighed 113 hundred pounds, was melted down after a few years after it had cracked. The Madonna in the halo on the roof of the Church of the Assumption of Mary in Söflingen proved to be more durable . It was cast around 1690. In 1702, a bell for a church in Reisensburg was cast in Theodosius Ernst's workshop, which was melted down during the First World War.

The Ulrichskirche in Süßen still has a complete baroque ringing of three bells from Ernst's workshop. You were z. Partly cast from the material of the old bells destroyed in the town fire in 1707 and began their service in 1708. The prayer bell bears the relief of a crucifixion group, the cross bell shows Christ on the Mount of Olives and the baptismal bell John the Baptist. In 1942 the prayer bell and the cross bell were removed and were to be remelted. However, after the war they were found in the bell camp in Lünen and returned to their old location.

Theodosius Ernst the Younger, also dealt with hydraulic engineering. He created the Güterstein conveyor system that still exists today . The main state archive in Stuttgart keeps several designs for the water features in Ludwigsburg from 1724.

His son was also called Theodosius. His daughter married Gottlieb Korn .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see literature Sigrid Thurm: Glockengießerfamilie Ernst
  2. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: From ancient times: Der Katzenturm ( Memento from April 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), In: Feldkirch aktuell 6/2000 , p. 1, seen in the Internet Archive at archive.org, as of April 27, 2009 June 10, 2011 (PDF)
  3. ↑ MARIÄ ASCENSION IN SÖFLINGEN ( Memento from August 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on telebus.de, in the Internet Archive at archive.org, as of August 16, 2007, viewed June 10, 2011
  4. ^ Klaus Kraft: Landkreis Günzburg , p. 567
  5. ↑ http://www.suessen-evangelisch.de/fileadmin/mediapool/gemeinden/KG_suessen/glocken_unserer_stadt_19719.pdf
  6. ↑ https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/struktur.php?Stock=21063&klassi=& AnzeigeKlassi=019&letztesLimit=&baumearch=&standort=&inhaltHauptframe=unterebenen&sprungId=1210035&syssuche=&logik =