Scheichel bell foundry

Bell of the pilgrimage church Maria Langegg by Franz Joseph Scheichel (1774)

The Scheichel bell foundry , also known as the Scheichl bell foundry , existed in Vienna from 1719 to 1809 .

The foundry was located in what was then the suburb of Leopoldstadt in Glockengasse, now named after the foundry, at no.10.

owner

• Franz Ulrich Scheichel (* 1689 ; † November 10, 1758 ) probably learned bell casting from Johann Baptist Dival in Vienna and founded his own company in 1719
• Franz Josef Scheichel (* 1731 ; † June 13, 1786 ), son of Franz Ulrich, took over the business from his father and ran it until his death
• Theresia Scheichel († November 18, 1809 ), wife of Franz Josef, continued the business of her deceased husband and is considered the most important female bell founder in Austria . With her death, the bell foundry was closed.

Johann Georg Scheichel, Franz Ulrich's second son, was also a bell founder. He worked together with Franz Anton Grieshaber for the Salem Minster before he settled in Znojmo around 1757 and founded his own company there.

Bells

The bells from the Scheichel workshop found their way into numerous Austrian churches, including several in Vienna 's St. Stephen's Cathedral . Deliveries were also made in southern Germany, e.g. B. for the Salem Minster .

The following important works have been preserved:

• Big bell Bummerin of the Herzogenburg Abbey in Lower Austria : cast in 1719 by Franz Ulrich Scheichel, diameter 188 cm, weight 3,864 kg, strike tone a ^0-4 .
• Big bell of Karl of the Karlskirche in Vienna : cast in 1762 by Franz Josef Scheichel, diameter 169 cm, weight approx.3,100 kg, strike h ⁰ +2.
• Big bell of the pilgrimage church Maria Taferl in Lower Austria : cast in 1774 by Franz Josef Scheichel, diameter 181 cm, weight 3,735 kg, strike h ⁰ -2.

The most important work by Franz Josef Scheichel, the former 6-part bells for St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna , cast in 1772 , is only partially preserved. Bells 3 ( Kantnerin ), 4 ( Feringerin ), 5 ( Bieringerin ) and 6 ( Churpötsch ) in the northern part Today the Heidenturm together with another bell ( Feuerin by Friedrich Gössner) form the secondary bell of the cathedral. However, only the sheichel bells are rung together, as the fire does not match the sound. The basic bell of the sheichel pounding ( quarter pounder ) was the third largest cathedral bell after the pummerin and the halfpummerin, both of which were only used as soloists. With a diameter of approx. 200 cm and a weight of approx. 4,500 kg, it had the strike note as ⁰ . It was cast in 1884. The bell 2 of the Scheichel-peal ( Zwölferin ) had a diameter of 159 cm and a weight of 2350 kg to percussive c ¹ . It was destroyed in the cathedral fire in 1945.

literature

• Jörg Wernisch: Glockenkunde von Österreich , Journal-Verlag, Lienz 2006