Friedrich Dreyer (bell founder)

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Friedrich Dreyer (* before 1855, † after 1885) was a German gun , brass and bell caster .

Life

As a foundryman of brass goods and church bells, Friedrich Dreyer was presumably the last representative of his profession in the area of ​​today's city of Hanover . However, brass caster from Hanover could also cast smaller bells .

Even at the time of industrialization in the Kingdom of Hanover, Dreyer was still working, according to an inscription on one of his bells, "in Linden before Hanover."

Dreyer was last mentioned in the address books of Hanover in 1885 under his professional title. According to Jens Hage, the sexton of the Hanoverian Kreuzkirche , who began researching the "bell landscape of the city on a scientific basis" at the beginning of the 21st century, Friedrich Dreyer ran his bell foundry workshop on Deisterstraße in Linden.

Well-known works (selection)

  • around 1855, Wettmar , St. Marcus Church : Two newly shaped bells that Friedrich Dreyer created “from Hanover” from the three previous bells that had melted during the great fire in Wettmar
  • 1861, Bierde , St. Vitus Chapel: bell with a diameter of 0.59 m, cast in linden
  • 1863, Völksen : Bell with a diameter of 0.82 m for the parish Völksen, cast in linden trees
  • 1868, Fuhlen , St. John the Baptist Church : bell with a diameter of 86 cm, cast in linden
  • 1870–1871, Pegestorf , two bells for the Pegestorf Church:
    • Diameter 56 cm: "I was poured by F. Dreyer in Linden near Hanover, municipality of Pegestorf in 1870";
    • Diameter 68 cm with the inscription "I was poured by F. Dreyer in Linden near Hanover municipality Pegestorf 1871"
  • 1872, Echem : Dreyer from Linden supplied two chimes for the tower clock of the organ builder Philipp Furtwängler & Sons for the Protestant church in Echem that was built by Conrad Wilhelm Hase .
  • 1874, Landesbergen : bell with a diameter of 1.17 m, cast in linden

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b o.V. : History / St. Marcus Church in Wettmar on the page kirchengemeinde-wettmar.de [undated], last accessed on April 13, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c d Ludwig Hoerner : Glockengießer , in ders .: Agents, Bader and Copisten. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , p. 175f .; here: p. 176; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ a b Heiner Jürgens , Arnold Nöldeke , Joachim von Welck : Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover , Vol. 29. Part I: District Hannover , Vol. 3: Die Kunstdenkmale des Kreis Springe , Hannover: Self-published by the Provincial Administration, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1941 , P. 76; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ Kristian Teetz: Christmas time / Hanover's bells tell many stories , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from December 20, 2012, updated on December 22, 2012, last accessed on April 13, 2018
  5. ↑ Chapel in Bierde. In: Ahlden parish. Retrieved April 17, 2019 .
  6. ↑ oV : The bells on the side kirche-fuhlen.de [no date], as last accessed on 13 April 2018
  7. ↑ above: Church Pegestorf , illustrated church description on the page weserkirchen.de [ undated ], last accessed on April 13, 2018
  8. ↑ Willi Skodzaj: The tower clock in the church at Echem - history and function , in: EIGHT-fold! , Magazin der Samtgemeinde Scharnebeck, issue 22 from August 2017, p. 17; also as a PDF document from scharnebeck.de
personal data
SURNAME Dreyer, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gun, brass and bell caster
DATE OF BIRTH before 1855
DATE OF DEATH after 1885