Friedrich Wilhelm Roetig

Friedrich Wilhelm Roetig also called Rötig or Rettig (* May 28, 1782 in Hachenburg ; † June 30, 1861 there ) was a German watchmaker , instrument maker and optician .

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm Roetig was born on May 28, 1782 in Hachenburg as the son of the watchmaker Johann Anton Roetig and his wife Magdalena, née Manderscheid. He too worked as a watchmaker and also an optician, a combination of professions that was common in the 19th century. He married Maria Magdalene Lorsbach on July 31, 1810, they had 5 children.

Friedrich Wilhelm Roetig died on June 30, 1861 in his hometown at the age of 79. His son Friedrich Emil b. March 14th, 1814 was also a watchmaker, engaged in small watches and thus continued the family tradition.

plant

Friedrich Wilhelm was a versatile, skilled watchmaker. Among other things, he worked a lot with optics, sharpened the lenses himself and constructed large telescopes on tripods . He improved the harmonium and completed the first " knee Harmonium " my own design in 1830, of which a torso in the Landscape Museum Westerwald was kept.

"Roetig clock"

A special feature of his craftsmanship is the double-sided window clock, which he made in Hachenburg in 1805 for his house on the market, which also housed his workshop . The clock is a 133 cm long precision pendulum clock , sogn. Cantilever with spring-driven eight-day movement , brass plates and scissors inhibition . It has a dial on both sides . On one side there are the hands for the hour, minute and central hands for the second, on the other hand there are only the hands for the hour and minute. The pendulum is mounted in cutting edges with the pendulum compensation according to John Ellicott . The round movement case with the dials forms the lens of the pendulum. The precious carving with a three-tier fan ornament that surrounds the window niche in which this clock is located was made around 1900.

In 1992 the watch was loaned to the craftsmen exhibition in Koblenz .

The RÖTIG clock applies by virtue of their design and creation time as unique in the world and stands as a technical monument under monument protection . Today it is a landmark of the city of Hachenburg and a monument to the traditional watchmaking and craftsmanship .

See also : List of cultural monuments in Hachenburg

literature

• Dietrich Fabian: Kinzing and Roentgen - watches from Neuwied. Life and work of the watchmaker families Kinzing and the cabinet makers Abraham and David Roentgen. 2nd Edition. Pfaehler, Bad Neustadt 1984, ISBN 3-922923-28-3 .

Web links

• The watchmaker family Roetig in Hachenburg. UhrenHanse, accessed July 18, 2013 . 
• Roetig, Friedrich Wilhelm. Watch Wiki, accessed July 18, 2013 . 
• 200 year old watch comes back to Hachenburg from Paris. Rhein-Zeitung, accessed on July 18, 2013 . 
• Hachenburg receives documents from the Roetig estate. (PDF; 445 kB) GeschichtsWerkstatt Hachenburg eV, accessed on July 18, 2013 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ian D. Fowler: Kinzing & Co. Innovative watches from the province. District Museum Neuwied, Neuwied 2003, ISBN 3-00-012149-8 , p. 42 f.
2. ^ Carl Schulte: Lexicon of watchmaking art. Emil Huebners Verlag, Bautzen 1902, p. 675.
3. ↑ From the Roetig watchmaker dynasty to the Bonn. (No longer available online.) Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz eV, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 20, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
4. ^ Norbert Wilhelm Köbler: Friedrich Wilhelm Roetig. Retrieved July 18, 2013 . 
5. ^ Ian D. Fowler: Three Wheel Clocks with four hour dials. Retrieved July 18, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Jürgen Ermert: To early German precision pendulum clocks. (PDF; 2.5 MB) (No longer available online.) Klassik Uhren 4/2009, p. 19f, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 18, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.