GA Jauck

Jauck is a redirect to this article. For the German administrative officer and State Secretary, see Erhard Jauck .

The foundry of GA Jauck's bell foundry in Leipzig.

The Jauck bell and art foundry in Leipzig was a family business that existed between 1796 and 1903. It traded under the name of G. A. Jauck . The foundry also manufactured fire extinguishers as a Royal Saxon private syringe factory .

history

The bell foundry around 1860

Jaucksche bells at the Saxon-Thuringian industrial and commercial exhibition in Leipzig in 1897

The bronze foundry was founded in Leipzig in 1796 by Georg Andreas Jauck (GA Jauck) from Nuremberg . It was located in Holzgasse from 1822 (from 1864 on Sternwartenstraße). The street that later branches off here was named Glockenstrasse. After 36 years, the city of Leipzig acquired the production facility in 1835, which was now called the council bell foundry. The city commissioned the son of the company founder - Gustav Adolph Jauck - with the continuation and management of the craft business. After that, the company's founder's grandson, Richard Gustav Adolph Jauck, born in 1844, took over management. The next and last company owner was Rudolf Jauck. The foundry produced the bells for numerous church buildings throughout Germany.

The first bell of the Flensburg Diako Church, cast by Jauck in 1882 . It was replaced in May 2010.

Advertisement for fire extinguishers from GA Jauck

A fire extinguisher from the Jauck company on Augustusplatz in Leipzig

In addition to bells of all sizes, the Jauck company also manufactured fire extinguishers from the middle of the 19th century. With these products, but also with sponsorship, G. A. Jauck supported the formation and equipment of fire brigades in various German locations, even fire brigades in Austria .

Church bells made by Jauck

Because the company was headed by different members of the Jauck family, it is not possible to clearly identify the full name. Therefore, all cast bronze bells known under Jauck are listed here. A total of 775 bells should come from the Jauck workshop.

Churches

• 1839: three bells for the Memorial Church in Schönefeld (Ossietzkystraße); In 1864 one had to be re-cast
• 1847: two bells for the church in Hänichen ; sacrificed in World War II
• 1855: two bells for the church in Lützschena ; sacrificed in World War II
• 1858: three bells for the church in Rehbach
• 1861: four bells for the Catholic St. Cyriakus Church in Duderstadt (f sharp ⁰ a ⁰ c sharp ¹ f sharp ¹ ), lost in the First World War .
• 1862: two bells for the Evangelical Church of Our Dear Women in Dahlen : The middle bell (key note g ') is 112 cm wide and weighs 900 kilograms, the small bell (key note b') is 94 cm wide and weighs 550 kilograms.
• 1865: three bells for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wachau , sacrificed during the Second World War , the fragments remained in Hamburg.
• 1865: casting of three bronze bells (684.7 kg, tone: F; 365 kg, tone: A; 207.5 kg, tone: C) for the Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church in Neusalza . The two large bells were melted down at the beginning of the First World War in 1914, the smaller one was sold to the bell foundry Franz Schilling & Sons in Apolda in 1920.
• 1865: three bells for the Evangelical Lutheran “St. Johannis Pauli Church” in Lower Saxony, Thuringia (d ¹ f ¹ a ¹ ). The large and small bells were sacrificed for the production of war material in the First World War. The third bell was sold to the community of Lippoldshausen in 1923 .
• 1868: three bells for the Church of the Holy Cross Lengefeld (Erzgebirge)
• 1875: three bells for the Matthäuskirche (Lehrte)
• 1882: Bell for the roof turret of the Flensburg DIAKO church
• 1884: three bells for the Klinga village church
• 1887: one of the four bells for the castle church (Chemnitz) (d ¹ ), originally made as the middle bell for the Petrikirche
• 1890: St. Marien (Zwickau)
• 1892: Nikolaikirche (Aue)
• 1897: three bells for the Saxon-Thuringian industrial and commercial exhibition in Leipzig in 1897
• 1898: Petrikirche (Chemnitz)
• one of the bells (e ¹ ) of the upper church St. Nikolai in Cottbus
• 1900: also for the Marienkirche in Zwickau, a Seiger bell (clock strike bell) weighing 600 kg and 100 cm in diameter. This had to be delivered to the Army Office in 1913 before the beginning of the First World War.
• 1902: Three-way bell for the Göbschelwitz Church

In Leipzig, at the end of the company in 1904, there were 83 Jauck bells on 34 church towers. Rudolf Jauck was known as "The Bell Founder of Leipzig".

Other products from Jauck

From 1865 GA Jauck also produced fire extinguishers, initially hand-operated. In 1876 the company built the first steam-powered sprayer, which King Ludwig II of Bavaria acquired at the 10th German Fire Brigade Conference in Stuttgart in 1877.

In total, the company supplied over 5000 hand fire syringes and 28 steam fire syringes. Fire extinguishers from GA Jauck are still at the fire brigades in Mulsum , Prestewitz and Langhennersdorf .

literature

• Friedrich Hofmann : Thunder 's neighbor . In: The Gazebo . Issue 26, 1869, pp. 412-416 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
• Manfred Gihl: Fire brigades under steam: the history of steam spray technology . Sutton Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-813-3 , p. 59 ( books.google.de )
• Rainer Thümmel : Bell casting in Saxony. Chemnitz Industrial Museum - Museum Courier, August 2006, accessed on February 19, 2020 . 

Web links

Commons : Glockengießerei Jauck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Company publications by GA Jauck in the archive of the Deutsches Museum
• Rainer Thümmel: Bell casting in Saxony . In: Sächsisches Industriemuseum (Hrsg.): Museumskurier , issue 17, August 2006
• Interview with Roy Kreß: The work of the Leipzig bell foundry GA Jauck. In: nikolaikirche.de. May 6, 2018, accessed May 13, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names , Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5
2. ↑ ^{a b} Overview of bell casting establishments in Saxony. private database Grabinski; Retrieved June 28, 2010
3. ^ Auction with a company publication ("Preis-Courant") of the Royal. Saxon. priv. syringe factory, GA Jauck; Page 7, lot 1262 (PDF; 1.3 MB) accessed on June 28, 2010
4. ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bell casting in Saxony. In: Museum courier. Saxon Industrial Museum , August 2006, accessed on March 4, 2018 (issue 17). 
5. ↑ Duderstadt City Archives: Sign Dud 2, No. 10195, p. 115 ff.
6. ^ Rainer Thümmel: Bells in Saxony. Sound between heaven and earth . Ed .: Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church Office of Saxony. Second, updated and supplemented edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt GmbH, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-02871-9 , p. 284 .
7. ^ Homepage of the Wachau Church; Retrieved June 29, 2010
8. ↑ Details on the bells homepage of the church in Niedersachswerfen; Retrieved June 29, 2010
9. ↑ The bells of the Chemnitz Castle Church at you.tube; accessed on January 21, 2016
10. ^ Bells St. Nikolai (Cottbus) , accessed on January 21, 2016
11. ↑ Interview with Roy Kreß: The work of the Leipzig bell foundry GA Jauck. In: nikolaikirche.de. May 6, 2018, accessed May 13, 2018 . 
12. ^ Advertisement in Gihl: Fire brigades ... , p. 59
13. ↑ private homepage Albert Gieseler; accessed on January 21, 2014
14. ^ "Mobile suction and pressure sprayer (Landspritze No. 4 with feeder)" 1885, short article by the Mulsum fire brigade
15. ↑ ^{a b} Fire engine "Jauck's valve"

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