Gert van Mervelt

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Gert van Mervelt , also Merveldt or Merfeld or Merfeldt (effective from 1539; † October 16, 1558 in Flensburg ) was a North German piece and bell founder of the early Renaissance.

Life

Little is known about the origins of Gert van Mervelt. The name suggests a Westphalian family origin, but this is not documented in the literature. Gert van Mervelt worked mainly in Flensburg but also in Copenhagen. In 1539 he cast a bell for the Petrikirche in Hamburg and in 1541 he cast a bell for the church of Stepping in what is now North Schleswig , which, according to Theodor Hach, was characterized by a "splendid Renaissance ornament" with a forest devil playing in acanthus vines. In 1546, the year for which the Ratsgießhaus on the Lastadie was first recorded in Lübeck , he worked in Lübeck as a bell founder of the pulse bell in the Marienkirche and on this occasion also created two guns for the city, which have not been preserved, but their resale by the city in 1770 is documented in an old list. The 6630.5 kg pulse bell in Marien crashed in 1632 when it was ringing; it was re-cast in 1646 by the Lübeck council founder Anton Wiese and shortly thereafter in 1668 by the Lübeck council founder Albert Benningk .

In 1548, probably again in Flensburg, he cast a bell for the Church of Oldenswort , Eiderstedt ; From the year 1554 bells for the church in Ketting (preserved) on Alsen (today Sønderborg Kommune ) and for the Katharinenkirche Süderstapel (not preserved) are proven.

In Denmark, Gert (Gerhardt) van Mervelt are assigned five bells to the Ældre . From 1541 he received royal orders and in 1557 material support to rebuild his foundry on the monastery in Flensburg, which had collapsed. According to a document from 1561, the foundry Karsten Middeldorp, who has been in Lübeck since 1548, acquired his tool so tom Bussengeten from the heirs of Mervelt. Hach concludes from this that Middeldorp might have worked as a journeyman at Mervelt. It is also suspected that the Flensburg foundryman Michel Dibler was involved in or trained at Mervelt.

Gert van Mervelt was buried in the Nikolaikirche in Flensburg ; his grave was adorned with a brass plate from 1562, which had not survived and on which a bell and a cannon could be seen next to a Latin inscription. His widow Rixe van Mervelt died in 1565. Two of his sons, Gert (1547–1599) and Hinrich (Heinrich von Merfeldt, 1556–1612), became mayors of Flensburg. Both worked as merchants.

Gert van Mervelt den Yngre , who also worked in Flensburg and Copenhagen and of whom eleven works in Denmark are known, is known from the period from 1565 to 1588 .

literature

  • Olaus Heinrich Moller: Renewed memory of the mayor Gerdt von Merfeldt, who was highly deserved by various charitable foundations and legacies around his hometown of Flensburg: on the occasion of a solemn farewell speech that a hopeful young man will give on the next day in the top lecture hall of the local Latin school. Flensburg: Serringhausen 1773.
  • Theodor Hach: Beginnings of the Renaissance in Lübeck. Rahtgens, Lübeck 1889.
  • The Marienkirche - The bells . In: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck . tape 2 : Petrikirche, Marienkirche, Heil.-Geist-Hospital . B. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906, p. 432 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Theodor Hach: Lübecker Glockenkunde (= publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. 2). Max Schmidt, Lübeck 1913, p. 208 f.
  • Johannes Warnke: Mervelt, Gerd van . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 423 .
  • Günter Meyer: Bronze cannons from Lübeck - production and trade of the council founders. In: Journal for Lübeckische Geschichte Volume 96, 2016, pp. 143–163 (pp. 148/149).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hach, Beginnings of the Renaissance in Lübeck. P. 26 with reference to main: architectural and art monuments of the province of Schleswig-Holstein. Volume I, p. 382.
  2. ^ Hach: Beginnings of the Renaissance in Lübeck. P. 26, footnote 2.
  3. ^ Hach: Beginnings of the Renaissance in Lübeck. P. 26.
  4. ↑ Hans Nyholm: Kirkeklokker i Danmark. (Danish, hikuin.dk ).
personal data
SURNAME Mervelt, Gert van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Merveldt, Gert van; Merfeld, Gert van; Merfeldt, Gert van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gun and bell founder
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1558
Place of death Flensburg