Büchsenhausen foundry
The Büchsenhausen foundry , also a foundry on the Gänsbichl / Gänsbühel , was a bell and gun foundry in Hötting near Innsbruck .
Emperor Maximilian I made Tyrol the central arsenal for his campaigns. In and around Innsbruck, especially in Hötting and Mühlau , an important armaments center was built, in which copper from the Tyrolean mines was processed into guns.
In 1503 Peter Löffler took over a foundry at Gänsbichl in Hötting, where he cast bells, "cans" (cannons) and the first statue for the tomb of Emperor Maximilian I in the Innsbruck Court Church . In 1522 his son Gregor took over the foundry and in 1539 had the builder Gregor Türing build a residence next to it , today's Büchsenhausen Castle.
Since the heirs of Löffler no longer operated the casting trade, Archduke Maximilian III bought it. In 1604 the foundry and the residence and leased both to the gun caster Heinrich Reinhart , who, among other things, cast the figures of his tomb in today's Innsbruck Cathedral and the bronze statues for the Leopold Fountain. After him, his nephew Friedrich Reinhart (1604–1638) took over the business. In 1641 his widow Bartlme Köttelath (Kettelath) married the elder (* 1608). He and his successors continued to run the foundry and, among other things, supplied bells for St. Georgenberg .
From 1774 the foundry was owned by the Miller family of bell foundries . Simon Peter Miller introduced innovations such as the use of a baroque rib and helped the foundry to flourish again. With the death of Josef Georg Miller in 1854, the family died out and the foundry in Büchsenhausen was closed.
A residential complex built in 1977/78 is located on the site of the foundry. Only the 80 m long and 2.5 to 3 m high wall along Weiherburggasse, which is a listed building, has been preserved. There is a memorial plaque on this.
literature
- Beatrix and Egon Pinzer: Castles Palaces Ruins in North and East Tyrol . Edition Löwenzahn, Innsbruck 1996, ISBN 3-7066-2122-3 , p. 102-106 .
- Erich Egg : Caspar Gras and the Tyrolean bronze casting of the 17th century. In: Publications of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Volume 40 (1960), pp. 5–57 ( PDF; 18.6 MB )
- Felmayer, Wiesauer: Wall of the princely bell and gun foundry. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved March 5, 2020 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 16 ′ 30.4 " N , 11 ° 23 ′ 34" E