Bachert bell foundry

Bell foundry Bachert GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1770
Seat	Neunkirchen , Baden-Württemberg , Germany (since 2018) Dallau , Baden-Württemberg, Germany (1770–1900) Bad Friedrichshall , Baden-Württemberg, Germany (1827-2003) Karlsruhe , Baden-Württemberg, Germany (1904–1968, 2003–2018) Heilbronn , Baden-Württemberg, Germany (1947-2003)
management	Albert Friedrich Bachert
Branch	Bell foundry
Website	bachert-glocken.de

Foundry mark

The Bachert bell foundry is a traditional south-west German bell foundry that has cast numerous church bells for important churches. The family business was founded in Dallau around 1770 , and the founder's descendants later set up additional locations in Bad Friedrichshall- Kochendorf, Heilbronn and Karlsruhe , which included a fire service equipment factory in addition to bell foundries . Since 2003 the company has been family-owned again as the Bachert Karlsruhe GmbH bell foundry and has been based in Karlsruhe since then. In 2018 the headquarters were relocated to Neunkirchen (Baden) and the company was renamed Glockengießerei Bachert GmbH .

history

Tomb of Christian Bachert (1839–1900) in Dallau

Karlsruhe, Christ Church:
Peace Bell

The company was founded in Dallau around 1770 by Kaspar Bachert († 1776) from Siegen as a brass foundry. The first products of the foundry included brass buttons for uniform production, for which the linen factory founded in Trienztal in 1767 supplied the material. The Dallau workshop was continued by the son Johannes Bachert and his brother-in-law Johann Peter Schwarz. Jakob Bachert († 1834), another son of Kaspar Bachert, also worked in this company. When the company was sold in 1797, Jakob Bachert bought a house in Dallau and opened a new foundry there. His main products were buckles for uniform belts, but later also bells, fire brigade syringes and the like came. Ä. added. Jakob Bachert had three sons: Johann Adam, Johann Peter and Martin. Johann Peter is mentioned as a bell founder in Dallau in 1822, later his father appears as a bell founder and Johann Peter as a buckle founder, in the end Johann Peter is only referred to as a shopkeeper and was possibly only responsible for the sale of the products or not at all in the family business.

The operation in Dallau was continued from 1837 by Martin Bachert († 1875), who now also poured fire-fighting equipment in particular and had the family home renovated in 1863. His son Christian Bachert (1839–1900) had the casting house built in stone and expanded the house several times. After his death, the Dallau property came into the possession of his wife from his second marriage, Louise Bachert, née. Bender, from Auerbach.

Johann Adam Bachert (1799–1871), a son of Jakob Bachert and a grandson of the founder Kaspar Bachert, had moved to Kochendorf in 1813 . There he acquired the St. Andrésche Schlösschen in 1829 and started the foundry there in 1830. After Christian Bachert's death in 1900, the Kochendorfer factory also took over the factory in Dallau, which was given up in 1914. The Kochendorfer foundry moved from St. André'schen Schlösschen to the town's former gasworks, where a modern company was established. The Kochendorfer manufacturer Louis (Ludwig Friedrich) Bachert (1830-1913) became an honorary citizen of the place in 1910. The Bachert fire fighting equipment factory was later set up in Kochendorf , and the company also produced ladders.

The economic boom of the company in the middle of the 20th century is attributed in particular to the great need for church bells to replace the bells that were destroyed in the First and Second World Wars by delivery and melting or by the effects of war. Nevertheless, the foundry in Kochendorf, which had been part of Bad Friedrichshall since 1933, was itself destroyed by fighter-bomber attacks in April 1945, but was quickly rebuilt after the war.

The brothers Alfred and Karl Bachert founded a bell foundry in Karlsruhe in 1904 . Albert Bachert (1871–1949) founded another plant in Heilbronn in 1947 with his son Alfred . After the death of the childless owner in the 1960s, the Karlsruhe plant temporarily passed to other owners. The fire fighting equipment factory in Kochendorf came to the Kienbaum Group in 1983.

In 1982 the Karlsruhe foundry and the Heidelberg foundry of the bell founder Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling, who died in 1971, merged to form the Karlsruhe bell and art foundry . The foundries Gebrüder Bachert in Bad Friedrichshall-Kochendorf and Alfred Bachert in Heilbronn were merged from 1988. In January 2003, the association with the foundry Gebrüder Bachert, Karlsruhe, became the bell foundry Bachert Karlsruhe GmbH , based in Karlsruhe. In 2018, the company moved to Neunkirchen (Baden) and changed its name to Glockengießerei Bachert GmbH .

In addition to church bells , today's product range also includes ship bells , carillons , carillons , bell fittings and suitable accessories. The company also restores historic bells. Bachert bells can be found in numerous historically important churches.

Big bells and chimes

Selection:

• Aichach, Mariä Himmelfahrt : six bells from 2016 (b ⁰ –des ¹ –es ¹ –f ¹ –as ¹ –b ¹ ) as a replacement for steel bells from the Bochumer Verein from 1947
• Ansbach, Friedenskirche : five bells from 1967 (a ¹ –h ¹ –cis ² –e ² –fis ² )
• Breisach, Stephansmünster : two bells from 2011 (b ⁰ –es ¹ ) and one bell from 2012 (ges ¹ ) to five existing ones

Bell of the Mannheim Christ Church

• Burgdorf, St. Pankratius : three bells from 2009 (a ⁰ –d ¹ –fis ¹ ) to an existing one
• Celle, Stadtkirche St. Marien : Peace bell from 2008 ( strike tone: ges ⁰ , weight: 8,202 kg) to three existing ones
• Duderstadt, St. Cyriakus : two bells from 2011 (as ⁰ –c ¹ ) to five existing ones
• Dresden, Frauenkirche : seven bells from 2002/3 (d ¹ –e ¹ –g ¹ –a ¹ –c ² –d ² –f ² ) to an existing one
• Erlangen, St. Matthäus : five bells from 1961 (h ⁰ –d ¹ –e ¹ –fis ¹ –a ¹ )

Millennium bell from 2008

• Gößweinstein, basilica : five bells from 1998 (a ⁰ –c ¹ –g ¹ –a ¹ –h ¹ ) to two existing ones
• Hamburg, main church St. Michaelis : Millennium bell from 2008 ( strike : f ⁰ , weight: 9,040 kg) for five existing bells
• Hildesheim, Hohe Domkirche St. Mariä Himmelfahrt : six bells from 2013 (g ¹ –as ¹ –b ¹ –c ² –es ² –f ² ) to six existing ones
• Höchst (A), parish church St. Johann : seven bells from 2005 (as ⁰ –c ¹ –es ¹ –f ¹ –as ¹ –b ¹ –c ² ; warped chime line)
• Hoheim, St. Georg : two bells from 1992 (strike: c sharp ² , e ² )
• Karlsruhe, Christ Church : peace bell from 2004 ( strike : f ⁰ , weight: 9,160 kg) to five existing ones
• Karlsruhe-Durlach , St. Peter and Paul: seven bells from 2000 (g sharp ⁰ –h ⁰ –c sharp ¹ –dis ¹ –e ¹ –g sharp ¹ –h ¹ ) to an existing one
• Kassel-Forstfeld , Immanuelkirche: three bells from 1961 (d ¹ –e ¹ –g ¹ )
• Kassel-Mitte, Lutherkirche : three bells from 1957 (c ¹ –es ¹ –as ¹ ) to an existing one from 1925 (strike note f ¹ )
• Kassel-Mitte, St. Familia : three bells from 2015 (c ¹ –d ¹ –f ¹ ) to an existing one from 1924 (strike note e ¹ )
• Kassel-Niederzwehren , Markuskirche: three bells from 2016 (h ⁰ –e ¹ –f sharp ¹ ) to an existing one from 1913 / replica from 1573 (chime g sharp ¹ )
• Lübeck, St. Marien : three bells from 1985 (as ⁰ –b ⁰ –es ¹ ) to four existing ones
• Lüneburg, St. Johannis : two bells from 2013 (d ¹ –fis ¹ ) and one bell from 2014 (a ⁰ ) to five existing ones
• Mannheim , Christ Church : 1909 the largest ringing in Baden, 1956 new casting of the five bells (as ⁰ –b ⁰ –c ¹ –es ¹ –f ¹ )
• Munich-Giesing, Templar Church: 20 bells on G sharp ⁰
• Neubrandenburg, St. Marien : five bells from 2006 (h ⁰ –e ¹ –gis ¹ –a ¹ –h ¹ )
• Nuremberg, St. Sebald : four bells from 1952 (a ⁰ –cis ¹ –e ¹ –fis ¹ )
• Pforzheim, ev. Town church : six bells from 1964/65 (g sharp ⁰ –h ⁰ –c sharp ¹ –dis ¹ –f sharp ¹ –g sharp ¹ )
• Rotenburg an der Fulda , collegiate church: four bells from 1995 (d ¹ –f ¹ –g ¹ -b ¹ )
• St. Ingbert , parish church St. Josef : seven bells from 2011 (a ⁰ –cis ¹ –e ¹ –fis ¹ –a ¹ –h ¹ –d ² ; strike line slightly warped)
• Strasbourg, St. Thomas Church : four bells from 2009 (c sharp ¹ –e ¹ –f sharp ¹ –a ¹ ) to two existing ones
• Vierzehnheiligen, basilica : six bells from 2019 (g ¹ –h ¹ –e ² –fis ² –g ² –a ² ) to five existing ones

literature

• Bruno König: The Bachert bell foundry . In: 1200 years of Dallau in the Elztal. Elztal-Dallau 1974, pp. 228-230 (about the early years in Dallau).

Web links

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

• www.bachert-glocken.de
• Craftsmanship! How to Cast a Bell / SWR TV on YouTube .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ AG Mannheim, HRB 110105, publication of December 21, 2017
2. ↑ Our Minster 46-2011, p. 6ff. Martin Hau, Emil Göggel, Hermann Metz - http://gebt-christus-eine-stimme.de/
3. ↑ Our Münster No. 48-2012, p. 14ff - information on the Münsterbauverein
4. ↑ The original casting from 2000 jumped in 2008 and was re-cast by the Bachert bell foundry.
5. ^ Friedrich Burrer: Christ Church Mannheim-Oststadt . Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7954-6533-8 , pp. 13/14.
6. ↑ Ben Schröder: Vierzehnheiligen (STE) The eleven new bells of the pilgrimage basilica of the 14th Helpers (tower photo). Retrieved December 27, 2019 .