Bell foundry Fritz Hamm

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The Fritz Hamm bell foundry was founded in Augsburg in 1876 . The company produced several hundred bells by 1922.

history

Fritz Hamm was born in Kaiserslautern in 1848 as the son of Georg Hamm and founded the bell foundry of the same name in Augsburg in 1875, which existed from 1907 under his son Fritz Hamm (1878–1935) until 1922. The company produced around a thousand bells over the course of its history.

literature

  • Bell foundry Fritz Hamm Augsburg. Haas & Grabherr, Augsburg 1901, Episcopal Central Library Regensburg, Sig: Mus.th. 635/10

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Walter: "Glockenkunde" , page 753, Pustet Verlag, Regensburg, 1913 excerpts from the source
  2. ↑ Newspaper article of the Augsburger Allgemeine , of December 24, 2010, on the Fritz Hamm bell foundry