Bell foundry Rosenlächer

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Bell foundry Rosenlächer, Photo: Eugen Wolf (around 1899)
Hand-drawn hand pressure syringe by Rosenlächer (1796)
Bell by Carl Rosenlächer for the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm , today on the motor ship Karlsruhe
The market bell of Greth in Überlingen from 1655 can be seen in the cinema

The Rosenlächer bell foundry (until 1804: Rosenlecher ) was a traditional Konstanz bell foundry that cast numerous bells for important churches. Among other things, she made the bells for the Freiburg cathedral from 1843, which rang in the cathedral until 1959.

history

The Rosenlächer family of bell founders lasted for seven generations for 250 years and was founded around 1650 by Johann Leonhard Rosenlecher I (1602–1673), who came from Meißen , with the fief of the Constance foundry. It was successfully continued by three descendants of the same name and also resident in the city. The foundry of the Rosenlächers in Konstanz was in the Hirschgraben 282 (today: Obere Laube 40-42). It dates from 1599 and was sold in 1769 to the caster Leonhard Rosenlächer III at a price of 400  florins . This sale was made with the proviso that the foundry would be preserved forever and the city had the right to have its cannons cast there. In this bell foundry not only bells and military equipment were made, but also fire engines . The Emmingen fire brigade procured a fire engine in 1780, and another went to the Petershausen monastery around 1792 .

Three more descendants followed, of which Carl Leonhard (1802–1860) is best known: He poured over 700 bells. His son Karl David Josef (1835–1901) had major economic problems, also went blind and in 1883 handed the foundry to his brother Josef Alexander. It was closed in 1900 and demolished in 1905.

Works

  • The big festival of the Freiburg Minster rings out in the notes b °, d ', f', f sharp ', a', b ', c sharp' ', d' ', f' 'and b' ', but without the ones in es 1 tuned hosanna , cast by an unknown master on July 18, 1258. There were 8 bells, which were made from the material of 7 older bells (sermon bell from 1281, prayer time bell from 1300, hour or clock bell from 1363, 1481, vigil or brotherhood bell from 1570, Scheid or death bell from 1735, interest bell from 1773) by Carl Laughs of roses were poured. The six larger ones were purchased by the Münsterfabrik in 1841 and 1842 for 15,793 guilders. The two smallest bells named Konrad and Michael were cast in 1843 and donated by private individuals.
  • The three bells of the Church of St. Agatha in Horben . The St. Agatha with 440 kg and with the tone b, the Christ with 118 kg with the tone f and the smallest bell with 57 kg and the tone h were delivered on October 18, 1864.
  • The largest bell of the old Catholic Christ Church in Constance is by Johann Leonhard Rosenlächer.
  • The St. Stephen's Church in Karlsruhe is one of the few churches that has a Christmas bell. This was cast by Karl Rosenlächer in 1866. The bell is called "Ludwigsglocke" and sounds with the tone b0. It bears the inscription “Newly poured by Carlsruhe's love” and a stable scene with Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus.
  • Four bells of the reformed church in Stäfa in the canton of Zurich . The bells with the following basic tones b ° with 2600 kg, d 'the bedtime bell with 1300 kg, f' the Vespers with 750 kg and b 'with 300 kg from the year 1837 by the founders Carl IL Rosenlächer and Joseph MF This ringing was one of the first big bell of the foundry in Switzerland.
  • The three-part bells of the Bühl Church in Weesen ( Switzerland ) from 1860 with the tones g ', h', dis ''. The three bells weigh 715 kg, 354 kg and 203 kg. The same bell from 1859 sounds in Mühlehorn , both are from Carl Rosenlächer.
  • St. Gallen , reformed town church St. Laurenzen, 1852, tone g, 5900 kg by Carl Rosenlächer
  • Apollonia, from 1875 and weighing 347 kg, is in the Bell Museum in Herrenberg .
  • Fischingen Monastery
    • 1750, h ', 350 kg, plague bell from Johann Leonhard III. Rosenlächer, Constance
    • 1780, d ", 200 kg, Liebfrauen- or All Saints' Day bell by Johann Leonhard IV. Rosenlächer
    • 1817, fis', 800 kg, St. Nepomuk bell by Joseph MF Rosenlächer
    • 1844, fis ", 100 kg, storm bell by Carl Leonhard Rosenlächer
  • Old bell of the Church of St. Oswald and St. Otmar in Frenkenbach with the inscription: Leonhart Rosenlecher gos mich in Constantz anno 1677 . It was melted down in World War II.
  • Ship bells for Lake Constance ships (selection) and other purposes
    • 1858: Bell of the Baden paddle steamer city ​​of Konstanz (1858 to 1928, from 1897 Mainau ).
    • 1871: Bell of the first saloon steamship Kaiser Wilhelm , cast in 1871 by Carl Rosenlächer. She has been on the motor ship Karlsruhe since 1949 .
    • 1895: Bell of the paddle steamer Stadt Überlingen , which was subsequently used by three other ships named (Stadt) Überlingen . It has been on display inside the Überlingen ship since 2010 .
    • 1655: The market bell in the Greth in Überlingen is one of the oldest Rosenlecher bells. It has the inscription Leonhart Rosenlecher gos mich in Costantz in 1655 .

literature

  • Johann Marmor : Historical topography of the city of Constance and its immediate surroundings . Constance 1860, p. 91–92 ( digitized version [accessed on May 20, 2017]).
  • Theodor Humpert : The Rosenlächer bell foundry family from Constance . In: Dr. Karl Hönn, Konstanz (Ed.): Bodenseebuch . tape 1936 . Dr. Karl Höhn, Ulm-Donau, Lindau 1936, p. 32–36 ( digitized version [accessed on May 20, 2017]).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the Baroque period, a foundry was a metal foundry - mostly run by the state or municipalities - in which metal was processed for military or civil purposes.
  2. ↑ The foundry is drawn in the hand sketch over the piece by piece recording of the later municipal surveying office of Constance. City Archives Konstanz, Z IIa / 110, sheet 10.
  3. ↑ Honor to God - to defend one's neighbor . History Association for the Tuttlingen District , Tuttlingen 2006.
  4. ↑ Board at the entrance to the fire department museum in Salem on Lake Constance
  5. ↑ All about the Hosanna bell. ( Memento from August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) On: Glocken-online.de
  6. ↑ Holy Bimbam . In: Badische Zeitung , August 9, 2010
  7. ↑ Tanja Bury; BELL SOUND: Contemporary history between cardboard lids. In: Badische Zeitung , December 24, 2009.
  8. ^ Stäfa, Reformed Church Swiss Radio DRS 1 , 1964
  9. ^ Fischingen, Klosterkirche Schweizer Radio DRS 1, 1987
  10. ↑ Source: Heimatverein Immenstaad
  11. ↑ Bell of the city ​​of Constance The bell is now on the bow of the motor ship Constance .
  12. ↑ Bell of the city ​​of Überlingen, retrieved on October 23, 2014.
  13. ↑ The bell can be viewed in the anteroom of the cinema in the attic of Greth.

Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 37.5 ″  N , 9 ° 10 ′ 15.9 ″  E