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Glockenspielhaus Essen

The carillon at the former office building Deiter is located in Essen city center in the pedestrian zone in the Kettwiger road 22 and is since 7 July 2017 monument .

predecessor

In 1928 a carillon was set up at the former headquarters of the Deiter company on Limbecker Strasse . Josef Deiter gave it to the city of Essen as a thank you for their loyalty. The sound bodies were cast in the Dutch royal bell foundry Petit & Fritsen from 1926 to 1929 .

In 1940, the bells were hidden on various farms in the Sauerland and thus saved from being melted down in the course of the National Socialist war economy (cf. bell cemetery ).

Today's carillon

Emergence

The house at Kettwiger Strasse 22 was acquired in 1938 by watchmaker Gerhard Ortmeyer, managing director of the Deiter company. After the company's headquarters on Limbecker Platz were destroyed , the building became the new company headquarters in 1943. After the Second World War , on June 21, 1948, the Deiter jeweler celebrated the reopening of what is now the shop at Kettwiger Strasse 22. A year later, the carillon, which had been hidden during the Second World War, was reassembled.

In the years 1955/56 the bay window with the glass mosaic facade was added to the commercial building and the carillon was extended in 1958 and 1970 with movable figures.

On July 7, 2017, the carillon was entered together with the bay window as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Essen.

construction

The carillon consists of the bell storey with 26 bells, marked with the years from 1926 to 1929, and the copper miner figure who strikes the hours with a mallet , four levels with figures from the history of the city of Essen and below the figure of the watchful chicken . In the Middle Ages, this became the city's landmark (symbol of the Essen rifle club in 1390 ). Today it crowns a stone pedestal on Kardinal-Hengsbach-Platz, formerly Kurienplatz, as a gilded rooster from 1930.

function

The bells are operated by electromagnetically operated hammers. The electromagnets are controlled from the gaming table via a cable connection. The gaming table also has a mechanism that can be used to automatically play pieces previously recorded on a punched tape, in contrast to a classic carillon , which requires a mechanical connection by means of tension wires between the gaming table and the clappers and hammer hammers of the bells.

Every quarter of an hour, a so-called Westminster chime sounds , the hour is struck by the miner with his mallet. Then the glockenspiel plays well-known folk songs, such as Am Brunnen vor dem Tore , Thoughts are free , Listen, what's coming in from outside , In a cool valley or the miner's song Glück auf! Good luck for! The Steiger comes , Christmas carols during the Christmas season. Then the two bronze figures on the top level, two citizens in medieval costumes, strike two small bells. They announce the three figures in the bay area below: Bishop Altfrid , the founder of the women's foundation, who is seen as the founder of the city of Essen, with Emperor Heinrich III in the middle . , who granted market rights in 1041 Essen , and to the right of this abbess Theophanu , who received market rights. While the bishop and emperor with their crosier and certificate have the right attributes, Theophanu holds a model of the westwork of the minster in her right hand as a sign of her services to the monastery , which is now mostly attributed to one of her predecessors.

After the appearance of these three important figures in the history of the monastery, the two figures of the fanfare players set their instruments in the next field, and between them three figures of the city's history appear one after the other. The first figure is Heinrich Barenbroch , who in 1563 was the first Protestant pastor to carry out the Reformation in the Marktkirche . He is followed by Duke Wilhelm von Kleve , who was bailiff of the monastery and town at the time, and a mayor, who was not named, with the town key, symbolizing the town's striving for independence from monastery rule.

The lower bay window of the carillon contains an animated goldsmith's workshop. These figures were only created in 1966 for the centenary of the jewelry business. The carillon ended with the figure of the Vigilant Chicken , created in 1970 , which referred to a medieval custom. The figure raised its head, flapped its wings, and crowed.

Due to the age and the increasing susceptibility of the mechanism to failure, parts of the process repeatedly failed. In 2016 it was technically overhauled.

Manufacturers and Artists

The glass mosaic on the facade was designed by the director of the Folkwang University of Design, Hermann Schardt , and by the Bavarian Court Art Institute in Munich. The figure of the miner was created by Adolf Wamper , professor at the Folkwang University. The figures from the city's history were made by the Bamberg metal sculptor Hermann Diesener , the figures from the goldsmith's workshop were made by an art forge in Essen. The mechanics and controls of the mechanism were built by the Deiter company with the help of other Essen companies.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Juwelier Deiter ( Memento from June 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Juwelier Deiter: About us ; Retrieved July 8, 2017
  3. ↑ Glockenspiel is a listed building ; In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of July 8, 2017
  4. ^ Essener Schützenverein eV founded in 1390: The complete chronicle of Essen's shooting history. (PDF) pp. 30–35 , accessed on July 8, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Essen - Third Glockenspiel

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Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 13.9 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 46.9 ″  E