Heinrich Kannengießer

Heinrich Kannengießer (also: Kannegießer, Kannengisser, Quinckow, Quinqe, Quinque ; * 15th century , † after 1504 ) was a piece and bell caster and mayor of Dresden .

family

Nothing is known about Kannengießer's origins. He appears repeatedly in the files under the name Kangiesser , which suggests he came from a family professionally connected with metal casting. In 1496 he is mentioned as Heinrich Quinckow . This name (Latin: five) is likely to be related to the casting of five bells by jug makers in 1491. A descendant, probably his son Cristoff, is also called Quinque in 1505 . A second son, Johannes Kannengießer, can be verified as a student at Leipzig University.

Professional activities

Kannengießer was in the service of Duke Albrecht as a gun founder, but was also commissioned with other casting jobs. He was involved in the production of lead pipes for the construction of the Albrechtsburg in Meißen and supplied metal castings for the gatehouse of the Dresden Palace .

In 1486 he donated new church bells to the church of the Franciscan monastery on the Taschenberg in Dresden . Since the mendicant order bell towers with full bells were not allowed, it found its place in the roof turret . In 1491, Kannengießer cast new bells for the Dresden Kreuzkirche, which was destroyed by fire in the same year . The inscription on the bell of Mary read:

"I mourn the dead, I call out the living, I control the lightning, I am happy to announce the festivities, I please God, I pacify the dangers of the storm."

- inscription

Kannengießer also owned a foundry in the western southern suburb of Dresden. In addition, he also cast the Great Freiberg Bell and, together with council member Donat Conrad, was the church father of the Holy Cross.

Political activity

From 1493, Kannengießer was a member of the Dresden City Council. Here he temporarily held the office of bridge master. The bridge office was responsible for the maintenance of the Dresden Elbe bridge and the Kreuzkirche and had considerable property. He is also mentioned as a builder in 1500.

In 1501 Kannengießer took over the administration as mayor . According to the council ordinance of 1470, there was always one ruling and two dormant councilors at that time. The same rhythm applied to the three elected mayors. So they always changed in the order of governing - associate - resting mayors. After 1501, Kannengießer was again the governing mayor in 1504. This year it was also last mentioned in the Council Register.

literature

• Sieglinde Richter-Nickel: The venerable council of Dresden , in: Dresdner Geschichtsbuch No. 5, Dresden City Museum (ed.); DZA Verlag for Culture and Science, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-9806602-1-4 .
• Otto Richter : Constitutional and administrative history of the city of Dresden , Volume 1, Verlag W. Baensch, Dresden 1885.
• Matthias Meinhardt : Dresden in Transition: Space and Population of the City in the Residence Formation Process of the 15th and 16th Century . Oldenbourg Akademieverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3050040684 .
• Jens Klingner: The Dresden City Book 1477–1495 - Edition and research (inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate in philosophy, art and social sciences from the University of Regensburg) . Regensburg 2009 ( digitized as PDF ; 4.5 MB).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Fleischer: The German personal names , in: Scientific pocket books. Linguistics series, Volume 20, Akademie-Verlag, 1964, p. 154
2. ↑ Viktor Hantzsch : Dresdner at universities from the 14th to the 17th century , in: Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte Dresdens, Volume 19, Verlag W. Baensch, 1906, p. 28.
3. ^ Carl von Metzsch-Reichenbach: The most interesting old palaces, castles and ruins of Saxony , Verlag W. Baensch, 1902, p. 30.
4. ^ ^{A b} Karlheinz Blaschke : History of the City of Dresden 1: From the Beginnings to the End of the Thirty Years' War (1648), Volume 1 , Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart, 2005, page 306
5. ^ Georg Müller: The Franciscan Monastery in Dresden . In: Contributions to the Saxon church history . Volume 5, 1890, p. 96.
6. ↑ Martin Bernhard Lindau: History of the capital and residence city of Dresden from the earliest to the present time, Volume 1 , Rudolf Kunze publishing house, 1859
7. ^ Matthias Meinhardt: Dresden in Transition: Space and Population of the City in the Residence Formation Process of the 15th and 16th Centuries , Oldenbourg Akademieverlag, 2009, p. 518.
8. ↑ Matthias Meinhardt: The merckwürdigkeiten the Royal Bibliotheck to Dreßden, Volume 1 , Hofbuchhandlung George Conrad Walther, Dresden, 1743
9. ^ Sieglinde Richter-Nickel: The venerable council of Dresden , in: Dresdner Geschichtsbuch No. 5, Stadtmuseum Dresden (ed.); DZA Verlag for Culture and Science, Altenburg 1999, p. 10. ISBN 3-9806602-1-4 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Simon Werchau (1500) Donat Conrad (1503)	Mayor of Dresden 1501 1504	Hans Schmeißer (1502) Matthes Koler (1505)