Hermann Passmann

Paßmann's foundry marks on the bells in Wismar (left) and in Schlagsdorf (right)

Hermann Paßmann , also: Harmen Pasmann (* in the 16th century ; † before 1604 probably in Lübeck ) was a bell and pit caster .

Life

Paßmann is mentioned in Lübeck beginning with the year 1563. Its bell castings are only preserved outside of Lübeck. There are two bells in the ringing of the Marienkirche in Wismar , the Domenica and the citizen bell , both from 1567. Their decorations suggest that Paßman learned how to cast bells from Heinrich von Kampen . Another bell was built in 1578 together with the foundryman Brun Hemminckhusen for the village church of Schlagsdorf in the then diocese of Ratzeburg . In 1571 and 1575 he cast two clock bells for the Nikolaikirche in Kiel , both of which were cast in 1900. Luebeck Paßmann stood as a bell foundry in the shadow of privileged Council caster Matthias Benningk who complained in 1579 to the Council on Passman because it did not abide by that alone Benningk entitled privilege to cast bells of over 2 Ship pounds (about 250 kg) weight. Paßmann did not hold the office of council founder, which allowed him to cast bells up to the weight of two ship pounds.

Since Lübeck at that time had intensive trade relations with Norway through the merchants grouped together in the Bergenfahrer Corporation , its bells are explained in Norwegian churches such as in 1578 in Hol on Lødingen .

Brick renaissance: back of the foundry house "Zum Lamm" in the Fischergrube 46, seen from the green corridor

In Lübeck he owned the green corridor with nine booths and the associated front building Ad angelum / Low German Tom Engel , from 1446 Ad agnum or 1460 Low German called tom Lamme in the Fischergrube (today's house number 46); this property has served as a foundry house since the first half of the 14th century , in 1334 for Johann Apengeter , then Gerhard Kranemann (1340), and successively for Timmo Jegher (1435), Hinrich Gerwiges (1442) and Klaus Grude (1493). The oldest structure of the house dates back to the middle of the 16th century, i.e. around the time of Paßmann. The house was used as a foundry house until the middle of the 17th century. Externally, the house today shows a gable from the classicism period on the street side. From 1563, Paßmann is also attested as the owner of the house at Fischergrube 23, because he had achieved some prosperity in Lübeck .

literature

• Klaus J. Groth: World Heritage Lübeck - Listed Houses. Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1999, ISBN 3-7950-1231-7 .
• Theodor Hach : Lübecker Glockenkunde (= publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. 2). Max Schmidt, Lübeck 1913
• Johannes Warncke: Paßmann, Hermann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 286 (with reference to Tromsø Museums Aarshefter 35 and 36 (1912/13), p. 164 ff.).
• Claus Peter: The bells of the Wismar churches and their history. Wismar 2016, ISBN 978-3-934776-27-2 .

Web links

Commons : Hermann Passmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Claus Peter: The bells of the Wismar main churches. Stock and sources. In: Jahrbuch für Glockenkunde 5/6 (1993/94), pp. 69–94, here pp. 70 f.
2. ^ Klaus Thiede: St. Nikolai in Kiel: a contribution to the history of the city church. Mühlau, Kiel 1960.
3. ↑ Claus Peter: The bells of the Wismar churches and their history. 2016, pp. 229-231.
4. ^ Rainer Andresen: The history of the Lübeck residential corridors. Volume 3, Lübeck 1982, pp. 30-34, refers to the Green Gang on a mixture of house histories in the tradition. The Green Corridor always belonged to No. 44. So what is meant are probably stalls at the rear of the actual Green Corridor, which were built on from plot No. 46.