Thomas Simon Jöllemann

Thomas Simon Jöllemann (* 1670 in Quakenbrück in Lower Saxony, † unknown) was a German sculptor of the Baroque in North West Germany. He came from a widespread family of sculptors.

Life

High altar of the Gertrudenkirche in Osnabrück

Thomas Simon Jöllemann's father, the carver Thomas Jöllemann d. Ä., Had come to north-west Germany from Austria. He settled in Quakenbrück and in 1656 married the Quakenbrückerin Talke Hallwassen. In 1659, Johann Heinrich Jöllemann was born from this marriage , who was also a sculptor. The baptism of the younger son Thomas Simon is documented for 1670 in Quakenbrück. He learned from his father in Quakenbrück and probably in wood carving workshops in Münster .

His earliest work still in existence are parts of the high altar of the monastery church of Malgarten monastery from the years 1690/1691, which was demolished around 1900 . There is a Madonna in a halo, the figure of St. John the Baptist and another unidentified figure of saints. The pulpit also comes from his workshop.

In 1700 the high altar of the parish church St. Bartholomäus in Essen / Oldenburg was consecrated. Only the figures of the apostles Peter and Paul have survived. At the same time the altar of the Evangelical Lutheran St. Nikolai Church in Apen was built , also with figures of these two apostles leaning against two twisted columns.

In 1705 Thomas Simon Jöllemann relocated his workshop to Holte in Emsland , which is now part of the Herzlake municipality . He had received the order to refurbish the St. Clemens Church there, which was first documented in 1276. He created a high altar, two side altars, the pulpit, two side altars, a Pietà and the life-size Holter cross, which is also known as the "Holter Jews". The order was completed in 1738.

In Osnabrück the high altar is preserved in the Gertrudenkirche of the former Gertrudenberg monastery , a Benedictine abbey. The high altar from the Jöllemann workshop for the Dominican Church in Osnabrück was destroyed at its later location in the grammar school church during World War II. In 1736 an organ parapet and a communion bench were built for the Dominican church . You are now in Hagen am Teutoburg Forest .

The Jöllemann workshop, which was continued by his son Ferdinand, received orders from Cloppenburg , for the pilgrimage church in Bethen and from Löningen and Barßel . Thomas Simon Jöllemann's son Franz Rudolph Jöllemann (1703–1767) was also a sculptor. This settled in Aschendorf / Ems .