Jerg Bernhart Lachaman

Jerg Bernhart Lachaman († 1524 ) was a bell founder from Heilbronn .

Life

Jerg (Georg) was a son of the Heilbronn bell founder Bernhart Lachaman the Elder. Ä. († 1517). His brother Bernhart Lachaman d. J. († 1523) was a councilor from Heilbronn and continued his father's workshop in front of the Heilbronn bridge gate, while his brother Johann Lachmann (1491–1538) became a theologian and reformer of the imperial city of Heilbronn. Jerg is mentioned in a document in 1518 as a master of the edging craft. After his brother Bernhard's death, Jerg took over his workshop. A bell in Baumerlenbach from 1523, which was not signed with his first name , could already come from him, the bell in the Protestant church of St. Remigius in Weil der Stadt-Merklingen, also dated 1523, bears the inscription OSANNA HEIS ICH, IN OUR FRAEN ER LEVT ICH IERG BERNHART LACHAMAN GOS ME . At the end of 1523 he was mentioned in a document. He died in 1524. The Lachaman foundry hut was probably continued for a short time by Jerg's widow, perhaps with the help of the Nuremberg bell founder Jörg Mayer . The last known bell from the Lachaman workshop went to Talheim in 1526. In 1531 Jerg Bernhart Lachaman's widow was married to Hans Neiffer.

literature

• Norbert Jung: Forgotten bell founders , Heilbronn 2014, ISBN 978-3-934096-36-3 , p. 47/48.
• Klaus Hammer and Norbert Jung: The Heilbronn bell founder Bernhart Lachaman the Elder , in: Jahrbuch für Glockenkunde , 19./20. Volume 2007/2008