Johann Anton Roetig

Johann Anton Roetig also called Rötig or Rettig (born January 11, 1750 in Hachenburg ; † October 10, 1800 there ) was a German watchmaker .

life and work

Johann Anton Roetig was born on January 11, 1750 in Hachenburg as the son of the watchmaker Johann Albert Roetig and his wife Anna Christina, née Bitzer. He, too, initially worked as a watchmaker at Kinzig & Co. in Neuwied , where he was considered a specialist in flute and harp music clocks . In Neuwied he married Magdalena Manderscheid. After the closure of the Kinzig company, Johann Anton left Neuwied in 1782 and settled in the residential town of Hachenburg, his birthplace. Here he opened a watchmaker's workshop .

Johann Anton Roetig died on October 10, 1800 in his hometown at the age of 50. His son Friedrich Wilhelm (born May 28, 1782) was also a successful watchmaker, continuing the family tradition.

Floor standing clocks ( Neuwied clocks ), which he made for middle-class families, have been preserved from Johann Anton Roetig . The high importance of his craftsmanship is made clear by the fact that in 1782 Count zu Wied bought a "clock à la Franklin" for 16 Reichsthalers from him. Besides pendulum clocks , he made complicated music boxes with flutes and stringed instruments.

literature

• Dietrich Fabian: Kinzing and Roentgen - watches from Neuwied , Bad Neustadt, 2nd edition 1984; ISBN 3-922923-28-3
• Ian D. Fowler: Franklin watches from Neuwied . In: District Museum Neuwied (ed.): Kinzing & Co. Innovative clocks from the province . Neuwied 2003 (catalog of the exhibition in the Neuwied District Museum, September 7 to October 26, 2003). ISBN 3-00-012149-8 . Pp. 36-51.

Web links

• The watchmaker family Roetig in Hachenburg. UhrenHanse, accessed July 21, 2013 . 
• Roetig, Johann Anton. Watch Wiki, accessed July 21, 2013 . 
• Hachenburg receives documents from the Roetig estate. (PDF; 445 kB) GeschichtsWerkstatt Hachenburg eV, accessed on July 21, 2013 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carl Schulte: Lexicon of watchmaking art. Emil Huebners Verlag, Bautzen 1902 p. 675
2. ↑ Clockmaker: Roetig, Johann Anton (Rötig). UhrenHanse, accessed July 21, 2013 . 
3. ^ Anton Lübke: The famous clockmakers from Hachenburg. Westerwälder Zeitung, home newspaper of the Rhein Zeitung for the Westerwald districts. Edition FN 7210A No. 209, 1962.
4. ↑ From the Roetig watchmaker dynasty to the Bonn. (No longer available online.) Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz eV, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 20, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
5. ^ Ian D. Fowler: Three Wheel Clocks with four hour dials. Retrieved July 21, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Jürgen Ermert: To early German precision pendulum clocks. (PDF; 2.5 MB) (No longer available online.) Klassik Uhren 4/2009, p. 20f, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 21, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.