Johann David Beerstecher

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Johann David Beerstecher (* 1673 probably in Dettingen an der Erms ; † 1747 in Tübingen ) was a Württemberg gold and silversmith or gold and silver worker in Tübingen as well as a councilor and mayor of this city.

Life

Johann David Beerstecher was a son of Johann Beerstecher, who was a Protestant pastor in Dettingen, later in Bondorf , and his wife Katharina geb. Cannstetter. She was a daughter of Johann David Cannstetter and was Catholic. They had been married since 1665.

Beerstecher certainly did an apprenticeship as a goldsmith before he went to the imperial court in Vienna . There he trained for four years with the imperial court and chamber goldsmith Johann Kanitsch Boue. He came to Tübingen in 1698 and settled there after receiving citizenship. In 1709 he married Anna Maria Dörtenbach, a daughter of Johann Jacob Dörtenbach, who was a merchant and court relative in Calw . Among his goldsmith's work, a very beautiful communion jug with a pipe-rib decoration deserves special mention, which he made for the Tübingen collegiate church in 1711 .

In 1716, Beerstecher was now so respected that he could be included in the council. In 1726 he was promoted to court relative and in 1734 to mayor of Tübingen. He was a relative of the court and mayor until his death in 1747.

Johann David Beerstecher had a son, Julius Bernhard (1708–1766), who was an apprentice goldsmith in the years 1722–1726. Apparently he did not become a master and did not work as a goldsmith. Johann David Beerstecher's daughter, Sophia Catharina, married Johann Christoph Morell, who was a pastor in Kusterdingen .

literature

  • Rudolf Seigel: Court and Council in Tübingen. From the beginnings to the introduction of the municipal constitution 1818–1822 , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1960 (= publication of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg)
  • Werner Fleischhauer : Baroque in the Duchy of Württemberg , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1958 (= publication of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg)

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Died at the age of 74.
  2. ↑ It is reported about his father that he was a pastor in a place called Dettingen, without any details in which.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Rudolf Seigel: Court and Council in Tübingen ... , p. 176
  4. ↑ a b c Werner Fleischhauer: Barock ... , p. 268
  5. ^ Community archive Kusterdingen B 162 g sheet 103 verso
personal data
SURNAME Beerstecher, Johann David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Württemberg gold- and silversmith, mayor of Tübingen
DATE OF BIRTH 1673
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Dettingen an der Erms
DATE OF DEATH 1747
Place of death Tübingen