Johann David Kriesche

Johann David Kriesche the Elder (* 1715 in Dresden , † 1790 in Lübeck ) was a German piece and bell caster . In 1771 he was appointed council founder of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Kriesche learned the foundry trade in the period from 1727 to 1730 in the Electoral Casting House in Dresden , the tradition of which was founded in the 16th century by the Freiberg foundry Wolfgang Hilliger . Kriesche's journey as a journeyman took him to England and Denmark, where he worked in Copenhagen , among other places . From 1757 he is proven to be an independent foundryman in Schleswig-Holstein , where he initially worked with the foundryman Barthold Jonas Beseler in Rendsburg until 1760 . From here he first turned back to Copenhagen, and then at the turn of the year 1762/63 he settled in Eckernförde as a bell founder. He created over 70 bells in Eckernförde. On July 20, 1771, the council of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck elected him as the successor to Johann Hinrich Armowitz, who died in 1770, as council founder. The prestigious Lübeck casting house on the Lastadie was thus available to him. However, Kriesche kept a branch in Eckernförde in order to continue to receive the (Danish) foundry privilege in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. His successor as council founder in Lübeck was Johann Georg Wilhelm Landré . Kriesches bells are still to be found in churches in Lübeck and the surrounding areas of Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg .

Works (selection)

• For the Petrikirche in Lübeck he cast the southernmost of the three large bells, which had a diameter of 1.64 m. On the neck, in addition to a rich rococo decoration, was a Roman majusc inscription: SOLI. DEO. GLORIA. ME. FECIT. IOHANN. DAVID. CREEP
• In 1765 he made a bronze bell for the Peter and Paul Church in Bad Oldesloe
• Village church in Siebenbäume from 1769. Here he called himself “Joh. David Kriesche from Eckernförde ”.
• Roggendorf church, a bell from 1771 was cast by Joh. David Kriesche in Lübeck. It bears the name CHRISTIAN VON RANTZAU and his wife ADELA VON FABRICE .
• 1786 a new fire sprayer for the Petrikirche

family

Kriesche's son of the same name, Johann David Kriesche (II) (1764 - after 1799) was born in Eckernförde and learned the bell-making trade from his father, for whom he cast twelve bells in Lunden in 1785 . From 1797 he ran his father's foundry independently. He was accepted as a citizen in Lübeck in 1791 , but was not confirmed by the council as his father's successor in the office of council founder. In 1799 his track is lost.

literature

• Theodor Hach : Lübecker Glockenkunde (= publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. 2). Max Schmidt, Lübeck 1913, p. 259 f.
• Johannes Warncke: Kriesche, Johann David I and Kriesche, Johann David II . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 540 .
• Baudeputation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck . B. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906, p. 37, 107-108 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter-Paul-Kirche stormarnlexikon.de
2. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The church village Roggendorf . In: Art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . Schwerin iM, 1896, p. 517-519, here p. 518 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ Baudeputation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck . B. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906, p. 37 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Hinrich Armowitz	Lübeck council founder 1771–1790	Johann Georg Wilhelm Landré