Johann Georg Rohr

Johann Georg Rohr (born March 9, 1666 in Colmar , † April 20, 1722 in Heilbronn ) was a bell founder in Heilbronn.

Life

Rohr was the son of a gunsmith and came to Heilbronn after his wandering, where he became the leaseholder of the foundry and was granted citizenship on August 9, 1698. Its bells were mostly intended for the local area. Bells from him are u. a. in the churches in Neckargartach , Kirchhausen , Böckingen and Brackenheim , as well as in the Heilbronn Teutonic Minster of St. Peter and Paul , in Schaubeck Castle and in Lichtenberg Castle .

For the ringing of the Bartholomäuskirche in Ilsfeld , he delivered a bell in 1704, which supplemented the previous double bell.

A bell of the former chapel in Uttenhofen bore the inscription:

In God's name / Gos mich Johann / Georg Rohr in Heilbronn / 1710

He was followed as a bell founder in Heilbronn by Johann Daniel Rohr , who was probably his son.

literature

• Rohr, Joh. Georg (from Colmar) u. Joh. Daniel . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934.
• Klaus Hammer, Norbert Jung: For the 300th birthday of a striking bell: the foundryman Johann Georg Rohr and his bells. Helene-Lange-Realschule Heilbronn, Heilbronn 2004, ISBN 3-934096-15-8 .
• Hans Dietl: The bells from Lichtenberg. In: History sheets from the Bottwartal. 9/2004, pp. 93-95.
• Theodor Schön: The art of bell foundry in the imperial cities of Biberach, Hall, Heilbronn, Ravensburg, Reutlingen and Rottweil. In: Archive for Christian Art: Organ of the Rottenburger Diözesan-Kunstverein. No. 20, 1902, pp. 55–58, here p. 56. ( uni-heidelberg.de ).

Web links

• Contemporary history collection, archive signature ZS-15499 at Heilbronn City Archives
• Personal entry in the Baden-Württemberg state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Date of birth and death according to the Heilbronn city archives, place of birth and death according to Dietl (2004), which, however, gives "October 1722" as the date of death.
2. ↑ Gustav Döttling: Old bells break on the ground . In: Heilbronn voice . April 11, 2007 ( Stimme.de ).
3. ↑ Eugen Gradmann (ed.): The art and antiquity monuments in the Kingdom of Württemberg: Oberämter Aalen, Crailsheim, Ellwangen, Gaildorf, Gerabronn, Gmünd, Hall . Stuttgart, Esslingen 1907, p. 721 , supplements , doi : 10.11588 / diglit.19989 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
4. ↑ Theodor Schön: The art of bell foundry in the imperial cities of Biberach, Hall, Heilbronn, Ravensburg, Reutlingen and Rottweil. In: Archive for Christian Art: Organ of the Rottenburger Diözesan-Kunstverein. No. 20, 1902, pp. 55–58, here p. 56. ( uni-heidelberg.de ) “A son of this Joh. Georg Rohr will probably be Joh. Daniel Rohr”.