Johann Gotthelf Great

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Johann Gotthelf Große (born May 18, 1808 in Harthau near Bischofswerda, † February 28, 1869 ) was a German bell founder .

Life

J. E. Assmann (1867), copper engraving by the Royal Saxon piece and bell foundry

Große was born in 1808 in Harthau (Großharthau) as the 10th child of Johann Gottlieb Große and Anna Rosina Kannegießer. After finishing school in Bischofswerda , he went to Dresden to do an apprenticeship in the royal piece foundry. Little did he know that he would later succeed his teacher. From 1835 he was a master of piece and bell foundry guilds.

In 1836 he probably cast the first of his bells. It was a very small bell weighing 58 kg. In the course of 1849 he created a ringing of three bronze bells for the Spremberg village church of the Saxon parish Spremberg, later Neusalza-Spremberg , which was replaced in 1922 by a new one from the Bochum steelworks . In the foundry of JG Große, the bells for the Marienkirche in Großenhain were made in 1855 . In 1858 his foundry cast the bells for the Dreikönigskirche in Dresden-Neustadt. In 1859 he made the church bells for Sohland on the Spree . One of his last works was the middle church bell for Johanngeorgenstadt .

He was married to Maria Therese Winter, born on September 28, 1820 in Bischofswerda. Johann Gotthelf Große died on February 28, 1869. His son Hermann continued the foundry. Under his direction, the nine-part bell for the Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew in Frankfurt am Main was created in 1877 . Its Gloriosa is the second heaviest bronze bell and the fourth heaviest bell in Germany.

literature

  • Konrad Bund: Hermann Große, the master of the Frankfurt cathedral bells from 1877 . In: Konrad Bund (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Glockenbuch (=  messages from the Frankfurt city archive . Volume 4 ). Waldemar Kramer Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1986, p. 336-354 .
  • Rainer Thümmel : Bell casting in Saxony. Chemnitz Industrial Museum - Museum Courier, August 2006, accessed on February 19, 2020 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Heinert: The bells of the Marienkirche in Grossenhain. In: Kirchspiel-Grossenhain.de. Archived from the original ; accessed on May 31, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Grosse, Johann Gotthelf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bell founder
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Harthau near Bischofswerda
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1869