Johann Heinrich Christoph Weidemann

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Grave stele for Weidemann and his wife Ilsa Dorothea Heisen at the market church in Hanover
Shield with church bell , crossed gun barrels for cannons and a mortar with pestle

Johann Heinrich Christoph Weidemann (also: Johann Heinrich Christoffer Weidemann and Johann Heinrich Christian Weidemann ; * January 20, 1717 , † August 9, 1785 in Hanover ) was a well-known German bell founder in his time .

Life

In the first decades after the ascension of the Principality of Calenberg-Göttingen-Grubenhagen to the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, with Hanover as the initial residence , the sovereign King George I, who resided primarily in London due to the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover , granted Thomas Riedeweg zu Hanover in 1721 the privilege of casting bells, which lasted until 1730.

In 1740 the City Council of Hanover sold the city foundry in front of the Steintor to a private bell founder. However, Johann Heinrich Christoph Weidemann of Hanover was only granted the privilege to cast bells in 1743, now by the Hanoverian Elector and British King George II. In the same year Weidemann cast one of the bells for the Catholic Clemens Church in Calenberger Neustadt .

Weidemann also began producing bells for village churches in 1743, for example in Hänigsen in the Burgdorf district .

Weidemann delivered the missing bell for 150 Thaler , which was then hung on January 29, 1750, for the first garden church with a weight of 298.5 pounds.

In 1756, Weidemann from Hanover delivered a bell to the market church of S. Nicolai in Hameln with a weight of around 25 hundredweight , donated by the Hamelin school director and professor Johann David Heilmann and with the Latin inscription

“Anna vocor, genuit me voedis Roma tenebris; ad pia nunc populum sacra renata vocco. "

In 1770, Weidemann created one of the first large so-called snake barrel fire pumps for the Blumenau office for 250 thalers . The sprayer under the shelter in Luthe had two pressure pulls and, with an output of 20 buckets, pushed the water jet up forty feet in two minutes .

The bell was hung in the presence of the Hamelin Mayor Johann Friedrich Moller and the preachers Hampe and Oldendorp on July 10th, 1756 and on the 18th of the month it was "inaugurated with the sound of kettledrums and trumpets". It found its place near an older bell from 1673 by Ludolph Siegfried from Hanover .

In 1756, Weidemann also delivered two of the five bells of the Hamelin Minster Church at the time : the largest, weighing around 30 hundredweight, contained the names of the donors. The second was again given the name of the founder Johann David Heilmann. These two bells were also consecrated on July 18, 1756.

A bell cast in Barsinghausen in the Wennigsen office in 1776 also comes from Weidemann's workshop .

Weidemann was married to Ilse Dorothea, née Heise († 1759). On the northern outer wall of the market church there is their common grave stele, or the epitaph , which also has the inscription for Weidemann, who died in 1785.

Joh. Christ. Weidemann

After Weidemann's death in 1785, a Joh. Christ worked around 1791 . Weidemann in Hanover as a bell founder. After the so-called French period and the elevation of the former electorate of the Kingdom of Hanover noted Hannöversche address book for the year 1817 the "Weidemann entry, J., Tabacksfabrik and bell-founder, Steinthorstr. 5. “In the address book from 1819, Weidemann only recorded the same address as retired .

Other well-known bells

  • The big bell cast by Weidemann in 1751 for the community of Elliehausen was delivered in 1917 for armament purposes.
  • After the fire in St. Martin's Church in Seelze in 1755, the molten remains of the 5 large bells and other metal were handed over to Weidemann, a total of 28 and 18 quintals of metal, to cast two new bells. The two bells, completed in spring 1757, were hung in a simple, low bell cage and rang for the first time on April 10, 1757 at Easter. The large one with a diameter of 132 cm and a weight of 26 quintals "had to be delivered for war purposes on June 28, 1918." The small bell with a diameter of 109 cm and a weight of 14 quintals with the inscription "Poured out of fiery tears, which one can drink in saw the ashes fall and lifted it up with joy ”had to be delivered on April 22nd, 1942 for war purposes. In the post-war period , however, it was able to be retrieved from the “ Glockenfriedhof ” in Hamburg undamaged.
  • The smallest of the three bells in the Church of St. Nikolai in Gifhorn was apparently broken in 1760. The Weidemann called for help examined this and concluded a contract, according to which the defective bell was brought to Hanover and re-cast there. Weidemann received 170 Reichstalers for the casting of the 600 kg bell with a G sharp sound, which was then installed in the tower and is the oldest surviving bell of St. Nicholas, and the craftsmen for installation and removal as well as transport received another 45 Reichstalers. The Latin inscription on the bell reads: “With a lightening sound I serve the holy things, fulfilling all to praise the highest God. Superintendent Dr. Christian Joh. Ludolph Reusmann , bailiff Johann Philipp Tiling . The bronze was cast in the state of Hanover. ”On the edge of the bell there is also the note“ A. JOH: HEINR: CHRIST. WEIDEMANN GOS ME ANNO 1760 ”.

literature

  • Carl Wolff : Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover , Heft 1: Landkreise Hannover and Linden , Hannover: Self-published by the provincial administration, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1899, passim ; online as PDF at archive.org

Archival material

Archival material by and about Johann Heinrich Christoph Weidemann can be found, for example

  • as a file under the title Privilege for the bell founder Johann Heinrich Christoph Weidemann in Hanover for bell casting for the period 1743 in the Lower Saxony State Archives (Hanover location) , archive signature NLA HA Hann. 74 Münden No. 7123 (old signature K 457 )

Web links

Commons : Johann Heinrich Christoph Weidemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer : 1740 and 1742. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 87f .; Preview over google books
  2. ^ A b c d Heinrich Otte : Glockenkunde , 2nd expanded edition, Leipzig: Weigel, 1884, p. 216; Preview over google books
  3. ^ A b c Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Johann Heinrich Christoph Weidemann and Johann Heinrich Christian Weidemann , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hanover. Art and Culture Lexicon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 34, 128
  4. ↑ Compare the inscription on the page billiongraves.com
  5. ↑ a b Klaus Mlynek : Capital (function). In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 274.
  6. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Personal union. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 498
  7. ↑ Compare the files NLA HA Hann. 74 Münden No. 7120 in the Lower Saxony State Archives ; old archive signature K 454
  8. ↑ Compare the NLA HA Hann. 74 Münden No. 7123 in the Lower Saxony State Archives; old archive signature K 457
  9. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Georg August, Elector of Hanover, as Georg II. King of Great Britain and Ireland. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 127
  10. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Clemens, St. C. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 113f.
  11. ^ Heinrich Ahrens : History of the garden community in the Königl. Residence city of Hanover. For the best of the St. Pauluskirche in Hanover , Hanover: Schlütersche Buchdruckerei, 1883, p. 17
  12. ↑ a b c Friedrich Sprenger (arr.): History of the City of Hameln , Hanover: in commission of the Hellwingschen Hofbuchhandlung, 1826, pp. 302, 310; Digitized via Google books
  13. ↑ oV: Chronicle on the side of the local fire brigade Seelze [no date], as last accessed on 16 April 2020
  14. ↑ Wolfgang W. Ewig: The tombs in the market church Hanover. Site plan , A4 leaflet, [undated, 2010?]
  15. ^ Hector Wilhelm Heinrich Mithoff : Churches and chapels in the Kingdom of Hanover. News about their foundation, design, equipment, art treasures and antiquities , Book 1: Houses of God in the Principality of Hildesheim , Ed .: Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover: Hahn'sche Hofbuchhandlung, 1865, p. 34; Digitized via Google books
  16. ↑ Hannöversches address book for the year 1817 , I. Alphabetical index of the local inhabitants with a remark of their business, the streets in which they live and the house number , p. 92; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library (GWLB)
  17. ↑ Hannoversches address book for the year 1819 , p. 117; Digitized version of the GWLB
  18. ↑ top v .: Elliehausen on the page kirchengemeindelexikon.de [undated], last accessed on April 16, 2020
  19. ↑ Norbert Saul: 250 years of the "new" church in Seelze - inaugurated on April 2, 1769 , Seelze, February 2019 as a PDF document on the seelze.de website
  20. ↑ n.v . : St. Nikolai Gifhorn / Glocken on the nicolai-gifhorn.de page [ undated ], last accessed on April 16, 2020
  21. ^ Information about the Arcinsys Lower Saxony Bremen archive information system
personal data
SURNAME Weidemann, Johann Heinrich Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weidemann, Johann Heinrich Christian; Weidemann, Johann Heinrich Christoffer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Hanoverian bell founder
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1717
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1785
Place of death Hanover