Johann Ignaz Fuchs

Johann Ignaz Fuchs (born July 30, 1821 in Welda , Westphalia , † 1893 probably in Bernburg , Anhalt ) was a German mechanic and watchmaker .

He had learned the trade of mechanic and then went on a journey to various German cities and other European countries. On his return he married the daughter of a late watchmaker from Zerbst . In 1845 he moved the company to Bernburg and from then on called it tower clock factory and precision engineering workshops . He built numerous tower clocks in the Paderborn Monastery . He then gave the clock tower he built and exhibited at the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873 to his birthplace Welda, where it is installed in the tower of St. Kilian's Church. His geographical and astronomical world clock in the town hall of Bernburg (Saale) is well known. His watch factory was also located in Bernburg. He was also involved in the construction of other devices, for example an automatic beet filling scale and an electrical security and alarm system for prisons. In 1875, without knowing the actual purpose, he developed the mechanism for the time bomb with which the emigrant ship Mosel was to be sunk.

literature

• Peter Faßbender: Johann Ignaz Fuchs's world time clock in Bernburg an der Saale . In: Yearbook "Freunde Alter Uhren", German Society for Chronometry (Ed.), Subject group "Turmuhren", 33rd year, page 107
• Bruno Hake: Johann Ignaz Fuchs , in: "Weldaer Heimatblätter" No. 3, 1987
• Hans Lang, Sabine Hocquél-Schneider: Bernburg geographic-astronomical art clock . Bernburg 1999 (11 pages)

Web links

• Illustration of the world clock in Bernburg (Saale)