Joseph Muchenberger

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Joseph Muchenberger (* 1791 in Blasiwald ; † 1863 ibid) was a German bell founder active in the Black Forest in the 19th century .

Joseph Muchenberger did an apprenticeship with his father, the foundry and blacksmith Alois Muchenberger (1766–1833), and then worked from 1809 for seventeen years as a metal caster in St. Blasien and occasionally helped his father, although he had handed over the foundry to him in 1812 . In 1826 he finally took over his father's foundry and forge. In 1833 and 1835 he tried to get the government of Baden to ban bell foundries for foreigners. In the 1840s he ran into economic difficulties, in 1846 he transferred the foundry to his son Benjamin Muchenberger (1823–1876), from 1848 to 1851 it came into foreign ownership, but could be repurchased by Benjamin Muchenberger by 1863.

Joseph Muchenberger's older son Pius Muchenberger (1814 – around 1865) worked as a bell founder in Freiburg and Switzerland.

In addition to the foundry, Joseph Muchenberger ran the “Zur Glocke” inn.

Works (selection)

literature

  • Rudolf Morath: Blasiwald in the Black Forest . 2nd, expanded edition, Blasiwald 1972, pp. 398-402.
  • Sigrid Thurm: German Bell Atlas . Volume 4: Bathing . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-422-00557-9 , p. 66, 108, note 393, 697 (bell list).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Negotiations of the state assembly of the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1835 , pp. 214–215 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Wutach-Lembach. Website of the Archdiocese of Freiburg. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
  3. ↑ Catholic parish church Mater Dolorosa in Bad Rippoldsau-Schapbach. Website of the Archdiocese of Freiburg. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
  4. ^ The ringing of the Reformed Church in Beringen. Website of the Evangelical Reformed Parish of Beringen. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
  5. ^ The Antonius Chapel in Niederschwörstadt. Website of the Catholic Parish of St. Clemens and Urban Schwörstadt. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
  6. ↑ Catholic branch church St. Michael in Vogtsburg-Niederrotweil. Website of the Archdiocese of Freiburg. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
  7. ↑ Catholic parish church St. Margareta in Ühlingen-Birkendorf. Website of the Archdiocese of Freiburg. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Muchenberger, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bell founder
DATE OF BIRTH 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Blasiwald
DATE OF DEATH 1863
Place of death Blasiwald