Justus Andreas Meyfeld

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Justus Andreas Meyfeld (also: Just Andreas Meyfeld and Justus Andreas Meyfeldt and Andreas Meyfeld ; * before 1730 , † after 1741 ) was a German piece and bell caster .

Life

The bell, cast by Meyfeld in 1739 and bearing the name of Abbess Agnese Maria von Hohnhorst, can be found under the ridge on the nuns choir of the Wienhausen monastery

In a letter dated October 8, 1737, Meyfeld applied for the vacant position of the late Thomas Riedeweg , electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg piece and bell caster near Hanover in front of the Steintor . Meyfeld's letter today also serves as evidence that the bell founders at that time also manufactured guns that were not only regarded as purely technical war implements, but also as "ritually charged objects" whose decorations with different motifs conjured up divine assistance or their own contribution to Defense of the city highlighted.

In 1738, Meyfeld, who at the time worked as a Hanoverian council founder, delivered a so-called "snake syringe " for the comparatively high sum of 400 thalers , one of the six mobile hose syringes for the new building for the fire brigade, which was only recently built in 1737, in what is now a listed building at Benser Straße 24 in Einbeck . As a prelude to the chronicle of the volunteer fire brigade founded in Seelze in 1896 , Meyfeld was referred to as the " fountain master ". He manufactured hand-held fire syringes in Hanover around 1740, "which were ordered in large quantities [ex officio] and given to many villages in the Calenberg districts". These hand syringes, also known as “Strenjebusses”, purchase price 1 Taler, were drawn from water tubs that had to be brought to the source of the fire beforehand. The small syringes with only a low degree of effectiveness were only used as a makeshift solution and were hardly suitable for effectively fighting a larger fire.

Meyfeld died in 1742 at the latest. The monument curator Carl Wolff wrote about him regarding the bell in Fuhrberg : "In 1742, a contract was signed with the widow Ilse Dorothea, posthumous widow of the bell founder Just Andreas Meyfeld, because the broken bell had to be cast around."

Famous works

  • A bell that was cast in 1730 for the Mauritius Church was made by Meyfeld
  • The bell cast by Meyfeldt for the church in Herzberg am Harz dates back to 1736 .
  • In 1738 Meyfeld delivered a mobile "snake syringe" for the fire brigade in Einbeck.
  • One of the two bells in the old church in Greven in Mecklenburg carried the information in long Latin inscription that it was re-cast in 1738 from a broken bell by Andreas Meyfeld in Hanover at the time of Duke Carl Leopold and Pastor Georg Jancke
  • In 1739 Meyfeld in Hanover cast the bell with a bell saying for the church in Gestorf .
  • Meyfeld's bronze ringing bell in f sharp, which was cast in Hanover for the Protestant parish in Behrensen near Moringen, also dates back to 1739
  • A 1685 cracked bell in Wienhausen Abbey , produced by the in Celle making advice and Glockengießer Fridrich Krietewidt (spelling still unclear), melting Meyfeld and poured 1685 in Hannover a new bell decorated with several line trains now in the roof turret of the nuns church of the Cistercian monastery finds. The 44 cm diameter and ornamented bell bears the inscription "Alles zu Gottes Ehre / Agnesa Maria von Hohnhorst / PT Abbatissan Anno 1739", and the master inscription "Gos mich Ivstvs Andreas Meyfeldt from Hanover" on the edge. In 1968 a crack in the bell was eliminated by welding by the Hans Lachenmeyer company. Then Horst Gröhnke, owner of the special workshop for bell ringing technology in Holle near Hildesheim, took care of the removal and reinstallation.
  • The big bell in the church of Harber (Hohenhameln), which burst in 1741, was poured into Meyfeld. It burst again in 1767 and was then cast into today's bell I.
  • Meyfeld's widow signed a contract in 1742 for the broken bell in Fuhrberg.

Archival material

Archival material by and about Justus Andres Meyfeld can be found, for example

Web links

Commons : Justus Andreas Meyfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Johann von Diest: Economic Policy and Lobbyism in the 18th Century. A source-based reassessment of the mutual influence of government and economy in Brandenburg-Prussia and Kurhannover (= rulership and social systems in the early modern era , volume 23), also dissertation 2014 at the University of Potsdam, Göttingen: V&R unipress, [2016], ISBN 978 -3-8471-0603-6 and ISBN 3-8470-0603-7 , p. 181; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ a b c Carl Wolff: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover , ed. on behalf of the Provincial Commission for the Research and Conservation of Monuments in the Province of Hanover by Carl Wolff, Lüneburg District, Volume 3: Districts Burgdorf and Fallingbostel , Hanover: Self-published by the Provincial Administration , Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1902, (as art monuments inventory of Lower Saxony, Vol. 33 Reprinted by Wenner, Osnabrück 1980, ISBN 978-3-87898-184-8 ), p. Xi, 38; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ a b Eberhard Jäger: The organs of the former Springe district. A contribution to the story of the change in the sound ideal. With an appendix “The bells of the former Springe district” (= North German Orgeln , Vol. 9), Berlin: Pape, 1975, ISBN 978-3-921140-13-0 and ISBN 3-921140-13-7 , p. 238 ; Preview over google books
  4. ^ A b Heinrich Otte : Glockenkunde , 2nd expanded edition Weigel, Leipzig 1884, p. 202; Preview over google books
  5. ↑ a b Friedrich Schlie (arrangement): The art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Vol. 3: The district courts of Hagenow, Wittenburg, Boizenburg, Lübheen, Dömitz, Grabow, Ludwigslust, Neustadt, Crivitz, Brüel, Warin , Neubukow, Kröpelin and Doberan , Schwerin: Bärensprung, 1899, p. 135; Preview over google books
  6. ↑ a b Journal of the Harz Association for History and Antiquity , Volumes 1 and 2, self-published by the association, 1882, p. 231; Preview over google books
  7. ↑ a b o.V. : Harber in the historical parish encyclopedia of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover (HKLH) [undated], last accessed on June 19, 2020
  8. ↑ a b Joachim Lampe: Aristocracy, court nobility and state patriciate in Kurhannover. The spheres of life of the higher civil servants at the Hanoverian central and court authorities 1714–1760 (= publications of the historical commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , volume 24) (= studies on the history of the estates of Lower Saxony , volume 2), volume 1: Presentation , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , 1963, p. 91; limited preview in Google Book search
  9. ↑ a b Thomas Kellmann: The Influence of Brewing Trade and Fire Protection on House Construction in the City of Einbeck between the Middle Ages and Modern Times (= Historical Archeology , In: C. Rinne, J. Reinhard, E. Roth Heege, S. Teuber (Eds.) : From archaeological finds to books - Archeology through the times - Festschrift for Andreas Heege, special volume Historical Archeology 2017 (online version doi.10.18440 / ha.2017.110), pp. 157–198; here: p. 184; as a PDF document from the page of the historical archive of the University of Kiel)
  10. ↑ oV : Chronicle on the site of the Seelze local fire brigade in the version of February 17, 2018, last accessed on June 19, 2020
  11. ↑ n.v . : Behrensen (Moringen) in the historical parish encyclopedia of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover (HKLH) [undated], last accessed on June 19, 2020
  12. ↑ a b Dietrich Schmidtsdorff: The old bells and their history / Wienhausen monastery (2) , in 1 Michael Misgeiski-Wegner (Ed.): The bells of the parish Wienhausen and the new bell tower of St. Alexander in Eicklingen (= series of publications by the Heimatverein “ Altes Amt Eicklingen ” , issue 3/2008), ed. in cooperation with the Ev.-luth. Kirchengemeinde Wienhausen, 2008, p. 6ff .; as a PDF document on heimatverein-eicklingen.de
  13. ↑ Joachim Bühring (arrangement): The art monuments of the state of Lower Saxony , Volume 34: The art monuments of the district of Celle in the administrative district of Lüneburg. Text volume , ed. by Oskar Karpa , Hanover: Lower Saxony State Administration Office; Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1970, p. 150
personal data
SURNAME Meyfeld, Justus Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyfeld, Just Andreas; Meyfeldt, Justus Andreas; Meyfeldt, Ivstvs Andreas; Meyfeld, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Hanoverian piece and bell founder
DATE OF BIRTH before 1730
DATE OF DEATH after 1741