Royal ore foundry in Munich
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The royal ore foundry in Munich was a German bronze casting company that existed from 1822 to 1931.
legal form
The company was founded as a royal state ore foundry in the reign of Maximilian I Joseph . A metallurgical research institute was created, which was subsidized by state art funding according to the will of Ludwig I. The products of this manufactory were internationally competitive because of their technical level. The building was made available to the foundries by the state free of charge and the head of the company, the foundry inspector and the former Giuseppe Marino was paid from the cabinet till Stiglmaier's death and from budget funds after his death. Funding from the Kingdom of Bavaria continued when Ferdinand von Miller privatized the institute in 1873.
Location - traffic connection
The company was established in 1822 between the then urban area of Munich and Nymphenburg Palace , on the premises of the Bavarian Army . The field road , which was later renamed Erzgiessereistrasse, opened up the area to the north to the exterior Dachauerstraße and south to Nymphenburgerstraße to Nymphenburg Palace . The rail connection was on the on the exterior Dachauerstraße located armory with Ouvrier workshops , which in the production of guns employed, also were Bavarian railway pioneers stationed . A western neighbor was a sand pit, which gave the sand road its name. To the northeast, between the foundry and the Maximilian barracks (today the Institute for Contemporary History ), the workers and the New Military Lazareth (today the German Heart Center Munich ) were housed.
In the windward position of the foundry, Miller had built a villa for himself at the intersection of Feldstrasse and Nymphenburger Strasse 34 , but, according to Ludwig I's wishes, Miller was to live on a specially developed floor in the foundry building. From April 1863, when Miller fell ill with retinal detachment , a building for the convalescent association was set up across from Miller's villa, at No. 1 Erzgiesserey Street .
Employees
From 1841 to 1844 the number of employees in the ore foundry fluctuated between 44 and 54.
requirement
The turn of the Wittelsbacher Ludwig I and the art scene commissioned by him to Hellenistic antiquity found in bronze a sustainable material to insert symbols of power into architecture.
history
Johann Baptist Stiglmaier was hired as a coin engraver at the Royal Mint in 1818 and was granted a scholarship for a study trip to Italy. On this study trip, Stiglmaier found out about ancient and modern sculpture as well as bronze casting. In 1822 Stiglmaier returned to Munich. In April 1823 Leo von Klenze received the order to erect the building for a foundry, which was completed in 1825.
In 1824 Stiglmaier cast a grave relief in the mint building for two indigenous children from Brazil bought from a slave dealer by Johann Baptist von Spix and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius . In 1825 Stiglmaier was appointed ore foundry inspector and thus head of the new institute. In 1844 after Stiglmaier's death, his nephew Ferdinand von Miller was appointed ore foundry inspector.
Fire gilding stove
From 1837 to 1865 the factory had a fire gilding stove . This process produces hot, highly toxic mercury vapors. With this process, 12 statues of Wittelsbach rulers were gilded for the throne room of the Munich residence, today the foyer of the Herkulessaale and in 1865 a statue of Mary by Johann Peter von Götting (1795–1865) for the tower of the Marienkirche in Aachen.
Ore Foundry Museum
Ludwig I included the company in the state's art institutions as a royal ore foundry and, after Stiglmaier died of stomach cancer on March 2, 1844, appointed Ferdinand Miller on April 20, 1844 as an inspector with the rank of professor at the Academy of Fine Arts as head of the company with an annual salary of 900 guilders . The foundry building, a building by Leo von Klenze , and the museum of plaster models were destroyed by bombs during the Second World War .
Image gallery
View into the model room of the foundry house, 1845
The great foundry house, 1845
The small foundry house, 1845
The crucible foundry, 1845
The chisel hall, 1845
The gilding, 1845
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List of produced monuments
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Web links
literature
- Hyacinth Holland : Stiglmayer, Johann Baptist . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 230-235.
- The royal ore foundry in Munich . In: Illustrirte Zeitung , Vol. 4, 1845, pp. 344-345; 380-381, 412-413.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert, Richard Bauer: Handbook of the Bavarian offices, municipalities and courts 1799-1980 . P. 372.
- ^ Gustav Wenng : Homeowner. ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) Munich 1850.
- ^ Carl Wibmer: Medical topography and ethnography of the k. Main u. Residence city of Munich p. 108.
- ↑ schoenitzer.de
- ^ Wilhelm Füssl: Oskar von Miller 1855-1934 . P. 26.
- ↑ Volkert, p. 222.
- ↑ A crown for "Germania" . In: Augsburger Allgemeine, January 8, 2010, accessed December 22, 2017
- ↑ File: RichmondWashington.jpg
- ^ Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Stephen Vernoit: Islamic art in the 19th century .
- ↑ File: Venezia - Luigi Borro (1826-1886) - Monumento a Daniele Manin (1875) - 06 - Photo Giovanni Dall'Orto, 6-Aug-2007.jpg
- ↑ Franklin Simmons Dead . In: The New York Times , December 9, 1913
- ^ City of Trier, Baldwin fountain
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '53.5 " N , 11 ° 33' 8.6" E