Laux Rucker

Bell from 1600 in St. Michaelis (Oberkleen)

Laux Rucker , hess. for Lucas Rucker (born before 1572; died after 1603) was a German bell founder in Hesse . He was an apprentice of the Frankfurt foundry master Nikolaus Göbel , son of Konrad Gobel . In 1572 he married in Frankfurt. After Nikolaus Göbel died in 1576, Rucker applied against Nikolaus' brother Simon for the position of Frankfurt gunsmith, but could not prevail. In 1586 he insulted the painter and printer Elias Hofmann and had to flee Frankfurt. Since then he has worked as a traveling caster, primarily in Central Hesse .

Manufactured bells

Rucker's bells have some similar elements, for example as reliefs of a Holy Spirit dove or an angel. Rucker also used certain sayings, some in Knittel verse , as well as Latin verses for the three bells cast for monasteries. The Rincker foundry claims his bell, cast for Netphen in 1590, in spite of the fact that the facts have been thoroughly investigated and to the contrary . The politician and winner country local historian Heinrich von Achenbach , of the Hessian name form Laux did not know, read the caster in the inscription 1897 falsely as Hans Rucer , leading them, influenced by a Rincker bell of the 18th century in the same tower an undetectable Hans Rincker was assigned. However, it has the typical Rucker elements and is geographically close to two other Rucker bells.

year	place	church	status	Chime	Dimensions	diameter	Reliefs	Inscription / remark
from Frankfurt
1575	Beuern	ev. church	available	c 2			Dove, angel	I FORGOT THE COMMON ZV DVRCH RICKERN ANO DNI MDLXXV
1578	Holzheim	ev.-ref. church	Cast in 1847
1579	Weiskirchen	cath. St. Peter in chains					Dove, angel
1580	Bend	ev. church			325 kg	830 mm		For pure teaching and God's honor / I call my neighbors to me / honor only God / and no one else
1580	Niederweidbach	ev. Marienkirche	available	g sharp 1	540 kg	950 mm	Dove, angel	SORINER LEHR ZV GOTIES EHR RUFICH MEIN NHCHBERN HER ZV MIR DVHT WOLVN VER DROSSEN 1 5 8 0 / HAD ME GOSSEN A LL A GOD THE HONOR VND SVNSTKEIN NEM MORE LAVX RVCKER (To pure teaching to God's honor, I call my neighbors to me Do well (!), [do it] undaunted. 1 5 8 0 Honor to God alone, and no one else. Laux Rucker has watered me.)
1582	Alsfeld	ev. Walpurgis Church	available	f 1	1,635 kg		Dove, coat of arms	Servio Christo dum resonando ad sacra verba et pia vota convoco cœtus Christi colarum. MDLXXXII - cast in the still vacant monastery church
1582	Grebenau	ev. church			650 kg		Dove, angel
1585	Amonau	ev. church					Dove, angel	For the service of the gentleman I call, / I lament the dead, / Fewr and Auflauf I announce / [...]
as a traveling caster
1588	Oberholzklau					1,240 mm	Dove, Lady Justice	For pure teaching and God's honor / I call my neighbors to me / honor only God / and no one else
1590	Netphen	Martini Church	Cast in 1884		1,313 kg			For the service of the gentleman I call, / I lament the dead, / I announce Fewr and Auflauf / At Dillenburg in the year ninety / Laux Rucker has poured me
1596	Reiskirchen (Huettenberg)	ev. church	Cast in 1882
1597	Beilstein	ev. church				950 mm	Dove	LAUX RVCKER gos me to Dirschtein - Latin verse inscriptions - apparently came to Beilstein later
1600	Upper clover	possibly St. Michaelis	available	f sharp 1			-	no inscription except for the year, crown and decorative rings, but almost identical to Homberg
1602	Grünberg	ev. city church	available	d 1	1,600 kg	1,450 mm	Dove, Lady Justice	To God's word I cry, / I weep the dead, / I remember the Last Judgment / Lucas Rucker von Volpershausen [gos me]
1603	Homberg (Ohm)	ev. city church	available	g 1	730 kg		Dove, Lady Justice	To God's word I call / I awaken the living / I weep the dots / I remember the judgment day / Lucas Ruiker gos me
1603	Nieder-Wöllstadt	ev. church	available	as 1			Dove	Latin inscriptions, signed as M LUCÆ RUCKER

Sunday bell from 1582 in the Walpurgis Church (Alsfeld)

literature

• Konrad Bund: Frankfurter Glockengießer, . based on a manuscript by Hans Fritzen. In: Konrad Bund (ed.): Frankfurter Glockenbuch (=  messages from the Frankfurt city archive ). tape 4 . Publishing house Dr. Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-7829-0211-0  ( formally incorrect ) , Chapter IV: Bells in Frankfurt am Main and Hesse , p. 189 f .
• Jörg Poettgen: Possible sources of error in the transmission of historical bells using the example of early bells from the Mabilon, Petit and Rincker workshops . In: Deutsches Glockenmuseum (Hrsg.): Yearbook for Glockenkunde . tape 23/24 , 2011, ISSN  0938-6998 , p. 131-133 .
• Hellmut Schliephake: Bell customer of the district of Wetzlar. In: Heimatkundliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lahntal e. V. 12th yearbook. 1989, ISSN  0722-1126 , pp. 5–150, here: pp. 31-44 ( Lauc Rücker in the 15th century ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frank Rudolph: Church guide Marienkirche Niederweidbach (PDF)
2. ↑ News on the history of St. Mary's Church , printed in: Together. Community letter of the Evangelical Church Community Niederweidbach No. 58. Feb.-Oct. 2011, 24-26.

Web links

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