Ludolf Siegfriedt

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Ludolph Siegfried (also: Ludolff Siegfriedt as well as Ludolf Siegfried and Ludolf Siegfriedt (* in the 17th century in Nienburg / Weser ; † after 1673 )) was a Hanoverian bell , piece and gun caster . He was considered the "busiest bell founder of the time".

Life

Drawing of a 24-pound cannon (approx. 3 tons) manufactured by Siegfriedt during the Thirty Years' War in 1646 ; Photo: Armémuseum ; CC BY 4.0
Details of the weapon cast on behalf of VGG Christian Graff zu Oldenburg and Delmenhorst Herr zu Iehver and Kniephausen with the client's coat of arms ;
Photo of the Armé Museum in Sweden ; CC BY 4.0

Ludolf Siegfriedt worked in the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg already at the time of the Thirty Years' War for the first time, verifiably, from 1642 in Braunschweig . There, together with the master bell-maker Joachim Janke, he created several bells for various Braunschweig churches, initially the so-called "prayer bell" for St. Petri , which was later destroyed in a tower fire . The quality of the work delivered led other church councils from other Braunschweig churches to commission Siegfriedt to cast more bells. The long-established Braunschweig foundries, on the other hand, lodged a complaint - unsuccessfully - with the Braunschweig city ​​council at the time .

In June 1643, Siegfriedt, together with Joachim Janke, created the bell for the Braunschweig church with the year 1642 by the two Braunschweig mayors Henricus Peters and Hans Affeln , the church mayor and councilor Martin Hille and the three church leaders Frantz Apelnstedt, Ludeke Juten and Henning Hofmeister St. Magni .

In the 1650s at the latest, Ludolf Siegfriedt had acquired the citizenship of Hanover when he had "cast the two old bells and the pewter baptism [of the church of Haimar ]" in 1653 . After the larger bell of the church broke more than a century later, the two smaller bells were brought to Hanover in 1784 so that one could be cast from both.

Until 1673 Ludolf Siegfriedt also worked as a bell and piece caster both in the royal seat of Hanover and in Celle . In 1650 he created the Great David bell with the money donated by the Hanoverian theologian, Magister and senior of the spiritual city ministry David Meier ; also the largest bell of the Kreuzkirche in Hanover.

After Siegfriedt's sovereign , Duke Christian Ludwig, ordered the construction of the hunting lodge in Weyhausen in 1650 , Ludolf Siegfriedt cast the bell intended for the palace in 1656, according to the inscription of his work. The piece can be found today with the inventory number MB 44 im Bomann Museum in Celle.

By 1660 at the latest, Siegfriedt had been promoted to a princely piece caster and had his seat in Celle, when he cast the still existing large bell for the Ilten church in Ilten for 198 thalers in the parish garden of Pastor Joachim von Broitzem .

Siegfried's successor in the office of bell founder was Thomas Riedeweg , who worked in Hanover in the 18th century .

Well-known cast works by Siegfried

Bell cast in 1643 in Devese
  • 1640: Large bell for the Kreuzkirche in Hanover
  • 1642, together with Martin Janke: So-called "prayer bell" for St. Petri in Braunschweig; Destroyed in a fire in the church tower in 1811
  • 1642, together with Martin Janke: originally intended for the Braunschweig St. Magni bell with a similar inscription as there, related to the Aegidienkirche (Braunschweig) . The bell was found in the western bell tower, which was demolished in 1817/18.
  • 1642/43, together with Martin Janke: bell for St. Magni in Braunschweig; receive
  • 1643: Bell for the chapel in Arnum
  • 1643: bell for the chapel in Devese ; restored in 2010
  • June 1643, together with Martin Janke (order date 1642): bell for St. Magni in Braunschweig
  • 1644: Bell for the Evangelical Lutheran Chapel Wülferode in Hanover's Wülferode district, a listed building
  • 1645: Bell for the church in Horst
  • 1646–1647: "According to information in the register of the Princely Rent Chamber [...] the piece caster Ludolf Siegfried zu Hannover delivered 2 half cannons and 2 twelve-pound pieces at a price of 538 thalers for the fortification on the Kalkberg near Lüneburg ."
  • 1647: Bell for the Church of St. Petri in Neustadt am Rübenberge
  • July to September 1649: three bells, cast in the churchyard of the parish church in Berka in the Katlenburg district in the Vorharz region
  • 1649: Bell for the church in Bennigsen
  • April 1650: 2 bells for the Michaeliskirche in Ronnenberg
  • 1650: Bell for the church in Basse
  • 1650: Bell for the church in Helstorf
  • 1650: Bell for the Johannis Chapel in Metel as a replacement for the one stolen in the war; Inscription: "[...] Master Ludolf Siegfriedt cast me in Hanover."
  • 1650: Casting of the "Great David" bell, the largest bell for the Kreuzkirche in Hanover
  • 1650: in Hanover, casting of the bell for the Jakobikirche in Bäntorf near Coppenbrügge
  • 1651: Bell for the Martinskirche in Engelbostel
  • 1652: Bell with strike note b for the Lemmier Chapel near Gehrden ; receive
  • 1653: Middle bell for the Kreuzkirche in Hanover
  • 1653: New casting of the two old bells and the pewter baptism of the church in Haimar; the two bells were later (1784) brought to Hanover to be cast in a single bell.
  • In 1654 Siegfriedt poured two more than 30 hundredweight quarters carthaunen for the city of Hanover , the named "Salvator mundi" and the S. Paulus
  • 1655: Bell for the church in Großgoltern
  • 1655: new bell casting for St. Petri in Braunschweig; Destroyed in 1811
  • 1656: Bell for the Braunschweig Church of St. Katharinen , the inscription includes Georg von Rethem and the mayor Henning Schrader ; receive
  • 1656: Bell for the Weyhausen hunting lodge near Eschede
  • 1657: Bell with several inscriptions for the Gothic church of St. Laurentius in Schwarmstedt
  • 1657: Bell for the church in Hemeringen
  • 1659: Bell cast again with inscriptions for St. Katharinen's Church in Braunschweig; Expropriated in 1917 to be melted down for war purposes
  • 1660: Casting of the existing large bell in Ilten in the local parish garden
  • The larger clock bell by Siegfriedt , which was delivered to Clausthal-Zellerfeld , dates from 1660
  • 1662: Bell for the chapel in Hemmingen
  • 1663: Bell for the church in Hohenbostel
  • 1664 or 1723, Stadtkirche St. Marien (Celle) : bell of the pitch es with a weight of 1,330 kg and a circumference of 1.33 m
  • 1665: New cast in the old form of two older bells, with inscriptions for the Church of St. Martini in Braunschweig ; receive
  • In 1665 Siegfriedt again cast two heavy carthaunas for the city of Hanover; the named "Hercules" and the Griffin .
  • 1668: Bell cast again for the church in Bennigsen
  • 1668: Bell for the Marienkirche in Barsinghausen
  • 1670: 2 bells for the church of the 10,000 knights in Lenthe
  • November 1670: bell, strike note a, for the chapel in Everloh , made in Hanover; receive
  • In 1672 the piece caster Ludolf Siegfriedt made two bells for the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis on behalf of the Hanoverian landscape
  • 1673: Bell for the market church in Hameln

Archival material

An archive of and Ludolf Siegfriedt be found, for example,

  • the contract for the middle bell of St. Petri created in 1642; in the Braunschweig city archive , archive signature G II 1, fol. 245f.

See also

Web links

Commons : Ludolf Siegfriedt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Sabine Wehking : DI 56, City of Braunschweig II, No. 917 † St. Petri on the page Deutsche Insschriften Online / Niedersachsen / Braunschweig from 1529 to 1671
  2. ↑ a b o.V. : The bells of the town church St. Marien in Celle on the site stadtkirche-celle.de [ undated ], last accessed on January 4, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c d e Brigitte Streich : City - Country - Castle, Celle as a residence. Accompanying volume to the exhibition (= Celler contributions to regional and cultural history , vol. 29), Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2000, ISBN 978-3-89534-379-7 and ISBN 3-89534-379-X , p. 257; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ^ A b c d e f Carl Wolff (ed.), Heinrich Fischer , Fritz Traugott Schulz (arrangement): The art monuments of the province of Hanover. Published on behalf of the Provincial Commission for Research and Conservation of the Monuments in the Province of Hanover , Volume III: Administrative Region Lüneburg, 1. Districts Burgdorf and Fallingbostel (= Issue 4 of the complete work), Hanover: Self-published by the Provincial Administration Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1902, pp. 40f., 47, 50, 151; as a PDF document at forgottenbooks.com
  5. ^ Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer : 1650 , in: Hannover Chronik , p. 51; Preview over google books
  6. ^ A b c Sabine Wehking: DI 56, City of Braunschweig II, No. 924 / St. Magni on the page German Inscriptions Online / Lower Saxony / Braunschweig from 1529 to 1671
  7. ↑ Dirk Böttcher : Meyer, (2) David (also Meier) , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 252
  8. ↑ a b c Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Siefriedt, Ludolf , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 77
  9. ↑ Kristian Teetz: Christmas time / Hanover's bells tell many stories / Sweeter the bells never ring: During the Christmas season, the bells of the city can be heard clearly again - they tell many stories , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from December 20, 2012, updated December 22, 2012, last accessed January 4, 2018
  10. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Wilhelm Mithoff : Art monuments and antiquities in Hanover , vol. 1: Fürstenthum Calenberg , Hanover: Hellwingsche Hofbuchhandlung, 1871, pp. 9, 12, 74, 100
  11. ^ Sabine Wehking: DI 56, City of Braunschweig II, No. 908 †
  12. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Carl Wolff (ed.): The art monuments of the province of Hanover. Published on behalf of the Provincial Commission for Research and Conservation of the Monuments in the Province of Hanover , Volume I: Administrative Region Hanover, 1st District Hanover and Linden , Hanover: Self-published by the Provincial Administration ; Theodor Schulze's bookstore, 1899; On-line
  13. ↑ oV : A bell returns , in: Around us. Local news and official communications from the area. City of Hemmingen. Arnum, Devese, Harkenbleck, Hemmingen-Westerfeld, Hiddestorf, Ohlendorf and Wilkenburg , 48th year, issue 7 of April 14, 2010, p. 24; Digitized on the docplayer.org site
  14. ↑ Wolfgang Neß : Wülferode , in: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover , part 2, vol. 10.2, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , here: p. 176ff .; as well as Wülferode in the addendum : List of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications of the Institute for Monument Preservation, p. 27
  15. ^ Eduard Schuster : Art and artists in the principalities of Calenberg and Lüneburg in the period from 1636 to 1727. Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1905, p. 162 and others; limited preview in Google Book search
  16. ^ The village of Berka in the district of Catlenburg , in: Neues Hannoverisches Magazin , 16th year, 91st issue from November 14, 1806, Hannover: Georg Christoph Schlüter , column 1441-1454; here: Col. 1447f .; Digitized via Google books
  17. ↑ Hartmut Stützel: The story of the Johannes chapel in Metel. A brief glimpse into history on the page of the Freundeskreis für die Johannis-Kapelle Metel eV [undated], last accessed on January 5, 2018
  18. ↑ a b c Gottfried Piper : Gehrden and the music. On the 100th anniversary of the Gehrden Trombone Choir , Festschrift, 3rd edition, Burgwedel: St. Petri Druck GmbH, 1994, p. 5; Digitized as a PDF document from gehrden-kirche.de
  19. ↑ a b August Jugler : From Hanover's prehistory. A contribution to German culture history , Hanover: Verlag von Carl Rümpler, 1876, pp. 29–30; Digitized via Google books
  20. ^ Sabine Wehking: DI 56, City of Braunschweig II, No. 1047 †
  21. ^ Sabine Wehking: DI 56, City of Braunschweig II, No. 1052
  22. ^ Sabine Wehking: DI 56, City of Braunschweig II, No. 1086 †
  23. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 41, Ernst and Korn, 1921, p. 103; limited preview in Google Book search
  24. ↑ youtube: Glocke b ° Celle ev. St. Marien town church
  25. ^ Sabine Wehking: DI 56, City of Braunschweig II, No. 1126
  26. ↑ Compare the Hanover history sheets, allegedly anthology 23-25 ​​from 1969 p. 159; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Siegfriedt, Ludolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siegfried, Ludolph; Siefriedt, Ludolff; Siegfried, Ludolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg bell founder
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Nienburg / Weser
DATE OF DEATH after 1673