M. Stellmann

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M. Stellmann was a courtyard - a watchmaker and jeweler in Hannover .

history

The Stellmann house at Königstrasse 53 , built in 1908 according to plans by Wilhelm Mackensen
The monumental clock built according to plans by Paul Wolf in the Eilenriedestadion used by Hannover 96 today and donated by M. Stellmann

Stellmann's company was founded in 1886. The watchmaker and watch dealer Moritz Stellmann (M. Stellmann senior) was with his company the main branch of the precision watch factory A. Lange & Söhne and also owned the exclusive agency for the watch brand " Alpina ". Stellmann's company was founded in a corner shop and was located in 1898 on the ground floor and third floor of Theaterstrasse 1 .

Shortly after the turn of the century, Max Senn came to Hanover from Switzerland to temporarily work as a trainer in Stellmann's company from 1901. At around the same time, Stellmann delivered the clocks installed inside the Hanoverian trams .

From 1906 to 1908 Max Stellmann completed an apprenticeship at the German Watchmaking School in Glashütte and then went to Hanover.

Since, despite the relocation of the first business premises at Theaterstrasse 1 to the larger neighboring shop, there was soon insufficient space in the warehouse and workshop, the architect Wilhelm Mackensen converted a house at Königstrasse 53 between 1907 and 1908 and redesigned it as a residential property - and new office building for Stellmann. The building is no longer preserved today.

Stellmann was appointed court watchmaker during the First World War . In 1905, Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst of the Grand Duchy of Saxony appointed Stellmann “Grand Ducal Saxon Court Clockmaker and Court Supplier”.

Stellmann's patented tram clocks had been delivered in their thousands at home and abroad for decades. The company also supplied numerous clocks for public spaces , some of them as foundations . The company's best-known advertising slogan was popularly at the time: "After Stellmann's clocks you set your clocks" M. Stellmann donated the stadium clock for today's Eilenriedestadion .

In 1926 M. Stellmann sen. to his two sons.

On the occasion of the company's 50th anniversary, the company's founder M. Stellmann sen. In 1936 appointed honorary master of the Hanover Chamber of Crafts .

Uhren-Stellmann celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1961. At around the same time, the company contributed to the cultural history of the screw by supplying illustration materials for the work published in 1962 .

The company M. Stellmann no longer appears in the Hanoverian address book from 1975.

Watch collection from M. Stellmann sen.

The company founder M. Stellmann sen. had built up one of the largest antique watch collections in Germany in the course of his life and made a name for himself with it. This included more than 200 outstanding and wearable clocks from the 16th to the 18th centuries. This part of Stellmann's collection provided a general overview of the development of pocket watches . The collection also included historical sundials , antique art clocks and valuable bronze pendulum clocks .

Stellmann acquired z. B. In 1898 at the A. Lange & Söhne watch manufacturer , an extremely fine, heavy hunter with a quarter-hour repeater set in an 18- carat rose gold case . The watch with the movement number 40736 , which is the only known irreversible difference around 1000 from the case number carved into the watch by the engraver, was glazed by Lange & Söhne, an enamel dial, a 3/4 plate movement, 2 hammers respectively 2 gongs and a gold screw compensation balance . The piece was offered more than a century later at an auction held by the auction house Crott in Frankfurt am Main in 2016 at an estimate of between 20,000 and 25,000 euros.

Awards

  • The company has been awarded the title of court watchmaker three times and has received awards at various specialist exhibitions.

literature

  • Paul Siedentopf (main editor ): M. Stellmann , in that: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , with the help of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the images), Jubiläums-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 305
  • 75 years watch-Stellmann , in: Neue Uhrmacher-Zeitung. Trade journal for the watchmaking industry. Bulletin of various South German professional and guild associations (Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Palatinate) , Wilhelm Kempter Verlag, Ulm, Volume 61, Number 20, p. 63
  • o. V .: A monumental clock in the Hindenburg Stadium in Hanover , in: Deutsche Uhrmacher-Zeitung , Volume 46 (1922), p. 321; Digitized via the SLUB

Web links

Commons : M. Stellmann (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Compare the richly illustrated catalog for the 93rd auction of the auction house Dr. Crott on May 14, 2016 at the Hotel Sheraton in Frankfurt am Main (in English), as a PDF document on the uhren-muser.de website
  2. ↑ a b 75 years of clocks Stellmann , in: Neue Uhrmacher-Zeitung. Trade journal for the watchmaking industry. Bulletin of various South German professional and guild associations (Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Palatinate) , Verlag Wilhelm Kempter, Ulm, volume 61, number 20, p. 63; compare the information in the table of the German Society for Chronometry (DGC)
  3. ↑ a b Address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden for the year 1898, section I, 3: Alphabetical directory of residents and trading companies , p. 1029; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library (GWLB) via the German Research Foundation
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Paul Siedentopf (main editor ): M. Stellmann , in ders .: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , with the help of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the picture material), anniversary publisher Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 305
  5. ^ Heinrich Beyer: Zur Geschichte des hannoverschen Stadtverkehr ', in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 12 (1959), Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung und Verlag, 1959, pp. 41–112; here: p. 94; Preview over google books
  6. ↑ Reinhard Glaß: Mackensen, Wilhelm in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) , a research project by Günther Kokkelink (†), Monika Lemke-Kokkelink and Reinhard Glaß, [undated], last accessed on July 31, 2019
  7. ^ Deutsche Uhrmacher-Zeitung , Volume 40, Verlag C. Marfels, 1916, pp. XVIII, 189 and others; Preview over google books
  8. ↑ n.v . : From the beginning: The Eilenriedestadion in Hanover , illustrated description of the stadium with a picture of Stellmann's grandfather clock on the website of the architects Schulze & Partner [undated], last accessed on July 31, 2019
  9. ^ Deutsche Uhrmacher-Zeitung , year 1936, number 50, p. 659; Digitized
  10. ↑ Address book of the state capital Hanover 1962 (ABH 1962), section 2: Alphabetical part , p. 762
  11. ↑ Rudolf Kellermann, Wilhelm Treue: Die Kulturgeschichte der Screw , 2nd, expanded edition and continued up to the 20th century, ed. on behalf of Kamax-Werke R. Kellermann, Osterode am Harz and Homberg / Oberhessen, Munich: Bruckmann, 1962, p. 308
  12. ↑ See there
  13. ↑ Compare the information in the table of the German Society for Chronometry

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 25 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 32.7"  E