Martin Hilliger

Martin Hilliger (also Merten Hylger and Kanngießer ) (* 1484 in Freiberg ; † 1544 ibid) was a German gun and bell founder from the Hilliger foundry dynasty in Freiberg in the 16th century.

Life

Martin Hilliger was next to Andreas one of the sons of Oswald Hilliger . From 1514 he described himself as a piece caster, took over his father's workshop in 1517 and renewed it in 1537. In 1510 he became a judge, 1519 councilor, 1523 city judge and 1529 court hospital master. In 1521, Emperor Charles V gave him and his descendants a coat of arms. In a red field it shows an upright bear with a golden caliper in his right paw, and the same heraldic animal growing on the closed sting helmet. From then on the family called themselves Hilliger.

He left three sons: Wolf (gang) , Oswald and Sebastian (* 1521). The workshop was continued jointly by Wolf and Oswald.

plant

Most of Freiberg's bells came from his workshop. Bells preserved by him are also in the forest park Kurort Hartha ( Fördergersdorfer bell from 1517) and in the Naumburg town church St. Wenzel (1518). But the only surviving old bell of the Dresden Frauenkirche , the Maria Memorial Bell (1518), was made in his workshop.

He made large guns for Heinrich V , a proven gun enthusiast. Lucas Cranach designed the figurative ornamentation of the weapons according to Heinrich's ideas .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Hilliger at www.mv-naumburg.de accessed on January 24, 2019
2. ^ ^{A b c d} Karl Walter : Glockenkunde. Pustet, Regensburg 1913, p. 771.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Hilliger (bell and gun foundry family) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 99-100 .