Michael Weingarten (bell founder)
Michael Weingarten (* 1670 ; † February 12, 1730 in Lauingen ) was a German bell founder .
Life
Michael Weingarten came from Silesia . From 1695 at the latest he lived in Kempten ; A document comes from this year in which he wrote as “juvenis, artis Fusoriae peritus; ex Silesia “.
He worked in Kempten in part in a foundry community with Johannes Schirmeister (* around 1655; † 1735). From this co-production, for example, the bells in the Weißenau ( Ravensburg ) monastery , which were cast in 1699, emerged, as well as at least one bell from the same year for the parish church of St. Pankratius in Wiggensbach .
One of the foundry inscriptions that Michael Weingarten names as the only author of a bell is on the bell of the Trinity Chapel in Tiefenberg .
Weingarten was the only master bell founder ever to live in the Kempten monastery .
Probably in 1713 he founded a bell foundry in Lauingen. This later became known as the Georg Wolfart bell foundry ; it was located at 38 Herzog-Georg-Strasse in Lauingen.
Michael Weingarten had at least three children. His grandson Anton Weingart (h) en (* February 18, 1744, † June 1, 1798) also became a bell founder.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Historischer Verein für Schwaben: Journal of the Historisches Verein für Schwaben . Seitz, 1988, pp. 166-.
- ^ Sigrid Thurm: Württemberg and Hohenzollern . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1959, p. 462 u. ö ..
- ↑ Parish Church of St. Pankratius in Wiggensbach , on www.wiggensbach.de
- ↑ Hans Bader, Ofterschwang. Parish church and chapels , Horb 1998, ISBN 3-89570-409-1 , p. 65
- ↑ Volker Dotter Weich, Kempten (Germany): History of the city of Kempten: on behalf of the city of Kempten (Allgäu) . Dannheimer, 1989, ISBN 978-3-88881-011-4 , p. 305.
- ^ Günther Grundmann: German Bell Atlas . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1959, p. 110.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weingarten, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bell founder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1670 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1730 |
| Place of death | Lauingen |