Michel Dibler
Michel Dibler , also Dübler or Dybler († December 14, 1593 in Flensburg ) was a bell founder.
Live and act
Michel Dibler was the son of unknown parents. Its origin is also unknown. On October 1, 1559, he married a woman named Christine in Flensburg, whose father was the dyer Marcus Ove and who was still alive in 1593. The couple had seven children, of whom, when Dibler died, their sons Marcus and Hans were still alive. He had probably previously worked in Gert van Mervelt's foundry , which was on the site of the former monastery . After van Mervelt's death in 1558, he continued the workshop and worked as a royal gunsmith in 1561. In July 1561 he was appointed royal gunsmith and gunner. In 1562 he acquired Flensburg citizenship. In 1567 he was demonstrably also active as a mint master .
Dibler had been a member of the Flensburg citizenship deputation since 1583 and took over the duties of one of the two city treasurers for some time in 1590. In particular, he created church bells as well as artillery, candlesticks, grapes and similar objects. There is evidence that he cast 27 bells between 1560 and 1592, 15 of which still exist. In addition, in 1588 there was a baptismal font in the Sankt Nicolaikirche in Eckernförde and in 1591 one in the Flensburg Marienkirche . He used templates for the design of the characters, like the Little Passion of Albrecht Dürer .
In 1562 he cast a bell for the church of Buphever on the island of Strand . Buphever went down in the Burchardi flood in 1634. The bell was then brought to the nearby Osterhever . The bell, which has been kept on the Museumsberg Flensburg since 1908 , was brought back to Osterhever in 2017. The Katharinenglocke of the old Katharinenkirche of the Flensburg Franciscan Monastery that he cast is still in the collection of the municipal museum.
Dibler was considered the most important foundry of the Renaissance in Schleswig-Holstein. His son Marcus († 1642) continued his father's workshop. In particular, he made everyday objects and a baptismal font for the Church of Esgrus .
In Flensburg today, Diblerstrasse is named after Michel Dibler.
literature
- Dibler, Michel . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 214 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Hans Joachim Kuhlmann: Dibler (Dybler, Dübler), Michel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 633 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Herbert Beelte: Dibler, Michel. In: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon. Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979, ISBN 3-529-02645-X , pp. 75-76.
Web links
- Manfred Karl Adam: The Buphever bell in the sound of local history. A small contribution to the great history of Old North Beach ( Memento from November 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Antje Walther: Large mandrank. Flensburg: The church treasure from the storm surge. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . April 4, 2017 ( shz.de ).
- ↑ Hospital and Monastery of the Holy Spirit. In: Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History. Flensburg 1995, p. 42.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dibler, Michel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dübler, Michel; Dybler, Michel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bell caster |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 1593 |
| Place of death | Flensburg |