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Nikolaus Wiese (* around 1627, presumably in Braunschweig ; † 1665 ) was a German piece and bell founder .

Life

Nikolaus Wiese was the son of the council founder Anton Wiese , who had been active in Lübeck since 1632 . He was probably born in Braunschweig around 1627. In 1652 he is proven to be his father's journeyman, who proposed him as his successor at Easter 1655. The Lübeck council approved this on condition that Nikolaus Wiese deliver a sample. On February 26, 1656, following the death of his father, he was granted power of disposal over the casting house. In 1657 he was taken on oath by the Lübeck council as a council founder. In the period from 1656 to 1658 he took over Garkupfer several times from Matthäus Rodde to manufacture guns for the Lübeck city fortifications . His complaint to the Lübecker Wette has come down to us from 1660 , with which he opposed the restriction of the employment of more than three journeymen by the office of the red foundry in the city. The background to this was ongoing major orders for bells and guns for Russia, which were to be delivered to the Russian import port of Arkhangelsk via Hamburg . The oldest of the Novgorod drivers Johann von Gohren (before 1620 - before July 1672) had signed a contract in 1660 for the delivery of 300 guns to Tsar Alexei I of Russia. One hundred of these guns were cast by Nikolaus Wiese. Further guns for this order were made by Hermann Benningk in Hamburg.

From this order for Nikolaus Wiese an inscription has been handed down to a gun in Kiev . In Lübeck, a fragment of one of its guns was found during the construction of the Elbe-Lübeck Canal at the castle gate . A small cannon from the possession of the Austrian Hereditary Duke Johann von Ohrt is also known and is attributed to him.

literature

  • Theodor Hach : Lübeck bell customer . Published postmortem in 1913 by J. Kretzschmar
  • Günter Meyer: Bronze cannons from Lübeck - production and trade of the council founders. In: Zeitschrift für Lübeckische Geschichte Volume 96 (2016), pp. 143–163 (pp. 157/158)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norbert Angermann : Johann von Gohren. A 17th century Russian merchant from Lübeck. In: ZVLGA 64 (1986), pp. 97-114
predecessor Office successor
Anton Wiese Lübeck council founder
1657–1665 		Albert Benningk
personal data
SURNAME Wiese, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German piece and bell caster
DATE OF BIRTH around 1627
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH 1665