Pantlion Sydler

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Pantlion Sydler (also: Banthleon , Pantlio , Pantaleon or Panthaleon Sidler , * around 1460 in Esslingen am Neckar ; † 1521 in Heidelberg ) was a German bell and piece caster .

Life

Pantlion Sydler's father, Panthaleon Sydler from Zurich , also called Panthaleon Sydler the Elder, settled in Esslingen. From 1449 he was a clerk and land lender in the Esslingen hospital, in 1474/75 he was even the municipal hospital master. In 1459 he received citizenship. Probably at the same time he married Katharina Deschlerin. From this it can be deduced that the son's earliest assumed year of birth was around 1460. This possibly learned his craft from Esslingen's master craftsman Jacob. The first Sydler bell that can be dated dates from 1480, and within the next few years Sydler created numerous others in quick succession and evidently made a name for himself. In 1490 he was recommended by the magistrate to the nobleman Martin von Tegenfeld zu Eybach as a bell founder; He was also praised in the following year to Hugo von Montfort as a knowledgeable piece and bell founder.

In 1495 he was attacked and robbed on a trip to Nuremberg . As a result, Count Eberhard im Bart, as protector of Sydler's hometown, was called to campaign for the bell-maker to regain possession of his belongings.

Excerpt from the treaty of 1507

In 1507 he became a gunsmith for the city of Esslingen. This office was limited to ten years, and Sydler stipulated in the contract not to be awarded outside the Swabian Federation during this time .

Pantlion Sydler was electoral gunsmith and caster in Heidelberg in 1517, where he died a few years later. But even during his time in Heidelberg he was occasionally requested by his native town, for example in 1520, when it was necessary to cast cans there. The order for this had been given to Sebastian, one of Sydler's sons, among others; however, he was ill and it was feared that the work could no longer be done on time.

progeny

When Pantlion Sydler died in 1521, he left behind several children and grandchildren. His son Konrad worked as a bell and box founder in Biberach, the son Sebastian continued the workshop in Esslingen, the son Leonhard the foundry in Heidelberg. After Sebastian was murdered in 1526, Leonhard returned to Esslingen, where he worked as a foundry until at least 1535. The bell in Wessingen , which was cast in 1535, may have come from him . Its bells are labeled Lenhart Seidler and Lenhart Seifer . He died in 1544, probably in Esslingen. Lenhart Seifer is differently equated with the brother of the sculptor Hans Seyfer on various occasions .

Works

The bells cast by Pantlion Sydler are probably easier to prove than the weapons he made. The "fool's head", which was recovered from the Danube near Belgrade at the beginning of the 20th century, is an exception : Paul Mauser informed the city of Esslingen, probably in 1911, of the discovery of a gun that had been cast by a Valentin settler in Esslingen be. Four years later, another request arrived in Sydler's hometown, this time from Julius Caspart, who reproduced the inscription on the find with "Naren head I am called, who trout me, whom I meet Panto Lydler poured me to Esslingen", but already doubts commented on the spelling of the name and assumed that the creator of the gun was called Ydler. City archivist Paul Eberhardt assumed in 1924 that both letters referred to the same find and that the manufacturer could have been Pantlion Sydler. He speculated that the gun either reached Belgrade in 1521 during the defense against the Turks by German auxiliary troops or was later used in the reconquest of Belgrade by Prince Eugene . Of course, it was also Eberhardt who pointed out that one of the three sons of Pantlion Sydler, Konrad, who were known by name , had cast a cannon called the Fool's Head , according to the Annales Biberacenses , which is why the Esslingen city archives decided which of the two eponymous cannons should come from the Danube had been pulled, did not want to hit. In 1992, however, Schubert pleaded for Pantlion Sydler in view of the names on the find.

The oldest detectable Sydler bell was cast in 1480 and is located in Baiersbronn .

The oldest signed bell by Pantlion Sydler hangs in the Protestant church in Krummhardt . It dates from 1487 and bears the inscription “+ osana. shark. I. pantlion. sidler. from. donkeys. gos. me. do. man zalt. m. cccc. lxxxvii. iar. “This bell with a diameter of 52 cm is tuned to the tone g.

The Osanna bell in the Simon and Judas church in Heutingsheim dates from 1492 . It is 88 cm high and has a radius of 51 cm. Heinz Schubert read her inscription as follows in 1992: “, Osanna. shark. I. pantlion. sidler. uon. donkey. gos. me. in the. mcccclxxxxii. iar. and. in the. names. ihs. and. Maria"; Oskar Paret had tried this inscription a few decades earlier, but apparently did not recognize the first name Pantlion and reproduced the place name with a double s. The bell was not melted down during the two world wars - possibly because the tower of the church of Simon and Jude would have had to be demolished in order to remove it.

A cracked Sydler bell was still present in Esslingen in 1924. It was provided with the following inscription: “in. de. Surname. ours. here. iehsu. christy. and. in our. love froen. he. gos. me. pantlio. sidler. uo. essling. 1496 ".

Two Sydler bells in Darmsheim are recorded in the description of the Upper Office Böblingen by Karl Eduard Paulus from 1850. For the larger one, the inscription “in. sant. Lux. And. sant. Marx. and. sant. John. and. in. sant. Mateus. gos. me pantlion. Sydler. zuo. Esslingen. in 1510 Jar. amen. ", while the smaller one was created in the 15th century, as its inscription attests:" Lucas. Marcus. John. Mateus. Pantlion Sidler von Esslingen gos mich do you pay 1485. "

The sydler bell of the Eusebius church in Wendlingen am Neckar was cast in 1501. It was found in a bell warehouse in Hamburg in 1948 after the turmoil of World War II and could be brought back to Wendlingen. It has the inscription "Pantlion Sidler von Esslingen poured me in the XV hundred and 1 year to the He of our dear Fraven, (F) Sant Luc. - Sant Marc. - Sant Johanes - Sant Matthaus."

The “Silberglöcklein” of the Stuttgart collegiate church dates from 1502 , which like the Heutingsheimer bell is called “Osanna” in its inscription.

In 1503 the bell was cast by St. Laurentius in Burgstetten .

The Ulrichskapelle in Göppingen has two rather small Sydler bells. The 45 kg model dates from 1507, and Sydler cast another, somewhat heavier bell in 1517.

In the Evangelical Church of Schlierbach hangs a bell 84 cm high with a diameter of 90 cm, which due to its inscription was dated to 1470, but probably belongs to the year 1510. Its inscription in Gothic minuscule reads "+ · sant · lvx · sant · marx · sant · iohanes · sant · mathevs · er · gos · me · pantlion · sydler · von · esslingen · anno · d (omi) ni · 1510". Another dating problem occurs when a bell in Hörschweiler , which according to the description of the Oberamts Freudenstadt from Thumlingen should come and is cited for the following inscription: "sant Luc, Marc, John, Matthew He gos me Pantlion Sydler zuo Esslingen in 1524 Jar ". However, this year cannot be reconciled with Sydler's dates of life.

The Gruibinger Sydler bell dates back to 1511, as does the bell on the Roman tower in Haigerloch .

In the Protestant church in Tailfingen hangs one of the most beautiful Sydler bells - according to the parish. This es' bell is the second largest bell in the Herrenberg deanery ; the largest is in the collegiate church in Herrenberg. The Tailfinger Sydler bell is next to a bell from the Lorcher town church, the largest preserved bell that Pantlion Sydler created. Cast in 1512, it has a diameter of 137 cm and a weight of 32 centners, the inscription in minuscules reads in modern spelling “O sweet name Jesus, oh sweet name Maria, be gracious and in St. Luke, Markus, Johannes, Mätthäus. He poured me, Pantlion Sydler in Esslingen in the 1512th year ”. This inscription suggested that the bell was originally made for another church, as the Tailfinger church was not dedicated to Maria, but to Afra.

Also in 1512 Sydler cast the big bell that is attested for the parish church in Weitlingen . According to the description of the Oberamt Horb, he gave her an inscription that read "in sant luc, sant marc, sant johannes, sant matheus he poured me pantlion sydler von eßlingen when one zalt 1512 jar amen"

The so-called Mandelberg Bell, which originally hung in the Peter and Paul Church in Pfalzgrafenweiler , dates from 1513 . The bell, which weighs 886 kilograms, was allegedly removed during the Thirty Years' War and buried near the Mandelberg ruins; later it came back to its old place. In the First and Second World War, it has not melted due to their age and value. Today the tuned bell is in the hamlet of Jakobskirche. It bears the inscription "in sant luc, sant marc, sant johanes and in sant matheus er gos me pantlion Sydler zu Esslingen anno domini 1513 jar amen".

The 74 cm high Bad Ditzenbacher Sydler bell dates from 1515 and is called the Evangelist bell. Its inscription reads: “in sant luc sant marc sant joannis sant matheus er gos me pantlion sydler zuo esslingen anno dni 1515 iar”. It hangs in the Auendorfer Stephanuskirche. In 1516 Pantlion Sydler cast a bell for the church in Dettingen, Oberamt Rottenburg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Life data according to the representation of the Protestant parish Tailfingen
  2. ^ A b c d e Heinz Schubert: "Osanna" is 500 years old. Which is why our bell was preserved . ( Memento from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) In: Freiberger Historische Blätter , 12, 4th year, August 13, 1992
  3. a b Evangelical Church Community Tailfingen
  4. a b c Eugen Gröner: Medieval bells of our homeland . (PDF) In: Heimatkundliche Blätter Balingen 22, October 30, 1975, issue 10, p. 37 f.
  5. Norbert Jung: Forgotten bell founders . Heilbronn 2014, ISBN 978-3-934096-36-3 , pp. 51/52.
  6. ^ Leopold Toifl: For the defense of the city of Graz in the Turkish year 1663. A contribution to the Styrian witness system . (PDF) In: MStLA 49, 1998, pp. 281–297, here p. 292.
  7. The Krummhardter Church. A village church on the Schurwald . 2nd Edition. Evangelical Church Community Aichwald, Aichwald 2013, p. 8
  8. ^ Oskar Paret: Ludwigsburg and the land around the Asperg . Ludwigsburg undated (1934), p. 353
  9. ^ Karl Eduard Paulus: Description of the Upper Office Böblingen . Stuttgart 1850, p. 141
  10. Glory bell has been hanging in the tower NÜRTINGER ZEITUNG for 50 years. Accessed January 13, 2019 .
  11. Dr. Gerhard Hergenröder: Wendlingen am Neckar. On the way to a city. Ed .: City of Wendlingen am Neckar. tape 1 , 1992, p. 123 .
  12. ^ Local lexicon Baden-Württemberg . ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) maja.bsz-bw.de
  13. Ulrich's Chapel . ( Memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) ks-goeppingen.de
  14. Inscription catalog in the Bergstrasse district
  15. Description of the Oberamt Freudenstadt , Stuttgart 1858, p. 254
  16. Claus Huber, Signs of Christian Hope - the bells of our churches , on www.kirchen Bezirk-geislingen.de
  17. Nadine Dürr: A bell poses a riddle . In: Gäubote , September 21, 2013
  18. ^ Description of the Oberamt Horb . Stuttgart 1865, p. 264
  19. Evangelical Church Community Pfalzgrafenweiler
  20. ^ Bulletin Bad Ditzenbach , March 16, 1995 (PDF)