Paulus Arnolt

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Paulus Arnolt (born April 16, 1600 in Fulda ; † after 1642) was a piece and bell founder in Heilbronn , Fulda and other places.

Life

He came from Fulda, worked in Wertheim in 1622 and in 1626 received the approval of the Heilbronn City Council to be able to carry out redsmith services. In 1632 he received a piece casting order from Heilbronn city commander Ludwig von Schmidberg . In 1639 he returned to Fulda, in 1642 he is occupied in Königheim and Königshofen.

Bells

Detectable bells:

  • Bell in Hasloch , dated 1622 (cast in Wertheim)
  • Town hall bell in Grünsfeld , dated 1624 (cast in Fulda)
  • Town hall bell in Stein am Kocher , dated 1626 (cast in Heilbronn)
  • Bell at the meat shop in Heilbronn, dated 1627 (cast in Heilbronn, melted down during the First World War)
  • Town hall bell in Bachenau , dated 1631 (cast in Heilbronn)
  • Bell in Lehrensteinsfeld , dated 1632 (cast in Heilbronn)
  • Six bells in Königheim , dated 1642 (cast in Fulda)
  • Bell in Königshofen, dated 1642 (cast in Fulda)
  • Bell in Wittighausen - milk band, dated 1642 (cast in Fulda)
  • Bell in Güntersleben, district of Würzburg (cast in Eußenheim in 1642)

literature

  • Norbert Jung: Forgotten bell founders , Heilbronn 2014, ISBN 978-3-934096-36-3 , pp. 60/61.
  • Theodor Schön: The art of bell foundry in the imperial cities of Biberach, Hall, Heilbronn, Ravensburg, Reutlingen and Rottweil . In: Archive for Christian Art: Organ of the Rottenburger Diözesan-Kunstverein , No. 20, 1902, pp. 55–58, here p. 56. ( digitized version )