Peter Füssli (bell founder, 1577)

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Big bell in Bern Minster from 1611

Peter Füssli (* 1577 in Zurich ; † 1629 there ) was a Swiss bell founder.

His parents were the bell founder Peter Füssli and Magdalena Bürkli. He married Küngold Vögeli in 1603, Susanna Kasthofer in 1606 and Anna Kitt in 1613.

Between 1604 and 1610 he cast 24 bells together with his father and further up to 1615 with his brother Hans Peter 17 bells. In 1611, together with master Abraham Zender, the former servant of Franz Sermond , he cast the 195 hundredweight bell for the Bern Minster . From 1615 to 1629 he cast coins and guns. On behalf of Abbot Caspar II. Thoma, he cast a big bell on site for the New Minster .

In 1619 he was elected Zurich guild master of the smithy. He was Vogt von Rieden (ZH) and Wiedikon , chairman of the Schützengesellschaft am Platz and from 1629 Hardherr .

literature

  • Jürg W. Vogel: The gun foundry dynasty Füssli in Zurich. Beer, Zurich 1984. In: Fireworks Society Zurich: New Year's Gazette of the Fireworks Society (Artillery College) in Zurich for the year ... 1985, Volume 176.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tapan Bhattacharya: Füssli, Peter. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ Katja Hürlimann: Füssli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  3. ↑ Franz Sermond, bell founder from Bormio. sehrbundt.de
  4. ↑ Hardherr . In: German Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Prussian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 5 , volume 2 (edited by Otto Gönnenwein , Wilhelm Weizsäcker , with the assistance of Hans Blesken). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - publication date between 1952 and 1960).
personal data
SURNAME Füssli, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss bell foundry
DATE OF BIRTH 1577
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH 1629
Place of death Zurich