Philipp Schweitzer (bell founder)

Bell cast by Ph. Schweitzer in 1710

Johann Philipp Schweitzer (born March 6, 1683 in Werdorf ; † 1754 ) was a German bell founder from Asslar- Werdorf in the first half of the 18th century . He poured a few bells for Central Hesse and the sometimes more distant surroundings, few of which have survived.

history

Count Wilhelm von Solms-Greifenstein had given Philipp Schweitzer's great-grandfather, who had moved from Ulm to Werdorf as a pastor , a "hereditary and ever-defensive" freedom from all serfdom and all duties for him and all his descendants . Philipp Schweitzer was born on March 6, 1683 in Werdorf. Around 1708 he joined the foundry of his father-in-law Dilman Schmid , whose daughter Anna Kunigunda he had married .

In 1709 he and Schmid were heard as experts in order to assess a bell for the Marienkirche made by the Frankfurt foundry family Schneidewind and criticized by Hanau .

Schweitzer took over the foundry around 1715. After his wife Anna Kunigunda died in 1729, he married Anna Margaretha Benderin in 1730, which he immortalized in the inscription of three bells cast for Griedel . Schweitzer had a daughter with her named Margaretha Constantina Sophia and in 1737 a son named Conrad. Schweitzer died in Werdorf in 1754.

Characteristics

Schweitzer took over most of the features of his master for his bell casting, such as the inscription in Baroque antiqua in capital letters , the decorative rings on the Wolm including various decorative friezes on the hood, some images of saints on the flanks and an ordinary six-handle crown with almost circular handles, cuboid in cross-section . In terms of sound, he followed the rib of his teacher Schmid and thus cast Molloctave bells that deviated slightly to imperceptibly from the ideal.

Works

In the two world wars , many bells were melted down for armament purposes or destroyed by fires . Some returned from the bell camp in Hamburg (“ bell cemetery ”) after the Second World War . Some were already cast in the 18th or 19th century.

The following list gives an - certainly incomplete - overview of the bells by Philipp Schweitzer.

year	Suspension location (current)	Building / use	Chime	Dimensions	diameter	Receive	comment
1705	Büttelborn	Ev. church	g ¹	645 kg	1,000 mm	Yes	Joint work with Dilman Schmid
1705	Stockstadt on the Rhine	Ev. church	b ¹	450 kg	889 mm	Yes	Joint work with Dilman Schmid
1707	Neukirchen (Braunfels)	Ev. church				No	Melted down in the First World War
1708	Oberstedten	Ev. church	e ²			Yes
1709	Poppy	Ev. Half-timbered church	f sharp ²			Yes	The second bell from the same year was melted down during World War II.
1709	Poppy	Ev. Half-timbered church				No
1710	Gambach	Ev.-ref. church	a ¹			Yes	Recessed Prime
1710	Gambach	Ev.-ref. church	e ¹	993 kg	1,180 mm	Yes	Joint work with Dilman Schmid
1712	Bettenhausen	Ev.-ref. church			710 mm	Yes	Presumably triple bells, middle bell cast in 1823
						No
					800 mm	Yes
1718	Bellersheim	Ev. church				No	Drafted in World War II
1718	Kroppach	Ev. church				Unknown	According to another source from 1723
1725	Wolfersheim	Ev.-ref. church	h ¹			Yes	Molloctave bell. In 1690 Schmid already cast a bell for this church
1727	Remscheid	Ev. City Church				No	Cast in 1764
1727	Remscheid	Ev. City Church				No	Cast in 1764
1729	Ranstadt	Ev. church	a ¹		850 mm	Yes
1730						No
1730						No
1730	Griedel	Ev. church	as ¹			Yes	Triple bell. Mention of his wedding in the inscription. Two bells, probably cast in 1792 and 1862
						No
						No
1731	Hedge hedges	Ev. church				No
1732	Alsberg	Catholic Church of the Holy Cross				No	Cast in 1888
1733	Altenstadt	Ev. St. Nicolai Church	g sharp ¹			Yes
1736	Low temp	Ev. church				Unknown
1738	Trais-Horloff	Ev. church			680 mm	No	Cast in 1929
1739	Herborn					Unknown
1741	Daubhausen	Ev. church				No	French inscription
1752	Bechlingen (Asslar)	Ev. church				No
1762	Daubhausen	Ev. church				No	Reading error of the year or cast by his son. Unsure, as according to a historical source (1836) there was only one bell from 1741.
1762	Daubhausen	Ev. church				No

Web links

Commons : Philipp Schweitzer - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Robert Schäfer: Hessian bell inscriptions. (PDF file) In: Archiv für Hessische Geschichte und Alterthumskunde 15. 1884, pp. 475–544 , accessed on March 23, 2014 .
↑ ^a ^b The Werdorfer Pastors (PDF file)
↑ ^a ^b family tree ( memento from February 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on a private website
↑ Konrad Bund: Frankfurter Glockengießer, . based on a manuscript by Hans Fritzen. In: Konrad Bund (ed.): Frankfurter Glockenbuch (= messages from the Frankfurt city archive ). tape 4 . Publishing house Dr. Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-7829-0211-0 ( formally incorrect ) , Chapter IV: Bells in Frankfurt am Main and Hesse , p. 200 f .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Hellmut Schliephake: Bell customer of the district of Wetzlar. In: Heimatkundliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lahntal e. V. 12th yearbook. 1989, ISSN 0722-1126 , pp. 5-150
↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 14f.
^ Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 95.
↑ Parish Kroppach, from: History of the County of Sayn by Matthias Dahlhoff, Dillenburg 1874, reprinted 1972 by SendetOHG, Walluf
^ Luthmer, Ferdinand: Architectural and art monuments of the administrative district of Wiesbaden . Review of volumes I to V, bell index and main register. Commission publisher by H. Keller, Frankfurt a. M. 1902, p. 124 ( online version at archive.org [accessed November 30, 2015]).
↑ The bells of the Remscheid parish church
↑ Archive files of the Ranstadt parish
↑ Tour of Leidhecken (PDF, 1 MB) p. 3
↑ Bell data of the diocese of Fulda
^ Wagner, Heinrich: Kunstdenkmäler im Großherzogthum Hessen: Inventory and descriptive representation of the works of architecture, sculpture, painting and the arts and crafts up to the end of the 18th century. Century: Province of Upper Hesse: District of Büdingen , Darmstadt 1890, p. 7 ( online version of the Heidelberg University Library)
↑ Entry in the local family register Kölschhausen / Dreisbach / Niederlemp / Breitenbach / Bechlingen, comment on the baptism of Maria Katharina Tröster on December 16, 1736: “On this day, the newly cast bell for Niederlemp, which master Philipp Schweitzer from Werdorf had cast, was for the first time Service has rung. " (See Genealogienetz.de )
^ Johann Hermann Steubing: Topography of the city of Herborn . 1792, p. 35 ( online version on Google Books).
↑ Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar: historical, statistical and topographical . The statistics, topography and local history of the district. Second part. Carl Wigand, Wetzlar 1836, p. 172 ( online version on Google Books).
^ Heimatverein Seelbach

personal data
SURNAME	Schweitzer, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schweitzer, Johann Philipp (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German bell founder
DATE OF BIRTH	March 6, 1683
PLACE OF BIRTH	Werdorf
DATE OF DEATH	1754

[Schäfer-1] Robert Schäfer: Hessian bell inscriptions. (PDF file) In: Archiv für Hessische Geschichte und Alterthumskunde 15. 1884, pp. 475–544 , accessed on March 23, 2014 .

[Berghausen-2] The Werdorfer Pastors (PDF file)

[Stammbaum-3] y tree ( memento from February 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on a private website

[4] Konrad Bund: Frankfurter Glockengießer, . based on a manuscript by Hans Fritzen. In: Konrad Bund (ed.): Frankfurter Glockenbuch (= messages from the Frankfurt city archive ). tape 4 . Publishing house Dr. Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-7829-0211-0 ( formally incorrect ) , Chapter IV: Bells in Frankfurt am Main and Hesse , p. 200 f .

[Schliephake-5] Hellmut Schliephake: Bell customer of the district of Wetzlar. In: Heimatkundliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lahntal e. V. 12th yearbook. 1989, ISSN 0722-1126 , pp. 5-150

[6] Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1933, p. 14f.

[7] Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I. 2008, p. 95.

[8] Parish Kroppach, from: History of the County of Sayn by Matthias Dahlhoff, Dillenburg 1874, reprinted 1972 by SendetOHG, Walluf

[9] Luthmer, Ferdinand: Architectural and art monuments of the administrative district of Wiesbaden . Review of volumes I to V, bell index and main register. Commission publisher by H. Keller, Frankfurt a. M. 1902, p. 124 ( online version at archive.org [accessed November 30, 2015]).

[10] The bells of the Remscheid parish church

[KGRanstadt-11] Archive files of the Ranstadt parish

[12] Tour of Leidhecken (PDF, 1 MB) p. 3

[13] Bell data of the diocese of Fulda

[14] Wagner, Heinrich: Kunstdenkmäler im Großherzogthum Hessen: Inventory and descriptive representation of the works of architecture, sculpture, painting and the arts and crafts up to the end of the 18th century. Century: Province of Upper Hesse: District of Büdingen , Darmstadt 1890, p. 7 ( online version of the Heidelberg University Library)

[15] Entry in the local family register Kölschhausen / Dreisbach / Niederlemp / Breitenbach / Bechlingen, comment on the baptism of Maria Katharina Tröster on December 16, 1736: “On this day, the newly cast bell for Niederlemp, which master Philipp Schweitzer from Werdorf had cast, was for the first time Service has rung. " (See Genealogienetz.de )

[16] Johann Hermann Steubing: Topography of the city of Herborn . 1792, p. 35 ( online version on Google Books).

[17] Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar: historical, statistical and topographical . The statistics, topography and local history of the district. Second part. Carl Wigand, Wetzlar 1836, p. 172 ( online version on Google Books).

[18] Heimatverein Seelbach