Pius Muchenberger

Pius Muchenberger (born June 13, 1814 in Blasiwald , † around 1865 in Karlsruhe ) was a German bell founder .

Pius Muchenberger was the son of the bell founder Joseph Muchenberger (1791–1863). In 1836 he married Agathe Koch (1812–1863), daughter of the bell founder Ignaz Koch (1783–1862) from Unterlenzkirch . Then he moved the workshop with him to Freiburg- Wiehre ("Eisen-, Metall- und Glockengießerei Pius Muchenberger & Co."), where she succeeded the Bayer brothers. In 1846 Ignaz Koch withdrew from the workshop and handed it over to his Sons Bernhard and Johann Baptist . Since Pius Muchenberger took part in the revolution in Baden in 1848/49 , he had to bring his family to Switzerland in 1849. He lived and worked for the bell founder Wilhelm Hauck in Freiburg from 1848 to 1850. Bernhard and Johann Baptist Koch continued his foundry as "Koch und Muchenberger", in 1856 they took over the company for good. Pius Muchenberger settled completely in Switzerland in 1850, in Lausanne, then in Rüti, Canton Zurich, and later in Lucerne. In 1858 he applied to the canton of Aargau for a concession to mine ore near Aarau, Küttigen and Erlinsbach, which he received in 1859, but never exercised and passed on as early as 1860.

Works (selection)

1841 Drafts for three cast iron fountains in Waldkirch , not carried out
1843 Bell of the roof rider of the Michaelskapelle in Freiburg
1846/47 Two bells for the Evangelical Church in Hausen im Wiesental , melted down
1851 Bell for the chapel of the lower Holy Cross in Altdorf UR
1853 Bell for the St. Anna chapel in Gattwil

literature

Sigrid Thurm: German Bell Atlas . Volume 4: Bathing . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-422-00557-9 , p. 67, 109, note 403, 703 (list of bells).
Franz Kern : The former Koch bell foundry in Freiburg i. Br. In: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv Volume 112, 1992, pp. 279–338 especially pp. 281–283 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

↑ Collection of laws for the Swiss canton of Aargau from 1856 to 1864 , pp. 202–205 ( digitized version ).
^ Hermann Rambach: Waldkirch and the Elztal. History in data, images and documents , Volume 2, p. 226.
^ Badischer Architects and Engineers Association, Upper Rhine District (Ed.): Freiburg im Breisgau. The city and its buildings . HM Poppen & Sohn, Freiburg im Breisgau 1898, p. 385 ( digitized version ).
^ Johann Georg Behringer, Reinhold Zumtobel: Hausen im Wiesental. The home village of our Alemannic poet Johann Peter Hebel . Hausen 1937, p. 157.
↑ The History Friend . Announcements of the historical association of the four places 47, 1892, p. 153 ( digitized ).
↑ The History Friend . Announcements of the historical association of the four places 20, 1864, p. 31 note 3 ( digitized ).

personal data
SURNAME	Muchenberger, Pius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German bell founder
DATE OF BIRTH	June 13, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH	Blasiwald
DATE OF DEATH	around 1865
Place of death	Karlsruhe

[1] Collection of laws for the Swiss canton of Aargau from 1856 to 1864 , pp. 202–205 ( digitized version ).

[2] Hermann Rambach: Waldkirch and the Elztal. History in data, images and documents , Volume 2, p. 226.

[3] Badischer Architects and Engineers Association, Upper Rhine District (Ed.): Freiburg im Breisgau. The city and its buildings . HM Poppen & Sohn, Freiburg im Breisgau 1898, p. 385 ( digitized version ).

[4] Johann Georg Behringer, Reinhold Zumtobel: Hausen im Wiesental. The home village of our Alemannic poet Johann Peter Hebel . Hausen 1937, p. 157.

[5] The History Friend . Announcements of the historical association of the four places 47, 1892, p. 153 ( digitized ).

[6] The History Friend . Announcements of the historical association of the four places 20, 1864, p. 31 note 3 ( digitized ).