Radler Bell Foundry

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The Radler Bell Foundry in Hildesheim was a company founded in the 19th century that produced more than 4,500 bells by 1936 .

history

The company was named after Johann Jakob Radler (* 1827; † in the 19th or 20th century), who was born in Nuremberg and moved to Hildesheim at the age of 26, where he initially worked in the Lange brass foundry at Ostertor around 1853 . After this company fell victim to a fire shortly afterwards and the owner also died, Radler founded his own foundry, initially for a short time on Moltkestraße, but after a short time from 1853 on Windmühlenstraße.

Radler's foundry specialized in particular in the casting of church bells : by 1883 at the latest, under the company name J. J. Radler & Sons , it supplied bells to the Christ Church in Hanover , for example .

From 1931 at the latest, the Radlersche Glockengießerei operated as a GmbH . In the company's history up to 1936, the company produced more than 4,500 bells.

The Radler foundry received its last order at the time of National Socialism : The casting of four bells for the church in Wildemann could no longer be carried out because the material was confiscated shortly before the casting in 1936 for the benefit of armaments production .

In 1937, the car dealer Dost acquired the premises on Windmühlenstraße before the car dealership was relocated to the Bavenstedt industrial park . The buildings on Windmühlenstrasse were subsequently torn down.

Radlerstrasse

The naming of Radlerstrasse in the Hildesheim district of Bavenstedt on June 11, 1990 reminds us of Johann Jakob Radler and the Radlerscher Foundry.

Well-known works (selection)

  • 1883, Hanover , 2 bells for the Christ Church: large bell with tone b melted down in the First World War; small bell with sound d in June in 1921 for 15,000 marks to the church in Ebersgrün in Vogtland in Saxony sold
  • 1899, Hildesheim: Big bell of the Andreas Church

literature

  • Radlersche Glockengießerei GmbH Hildesheim . Ehrhardt, Springe 1934, OCLC 253519768 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Radlersche Bell Foundry GmbH Hildesheim . Ehrhardt, Springe 1934 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h o.V. : Radlerstraße , subpage of the Hildesheim City Archives for an explanation of the street names on the hildesheim.de page [ undated ], last accessed on April 13, 2018
  3. ↑ a b Jens Hage: The bells of the Christ Church . In: Stefanie Sonnenburg, Felicitas Kröger, Wolfgang Pietsch, Claudia Probst, Peter Troche, Rolf Wießell: 1859–2009. 150 years of the Christ Church in Hanover. Akzent-Druck, Hannover 2009, OCLC 553746805 , pp. 177-180.
  4. ↑ Radlersche Bell Foundry GmbH Hildesheim . Ehrhardt, Springe 1931, OCLC 253507785 / GVK 47283357X .

Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 56.3 "  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 6.6"  E