Rickert de Monkehagen
Rickert de Monkehagen (also Rickert de Monikehagen ) was a bell foundry workshop that worked in several cities in northeast Germany, but was probably headquartered in and around Rostock . It was active from 1376 to 1464, and its most productive period was the first half of the 15th century. Numerous bells are still preserved.
history
The first evidence of activity in the workshop of Rickert de Monkehagen comes from the year 1376. The workshop is considered to be the most important in the 14th and 15th centuries in Mecklenburg and Pomerania, which is evidenced by the large number of bells still standing.
The craft of bell casting was carried out on site because of the difficulty of transporting fuel and raw material as well as the finished bells, which makes it impossible to assign the workshop to a location. Most of the proven bells are concentrated in and around Rostock, which suggests that the workshop was probably headquartered here. Furthermore, a connection to the Doberan monastery is assumed as the client, since many Monkehagens bells can be found in villages that previously belonged to the monastery. Presumably due to the high quality of the Monkehagen bells, the area of activity of the workshop expanded. Found foundry marks next to that of the Monkehagen workshop on a bell in Anklam and different styles of ornamentation suggest that the workshop was operated by several masters. Proof of this is the long duration of action. The sources do not yet allow any more detailed statements about the workshop.
In the Rostock district of Dierkow , the Rickertring is a street named after Rickert de Monkehagen.
Received bells
| Year / time of casting | Place, building | Surname | Mass (kg) |
Diameter (mm) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14th century (2nd half) | Biestow, village church | 1205 | 1311 | e 1 | ||
| 1376 | Baumgarten , village church | 400 | 885 | h 1 | ||
| 1379 | Rostock, St. Marien | Hour bell | 3200 | 1769 | h 0 | After the bell of the Lambertikirche in Münster the second oldest surviving example of a bell with a shortened rib in Germany |
| 1389 | Tarnow, village church | 1200 | 1257 | unknown | jumped | |
| 14th century (end) | Crivitz , town church | 900 | 1093 | g 1 | ||
| 1400 (approx.) | Malchin, St. Johannis | 2200 | 1415 | dis 1 | ||
| 15th century (1st half) | Satow , church | Little bell | 50 | 390 | c sharp 3 | unused |
| 15th century (1st half) | Burow , village church | Little bell | 132 | 618 | e 2 | |
| 1409 | Rostock, St. Marien | Big bell | 4226 | 1775 | d 1 -1 | Cracked in 1908, failed in 1950, restored in 2010 |
| 1412 | Rethwisch, village church | 820 | 1080 | g sharp 1 | Renovated in 1997 | |
| 1419 | Kröpelin, city church | Big bell | 1900 | 1435 | d 1 | |
| 1421 | Dänschenburg, village church | 900 | 1090 | g 1 | ||
| 1425 | Güstrow, St. Marien | 700 | 1044 | as 1 | ||
| 1431 | Altentreptow, St. Peter | Big bell | 4500 | 1786 | cis 1 | |
| 1440 | Greifswald, St. Nikolai Cathedral | Prayer and professor bell | 4020 | 1810 | c 1 | |
| 1441 | Unter Brüz, village church | Little bell | 900 | 1093 | g 1 | |
| 1443 | Retschow, village church | Little bell | 157 | 585 | g sharp 2 | |
| 15th century (middle) | Cammin, village church | 30th | 357 | unknown | in the roof turret, unused | |
| 1450 | Rostock, St. Marien | Bleach girl | 649 | 987 | h 1 -1 | Restored in 2010 |
| 1450 | Anklam, St. Marien | Apostle bell | 4500 | 1790 | h 0 | originally in the Nikolaikirche (Anklam) , since 1947 in St. Marien; third largest bell of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District , largest medieval bell in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania |
| 1455 | Altentreptow, St. Peter | Apostle bell | 2500 | 1473 | d 1 | |
| 1463 | Rostock, university church | 110 | 554 | g 2 | ||
| 1464 | Schwerin Castle , corner tower | 130 | 564 | as 2 |
Destroyed bells
Destroyed, missing, or recast Monkehagen bells.
| Year / time of casting | Place, building | Surname | Whereabouts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1394 | Rostock, St. Nikolai | Big bell | Destroyed in 1944 |
| 15th century (1st half) | Röbel, St. Nicolai | Big bell | Diameter 1360 mm, no longer available |
| 1412 | Bützow, collegiate church | Big bell | Cast in 1873 |
| 1421 | Biendorf , village church | drafted in World War II, lost | |
| 1422 | Lichtenhagen, village church | Diameter 1160 mm, no longer available | |
| 1431 | Altentreptow, St. Peter | Sunday bell | Cast in 1958 |
| 1434 | Warnemünde, church | Big bell | Traded in for a new bell in 1921, melted down |
| 1440 | Rostock, St. Marien | Roof bell | cast after 1945 |
| 1462 | Weitendorf , chapel | Delivered in 1940 | |
| around 1400? | Gross Ridsenow cemetery bell | October 2012. Theft of non-ferrous metal, not yet resolved. The bell was found broken up as stolen goods by a scrap metal dealer and is irreparable. | |
| unknown | Klaber , village church | Cast in 1841 | |
| unknown | Buchholz, village church | Little bell | Destroyed in a fire in 1914 |
See also
literature
- Claus Peter: Rickert de Monkehagen. A medieval bell foundry workshop in the Baltic Sea region . In: Mecklenburgia sacra . tape 10 , 2007, ISSN 1436-7041 , p. 9-87 .
References and comments
- ↑ Claus Peter: Rickert de Monikehagen. A medieval bell foundry workshop in the Baltic Sea region , p. 23.
- ↑ Wolfgang Erdmann: The Cistercian Abbey Doberan , 1995.
- ↑ www.kirche-biestow.de ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Weighed in 2006 by the Lachenmeyer company .
- ↑ a b c Information on the bell project ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.rettet-st-marien-rostock.de ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Friedrich Schlie: Art and History Monuments of Mecklenburg , Volume 3, 1899, p. 330.
- ↑ a b c weighed by the Lachenmeyer company.
- ↑ Information from the chronicle (website of the community)
- ↑ www.orte-in-mv.de ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.dom-egoswald.de ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The Apostle Bell , accessed on July 19, 2014
- ↑ www.jahreskoeste.de ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.uni-protocol.de
- ↑ http://www.landtag-mv.de/site/164_167_168/168.html
- ↑ Claus Peter: The bell of Groß Ridsenow.
