Salvator Bell (Tallinn)
The Salvator bell in Tallinn is - next to the larger Marienbell - one of two bells that the bell founder Detlof Riedeweg cast in 1685 in Reval (today Tallinn) for the local cathedral of St. Mary .
History and description
The casting of the Salvator bell was preceded by the fire in St. Mary's Church in 1684, which caused the previous bell to melt in the blazing heat. With the ore from the destroyed bell, Detlof Riedeweg created the new cast named after the savior in 1685 .
The inscription on the bell, partly in Latin , reads:
“SALVATOR MEMORAT FUERIT QUAE NOSTRA RUINA
TERTIA POST CINERES EDO REFUSA SONUM.
THROUGH FIRE, I FLOWED. DETLOF RIEDEWEG CAST
ME IN REVAL l685. "
Eugen von Nottbeck and Wilhelm Neumann described the bell as an art monument at the beginning of the 20th century in their work History and Art Monuments of the City of Reval .
In 1995 the bell was included in the National Register of Cultural Monuments of Estonia as an individual monument with the number 1458 .
Web links
- Mälestised / 1458 Tornikell (Salvator kell), D. Riedeweg, 1685 (pronks) (in Estonian), description of the bell in the Estonian National Register of Cultural Monuments
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Eugen von Nottbeck, Wilhelm Neumann: History and Art Monuments of the City of Reval , Vol. 2: The Art Monuments of the City , Reval, Kluge, 1904, p. 61; Digitized via the Polish Kujawsko-Pomorskie Digital Library
- ↑ Mälestised / 1458 Tornikell (Salvator kell), D. Riedeweg, 1685 (pronks) (in Latvian), description of the bell in the Estonian National Register of Cultural Monuments
Coordinates: 59 ° 26 ′ 13.4 " N , 24 ° 44 ′ 20.8" E