Stephan Wollo

Stephan Wollo , also Voillo or Woilo (* in Lorraine ; effective approx. 1649–1670 in Germany ) was a wandering French bell founder of the 17th century, living in Lübeck from 1658–1668 .

life and work

The details of Stephan Wollo's life are not known. In literature he is regarded as the brother of the traveling caster Claudius Voillo , who also came from Lorraine and was last active in the area between the Weser and Ems from 1646 to 1650 .

On the bells of Wollos there are repeated references to his origins as a traveling caster "from Lorraine". From 1658 the Roman Catholic Wollo with residence in Lübeck in the Hartengrube in the cathedral district is proven. The foundry houses in Lübeck had been in the north-west of the city since the 14th century, so that the address was purely a residence. Wollo worked from 1649 to 1667 with the traveling founder Nikolaus Gage, also from Lorraine, as a partner. Stephan Wollo was first in 1648 when casting a bell for St. Nicolai in Neuenkirchen, today a district of Bahrenfleth , still in second place after a "C. Gage "called. C. Gage, for his part, was involved in 1647 with Claudius Voillo and Gottfried Baulard as the third caster in the casting of the bell for the Evangelical Reformed Church in Weenermoor . The 82 centimeter high bell in Bahrenfleth is already decorated with pelicans , a Reformation motif that recurs in his later bell castings.

The first proven joint casting of a bell by Stephan Wollo and Nikolaus Gage is the one for the Schlagsdorf village church in the Ratzeburg monastery. Both of them subsequently cast 24 documented bells and a fifth together by 1667 . On all common casts, Stephan Wollo is mentioned first before Nikolaus Gage.

Bronze Fifth (1652)

In addition to numerous bells in Holstein and Mecklenburg, Wollo and Gage also cast the bronze baptismal font in the Schlagsdorf village church. It was re-cast from bells destroyed in the Thirty Years War in 1652 based on the Gothic model and is one of the latest bronze fifths in northeast Germany. The cauldron carried by the four evangelists is adorned with half-reliefs of the Twelve Apostles between ribbon and ribbon. The grilles and lids that used to be part of it have not been preserved. The fact that Stephan Wollo and Nicolaus Gage mainly worked as bell founders will have led to the basin being more slender than its models.

A list of the bells cast together with Nikolaus Gage can be found in his biography .

literature

• Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch : History of the diocese of Ratzeburg. F. Aschenfeldt, Lübeck 1835 ( books.google.com )
• Richard Haupt : The buildings and art monuments of the province of Schleswig-Holstein
  • Volume I, Kiel 1887
  • Volume II, Kiel 1888
  • Volume III, Kiel 1889
  • Duchy of Lauenburg . Ratzeburg 1890
• Annuaire de la société d'histoire et d'archéologie de la Lorraine . Volumes 3-4. Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de la Lorraine, Metz 1891
• Revue historique de la Lorraine . Volume 42.Société d'archéologie lorraine et du Musée historique lorrain, Musée historique lorrain, Nancy 1893, p. 166
• Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
  • Volume 2: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. Schwerin 1898. (Reprint: Schwerin 1992, ISBN 3-910179-06-1 )
  • Volume 3: The district court districts of Hagenow, Wittenburg, Boizenburg, Lübenheen, Dömitz, Grabow, Ludwigslust, Neustadt, Crivitz, Brüel, Warin, Neubukow, Kröpelin and Doberan . Schwerin 1896.
• Theodor Hach : Lübeck bell customer. Max Schmidt, Lübeck 1913 (publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck 2), pp. 236–239
• Georg Krüger (edit.): Art and history monuments of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Volume II: The Land of Ratzeburg. Neubrandenburg 1934; Reprint Stock & Stein, Schwerin 1994, ISBN 3-910179-28-2
• Voillo (Wollo), Steffen . In: Thieme-Becker : General Lexicon of Fine Artists , Volume 34. Leipzig 1940, p. 513
• Georg Troescher: Art and artist walks in Central Europe, 800–1800 , vol. French and Dutch art and artists in the art of Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland . Publishing house for art and science, 1954
• Werner Neugebauer : Nice Holstein . 4th edition. Verlag Lübecker Nachrichten, Lübeck 1967
• Hartwig Beseler (ed.): Art topography Schleswig-Holstein. Neumünster 1974