Thomas Riedeweg

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Thomas Riedeweg (also: Thomas Rideweg ; * in the 17th century in Wismar ; † 1737 ) was a German bell caster in Hanover as well as a piece caster from Royal British and Elector Braunschweig-Lüneburg .

Life

The family of Thomas Riedeweg, who was born in Wismar in the 17th century , included his brother Detlof Riedeweg, who died in Reval in the 1680s . After his death, the mayor of Wismar and the city council asked on August 23, 1686 for an accelerated allocation of the deceased's estate to Thomas Riedeweg, as it would be “needed for the recently built waterworks ”.

For his hometown, for example, Riedeweg cast an old chandelier into a new one that later disappeared for the Marienkirche there in 1695 .

In 1697 Riedeweg acquired the citizenship of the city of Hanover and in the same year began to work as a piece and bell caster, for which he used a specially adapted foundry : the municipal foundry was initially located at the New Gate and was sold to the Electoral Hanoverian Chamber in 1713 . It was not until 1715 that a new municipal foundry was built in front of the stone gate for the master bell founder . The building was on Steintorstrasse ; a "Joh. Heinr. Schwartze ”had his own house built there in the immediate vicinity of the foundry house used by Riedeweg.

In the meantime, the main tower of the Wismar Nikolaikirche collapsed in 1703 , destroying almost all of the bells hanging there. As a result, Riedeweg received the order for the new casting. Of these newly created bells, two including their inscriptions were still preserved at the end of the 19th century .

From 1715 the bells of the market church in Hanover were gradually replaced by Neugusses Riedewegs. In the same year "to replace the loss of the site of the municipal casting house [...] a state-owned casting house is built in front of the stone gate."

1720 or 1721 Riedeweg was the successor to the previously in Gießhaus in Celle piece caster make Johann Philipp Köhler from the highest law against foreign competitors protektioniert and could of also domestic many cities, towns and villages Electorate Hannover supply with bells after him the sovereign and - Due to the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover - King George II of Great Britain and Ireland had granted the privilege to cast bells in front of foreign and local, equally expensive bell-makers in his own country. Riedeweg's privilege lasted at least until 1730.

According to his last will, Riedewegs got more than 400 pages and numerous illustrations containing manuscript Mathematical work and useful instructions for metal casting ... on October 27, 1738 in the Royal Public Library in Hanover.

In 1737 Justus Andreas Meyfeld applied to succeed Riedeweg.

The foundry from 1740

After Riedeweg's death, the Stadtgießhaus in front of the Steintor was sold to a privately employed bell founder in 1740. It was not until 1783 that the foundry was rebuilt on the spot where the artillery barracks at the Steintor were later built.

Well-known works (selection)

Fonts

"Ex ultimo voluntate defuncti vidua obtulit hunc librum Bibliotheca Regia inserendum Hannoverae d. Oct. 27 1738 ":

  • Mathematical work and useful instructions for metal casting, which contain all sorts of useful calculated tables, along with their use, in particular the construction of the melting furnace, the shapes of the cannons, mortars etc., the arrangement of the sprayers, the proportioning of the bells according to the tone , wobey is also dealt with on the temperature of the clays, along with other useful tasks and notes , 18th century manuscript, 410 pages, large folio, with many drawings

Foundries

  • around 1686, Wismar: Participation in the construction of the recently ... constructed waterworks
  • 1697, Hanover: Bell with a diameter of 56 cm for the new chapel in Bemerode
  • around 1700: 52 candlesticks in the Hanoverian castle church after the fire in the Leineschloss and its repair by the building scribe Brand Westermann
  • 1700, 1701 and 1712, Hanover: the three bells of the Aegidienkirche
  • from 1703, Wismar: New casting of the bells of the Nikolaikirche
  • 1712, Hanover: Bell with a diameter of 70 cm for the Margarethenkirche in Gehrden
  • 1714 and 1730, Hanover: two bells from the Mariensee monastery
  • 1715 to 1723, Hanover: various bells of the market church
  • 1726, Hanover: Bell with a diameter of 105 cm for the church in Engelbostel
  • 1735, new casting of the big bell of the Burgdorf church

See also

Remarks

  1. ↑ Notwithstanding, the year of death 1738 is suggested; compare Günther Gebhardt: Military, Transport and Economy in the Middle of the Electorate and Kingdom of Hanover 1692-1866 (= Studies on Lower Saxony State History , Vol. [1]) (= Edition Noe͏̈ma ), Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978- 3-8382-0184-9 , p. 32; limited preview in Google Book search

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Joachim Lampe: Aristocracy, court nobility and state patriciate in Kurhannover. The spheres of life of the higher civil servants at the central and court authorities of the Electorate of Hanover 1714 - 1760 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , vol. 24) (= studies on the history of the estates of Lower Saxony , volume 2), vol. 2: lists of officials and ancestors , Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1963, p. 91; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ^ Paul Kronthal : Lexicon of Technical Arts , Vol. 2, Berlin: Grote, 1899, p. 776; Digitized via archive.org
  3. ↑ a b c d Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , published on behalf of the Grand Ducal Ministry of the Interior by the Commission for the Preservation of Monuments, Vol. 2: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin , Schwerin: Bärensprung'sche Hofbuchdruckerei (commissioned by KF Köhler, Leipzig), 1899, pp. 66, 138; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ Compare the "application letter from bell founder Justus Andreas Meyfeld dated October 8, 1737 for the position of the deceased piece and bell founder Riedeweg, as archival material in the former main state archive in Hanover , archive signature HStA H, Hann. 47 I, No. 106, Vo. IV, p. 135 “; according to Johann von Diest: economic policy and lobbying in the 18th century. A source-based reassessment of the mutual influence of government and economy in Brandenburg-Prussia and Kurhannover (= rule and social systems in the early modern period , vol. 023 ), also dissertation 2015 at the University of Potsdam, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8470-0603 -9 and ISBN 3-8470-0603-7 , p. 181, note 742; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ↑ a b c d o.V. : General announcement from July 18, 1830. that the domestic bell-caster, in specie also the Hanoverian bell-caster Riedeweg, to prepare for foreigners. In: Chur-Braunschweig-Lüneburgische Landes- Ordnungs und Rechts, Third Part, which contains Caput Qvartum, von Policen-things, first volume, with the first twelve of the same. For the use of the principality of Lüneburg, also belonging counties and lordships of Zellischen Theils , Lüneburg, printed and published in the Sternische Buchdruckerey, 1743, pp. 1892f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ a b c Eduard Bodemann : Thomas Rideweg , in ders .: The manuscripts of the Royal Public Library of Hanover ... , Hanover: Hahn'sche Hof-Buchhandlung (print: JC König & Ebhardt), 1867, p. 73; limited preview in Google Book search
  7. ^ A b c Publications of the Lower Saxony Archive Administration , issues 21-22, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1966, pp. 337, 764; limited preview in Google Book search
  8. ↑ Gotthard von Hansen: The churches and former monasteries of Reval (reprint of the edition Reval: Kluge, 1885), Hanover-Döhren: v. Hirschheydt, [1974], ISBN 978-3-7777-0982-6 and ISBN 3-7777-0982-4 , p. 61; limited preview in Google Book search
  9. ↑ Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , Vol. 12, Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1909, pp. 33, 182; limited preview in Google Book search
  10. ^ A b c Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer : Keyword Gießhaus. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 79 u.ö .; limited preview in Google Book search
  11. ↑ a b Compare the files NLA HA Hann. 74 Münden No. 7120 in the Lower Saxony State Archives ; old archive signature K 454
  12. ↑ Günther Gebhardt: Military affairs, traffic and economy in the middle of the Electorate and Kingdom of Hanover 1692-1866 (= Studies on Lower Saxony State History , Vol. [1]) (= Edition Noe͏̈ma ), Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978- 3-8382-0184-9 , p. 32; limited preview in Google Book search
  13. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Personal union. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 498.
  14. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Georg August, Elector of Hanover, as King George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 127
  15. ^ Johann von Diest: Economic Policy and Lobbyism in the 18th Century. A source-based reassessment of the mutual influence of government and economy in Brandenburg-Prussia and Kurhannover (= rulership and social systems in the early modern era , volume 23), also dissertation 2014 at the University of Potsdam, Göttingen: V&R unipress, [2016], ISBN 978 -3-8471-0603-6 and ISBN 3-8470-0603-7 , p. 181; Preview over google books
  16. ↑ a b c districts of Hanover and Linden . In: Carl Wolff (ed.): The art monuments of the province of Hanover . Issue 1. Self-published by the Provinzialverwaltung, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, Hanover 1899 ( online [PDF]).
  17. ↑ Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , Vol. 7-8, 1904, pp. 11, 98, 387; limited preview in Google Book search
  18. ^ A b c Wilhelm Mithoff : Art monuments and antiquities in Hanover , vol. 1: Fürstenthum Calenberg , Hanover: Hellwingsche Hofbuchhandlung, 1871
  19. ^ Districts of Burgdorf and Fallingbostel . In: Carl Wolff (ed.): The art monuments of the province of Hanover . Issue 3. Self-published by the Provincial Administration, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, Hanover 1902 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Riedeweg, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rideweg, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Hanoverian piece and bell founder
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar
DATE OF DEATH 1737