WA Bleckert
WA Bleckert was in the 19th century in Hannover , founded sculptor - and Steinmetz - Company especially for tombstones and marble products .
history
here before the grave was tended in 2005
The master stone mason and quarry owner August Bleckert first advertised his building materials warehouse and services “all construction work in white and red sandstone ” from the mid-1870s . In addition to grave monuments in various types of stone in all qualities and colors such as marble from Italy and Silesia or granite from Sweden or Belgium he also made cuboids, steps, sills, gate pillars, gutters, wells and grindstones, for which he kept a large warehouse. As “the largest shop in the city of Hanover”, it was still ahead of competitors such as Wilhelm Falke and Adolfippenhauer.
The company, which was awarded prizes at an exhibition in Bremen in 1890, advertised as “Hanover's largest grave monument industry” with branches in the cities of Hoya , Stolzenau , Achim , Hemelingen and Osterholz-Scharmbeck , and for a time also in Hagen in Bremen .
In the writings of the Historisches Museum Hannover there is a photograph arranged between grave monuments as a group picture with fifteen male personalities, including a child, subtitled "Steinmetzbetrieb WA Bleckert 1889, Hannover, Engelbosteler Damm 62"
According to the address book, city and business handbook of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden for the year 1890, the owner of the sculpture and stone carving workshop , the factory and the warehouse of the company was on Engelbosteler Damm 61 , later also on An der Strangriede 56 , the "wife" Wilhelmine Anna Bleckert. Authorized representative of the company WA Bleckert the Steinhauer- and building trades was amt masterful August Bleckert, the private ground floor of Hildesheimerstraße 67 lived, where there is also the office of the company took place. In the same year, the address book listed another Bleckert: the restorer Wilhelm Bleckert lived in what was then the house at Thalstrasse 6 .
WA Bleckert, "not far from the Israelite cemetery" at the Strangriede , advertised his Mazewot , tombstones made by Christian stonemasons for Jews, in granite, syenite , marble and sandstone.
The company held a “permanent exhibition of a few hundred grave monuments with and without figures ”. The burial places of the land rabbi Samuel Ephraim Meyer as well as those of "the Coppel couple, Israel Heinemann, Ms. Commerzrath Molling and Ms. Moritz Steinberg" were named among the Jewish grave monuments explicitly highlighted in advertisements .
When the three-year-old boy Heinrich Schomburg died in 1890, Bleckert donated the first and oldest tombstone for the newly opened Stöcken city cemetery : “Dedicated to the new churchyard by WW Bleckert - Gravestone Industry” is an inscription on the back of the listed tombstone in section 3 of the cemetery.
Around 1900 Bleckert delivered a multi-part tombstone to the old cemetery for the Minden- based print shop owners, the “Köhler family” , with a palm frond engraved on its two-tiered sandstone base, and above it a zippus with triangular gables and corner acroteries . The whole thing is crowned by a polished black obelisk with " Light text : Love never ends ".
The Bleckert stonemason company, already known as the "former" stonemason company in 1905, had previously given a large block of Mehler sandstone from Mehle , a rock from which, for example , to the building material collection of the Royal Building Trade School in Nienburg an der Weser - to demonstrate its resistance to weather influences the reception building of Hanover main station was built.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Ludwig Hoerner : agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , pp. 45, 54, 181, 303, 427, 429; limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ a b c d e Compare the information in the address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden from 1890, p. 390 as a digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library
- ↑ a b c d Compare the commented print of an advertisement by WA Bleckert in Peter Schulze : Gravestones and graves ... 30 , in ders .: Jews in Hanover. Contributions to the history and culture of a minority. Texts and pictures from the exhibitions "Jews in Hanover" and "Historical Torah curtains from Hanover's former synagogues" in the old preaching hall . Ed .: Kulturamt der Stadt Hannover, Hannover 1989 (= Kulturinformation Nr. 19), pp. 114–119; here: p. 117
- ^ Andreas Fahl, Alheidis von Rohr : Friedhof, Grabstätte und Schmuck , in this: Lebenslauf - Lebensfeste. Birth, marriage, death. (= Writings of the Historisches Museum Hannover , issue 6), booklet accompanying the exhibition, 1994, ISBN 978-3-910073-07-4 and ISBN 3-910073-07-7 , pp. 111–114; here: p. 113
- ↑ Silke Beck, Cordula Wächter (Red.), Michael Krische : Stadtfriedhof Stöcken , with a numbered tour and an overview map as a folding map, ed. from the state capital Hanover, The Lord Mayor , Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Hanover: LHH, 2009, p. 4; downloadable as a PDF document from hannover.de
- ↑ Fred Kaspar , Ulf-Dietrich Korn (arr.), Peter Barthold et al. (Mitarb.): Architectural and art monuments of Westphalia , Vol. 50: City of Minden (2 volumes), Essen: Klartext-Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-88474-635-6 and ISBN 3-88474-635-9 , P. 386; limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ Heinrich Friedrick Daniel Seipp: The abbreviated weather resistance test of natural building blocks, with special consideration of the sandstones, namely the Weser sandstones , Frankfurt am Main: H. Keller, 1905, p. 102
- ^ Architects and Engineers Association Hanover (ed.), Theodor Unger (ed.): Hanover. Guide through the city and its buildings. Commemorative publication for the fifth general assembly of the Association of German Architects and Engineers . Klindworth, Hanover 1882; here: p. 182; limited preview in Google Book search