Wilhelm Falke

Advertisement of the "sculpture and stone carving, granite and marble goods factory W. Falke" from 1906

Wilhelm Falke in Hanover was a sculpture , stone carving and granite and marble factory founded in the 19th century . The works of the multi-award-winning company include, in addition to construction work carried out in natural stone, in particular preserved grave monuments .

history

In the address books of the royal residence city of Hanover (AB), the company Wilhelm Falke was already operating from the founding period of the German Empire in 1871 "with a warehouse of grave monuments" at - then - Engelbosteler Damm 12 as well as a storage area "next to the new St. Nikolai- Kirchhofe ”.

In 1879 the company's headline was "Factory and warehouse of grave monuments made of sandstone , marble, Fichtelgebirge - syenite and Swedish granite in all sorts and colors."

Whether "W. Falke ”or his Hanoverian competitors Adolf Tipphauer and WA Bleckert - according to the AB from 1877 with headquarters at Engelbosteler Damm 30 - had their own quarries, Ludwig Hoerner could not identify all of Hanover's address books up to 1900.

In 1878 W. Falke traded at Hildesheimerstraße 32/33 p and was honored for her work in the same year and in 1881.

Well-known grave monuments (selection)

Inscription W. Falke on the base of the honorary grave of Leopold Spengemann at the Engesohde city cemetery

Financed by the Metz Memorial Committee chaired by Leonard Körting from donations from several locations in Lower Saxony, created after collaboration with the sculptor Karl Gundelach in Obernkirchener Sandstein and unveiled on March 11, 1902 at the Hanover city cemetery in Stöcken , the grave memorial for Lower Saxony's "gymnastics father" , Franz Wilhelm Metz
The grave of honor for Leopold Spengemann (1818–1888) at the Engesohde city cemetery

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Ludwig Hoerner: Agents, Bader and Copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , pp. 53ff., 181, 426f., 531
↑ ^a ^b Compare this advertisement from 1906
↑ Helmut Zimmermann : The sculptor Karl Gundelach (1856-1920) , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Vol. 39, Issue 2-4 (1985), pp. 237-260; Preview over google books
↑ Helmut Zimmermann : The sculptor Karl Gundelach (1856-1920) , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Vol. 39, Issue 2-4 (1985), pp. 237-260; here: p. 253f.
↑ Stephanus Fischer (text), Karin van Schwartzenberg (viSdR): Graves of honor in the cemeteries of the state capital Hanover , ed. from the City of Hanover, the Lord Mayor, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Department of Urban Cemeteries, Department of Administration and Customer Service, Hanover: Self-published by the City of Hanover, March 25, 2010, p. 2; downloadable as a PDF document

[Gewerbe-ABC-1] Ludwig Hoerner: Agents, Bader and Copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , pp. 53ff., 181, 426f., 531

[Annonce_1906-2] Compare this advertisement from 1906

[Zimmermann_Gundelach-3] Helmut Zimmermann : The sculptor Karl Gundelach (1856-1920) , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Vol. 39, Issue 2-4 (1985), pp. 237-260; Preview over google books

[4] Helmut Zimmermann : The sculptor Karl Gundelach (1856-1920) , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Vol. 39, Issue 2-4 (1985), pp. 237-260; here: p. 253f.

[5] Stephanus Fischer (text), Karin van Schwartzenberg (viSdR): Graves of honor in the cemeteries of the state capital Hanover , ed. from the City of Hanover, the Lord Mayor, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Department of Urban Cemeteries, Department of Administration and Customer Service, Hanover: Self-published by the City of Hanover, March 25, 2010, p. 2; downloadable as a PDF document