Wolfgang Hilliger
Wolfgang Hilliger , also Wolf Hilger for short (born November 30, 1511 in Freiberg ; † November 30, 1576 ibid) was a German gun and bell caster from the Hilliger foundry dynasty based in Freiberg and is considered one of the most important bell founders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Saxony.
biography
Wolfgang Hilliger was the son of Martin Hilliger and took over the bell foundry from him in 1544, initially together with his brother Oswald II (1518–1546). After casting the Luther plaque for the castle church of Schloss Hartenfels in 1545 together with Wolfgang, Oswald became a gun foundry for Duke Philip I of Pomerania in Stettin . Wolfgang continued the foundry in Freiberg alone. He was one of the richest and most respected citizens of his city. He was councilor in 1546, city judge in 1556 and from 1557 ruling mayor of the city of Freiberg several times. He was the first of the family to work permanently in Dresden for a time. From 1567 he also headed the foundry of the armory , which is remembered in the Dresden Fortress Museum . One of his bells can still be found in Leipzig's St. Thomas Church . His most important work is the epitaph for the Pomeranian Duke Philip I, which is located together with his sarcophagus in the St. Petri Church in Wolgast . A medallion depicting a bear in the lower area of the brass plate bears the inscription "Wolff Hilger czu Freiberg gos mich." His sons Martin II , Wolfgang II and Paul also learned the foundry trade. The legal scholar Oswald Hilliger was his grandson.
Other works
Bells
- Ehrenfriedersdorf , St. Niklas (1549)
- Freiberg, St. Petri (1570)
- Lichtensee (1554, 1574)
- Maxen (1558)
- Niederebersbach (1568)
- Seerhausen Castle (1556)
Reliefs and tombstones
- Grave slab for Duchess Catherine of Saxony († 1561)
- as well as others in the Wettin princely crypt of Freiberg Cathedral
Guns
- Veste Coburg : a six pounder
- Drawings of his guns in the Codex Artilleri in Dresden
Others
- 1562 Collaboration in the manufacture of the clockwork in the Seiger tower of Stolpen Castle
literature
- Heinrich Gerlach: News about the oldest bronze cannons in Saxony, especially that of Wolf Hilger (Hilliger) in Freiberg. With illus. Booklet 18, Gerlach, Freiberg 1882, pp. 43–72 ( slub-dresden.de ).
- Horst Pohl: Wolfgang Hilliger. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 158 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hilliger (bell and gun foundry family) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 100 .
- ^ Norbert Buske, Sabine Bock: Wolgast. Ducal residence and castle. Churches and chapels. Port and city. Thomas Helms, Schwerin 1995, ISBN 3-931185-05-2 , pp. 47-51.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hilliger, Wolfgang |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hilger, Wolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gun and bell founder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1511 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1576 |
| Place of death | Freiberg |