Zabytkowe dzwony kościelne na terenie diecezji kieleckiej. Warsztaty i twórcy

• Authors: Karkocha, Małgorzata

Title variants

PL

Historic church bells in the region of the Diocese of Kielce. Workshops and craftsmen

PL

Historische Kirchenglocken in der Diözese von Kielce. Werkstätte und Schöpfer

PL

Les cloches historiques des églises dans le diocèse de Kielce. Les ateliers et les créateurs

PL

Старинные церковные колокола Келецкого диоцеза. Мастерские и мастера

Abstracts

EN

On the basis of available literature, materials collected in the Archives of the Diocese of Kielce, the Regional Office for the Protection of Monuments in Kielce and Krakow, as well as a result of field research conducted partly by the Author it can be concluded, that in the Diocese of Kielce there have been preserved, i.e. saved from requisitions and destruction of war, about 120 historic church bells. All of them date back to the period before 1900. Only 41 of those (fewer than half) bear a name and a surname of the bell-founder and a name of the location of the workshop. Bells cast in the 14th and 15th century, usually inscribed with the Latin words „O rex gloriae veni cum pace”, remain completely anonymous to us. Only one signed bell from the 16th century is still extant in Zagość. There have also been preserved two bells dating back to the next century, both produced for the church in Małogoszcz by Benedict Briot from Lorraine, who worked in Poland. The largest number of signed specimens (as many as 33) come from the 18th century. Among them there prevail bells from two famous bell foundries located in Gdańsk, namely the ones produced by the Wittwerck and Anthony families, and those coming from an equally active Kraków workshops belonging to the Weidner family, to Ignatius Huflauer and to Balthazar Ruszkowski (vel Roszkiewicz, Rośkiewicz). Only a few bells found in the 19th century bear a signature of the producer. The majority of them were smelt from older, damaged specimens and were manufactured by bell founders located in Warsaw (M. Petersilge, M.A. Zwoliński) or in Kraków (A. Fortuński).

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Przegląd Nauk Historycznych
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 2

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Karkocha, Małgorzata

other

Uniwersytet Łódzki, Wydział Filozoficzno-Historyczny, Instytut Historii, Katedra Historii Nowożytnej

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/18077

DOI

10.18778/1644-857X.14.02.06