Geert van Wou
Gerhard van Wou [ vaʊ̯ ], also Geert Wouters van Kampen, Gerhard Wou van Kampen, Gerhard de Wou (* 1440 in Hintham; † December 1527 in Kampen ) was a Dutch bell founders and created 1497 Gloriosa for the cathedral, but in the generally considered to be his masterpiece.
Life and work
As the son of the bell-founder Willem van Wou he came very early to the craft of casting bells in touch.
From 1474 there is an entry is in the book of citizens Hertogenbosch, where he is known as " Magister Gerardus de Woude ". From 1482 he is based in Kampen.
He is now regarded as one of the most important bell-founder of the late Middle Ages. Van Wou but was rich not only by the casting of bells, so he was, for example, in accounts of the city of Nijmegen as " Meyster Geryt bussengieter " ( cannon manufacturer ) refers to what the conclusion suggests that he also led other cast work.
Van Wou turned the first of his profession to that of consistent law that states that for the same alloy and at the same proportioned fins ( longitudinal profile of a bell), the frequencies of percussive sounds in inverse proportion to the lower diameters of the bells. This enabled him to calculate the required percussive sounds very accurately and thus to meet, during the meeting of percussion sounds can be described up to this point rather a godsend. In 1505 he poured 13 Bells for the Dom church in an unbroken scale ( diatonic ) of fis0 to cis2. In some inscriptions the respective interval is called, which in each case to strike note of the great bell ( fis0 ) refers. For example, is on the fifth bell Baptista:
The word means diapente Quinte; the strike note of the bell is cis1. Gerhard van Wou was also able to supplement with the aforementioned method also tonally matching bell to existing ones. In 1491 he filled the order, St. Michaelis Lüneburg four bells in b0, es1, f1 and g1 to supplement two existing bells in the beat tones c1 and d1. Two bells are preserved.
One of his students was Wolter Westerhues; in St. Andrew to Ahaus- Wüllen hanging bells of masters and students together in a peal.
Works
129 Van Wou- bells are still known by name. Three bells are still intact: in the cathedral at Brunswick and St. Peter to Recklinghausen and St. Pancras in 's -Heer mountain.
The following is a list of known examples with names, casting strike note and year:
- Arnhem (NL ), St. Eusebius: Martinus and Eusebius, b0 of 1477
- Kampen (NL ) Nieuwe goals: 1481-83, including Salvator, as0 and Mary, b0 of 1481
- Kampen ( NL), Nicolaas -of Bovenkerk: Martinus, cis1 and Peter and Paul, ek1 of 1482
- Osnabrück, Holy Cross ( from the Osnabrück Cathedral ): Begin bell of 1485
- Hamburg- Altengamme, St. Nicolai Church: Celsa, d1 of 1487
- Amersfoort (NL ), St. Joris: Georgius, c1 of 1489
- Stendal, St. Mary: Mary, gis0 and Lazy Anna, h0 of 1490
- Demker, g2 of 1495
- Stack, fis1 of 1492
- Great Rossau, fis1 of 1490
- Lüneburg, St. Nicolai: Mary, a0 1491
- Lüneburg, St. Michaelis: es1 and g1 of 1492
- Roadstead, St. Gudula: Former clock bell, e2 of 1492
- Munster, St. Lambert: Lambert, c1 and Mary, es1 1493
- Ahaus- Wüllen, St. Andrew: es1 of 1496
- Erfurt, St. Mary's Cathedral: Gloriosa, e0 1497
- Erfurt, St. Severi: Vincentia, h0 1497
- Emmerich, St. Aldegundis: Mary, h0 of 1498
- Wessum, St. Martin: Anna, cis1 of 1499
- Recklinghausen, St. Peter: Peter, b0, John, c1 and Mary, es1 1500
- Zeerijp ( NL), Jacobuskerk: Anna and James, cis1 1500
- Eernewoude ( NL), Hervormde kerk: g1 1500
- Braunschweig, Cathedral of St. Blasius Blasius major, a0, Mary, h0, and John cis1 of 1502
- Naumburg, Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul: 1502
- Haarlem (NL ), St. Bavo: Roelant, a0 from 1503
- Utrecht ( NL), St. Martin Domkerk: Salvator, fis0, Mary, gis0, Martinus, ais0, Michael, h0, Baptista, ck1, Magdalena, dis1 and Jezus, ak1 of 1505/ 06
- Utrecht ( NL), Geertekerk: Jezus, as1 of 1506
- Lübeck, St. Jacobi: Salichmaker ( Salvator ), a0 of 1507