Stephan Werner's bell in the Museum collection. The history of bell - founding in Leszno.
We invite you to the presentation of our new acquisition – an 18th-century bell, cast in 1730 in Leszno, at Stephan Werner's bell foundry.
The program includes:
Dr. hab. Marceli Tureczek, prof. UZ, expert of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage:
Bell founding in Leszno and on the Greater Poland-Silesia border
mgr Małgorzata Gniazdowska:
Leszno bell maker Stephan Werner in the light of the posthumous inventory written in 1777
Date: 10 February 2025, 5:00 PM
Place: District Museum in Leszno, 31 G. Narutowicza Street
Free admission
The program includes:
Dr. hab. Marceli Tureczek, prof. UZ, expert of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage:
Bell founding in Leszno and on the Greater Poland-Silesia border
mgr Małgorzata Gniazdowska:
Leszno bell maker Stephan Werner in the light of the posthumous inventory written in 1777
Date: 10 February 2025, 5:00 PM
Place: District Museum in Leszno, 31 G. Narutowicza Street
Free admission
New item in the collection
In 2025, the Regional Museum in Leszno enriched its collections with a unique object - a product of Leszno craftsmanship. It is a bell cast in 1730 in the bell foundry of the Leszno master Stephan Werner (d. 1777). It is an example of a clock bell; it is heartless – the sound was produced by striking the outer part of the bowl with a mechanical hammer, traces of which have survived to this day. There is a devotional inscription on the bell, including the invocation: IHS MARYA, which allows us to assume that it could have been commissioned by one of the Catholic parishes on the Greater Poland-Silesia border.
Co-financed
The purchase of the bell was possible thanks to funding from the program "Expansion of museum collections - own program of the National Institute of Museums - 2025", coming from the budget of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the Local Government of the Wielkopolska Voivodeship.
