‘Suderman’ Clock

Kroeger Clock no. 2628, ca. 1895 (MC0222)

This Kroeger clock was given to Peter Jacob Reimer and Aganetha Reimer from Kronstal-Osterwick, South Russia (present day Ukraine), in 1910. They immigrated to Canada in 1924. At some point around the 1950s the clock was given to Annie (Reimer) Suderman, Peter and Aganetha’s daughter.

The clock always hung on the wall in the dining room of the Suderman house on the farm at Silverfeld near Landmark, Manitoba, Canada. It was the job of the Suderman children (including Peter) to wind the clock every day so that it would keep time. At night the ticking of the clock could be heard throughout the whole house and it would also chime the hours every day, 24 hours a day. A few years prior to Annie’s death (January 2005), she gave the clock to Peter as he was named after her father.

Peter Suderman donated this clock to Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada, in 2012.

• Description Thirty-hour wall clock with pendulum and weight-driven movement, made by Kroeger Clockmakers in Rosenthal, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), ca. 1895, serial number 2628. Arched dial with a raised chapter ring is light with a single dark border around the perimeter. Arch has decal of two roses surrounded other flowers, and greenery. Spandrels are gold scrolls. Chapter ring is white with black Roman numerals; white outer rings mark the minutes and quarter hours. Two hands; bell function; chain drive; four weights.

• Mennonite Clock Number MC0222

• Object Name Kroeger Clock

• Serial Number 2628

• Mennonite Heritage Village Accession Number 2012.24.1

• Date Created ca. 1895

• Maker Kroeger Clockmakers

• Location Made Rosenthal, Chortitza Colony, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)

• Other Markings No. 2628 (on hour wheel); 3 (stamped on brass frame, some gears, pendulum, and minute hand)

• Movement Type Brass frame

• Functions Bell

• Owner Mennonite Heritage Village