Abraham Löwel
Abraham Löwel , actually Löbel (* July 15, 1643 in Oberjugel , † March 10, 1702 in Kleinschmieden ) was a Saxon glassworks and Franconian hammer mill owner who came from the Saxon Ore Mountains and was the progenitor of the Löwel family in Bayreuth .
Life
Abraham Löwel is the son of Christoph Löbel , who owned the Oberjugel glassworks on the Saxon-Bohemian border in the Upper Ore Mountains . At the age of 10 he experienced the expulsion of the exiles from the neighboring mountain town of Platten , numerous families of whom settled in the glassworks of his father, who had already died at the time, in Oberjugel and in 1654 founded the exile town of Johanngeorgenstadt .
After the death of his father, he inherited his glassworks near Carlsfeld . In 1680 he had their electoral privileges renewed. On September 4, 1683, Löbel sold the Weiters Glashütte for 3,000 guilders to Veit Hans Schnorr , who had re-established the neighboring Carlsfeld hammer mill in 1678. In 1685 he asked the Elector of Saxony to expand the existing justice, which existed in addition to the operation of the glassworks in free baking, slaughter, brewing and serving as well as the use of the wide meadow as a field or meadow. In return for a higher hereditary interest, he was then given the inheritance courts over the Weitersglashütte and allowed the construction of twelve further houses and a blacksmith's shop. Abraham Löwel, on the other hand, left the Ore Mountains to settle in the Franconian town of Naila , near which he took over the hammer mill in small forges, which he operated successfully until his death in 1702.
He was married to Anna Magdalena Riedel from Bohemia since 1672.
Johann Abraham and Christoph Heinrich Löwel were his two sons.
literature
- Johann Christian Engelschall : Description of the exile and mountain town of Johanngeorgenstadt , Lanckisch and Kircheisen publishing house, Leipzig 1723, 304 pages, additional extensive unpag.register (extended reprint: Stuttgart 1997) ( digital copy of the original edition in the Bavarian State Library in Munich )
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Löwel, Abraham |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Löbel, Abraham (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saxon glassworks and Franconian hammer mill owner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1643 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberjugel |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 1702 |
| Place of death | Small forging |