Andreas Blau

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Hammerwerk Blauenthal, lithograph from 1841
House brand of Andreas Blau from Nuremberg

Andreas Blau , contemporary Endres Plaue or Endres Plaw , was an early modern entrepreneur in the western Ore Mountains .

Life

He came from Nuremberg and traded in tin . Blau settled in Sosa near Eibenstock , where he acquired a Freihof, the owner of which he is mentioned in 1518. According to other sources, he did not come to Sosa until 1530 and married into the local Freihof. To the northwest of Sosa, in the valley of the Zwickauer Mulde , he bought a grinding and board mill. Around 1530, he built two hammer mills near them, which were soon named Ober- and Unterlauenthal after him . The places Wolfsgrün and Blauenthal emerged from this. In his hammer mills, he began manufacturing tinplate based on the Amberger model . This is likely to have resulted in tinplate production in other hammer mills on a larger scale in the Ore Mountains. Blau even brought technically experienced workers from Upper Palatinate for his works. Together with his brother Balthasar, he ran a trading company for tin and other metals in Schneeberg. As a tin trader he bought large parts of the tin from the Eibenstock smelting works in 1533/34 and founded the New Society of Sheet Metal Trading in 1537 , to which the Saxon Elector gave and joined an advance of 7,000 guilders. This was a competitive organization to the comparable organization existing in the Upper Palatinate, probably the Amberger Zinnblechhandelsgesellschaft . Disputes with the co-shareholders made Blau flee to Nuremberg in 1541. On his return he discovered valuable ore deposits. The Neue Gesellschaft was a forerunner of the Erzgebirge sheet metal company . With the erection of the iron hammers, the tin signs with which the barrels of the different types of sheet metal intended for shipping were added will have been created. For this sheet metal trade, Andreas Blau and his partners had received a kind of monopoly in the Ernestine Saxony . In the second half of the 16th century, the Blau'schen companies dissolved.

Timber order from 1560 for the Schwarzenberg office - Andreas Blau is mentioned

An Andreas Blau is mentioned in the wood regulations of the Saxon Elector of 1560 for the Schwarzenberg office. Siegfried Sieber considers this to be a son of the founder of Blauenthal, who sold his property in 1561, describes him as a hammer master and at the same time sees in him the South Tyrolean personal doctor Dr. Andreas Plawenn from Archduke Ferdinand in Innsbruck .

August Schumann writes about Andreas Blau:

“It was in 1518 when a Nuremberg family named Blau was staying in the village of Sosa, including Andreas and Balthasar Blau, who were strong publishers of all the Zwitterzechen in the area, and sent the pewter they had traded to Nuremberg. They finally settled down in Sosa, bought goods, and Andreas Blau got the Freihof Sosa with all accessories through marriage. Blau and his consorts then attached themselves to the Mulde, and gave the area the name Blauthal (Blauenthal). The current Hammergut Wolfsgrün (or Oberblauenthal) is located above only 1/4 hour away from the same, which also built intended Blaue, and there, like in Unterblauenthal, put a hammer on. Enough, the founders of the two hammer mills are the Nuremberg traders Blaue. It is not known for sure how long the Blauer family held Unterlauenthal. The Stegel family is found as the owner as early as 1630. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Announcements of the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg, Vol. 58/59, P. 70 Digitized
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Siegfried Sieber and Martin Leistner: The mining landscape of Schneeberg and Eibenstock (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 11). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1967, p. 120.
  3. ^ A b c d e f collective of authors: Brockhaus travel guide Erzgebirge Vogtland , VEB FA Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1976, p. 265
  4. ↑ a b Erich Matthes : Old ironworks and armory brands of the Saxon Erzgebirge. In: Glückauf. Journal of the Erzgebirgsverein No. 10/1939, pp. 219–224.
  5. ^ Carl Friedrich Mosch: On the history of mining in Germany , first volume, Liegnitz 1829, p. 233 digitized version , accessed on February 23, 2015
  6. ^ Johann Paul Oettel : Old and New History of the Royal. Pohln. and Churfürstl. Saxon. freyen mountain town Eybenstock in the Meißnischen Ober-Erz-Gebürge. P. 284f.
  7. ^ Treaty of October 27, 1537, Torgau
  8. ↑ Forest and Holtz order of the Elector August of Saxony of September 8, 1560, in: Georg Viktor Schmid: Handbook of all forest and hunting laws of the Kingdom of Saxony that have been published since 1560 up to the most recent time , first part of forest laws, at FW Goedsche, Meißen 1839, p. 40 digitized version , accessed on July 31, 2015
  9. ^ A b Siegfried Sieber and Martin Leistner: The mining landscape of Schneeberg and Eibenstock (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 11). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1967, p. 121.
  10. ↑ August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony, containing a correct and detailed geographical, topographical and historical representation of all cities, towns, villages, castles, courtyards, mountains, forests, lakes, rivers, etc., the entire Royal. and Prince. Saxon country including the Principality of Schwarzburg, the Erfurt area, as well as the Reussian and Schönburg possessions . Volume 12, Verlag Schumann, Zwickau 1825, p. 125 digitized version , accessed on July 31, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Blue, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plaue, Endres
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur in the western Ore Mountains
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century