Antiglhütte

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Antiglhütte is a deserted area in the municipality of Horská Kvilda in Okres Klatovy , Czech Republic .

geography

The place used to be the location of a glassworks on the road from Horská Kvilda to Filipova Huť (Philippshütte) about one kilometer southwest of the Horní Otygl (also called Horní Antýgl) (German: Bernstein / Bernsteinhäuser), to which Antiglhütte is now one. Antiglhütte is not to be confused with the nearby Antiglhof (Dolní Antýgl) on the Vydra , where the location of the glassworks was previously assumed.

history

According to older literature, the glassworks is said to have been founded in 1523 by the glass master Johann Fuchs from Zwoischen. According to more recent findings, however, it is much younger: the Tiefenthal (Hluboká) glassworks was relocated here in 1786. Erected at 1135 m above sea level, it was one of the highest glassworks in the Bohemian Forest . According to tradition, the name Antigl should come from "a crucible" - a hut with a melting pot. In his family history , Josef Blau quotes the original text: "In 1523 Johann Fuchs, glass master from Zwoischen near Bergreichenstein bought the river Mader and the Antigl forest ..." There is no mention of a glassworks. The term "Antigl", on the other hand, was used as a field name even before the hut was founded. The name of the glassworks therefore probably refers to the location on the east side of the Antigl (Sokol) mountain, which at 1253 meters is the highest elevation in this area.

The Eisner family is documented as the operator of the hut. The owner was Anna Maria Eisner (1725–1788), her grandson Franz Ignaz Eisner (1766–1822) ran the business. In the schematic for the Kingdom of Bohemia for the year 1805 it says about Antiglhütte: "Ignaz Eisner, glass master and leaseholder, produces hollow glass and patterl (pearls)." In the registers for Antiglhütte (Aussergefild parish), however, the sheet glass maker Jakob Schmid is recorded in 1803, and the sheet glass maker Johann Hirsch between 1801 and 1815, so that the manufacture of sheet glass can also be assumed. Between 1988 and 1991 the archaeologist Jiri Fröhlich carried out excavations at the site of the hut. The production of hollow glass and patterl (pearls) in different colors could be proven archaeologically. According to the findings, medium quality sheet glass was also produced. Fröhlich suspects that panels for the workshops of the reverse glass painters in the nearby Aussergefild were made at the Antiglhütte; the place was an important center of reverse glass painting. Cut or engraved glass was not found during the excavations, but it was certainly made. From 1800 to 1816 the glass cutter (engraver) Josef Schmid is attested in the registers. Together with his son Josef, who was born in Antiglhütte in 1802, he went into business for himself after 1818 and became a successful glass manufacturer in Bohemia and Bavaria. The cut and engraved glasses from Schmid have been awarded several prizes.

The Antiglhütte was closed in 1818 and the place was largely abandoned afterwards. Today there is only one building left, the "Jägerhaus", a typical Bohemian Forest house with a bell tower that is used as a holiday home. The house is designated as a cultural monument.

literature

  • Josef Blau: The Glass Makers, Volume I a. Volume II , Grafenau 1983/1984
  • Jiri Fröhlich: Archaeological research into the glassworks in the area of ​​Bergreichenstein , in: Vlastivedne zpravy Muzea Sumavy 3/1995
  • Register of the parish Aussergefild / Kvilda: birth register Antigl and Antiglhütte (Book 1, Aufn. 166–177), in: digi.ceskearchivy.cz
  • Raimund Schuster: Behind the glass pictures from Aussergefild in the Bohemian Forest , Grafenau 1980
  • Walter Spiegl: Biedermeier glasses , Munich 1981
  • Stary most / Ohetaler Verlag: Böhmerwald grenzenlos, 2006
  • E. Marschner:  Schmid, Josef d. J. (1802-1866), glass manufacturer. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 275.

Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 37 ″  N , 13 ° 32 ′ 21 ″  E