Anton Rindenschwender
Anton Rindenschwender (also Rindeschwender , born January 28, 1725 in Gaggenau ; † May 4, 1803 there ) was an entrepreneur and mayor . He founded the Gaggenauer Glashütte and is considered the founding father of Gaggenau's rise from a village to an industrial location.
Life
Anton Rindenschwender was the son of the forest worker Hans Rindenschwender, who immigrated to Baden from Tyrol and who had married the daughter of a Gaggenau forest worker, Eva Vitter / Fütter. One brother, Joseph Rindenschwender, was a hunter in Herrenwies (Forbach) .
When he left his parents' house at the age of 12, he became the servant of an Ottenau carter and is said to have also helped with the harvest of the new ground pear ( potato ) fruit in Loffenau . As a reward, he received potatoes, which he brought back to the Murgtal and were spread there. Later he worked as a wood cutter for the Weisenbacher wood merchant Böhringer, where he soon rose to foreman and finally to managing director. When the Rotterdam timber importer van Derwen visited the Upper Rhine, he made Rindenschwender his agent on site for an annual salary of 500 guilders ( factor ). In this role he brokered timber supply contracts between the timber owners, e.g. B. the Principality of Speyer or the Margraviate of Baden-Baden , and the timber buyers, and took care of the fulfillment of the contract.
He invested the income from this activity in real estate in the then insignificant village of Gaggenau, so that he soon became one of the wealthiest citizens of the place. In 1752 he became mayor in Gaggenau, in 1758 he was appointed mayor; an office he was to hold for more than forty years. From 1760 he was a partner in the Mittelberg glassworks near Moosbronn . In 1768 he bought part of the company from Franz Anton Dürr for 14,000 guilders and thereby also became a member of the Murgschifferschaft . When the supplies of wood at the Mittelberger Glashütte ran out, in 1772 Rindenschwender managed to move it to Gaggenau, where it could be supplied with the wood from the Murgschifferschaft via the Murg . Rindenschwender rebuilt the glassworks there, modernized and enlarged, and subsequently also operated it. A glassworks ensemble was created with a total of 54 buildings and facilities, which shaped the image of Gaggenau into the 20th century. This included a forge, a sawmill, an economy and residential buildings, a weir and a bridge over the Murg, the Glasersteg . There were two glass melting furnaces, a stretching hut for the production of window glass, a glass grinding shop and a potash boiler. From 1785, Rindenschwender made the Alb flowable and thus enabled the Frauenalb monastery to sell its wood.
Rindenschwender gained a great reputation among contemporaries with the reclamation of a rocky ridge above Gaggenau in 1782 and the expansion into a farm for his family. Rindenschwender took a visit to the estate by the Baden hereditary princess Amalie von Hessen-Darmstadt as an opportunity to name the estate Amalienberg . Amalie and her husband Karl Ludwig von Baden subsequently spent several summers as guests of Rindenschwender on the Amalienberg . In 1797 he was appointed Princely Economic Councilor by Margrave Karl Friedrich .
Rindenschwender was married three times and had thirty children from his three marriages, only nine of whom survived their father. He left a fortune of 200,000 guilders. After his death, Grand Duke Karl Friedrich had a memorial erected for him. The sandstone obelisk now stands on Gaggenau's market square. The inscription reads: “ To the founder of the Amalienberg, promoter of agriculture, industry and trade in his area. "
literature
- Kurt Andermann : Anton Rindenschwender 1725–1803. Economic pioneer in the northern Black Forest . In: Badische Heimat. 83, 4, 2003, ISSN 0930-7001 , pp. 627-635.
- Markus Bittmann, Meinrad Bittmann: The Murgtal. History of a landscape in the northern Black Forest. Casimir Katz Verlag, Gernsbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-938047-44-6 , pp. 78-82 ( special publication of the Rastatt district archive 6).
- Samuel Gottlob Meisner (ed.): Character traits from the life of noble businessmen. For the teaching and imitation of the mercantile youth. Büschler, Leipzig 1805, pp. 24-40, online .
- Max Scheifele : The Murgschifferschaft. History of the raft trade, the forest and the timber industry in the Murg Valley. 2nd Edition. Katz, Gernsbach 1995, ISBN 3-925825-20-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bittmann: Das Murgtal , p. 78
- ↑ [1] , gallery of historical paintings of the most memorable people who died in the 19th century
- ↑ Link Gernsbacher Bote, Volume 18, September 15, 2010, p. 8 Regina Maier
- ↑ Bittmann: Das Murgtal , p. 81
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rindenschwender, Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beef turner, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Entrepreneur, mayor of Gaggenau and pioneer of industrialization |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1725 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gaggenau |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1803 |
| Place of death | Gaggenau |