Arnoldshammer

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Arnoldshammer is the name for the small settlement built around a former hammer mill in the Rittersgrün district of Breitenbrunn in the Saxon Ore Mountains .

history

Arnoldshammer around 1850, contemporary engraving
Rock straw on a hill above Arnoldshammer
Former Arnoldshammer Inn

The hammer mill was probably built in the course of the 1540s on the right side of the Pöhlwasser and used its water power to drive his hammer. Hans Kleinhempel with his new hammer is still mentioned in the wood order of 1560 . Kleinhempel continued the old hammer gentlemen's tradition of his family and handed the work over to his son Nikolaus, who had a blast furnace built in the 1580s . In 1588 Caspar Arnold came into possession of the hammer mill. After his family, the hammer was henceforth called the Arnold hammer. In 1631 the property was still owned by his son Michael.

In 1632 the hammer mill, like many others in the area , was destroyed by the imperial troops , lay idle for a long time and was slowly rebuilt after a change of ownership in the 1650s. The owners were given extensive rights. They were allowed to grind and bake, slaughter, brew and give and had jurisdiction over the ironworkers and hammer workers.

In 1661 a flood caused considerable damage to the hammer mill buildings. Christian Lehmann reports damage amounting to 500 thalers and damage to blast furnaces, smelters, trenches and buildings.

In 1681 the whole hammer mill went to the electoral iron factor Christian Rockstroh for 6,500 thalers . The property included the hammer building, sheet metal and bar forge, blast furnace, ironworks and tinning mill, coal houses and residential houses, squares, watercourses, protective ponds and a large number of inventory such as B. firewood, coal and iron stone. At that time, the hammer mill also included an iron stone mine on Rothenberg and a shift of Kuxe in Altenberg . Rockstroh had a mansion built on a hill above the hammer mill in 1682, which is still known today as Rockstroh-Gut and has had its current appearance since 1847, when it was rebuilt on the ruins of its predecessor.

In 1704 Johann August von Elterlein acquired the hammer mill and, after buying the hammer in pain in 1710, owned both knight green hammers that were still in operation, which merged into one large iron and hammer mill until the 17th century. After the unsuccessful attempt to use rollers instead of iron hammers to process the iron sheets that had been transported from England via Hamburg in 1828, both Rittersgrüner hammer mills lost more and more of their importance. In the 1840s Arnoldshammer became the property of " Nestler & Breitfeld ". At that time the following buildings were still in existence: two residential buildings with a tower and clock, which together with the adjacent farm buildings formed a four-sided courtyard and burned down in 1909, a brewery building with a malt house and rock cellar, a tin house and four hut buildings, a blacksmith's shop and grinding mill, and an inn Stable, four cabbage houses, sheds and seven houses for the workers. The blast furnace, stamp mill and two coal houses had already been dismantled. But the current ironworks was still a main employer. In the middle of the 19th century, a civil servant, a travel agent, a chief charcoal maker, a cabbage knife, two hammer smiths, 30 carters, 40 miners, up to 100 iron workers, forest workers, charcoal burners, carpenters, bricklayers, servants and day laborers worked there.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Arnoldshammer became a magnet for tourists, who mainly visited the “Gasthof Arnoldshammer” with its brewery and the adjacent trout pond. Today only the former inn and one of the tin journeyman's houses remain from the original hammer mill buildings.

In 1921 the previously independent judicial district Arnoldshammer was defeated to Rittersgrün and has belonged to Breitenbrunn since it was incorporated in 2007.

Personalities

literature

  • Gerhard Lang: Rittersgrün through the ages. Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar. ISBN 3-89264-835-2
  • Karl-Heinz Linkert: The work of the Erzgebirge hammer family "von Elterlein" between the 16th and 19th centuries in the valleys of the Western Ore Mountains , Rittersgrün 2006, ISBN 3-937190-11-2
  • Siegfried Sieber : Erzgebirge hammer mills. In: Heimatblätter, supplement of the Erzgebirgischer Volksfreundes, Schneeberg, born 1925, no.15.

Web links

Commons : Arnoldshammer  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files