Auerhammer
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Auerhammer
City of Aue-Bad Schlema
Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 56 ″ N , 12 ° 41 ′ 40 ″ E
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| Height : | 370 m | |
| Incorporation : | 1930 | |
| Postal code : | 08280 | |
| Area code : | 03771 | |
Location of Auerhammer in Saxony |
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.JPG) View of a typical street in Auerhammer: the Ziegelstrasse – Uhlandstrasse street. In the background a house from the beginning of the 20th century in Auerhammerstraße.
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Auerhammer was a district of the city of Aue in the Ore Mountains between 1930 and 2018 . Aue has been part of the newly founded large district town of Aue-Bad Schlema since January 2019 . The name Auerhammer is derived from the most important historical company on this site. Auerhammer is usually mentioned as a common local area with Neudörfel , whose history can be traced back to 1550.
The Auer Hammer
Today's local or urban area on the Zwickauer Mulde emerged from a hammer mill built in the 15th or 16th century , which was first mentioned in a document on November 7, 1526 as Uttenhöfer Hammer . In 1560, the "Hammer unter der Aue" was transferred from the Uttenhof family to the mint master Sebastian Funck from Schneeberg . At the beginning of the 17th century the company, in which iron pots and stove plates were manufactured, was one of the leading hammer mills in the Ore Mountains. During Hieronymus Müller von Berneck's lease , the hammer was largely destroyed in the Thirty Years' War in 1632 and 1633. In 1644 Veit Hans Schnorr the Elder acquired Ä. and hammer master Zacharias Schöppel bought the destroyed plant for 1000 guilders and put it back into operation. After Schnorr was deported to Russia in 1648, his wife Rosina Schnorr , then his son Veit Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld, took over the hammer mill. In 1661 and when the felt pond broke in February 1783, the hammer mill was again badly damaged.
After a fire damage in 1682, Schnorr junior expanded the plant into a modern iron hammer mill with blast furnace, sheet metal hammers, tin house, fresh furnace, racing fire, stick fire, forge, board and grinding mill as well as an iron and slag pounding mill. From the Schnorrschen estate, the work was auctioned in 1730 and subsequently passed to the Hammerherren families Rudolph and Viehweg. In the possession of the Reinhold family, the plant came to a standstill around 1820.
The preserved house of the Hammerherren, built between 1633 and 1683 in the Renaissance style (see picture) is a cultural monument . It is the oldest house in the city and the second oldest preserved building after the Nikolaikirche.
On May 19, 2020, the restored tower clock will be reinstalled in the turret (the winding is now carried out by an electric drive) and the original bell (cast in 1797) will be replaced by a copy made by the Nickelhütte Aue company a long time ago. The old bell then serves as an exhibit. The Swiss company Stahl und Metall took over the costs for restoration and installation . The building served as a residential building until the 1970s. Around 1980 the clock and bell fell silent. The monument has been restored by the Hammerherrenhaus sponsorship association founded especially in 2002. After the technology has been installed in the tower, a new floor will be laid in the Knappensaal and the kitchen and bathroom reconstruction can be completed. The building can then be used for public events from summer 2020.
Argentan production and cutlery production
Ernst August Geitner , the 1823 production of Argentan had managed to set up in 1829 in the disused hammer the first Argentanfabrik Europe with a rolling mill, successfully produced the many years. Geitner's son-in-law Adolph Lange continued the company under the name "Saxon Copper and Brass Works F. A. Lange".
During the National Socialist era , the owners had to deliver sheet metal for the armaments industry. Therefore, after the end of the Second World War in 1945/46, the rolling mills were dismantled for reparation purposes and the Lange family expropriated.
It was not until 1948/49 that it was re-established; the now nationalized plant produced iron sheets for the GDR industry until 1955 . It then received a new, expanded production profile under the name VEB Halbzeugwerk , with a focus on the production of metal semi-finished products and special materials. Extensive new workshops and a social building improved working conditions. After the collapse of the GDR , the city of Aue looked for a long time for an investor to take over the site and the products. A large part of the company was able to continue as the newly founded company Auerhammer Metallwerk GmbH . The former company vocational school was converted into a municipal training center and the canteen was privatized. The historic Hammerherrenhaus , which was threatened with demolition, was gradually renovated by the Herrenhaus Auerhammer eV development association and is to be used as the industrial museum of the city of Aue.
When Christian Wellners ' former tin smelter , which was located directly on today's Auerhammerstrasse, was no longer able to produce profitably, his sons had a large factory complex built on an acquired site in which the argentan was further processed. The cutlery and tableware factory of August Wellner and Sons was established , which sold its products worldwide for many years.
The local area
Residential and functional buildings
Around the important factory, a simple residential development with sometimes little comfort was built. Most of the houses preserved in the 21st century date from the early 20th century. From 1990 onwards they were renovated and more comfortably furnished (central heating, sanitary area). The factory owners built a small school on Zschorlauer Strasse for the basic education of working class children. This was closed in the 1960s and then used as a station for young naturalists and technicians with leisure activities in the form of various working groups.
In the local area of Auerhammer are the buildings of the administration of the former district of Aue-Schwarzenberg , which after the district reform now house a department of the newly formed district office and the district archive of Aue. They are part of the former Wellner cutlery factory , whose production building, which has been vacant since 1990, was partially demolished, but its core was renovated.
religion
Auerhammer and the neighboring district of Neudörfel belong to the Lutheran parish of St. Nicolai . In the 1950s, the congregation tried to have its own place of worship in the village, which the state refused to do for a long time. Only in 1959 was a church approved for Neudörfel and Auerhammer. After the end of uranium mining in Neustädtel , the house of the church in Wolfgangmaßen was no longer needed and moved to Zschorlauer Straße in Auerhammer. The wooden building, which comes from Otto Bartning's emergency church program (so-called "Houses of the Church" ), originally stood in Oberschlema and was moved to Wolfgangmaßen after the consecration of the Resurrection Church there in 1952. It is the only surviving structure of this type that is still used as a church. Church services are held here every two weeks.
Traffic in the Auerhammer area
The main access road is the stretch of road Wettinerstraße-Zschorlauer road, a section of the county road is K 7190th A city bus line operates on this route.
literature
- Siegfried Sieber: Festschrift for the 750th anniversary of the city of Aue in the Ore Mountains on May 7, 1923 . 1923, reprint 2007.
- Jana Behm: The Hammerherrenhaus zu Auerhammer . In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 30 (2008) 4, pp. 2–4.
- Jana Behm, Christine Weigel: The Hammerwerk Auerhammer and his manor house , publisher: Auer Employment Initiative eV, printing: printing and publishing house Mike Rockstroh, Aue, 2007.
Web links
- Homepage of the Friends' Association Herrenhaus Auerhammer e. V. (including Chronology of the Auerhammer)
- Deutsche Fotothek: Historical view of the main building of the Auerhammer semifinished product
- Auerhammer in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release from the Aue city administration dated May 13, 2020: The clock and bell in the Hammerherrenhaus will be installed .
- ↑ About Aue, Schwarzenberg and Johanngeorgenstadt (= values of our homeland . Volume 20). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1972, p. 26ff.
- ↑ List of churches by Otto Bartning