Barbara Uthmann

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Barbara Uthmann fountain in Annaberg-Buchholz

Barbara Uthmann , b. von Elterlein , (* around 1514 in Annaberg ; † January 14, 1575 there ) was a German entrepreneur in the Ore Mountains .

Life

Barbara was a daughter of Heinrich von Elterlein and his wife Ottilia geb. Arnold. Whether she was born in Annaberg or Elterlein is controversial in local research in the Ore Mountains.

In 1550 the Saigerhütte Grünthal came to the family of Christoph Uthmann , with whom she had been married since 1529. After his death, the work was continued from 1553 by his sons and his wife Barbara until 1567, when they sold it to the Saxon Elector August .

Although she successfully continued the business of the Saigerhütte , it failed due to intrigues of the competition. So she was forced to look for another field of activity. There is no historical evidence that she actually had bobbin lace made according to the publishing system, but her work as a publisher of braids can . At times she employed 900 braid weavers. After her death, she left behind a remarkable life's work and is still one of the extraordinary personalities of the Ore Mountains.

In Reinhart Unger's opinion , she is probably wrongly considered one of the greatest promoters of lace . The legend that Barbara Uthmann promoted lace making in the Ore Mountains is often attributed to the chronicler Paulus Jenisius (1551–1612), who, however, only certified her as a “braid trade”. The Erzgebirgschronist Christian Lehmann (1611–1688), however, described her around 1660 - referring to Jenisius - as "the first top shopkeeper in OberErtzgebirge", who started the lace trade in 1561, issued samples, laid the poor, sold braids and lace to strangers and so on came to riches.

Barbara and Christoph Uthmann were ancestors of the Silesian noble family von Uthmann and Schmolz .

Monuments for Barbara Uthmann

Annaberg

Memorial plaque at the Barbara Uthmann fountain

In 1886 the Dresden sculptor Robert Henze created a bronze statue of Barbara Uthmann for Annaberg. The city of Annaberg expressed its thanks to Uthmann, who is considered to be an important representative of the second boom (after silver mining) of the Erzgebirge economy. At the end of the 19th century, Annaberg was a prosperous center for the manufacture of trimmings that went back to Barbara Uthmann .

Henze had already implemented the conception of a memorial as the center of a fountain in earlier works, and the memorial itself is based on a statue of Electress Anna in Dresden (1869), as there are no traditional depictions of Barbara Uthmann.

In the second half of the 1930s, a child playing on the edge of the well had a fatal accident. Therefore, the fountain basin was redesigned into a flower pot. On July 30, 1942, the bronze figure was dismantled and melted down for the purpose of armaments production during World War II .

On November 12, 1998, after two surveys, it was decided to rebuild the Barbara Uthmann memorial. After 10 years of fundraising, a copy of the monument was unveiled on October 2nd, 2002 on the Annaberg-Buchholz market. On this occasion, the Uthmann family celebrated a family reunion in Annaberg-Buchholz. Over 60 descendants witnessed the official inauguration of the fountain and signed the city's golden book.

Tomb of Barbara Uttmann-Brück in the Annaberg cemetery

A tomb for Uthmann, designed by the sculptor Franz Pettrich and donated by the Annaberg postmaster Carl Friedrich Reiche-Eisenstuck , has stood in the Trinitatis cemetery since October 17, 1834 . A wooden bust of Barbara Uthmann created by Paul Schneider in 1932 is in the Erzgebirgsmuseum in Annaberg-Buchholz.

Parents

Another Barbara Uthmann monument is on the Elterlein market .

Zwickau

There is a sculpture on the left outside of the St. Mary's Church .

Honors

In 1869 a mixed-train locomotive for the Royal Saxon State Railways was named "Barbara Uttmann". As the ninety-fifth locomotive, it was manufactured by the then still young Berlin locomotive factory L.Schwartzkopff and was incorporated into class VII in Saxony with road number 191 (from 1892: 722). It served on branch lines until 1893. According to M. Weisbrod (see lit.) it was the only female name ever given to a Saxon locomotive.

In 2003 the asteroid 1998 CA, discovered on February 1st, 1998 in the Volkssternwarte Drebach (Erzgebirge), was named after Barbara Uthmann. He now bears the official name (31231) Uthmann and moves between the planets Mars and Jupiter around the sun.

Martina Meissner ( WDR ) devoted Uthmann on 14 January 2015, the time signal .

literature

  • The kind fairy of the Ore Mountains . In: The Gazebo . Issue 8, 1870 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • Manfred Bachmann (Ed.): Barbara Uthmann - Entrepreneur from Annaberg. In: Small chronicle of great masters - Erzgebirge we are proud of. Part 1. Rockstroh, Aue 2000, pp. 18-20. DNB 998566594
  • Hans Burkhardt : The old Annaberg Barbara Uthmann monument . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 47, 2001, Issue 1, pp. 42–46. ISSN  0486-8234
  • Reinhart Unger, Hermann Lange, Wolfgang Lorenz : Barbara Uthmann and her family. Adam-Ries-Bund, Annaberg-Buchholz 2002, ISBN 3-930430-56-8
  • Wolfgang Lorenz: The descendants of Barbara Uthmann. Adam-Ries-Bund, Annaberg-Buchholz 2004, ISBN 3-930430-63-0
  • Wolfgang Lorenz, Bernd Schreiter : Who was Barbara Uthmann? Thoughts and news about a woman from Annaberg. Saxon-Erzgebirgischer Klöppelverband e. V., Annaberg-Buchholz 2014. DNB 1046686763
  • Bernd Lahl : Barbara Uthmann. Your life, your city and your time. Chemnitzer Verlag, Chemnitz 2014, ISBN 978-3-944509-10-5
  • Reinhart Unger: Sebastian Leonhart's funeral poem for Barbara Uthmann. With translation into German by Christian Zemmrich. ANArt Almut Nitzsche, Annaberg-Buchholz 2014. DNB 1053311435
  • Andrea Geldmacher, Katja Margarethe Mieth, Elvira Werner (eds.): Barbara Uthmann 1514–1575: An entrepreneur from the Ore Mountains in a Central European context . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 2017, ISBN 978-3-86530-228-1

Fiction processing

  • Hanna Klose-Greger: Barbara Uttmann. Novel. by Hase & Köhler, Leipzig 1940, OCLC 315002558
  • Regina Hastedt: Barbara Uthmann. Historical novel. Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 1987, ISBN 978-3-7352-0058-7
  • Joachim Mehnert: Barbara Uthmann - An unusual woman. Tauchaer Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-89772-104-X

Web links

Commons : Barbara Uthmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Barbara Uttmann  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Uthmann and her time
  2. ^ Georg Arnold: Chronicon Annaebergense continuatum. Hasper: Annaberg, 1812, p. 209: “On Jan. 15 [1575], Fraw Barbara, Chr. Uttmans Wittib, a daughter of Heinrich von Elterlein, a rich woman from Bergkwergk, inclined to poverty, happily runs the braid trade: one Mother of 64 children a. Child's Children: Left static food. "
  3. ^ Stephan Schmidt bridges; Karsten Richter: The Erzgebirge chronist Christian Lehmann: Life and work. Printing and publishing company: Marienberg, 2011. P. 113 f. ISBN 978-3-931770-96-9
  4. ^ Stephan Schmidt-Brücken: Christian Lehmann's letter about the art of lace. In: Sächsisch-Erzgebirgischer Klöppelverband (Ed.): Earning a living, handicraft, a matter of the heart - 450 years of lace making in the Ore Mountains. Annaberg-Buchholz, 2011, pp. 15–26.
  5. ↑ Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Adels . tape 3 . Published by WT Bruer, Berlin 1899, p. 688 ( rsl.ru [JPG]).
  6. ↑ http://www1.wdr.de/radio/podcasts/wdr3/audiobarbarauthmannunternehmerintodestag100-audioplayer.html (link not available)
personal data
SURNAME Uthmann, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elterlein, Barbara von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ore Mountains entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH around 1514
PLACE OF BIRTH Annaberg-Buchholz or Elterlein
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1575
Place of death Annaberg-Buchholz