Blue paintwork Christophhammer

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The blue paint factory Christophhammer was from 1724 to 1875 a blue paint factory in Kryštofovy Hamry ( German  Christophhammer ) in the Bohemian part of the Ore Mountains .

prehistory

The chief miner of St. Joachimsthal , Christof Grad von Grünberge, built a hammer mill in the so-called fire in 1621 . The area was then named Christofhammer in honor of his name saint. Blast furnaces, grinding mills and smiths were added and later a copper hammer was added

The blue ink factory

The blue paint factory was built in 1724 at state expense. The cobalt ores were obtained from Joachimsthal. Josef Karl Schmiedl leased the blue paint factory as early as 1760, and Wilhelmine Schlemm was the tenant from 1794. The former color master Franz Benjamin Salzer from the blue color factory Niederpfannenstiel acquired the blue color factory on the Preßnitz in 1806 . Since cobalt was not allowed to be exported from Saxony, he stored the cobalt dish he had bought in Niederpfannenstiel in the former tin and silver smelter in Aue. The representative for the blue paint works of Saxony, chief miner August von Herder , planned to get the tin smelting works going again. Therefore he allowed Salzer to take the food away. One of the Salzers, who worked in the Schindlerswerk , another large Saxon blue paint factory, bought 400 tons of cobalt food from there for only 5,000 thalers. Benefiting from the chaos of war, Salzer actually made it to Christophhammer. The owners of the blue paint factory were also active in the Saxon part of the Ore Mountains. In 1842 they attempted to sell the remote blue paint factory to the blue paint consortium. The purchase was declined.

The plant was shut down in 1875.

literature

  • Josef Hoßner: The emergence of Christofhammer , celebratory speech for the 300th anniversary of Christofhammer's founding festival on August 28, 1921, In: Erzgebirgs-Zeitung , 43rd year, 1922, pp. 124–125; 195; 219. ( digitized version ). Reprinted in: Der Grenzgänger , information from the Bohemian Ore Mountains, issue 69, February / March 2018, pp. 21–24 ( online ) (Josef Hoßner was senior teacher in Christofhammer.)
  • Bernd Lahl : From the blue color factory Christophhammer, from Kobaltpaschern and Karl Stülpner. In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter . Issue 4/2005. Pp. 5-7.
  • Franz Ambrosius Reuss : The blue color factory at St. Christophshammer . In: Mineralogical and mining remarks on Bohemia . Christian Friedrich Himburg, Berlin 1801, p. 658-669 ( digitized version ).
  • Bernd Schreiter : Hammer works in the Preßnitz and Schwarzwassertal. Forays through the history of the Upper Ore Mountains Issue 14, Annaberg-Buchholz 1997 (PDF; 200 KB) ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  • Siegfried Sieber : Von böhmischen Blaufarbenwerke , in: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Bohemian Lands, A Journal of History and Civilization in East Central Europe, Volume 10, No. 1 (1969), pp. 415 to 423 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Hoßner: The emergence of Christofhammer , celebratory speech for the 300th anniversary of Christofhammer's founding festival on August 28, 1921, reprint in: Der Grenzgänger , Informations aus dem Böhmischen Erzgebirge, Edition 69, February / March 2018, pp. 21-24 ( online ) ( Josef Hoßner was a senior teacher in Christofhammer.)
  2. ↑ cf. the file overview at Archiv.Sachsen.de

Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 3.1 ″  N , 13 ° 8 ′ 11.3 ″  E