Carl Christian Friedrich Glenck

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Carl Christian Friedrich Glenck

Carl Christian Friedrich Glenck , also Carl Christian Friederich Glenck (born April 13, 1779 in Schwäbisch Hall , † November 21, 1845 in Gotha ) was a German salinist , drilling specialist and entrepreneur.

Life

Glenck came from a Salinist family. His father was Johann Georg Glenck (but he spelled himself “Glenk” all his life) and his mother Elisabeth, née Mayer. After attending the Hohen Karlsschule in Stuttgart, Glenck began studying law in Erlangen in 1791 . From 1796 he also attended lectures in mineralogy and geology there, then from 1799 to 1800 he studied with Abraham Gottlob Werner at the Bergakademie Freiberg . In 1800 he took up a position as private secretary with Friedrich Ludwig zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen and became his travel companion. In 1803 the prince appointed Glenck to the Princely Hohenlohian judicial and rent bureau in Niedernhall am Kocher. The administration of the Niederhall and Weißbach salt pans was also connected with this office . In 1803, Glenck married Charlotte Eleonore Maria Burger, with whom he had twelve children. In 1806, in the course of mediatization, the Niederhall Justice and Rent Office was dissolved and the Princely Hohenlohische Bergrat Glenck retired.

Since then, Glenck has been conducting geological research to explore salt deposits and brine springs using drilling methods. In 1812 the family moved to Künzelsau . In the same year, Glenck discovered the Marbach gypsum deposit, the mining of which he carried out on his own. To improve his drilling equipment, he constructed the Glenck catcher . In 1817 he took over the management of the Weissbach salt works, which had been transferred to a company. In 1819 Glenck founded the Ludwigshall saltworks after successful drilling near Wimpfen am Neckar . Since 1820 he extended his drilling work to Switzerland. In 1823 Glenck moved to Gotha . He received orders from the Princely House of Reuss and the Kingdom of Saxony, but was also active on his own behalf. Other saltworks established by Glenck were Ernsthall near Bufleben in 1828 , Louisenhall near Stotternheim in 1829 and Heinrichshall near Köstritz in 1831.

In 1836 he was also successful in Switzerland. He discovered a rock salt deposit at the Red House in Muttenz and founded the Schweizerhalle saltworks a year later .

The ducal gothic upper mountain ridge Glenck was known to Goethe, who particularly valued the Louisenhall saltworks and set a monument to Glenck in Faust II . The city of Darmstadt granted Glenck honorary citizenship.

literature

  • Wilhelm von Gümbel :  Glenck, Karl Christian Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 233-235.
  • Hanns Freydank :  Glenck, Karl Christian Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 453 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Kaspar Birkhäuser : Carl Christian Friederich Glenck. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 18, 2005 .
  • Walter Carlé: The salinist family Glenck. In: Life pictures from Swabia and Franconia , ed. v. Max Miller and Robert Uhland, Vol. 11, Stuttgart 1969, pp. 118-149
  • Günther Beck: Salt search and founding of salt pans at the beginning of the 19th century in the Thuringian states and in the Kingdom of Saxony . In: Thesis. Scientific journal of the Bauhaus University Weimar , issue 4/5, 2002, ISSN  1433-5735 , pp. 174-191
  • Franz Götzfried (Ed.): Salt and brine in Wimpfen. Contributions to the history of the Wimpfen town and saltworks, Bad Wimpfen 2002
  • Heinrich Bartl: The salt pans and the brine bath at Stotternheim, 1826–1949. A merit of the Salinist Carl Christian Friedrich Glenck. Erfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-935971-49-2
  • Bernhard Ruetz, in collaboration with Armin Roos: Carl Christian Friedrich Glenck, 1779–1845. Salt pioneer and founder of the Schweizerhalle saltworks. Series Swiss pioneers of business and technology , Vol. 90, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-909059-46-1
  • Travel journal of the Oberberg and Hofrat Carl Christian Friedrich Glenck (1779–1845), discoverer of the salt warehouse at the Red House in 1836 and founder of the Schweizerhalle saltworks in 1837. Digital copy and print of the original on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the United Swiss Rhine Saltworks , Pratteln 2009

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Gebhardt: The students of the High Charles School. A biographical lexicon . Stuttgart 2011
personal data
SURNAME Glenck, Carl Christian Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glenck, Carl Christian Friederich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German salinist, drilling specialist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Hall
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1845
Place of death Gotha