Christoph Löbel

Christoph Löbel also Löwel (baptized June 4, 1598 in Platten ; † August 31, 1651 in Jugel ) was a German entrepreneur.

Live and act

He was the son of the councilor and merchant Abraham Löbel (1571-1613) from Platten in Bohemia, where he acquired citizenship after reaching the age of majority . At the age of twenty he married Anna Preußler in Platten on October 4, 1618, the daughter of the glassworks owner in Oberjugel, Saxony, and granddaughter of the founder Sebastian Preißler . After the death of his father-in-law, his son took over the glassworks. In 1630 Löbel became the owner of the glassworks himself and, with the permission of the elector, produced cobalt blue as well as glasses and tankards for the Electoral Saxon court in Dresden. Löbel increased production and expanded it to the west. On September 9, 1633, together with Johann Gabriel Macasius , he leased the so-called medium-sized grinding mill, which stood desolate and desolate for ten years from the city council. She had to grind the courts , to sell the flour freely, to bake home-made and Bohemian bread, and to bake and sell stollen and rolls with the consent of the trade after the set days . In 1643 he took over the glassworks near Carlsfeld, founded in 1624 on the Frühbusser Pass in the middle of the forest not far from the Saxon-Bohemian border, from which today's Eibenstock district of Weitersglashütte emerged . Here he produced, among other things, green glass, laboratory assistant and pharmacist glasses.

family

The following children emerged from the marriage with Anna Preußler:

Magdalena (1619–1697), ∞ Zacharias Glaßmann
Anna Maria (1626–1667), ∞ Gabriel Hammerdörffer
Esther (1630–1676), ∞ Christian Reichenbach
Rosina (1632–1692), ∞ Caspar Kircheisen
Johann Gabriel (1635–1696), ∞ Maria Magdalena Wittich
Augustine (1637–1668), died in Hamburg
Melosyna (1639–1689), ∞ Kilian Epperlein
Johann Christoph (* 1641)
Abraham (1643–1702), ∞ Anna Magdalena Riedel

literature

Otfried Wagenbreth , Eberhard Wächtler : Mining in the Ore Mountains. Technical monuments and history. Verlag für Grundstoffindindustrie, Leipzig 1990, p. 341, ISBN 3-342-00509-2

Web links

To the descendants in small forges

Individual evidence

↑ Jos. Walfried: Commercial life on the Breitenbach. In: Communications from the Association for the History of Germans in Bohemia . XXI. Year, 1883, pp. 100-102.

personal data
SURNAME	Löbel, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German entrepreneur and glassworks owner
DATE OF BIRTH	June 4, 1598
PLACE OF BIRTH	plates
DATE OF DEATH	August 31, 1651
Place of death	Jugel

[1] Jos. Walfried: Commercial life on the Breitenbach. In: Communications from the Association for the History of Germans in Bohemia . XXI. Year, 1883, pp. 100-102.