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The Eisenhammer Rosenhammer was located near the Upper Palatinate town of Waldershof ; Rosenhammer is now part of this city. The plant was operated by the water of the Kössein .
history
The Rosenhammer was founded in 1443, although the first hammer letter was not issued until 1463. This foundation is related to the ore deposits there, which were the main supplier for this iron hammer until the 17th century .
At the beginning of the 16th century the work was in the hands of the Waldershof family Zollitsch (sometimes also written as Zolatsch ). Around 1560, the local mayor Zollitsch was also hammer master from Rosenhammer. The first blast furnace is said to have been put into operation there around 1565 . This made the Rosenhammer the first plant in the Upper Palatinate with a blast furnace; in the nearby margravial Arzberg , a blast furnace was only recorded in 1574.
In 1565, rails and rods were produced in winter , but products made of cast iron in summer ; Cast iron stoves are called. The factory was operated by various stocks after 1560 . In 1585 the hammer was acquired by Michael Frank , the hammer master of Leupoldsdorf , for 2,900 fl . He worked with Mathes Schreyer , who also contributed part of the purchase price. In 1608 a real division was made, with the two hammer masters alternately managing the business on a weekly basis. In 1630 the work was operated jointly by the hammer masters Wolf Frankh and Hans Schreyer ; the value of the hammer was then estimated at 4,000 fl. Despite the invasions of Sweden during the Thirty Years' War , the plant still produced iron and sheet metal in 1638. The operation of the blast furnace had to be stopped due to a shortage of ore. In 1669, the then owners Mathes Bruckner and Michael Frankh planned to rebuild the crumbling blast furnace. They made a corresponding request to the government in Amberg and it sent the Kastner of the Waldeck-Kemnath office to an appraisal; The hammer masters from the area should also give their opinion. Above all, the manager of the Gottesgab steelworks spoke out against the commissioning, as this would lead to a shortage of ore in the other hammer mills. This led to the rebuilding of the blast furnace being prohibited, although the two hammer masters could prove the license to operate such a furnace, but the lack of smeltable ore outweighed this right.
Rosenhammer has been part of the municipal community of Waldershof since 1808 (town since 1963).
literature
- Götschmann, Dirk: Upper Palatinate iron. Mining and iron industry in the 16th and 17th centuries. Ed. Association of Friends and Patrons of the Mining and Industry Museum East Bavaria (= Volume 5 of the series of publications by the Mining and Industry Museum East Bavaria), Theuern 1985, pp. 174–175, ISBN 3-924350-05-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historischer Atlas von Bayern, Altbayern Series I, Issue 21: Tirschenreuth, p. 296 This is also evident from the information in the Waldsassener Salbuch from 1635: both hammermasters can pay in the future .
Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 46.7 " N , 12 ° 4 ′ 26.6" E