Eisenhammer Sperlhammer

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Today Sperlhammer is part of the Upper Palatinate market Luhe-Wildenau . There used to be an iron hammer here that was operated by the water from the Haidenaab .

Haidenaab near Luhe-Wildenau

history

This rail hammer is documented from the 15th to the 17th century; it was run by the Sperl family from Sulzbach . In 1478 Lorenz Sperl and in 1500 Hans Spärl von der Weiden are handed down as owners. The hammer was continued even after the Thirty Years War . In 1733, Christoph Sperl, who also called himself Sperl von der Heidenaab, sat here. Ore was still being smelted here in 1780, which was brought from Amberg in carts.

In 1792 a "Sperlhammer und polier landsässich" is called; the factory had been converted into a glass grinding and polishing factory around this time . In 1804 six glass grinders, three polishers, four day laborers and the existing miller worked here. H. the tenant of the plant. The work was owned by Baroness Magdalena von Aretin . The work was serviceable to the Rothenstadt estate or to the Parkstein-Weiden office . 1808 is listed as the owner of Baron von Allenthum; 13 workers were employed under him. Since the local soils were described as sandy and not very productive, the inhabitants only pursued agriculture as a sideline, and Sperlhammer was to be regarded as a workers' village (1817: 34, 1861: 61 inhabitants).

The von Aretin sold the estate to the Arnstein family. This had the old manor house, the hammer and the mill demolished and a glass polishing and grinding plant built on the spot. In 1891 it was owned by Ferdinand and Nepomuk Prössl. Around 1900 the Sperlhammer was owned by the snuff producer Johann Prössl. After the Second World War , glass processing was resumed, but had to be stopped elsewhere in 1958 due to the competitive situation and better production conditions. Today there is still a power station here; the old grinding building is on the right, the polishing building on the left of Haidenaab; both are currently empty. Remnants of the systems (guidance of the water wheels, power transmission systems) are still there. A wooden model of the loop is in the Theuern Mining Museum .

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Preißer: The Hofmark Wildenau in the course of history (2nd edition). eutrans-Verlag, Weiden 1992, pp. 216-223, ISBN 3-929318-00-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Historical Atlas of Bavaria , Altbayern Series I, Issue 47: Neustadt an der Waldnaab, Weiden. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich, 1978, p. 328.
  2. ^ Johannes Ibel: The mirror glass grinding and polishing in the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab including the city of Weiden: A contribution to the industrial and economic history of the northern Upper Palatinate. eurotrans-Verl., Weiden in der Oberpfalz 1999, p. 96.

Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '48.2 "  N , 12 ° 7' 29.4"  E