Owl hut
The Eulenhütte was a glassworks that was built in the first half of the 16th century in the Bohemian Ore Mountains on the Hofberg in the area of today's village Nové Hamry (German Neuhammer ) near Nejdek ( Neude k) on the Rohlau . This is where the first cobalt glass in the Ore Mountains was made, and the glassworks was therefore also known as the origin of the blue color works .
history
In 1536 the glassmaker Christoph Schürer , son of Asmus Schürer from Burkhardtsgrün , bought the already existing owl hut.
As was not published until 1770, the chronicler Christian Lehmann (1611–1688) is said to have described how and where cobalt glass was discovered. According to this, Christoph Schürer is said to have discovered the blue coloration of glass with the help of cobalt ores for the first time between the years 1540 and 1560:
- “ Christoph Schürer, a glassmaker from the Platten, moved to Neudeck, to the Eulen Hütte, and made the same glass. When he was at Schneeberg for the first time and saw beautifully colored cobalt lying around, he took some nasty pieces home with him, tried it in the glass furnace, and saw that it was melting, he added ash and other things to the glass, and made a beautiful blue glass from it . "
There is evidence that cobalt glass had been made in Venice and Holland before, and it is therefore unclear to what extent Schürer developed his own glass. In any case, cobalt glass was produced permanently in the Eulenhütte from now on until the beginning of the Thirty Years War , which gave it a significant boom. In 1651, however, it had to give way to a hammer mill. Only the property with the name Eulenhof belonging to the glassworks remained; it formed the starting point for the new hammer mill settlement, which was named Neuhammer.
Several other glassworks were founded from the Eulenhütte, for example in Schwanenbrückl in the Bohemian Forest , in Reiditz in the Jizera Mountains or in Broumy near Křivoklát . Since the last quarter of the 16th century, these huts were also among the centers of glass and enamel painting, because various drinking vessels such as beakers, guild glasses, so-called elector and Mauritian pumps, but also coats of arms were decorated with enamel paintings.
Later the Eulenhof was converted into a Meierhof. In the 19th century there was a stately hunter's house.
Others
In 1592 the Schürer family was elevated to the nobility for their services to the Bohemian glass industry and the title "Schürer von Waldheim " was awarded.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Collection of mixed news on Saxon history. Fourth volume. Johann Christoph Stößel, Chemnitz 1770, news of the emergence of the blue color works in the Upper Ore Mountains., P. 363–367 ( slub-dresden.de - the date "between the years 1540 and 1560" is imprecise: Lehmann sets it to a hundred years before his report. The period mentioned results from back calculation from the assumed date of origin of Lehmann's writing.): "News of the origin of the blue color wrecks"
- ↑ Dr. Albrecht Kirsche, Dresden: The oldest glassworks families in the Ore Mountains. (No longer available online.) In: Salt and History / Miriquidi - Erzgebirge / Glass and Wood / Glassworks families. Heimatverein Mortelgrund - Alte Salzstraße eV, archived from the original on January 18, 2018 ; accessed on January 17, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Elbogner Kreis: 15 . Ehrlich, 1847 ( google.de [accessed April 1, 2020]).
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '55.3 " N , 12 ° 42' 33.7" E