Finkenhammer

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View of the Finkenhammer below the Kreuzbergkirche in Pleystein (1853)

The Finkenhammer is a former iron hammer in the Upper Palatinate town of Pleystein in the Neustadt an der Waldnaab district ; Finkenhammer used to be part of the community of Miesbrunn , today it is a district of Pleystein. The hammer mill was located in Unter-Pleystein and was driven by the water of the Zottbach .

history

1387 a rail hammer is mentioned here . Due to the ore procurement and the charcoal required , it must be counted among the most important hammer mills in the Upper Palatinate. In 1761 the hammer master Michael Wittmann received 239 fathoms of pine, which were charred for iron production. Most of the ore came from Sulzbach-Rosenberg . The ore was brought there in carts of oxen for a week and the rail iron was brought back a week later.

The first hammer mill owner known by name is a Konrad Vorhammer in 1432; At his request, Duke Johann allows him to install a mill wheel. This mill sometimes appears as a separate property, but mostly in connection with the iron hammer. His successor is the hammer master Schlemmer (also known as Slemer or Schlammer); through him the mill is called "Schlemmermühle". His successors were Kunz and Hans Wolf in 1528, who in the same year sold the hammer to Niklas Karl for 175 Rhenish guilders . In 1530 there was a Hein Beck on the estate who was previously a hammer master in Weidenberg . Until 1536 Ludwig Ködtnit was on the hammer, who then emigrated to build an ironworks in the Ore Mountains . He was followed by Michael Schmucker, who is listed here until 1561. In 1562 Ulrich Heuring is in possession of the hammer. Stock Hammermeister is 1572 Lienhard Keizer, follows him in 1582 Lorenz Fischer to sell in 1605 to Michael Finck. The current name "Finkenhammer" is derived from this.

On December 19, 1635, Veit Hans Manner acquired the hammer, which had fallen into disrepair during the Thirty Years' War . According to the tax lists, it has only a third of the value compared to previous assessments. The plant remained in the possession of this family for three generations; around 1700 it passed from daughter Maria Manner to Michael Wittmann by way of marriage. A son of this couple married Anna Walbrunn and their second child was Georg Michael , who later became Bishop of Regensburg , on January 23, 1760 . His brother Georg Joseph entered the Premonstratensian order in the Speinshart monastery ; after the secularization he became the parish priest of Eschenbach in the Upper Palatinate .

The estate was expanded by the owner of the Hammergut, Johann Adam Wittmann (1807–1876). In 1850, he had a glass grinding and polishing plant built in one of the buildings . He also had a blast furnace built so that better iron could be produced. The lack of wood became noticeable around 1840 and attempts to convert the iron hammer to Bohemian coal or peat were unsuccessful. Iron production was stopped around 1850 because the forests were completely cut down and because modern technology began to mine the deep-lying coal in the Ruhr area. Johann Adam Wittmann also donated a lot of money for the construction of the pilgrimage church Heiligkreuz (Pleystein) . In 1874 Josef Wittmann is the owner of the plant. In 1911 it came to Bayerische Spiegelglas AG in Fürth . In 1936 the Wittmann family is mentioned here again. The Wittmann family is often mentioned up to the present day, for example a member of the Wittmann family in Finkenhammer who runs an organic farm is mentioned in 2011, but the previous industrial operations have given up.

Building

A two-story house has been preserved from the factory. The hipped roof construction has a plaster strip structure and drilled window frames. Above the entrance portal is the year "1766", the assumed date of its construction. In two niches there are two colors combined figures of saints. A chapel is attached to the main building to the south, which was probably built at the same time as the main building.

The ensemble also includes a two-storey half-hipped roof, also with plaster stripes and the year "1833", as well as a granite fountain and a fountain column, which represents the figure of St. John of Nepomuk .

literature

  • 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. 80.
  • Siegfried Poblotzki : History of the rule, the city and the parish Pleystein. Verlag Stadt Pleystein, Pleystein 1980, pp. 791-798.
  • Franz Michael Ress: Buildings, monuments and foundations of German ironworkers . Written on behalf of the Association of German Ironworkers . Verlag Stahleisen, Düsseldorf 1960, DNB  453998070 , p. 118-119 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the city of Pleystein , accessed on March 3, 2020.
  2. ↑ Database 37970 of the Verein für Computergeneologie , accessed on March 3, 2020.
  3. ↑ Josef Wittmann from Finkenhammer for 20 years at the farmers' market in Weiden Organic farmer, baker and an original. In: Onetz . August 11, 2011 ( onetz.de ), accessed on March 3, 2020.

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 58.5 "  N , 12 ° 24 ′ 56.8"  E