Gabriel Hammerdörffer

Gabriel Hammerdörffer , also Hammerdörfer , (born January 28, 1612 in Platten , † May 30, 1683 in Johanngeorgenstadt ) was a German tin publisher and local politician. As a Bohemian exile , he was one of the founders and sponsors of Johanngeorgenstadt and was elected mayor of this exile and mountain town in the Saxon Ore Mountains on several occasions .

Life

He was the son of Simon Hammerdörffer, called Küttner , (1580 − before 1627) from the Bohemian mountain town of Platten and Katharina born. Price.

Because of his Protestant faith, he was one of those citizens of Plattens who - although he was a relative in Platten - were banned from the city by public attack in 1653. So he was forced to leave the Kingdom of Bohemia and settle on Fastenberg in the Electorate of Saxony . From there he and other exiles sent a petition to the Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony in the winter of 1654 , who allowed the establishment of a new city. In the same year he became one of the first council members and in 1656 was elected assessor of the council of Johanngeorgenstadt and in 1670 the governing mayor. During this time he donated a. a. the cost of looking for the construction site for a board mill and in 1669 100 thalers for the purchase of the town hall clock.

In 1659 the backward citizens of the Bohemian mountain town of Platten were so impoverished that they could no longer pay their monthly war and state allowances. Although he had been expelled from Platten, Gabriel Hammerdörffer helped the citizens who were left behind in Platten by lending 512 thalers. In 1670 his son Christoph, whom Hammerdörffer had sent to Nuremberg with a wagon full of tin , was killed by his carter on the way back in a wooded area near Eger .

Extracts

Johann Christian Engelschall writes about the early death of his son Christoph Hammerdörffer in Description of the Exulanten- und Bergstadt Johann Georgen Stadt :

"" A. 1670 d. Jun 28: came Christoph Hammerdörffer / Gabriel Hammerdörffers / local mayor's son / on the journey in the 22nd year of his age as follows: The father sent him with the tin / which Georg Sichert / a carter from the new Rohlau / loaded / to Nuremberg / to collect the money / and to survive with the traders there / and this all the more / because the carter had always been invented faithfully and honestly. It would also let the expediction go so far happily that they were on their way back again. But all the same / between Mitlerteig and Eger / passed through the forest / and Hammerdörffer / at the instigation of the carter / lay on the wagon / this first checked with a whip / whether he was sleeping / and then pushed him with his bike = cut such a stroke / that the latter did not know / how it happened to him / and shouted at the perpetrator himself for help / also grabbed the carabiner he had with him / which the carter tore from his hands / and with this struck several fatal stabs / on it pulled from the wagon / dragged away into the wood / and with a large stone weighing 16 pounds / gave so many blows / that in the eyes of the murderer he seemed completely dead. But he continued / and when he was at the end of the forest / the taker from Eger / his prosession / encountered a Balbier / he warned him / he should be careful / because the third murderer had attacked him in the forest he can hardly defend himself. When the taker rides away / and has his pistols ready / in the meantime screeches a traveling baker = servant / and forced him to use the opportunity / and to sit up / whichever he did / and thereupon perceived / that the carter feasted several times pulled out of the nose with force / and wiped the baker's coat. On the other hand, since the taker's dog comes on the trail of the slain / and / when it finds / strikes the body / which moves it / to dismount and look. Also finds the poor man wriggling in his blood / sighing and struggling with death / to whom he calls out: What happened to him? but could not hear anything / than these muffled words: Fuhrman! Drove = man! Why the taker of a nearby sheep shepherd called / that she brought water / to clean the wounded / coated him with balm / prayed several sayings / and assured that he would ride straight to Eger / that he would be fetched there. But it would hardly be gone / so Hammerdörffer died / which is why the Egerian dishes, when they arrived, took the body to a nearby chapel and had it cleaned. Also sent a one-horse driver to the carter / who kindly reminded him / that / because he drove past Eger this time / he had to take him there again / and had to come to terms with the collector in secret because of the unrelated customs / so that it would not cause him great harm to grow. "

family

Hammerdörffer married her first marriage in 1635 in Platten Maria Jungk (1615–1644), her second marriage in 1644 in Eibenstock Anna Maria Löbel (1626–1667) and her third marriage in 1672 in Johanngeorgenstadt Margaretha Roth (1646–1697). From the marriages emerged:

• Johannes (Gabriel) (1637–1695), shift supervisor; ⚭ 1661 Anna Rebecca Glaßmann (1643–1690).
• Simon (1639–1671), Magister.
• Anna Maria (1641–1682), ⚭ 1661 Eusebius Forester, judge and chamberlain.
• Maria (1644-1723); ⚭ 1664 Johann Bleyer (1639–1722).
• Anna Catharina (1647-1702); 1.⚭ 1669 Kilian Epperlein; 2.⚭ 1689 Georg Gruss.
• Christoph (1649–1670), murdered near Eger .
• Anna Rosina (1651-1718); ⚭ 1672 Justus Hermann Grabe.
• Johann Heinrich (1653–1738), gold worker; ⚭ 1682 Susanna Regina Siegel (* 1660).
• Anna Regina (1655-1706); ⚭ 1675 Johann Georg Schmidt.
• Dorothea (1658-1664); 1.⚭ 1678 Johannes Meissner; 2.⚭ 1690 David Friedrich
• Anna Sophia (1661-1680); ⚭ 1680 Martin Kramer
• Mary Magdalene (1664-1741); ⚭ 1684 Georg Christoph Groß
• Gabriel (1673–1697), master butcher; ⚭ 1697 Anna Maria Weickert (* 1675)
• Hans Christoph (1675-1689).
• Maria Catharina (1678-1710); ⚭ 1696 Johann Caspar Löbel (1672–1740), mayor and trader.

literature

• Johann Christian Engelschall: Description of the exiles and mountain town Johanngeorgenstadt. Leipzig 1723 ( digitized ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johann Christian Engelschall: Description of the exiles and mountain town Johanngeorgenstadt. Leipzig 1723, p. 161