Gabrielina Huť
Gabrielina Huť , also Gabrielka ( German Gabrielahütten ) is an abandoned place in the Czech Republic . Its cadastre with an area of 1192.9823 ha belongs to the municipality of Kalek .
geography
On the way from Brandov (Brandau) along the border, the Natzschung (Načetínský potok) upstream, the Tölzschbaches (Telčský brook) is located after 4 km at the junction of a clearing. The tourist signs show that at this point, 585 meters above sea level. M. used to be the industrial village of Gabrielahütten.
history
Gabrielahütten was founded by Heinrich Franz von Rottenhan , owner of Rothenhaus , in 1779, who built a new ironworks here . In honor of his daughter Gabriela, he named not only the hut, but also the village. Before that, charcoal burners and forest workers lived here in a few scattered houses. The place Töltsch (Telč), whose origin is dated to 1632, already existed here. In 1780 the Thun road (Thunská silnice) to Rudelsdorf was built, the road to Brandau not until 1833. From 1869 the village was part of Kallich ; after 1938 it came to Brandau.
The reason for the construction of the hut was the high occurrence of wood. In 1749 part of the plant there was relocated here due to the lack of water in Kallich. The ore was brought in from the mines in the northwestern part of Komotau . For a long time the local plant only had a hammer for working iron. In 1809 there were big changes. Gabriela married Georg Franz August von Buquoy . This was a very educated man who promoted the development of industry in his domain. The plant was expanded and with it the capacities. A processing plant for processing paint waste was also integrated in the factory.
Gabrielina Huť had a blast furnace which was converted into a steel melting furnace in 1817, an ore press, three rod hammers, tin snips and a tin mill. A sheet rolling mill was built in 1835 , which was expanded in 1842 to include a tin mill for the production of English bright sheet metal . The machines were powered by steam and water power . In 1857 a steam power plant with a Siemens generator was added. In 1858 a machine for making shingles was installed.
In 1864, Countess Isabella Trauttmannsdorf, née Buquoy, took over the works. Due to the competition of the steel works in Kladno and Mährisch Ostrau , the price of steel products fell around 1860. Then there was the shortage of hard coal. The transport infrastructure was also a growing concern. Production kept falling. In 1867 production was stopped at the Gabrielahütten plant, and one year later also in Kallich.
In 1871 the countess sold both works to the ironworks in Komotau. But these iron works were also liquidated in 1874, and with them the Kallich and Gabrielahütten works. New owners later tried to resume operations. It also operated for six years but then definitively ceased in 1882 and the factory was dismantled and sold. In 1876 Karl Engelhart from Rübenau set up a factory for the production of gray corrugated cardboard . Another entrepreneur made wooden parts for children's rifles. The paper mill in the village burned down in 1894.
Gabrielahütten was never a big village, it had neither a church nor a cemetery . In 1838 a one-class school was established, which was closed in 1883. There were two inns in the village, the owners of which also ran a butcher's and a commercial shop. The operation was worth it in the summer. The village was popular with tourists. In winter, however, the village was completely cut off from the outside world.
After the end of industrial production, only a few forest workers remain in the village. Most of them moved to Kallich near Brandau. In 1945 the village was no longer populated after the population of German origin was expelled and the Czechs living there were forced to resettle. The buildings were demolished in 1959. The village had the most inhabitants with 275 in 1847. By 1938, the number fell to 122 Germans.
Today the area belongs to the nature reserve Buky a javory v Gabrielce , which was proclaimed with an area of 64 hectares on October 23, 2000. The reserve consists largely of beech and maple forests with an age of up to 180 years. It stretches over the western slopes, to the northern part of Telčské údolí, in the vicinity of Důlní vrch (704 m). In the east, a path delimits the area from Rudolice v Horách to Brandov. To the south the reserve ends at Gabrielin Bach.
Development of the population
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Sons and daughters of the place
- Friedrich Balling (1803–1859), Austrian chemist and smelter
- Karl Josef Napoleon Balling (1805–1868), Austrian chemist and rector of the Polytechnic in Prague
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.uir.cz/katastralni-uzemi/662135/Gabrielina-Hut
- ↑ Historický lexikon obcí České republiky - 1869-2015. Český statistický úřad, December 18, 2015, accessed on January 17, 2016 (Czech).
Web links
Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '27.3 " N , 13 ° 21' 27.8" E