Georg Abraham Löbel

Georg Abraham Löbel (born July 20, 1604 in Platten ; † November 26, 1685 in Johanngeorgenstadt ) was a Bohemian mountain master and previously a councilor, councilor and court assessor of the Bohemian mining town of Platten in the Ore Mountains . As an exile, he is one of the founders of Johanngeorgenstadt in the Electorate of Saxony .

Life

He was the son of the councilor and merchant in plates, Abraham Löbel (1571-1613). He also attended school in the Bohemian mountain town of Platten. Like his father, he was also an assessor in the city council and the city court in Platten. Through the mediation of his uncle Johann Löbel , who was a mountain master in Platten, he received the vacant position as a mountain master in the neighboring mountain town of Frühbuss. However, he did not stay in the service long. Because of his evangelical faith, he was forced to leave the Catholic Kingdom of Bohemia as an exile and to settle across the border in the winter of 1654 at the wooded Fastenberg , where he was one of the founders of the exile town of Johanngeorgenstadt. By drawing lots in the summer of 1654, he was assigned a construction site in the fourth quarter of the city on Jugler Gasse, right by the churchyard.

As in the mining town of Platten, Georg Abraham Löbel was also admitted to the city council in Johanngeorgenstadt and was also a court assessor. He also built another house at 103 Mühlgasse.

He was married to Anna Groß, whom he had married on May 5, 1625 in Wiesenthal . They were married for 62 years. Your children were:

Magdalena (born February 29, 1626 in Platten)
Anna Elisabeth (born February 22, 1630 in Platten)
Georg Abraham (born September 12, 1632 in Platten; † September 5, 1701 in Johanngeorgenstadt), marriage to Barbara Seydel
Rosina (born July 31, 1635 in Platten)
Maria (born April 6, 1638 in Platten, † 1686)
Johann Paul, member of the council and lace merchant (* July 7, 1640 in Platten; † February 17, 1683)
Augustine, theology student, city judge (* July 10, 1643 in Platten; † June 12, 1712)

His daughter Maria Löbel became engaged to the schoolmaster and later rector Johannes Georgi on September 29, 1659 and was married on October 23 in the Protestant town church of Johanngeorgenstadt by Pastor Polykarp Weber, with whom she was married for 26 years and with him 16 children when he fathered eight sons and eight daughters.

literature

Alexander Schunka: "St. Johanngeorgenstadt to the electoral highness and immortal fame ”. City foundation and urban tradition in the early modern period . In: New Archive for Saxon History 74/75 (2003/04), pp. 175–206.

Individual evidence

^ Johann Christian Engelschall: Description of the Exulanten- and Bergstadt Johann Georgen Stadt, in four parts introducing, I. The Exulanten condition and where it turns. II. The city's cultivation, growth and events that have occurred in it. III. The local mining industry, its origins, finding metals and all the mines. IV. The parish Hammerwerck Wittichsthal, as well as the Obere- and Untere-Jugel . In transfer, Friedrich Lanckischens Erben, 1723 ( google.de [accessed on June 9, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Löbel, Georg Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bohemian mountain master and councilor, exile and co-founder of Johanngeorgenstadt
DATE OF BIRTH	July 20, 1604
PLACE OF BIRTH	plates
DATE OF DEATH	November 26, 1685
Place of death	Johanngeorgenstadt

[1] Johann Christian Engelschall: Description of the Exulanten- and Bergstadt Johann Georgen Stadt, in four parts introducing, I. The Exulanten condition and where it turns. II. The city's cultivation, growth and events that have occurred in it. III. The local mining industry, its origins, finding metals and all the mines. IV. The parish Hammerwerck Wittichsthal, as well as the Obere- and Untere-Jugel . In transfer, Friedrich Lanckischens Erben, 1723 ( google.de [accessed on June 9, 2017]).