Glashütte (Kleinkahl)

Glassworks Community Kleinkahl Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 27 ″ N , 9 ° 18 ′ 11 ″ E
Height :	280 m above sea level NHN
	The Glashüttenhof

Glashütte , also Glashüttenhof , is a wasteland belonging to Kleinkahl in the district of Aschaffenburg , in the Bavarian Spessart in Lower Franconia .

geography

The Glashüttenhof is located in the upper Kahlgrund on the state road 2305 between Großkahl and the Bamberger Mühle below the Kapuzinerspitze . It is located on the mountain spur between Lindenbach and Kahl northeast of the Wesemichshof and consists of seven houses.

history

On Glashüttenhof once stood a glass factory . The Hochspessart owes its first settlements to the glassmakers , as hunting and timber management in the difficult to access forests was not worthwhile. The first glassmakers from Bohemia and Tyrol settled the area at the beginning of the 15th century. The surrounding forest was cut down in order to obtain fuel. At the same time, space was created for the settlements. The hut ceased operations around 1780.

In 1793 a merchant from Büdingen bought the dilapidated hut and built a new factory with 94 workers on the old square. At that time it was the largest in the Spessart. Glass manufacture encompassed the entire scope of the art of glassmaking. The merchant inherited the entire property around 1800. The Großkahler glass industry went under in the following years. All twelve places in the Spessart that were created by glassworks, such as Heinrichsthal , have remained poor.

In 1806 the robbers Jakob Heinrich Vielmetter , his son Johannes and Johann Georg Pfeiffer broke into a brickworks in the Kahlgrund near the glassworks. The burglars belonged to the Wetterau gang .

Today Glashütte belongs to the municipality of Kleinkahl and is located in the district of Großkahl.

Web links

Commons : Glashüttenhof - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Our Kahlgrund 1964 . Homeland yearbook for the Alzenau district. Published by the working group for homeland research and homeland maintenance of the Alzenau district, district administrator. ISSN 0933-1328 .
^ Friedrich Ludwig Adolph Grolman, history of the Vogelsberg and Wetterau robber gangs and several criminals associated with them. In addition to personal description of many thieves and robbers scattered throughout the German dialect; With a copper plaque, which shows the faithful portraits of 16 main criminals. Giessen 1813, p. 119.

[HJB-1] Our Kahlgrund 1964 . Homeland yearbook for the Alzenau district. Published by the working group for homeland research and homeland maintenance of the Alzenau district, district administrator. ISSN 0933-1328 .

[2] Friedrich Ludwig Adolph Grolman, history of the Vogelsberg and Wetterau robber gangs and several criminals associated with them. In addition to personal description of many thieves and robbers scattered throughout the German dialect; With a copper plaque, which shows the faithful portraits of 16 main criminals. Giessen 1813, p. 119.