Stříbrné Hutě

Stříbrné Hutě (German Silberberg , literally Silberhütte ) was a settlement on the banks of the Lainsitz in the Gratzener Bergland in the Czech Republic , about 2 kilometers northeast of the place Pohorská Ves ( Theresiendorf ).

History of the settlement

Silver mining is said to have been carried out earlier in the vicinity of the village . Consequently, the place that existed on the banks of the Lainsitz from 1783 was also given the German name Silberberg. The workers' settlement around a glassworks is due to Josef Meyr , who owned the glassworks between 1782 and 1812. After that, the glassworks continued to produce until 1881. There were also three glass cutting shops with a total of up to 50 workers, the last of which was also closed in 1881. At that time there were 19 houses in which 81 Germans and 50 Czechs lived. In 1921 there are reports of 16 houses and 123 inhabitants. After the Second World War, the remains of Silberberg were razed to the ground.

Emperor Franz I visited the place and the glassworks in 1810. The poet Robert Hamerling spent part of his childhood in Silberberg with his uncle, a glassmaker.

Silberberg glassworks (1782–1881)

In 1782 Josef Meyr received permission and financial support to build a glassworks from the Gratzener rule. Mainly hollow and crystal glass was produced, whereby the glassworks not only had a very good reputation in the Austrian Empire , but could also compete with glass from England. The ruby glass produced in the hut was even shipped via the Baltic and North Sea ports . In 1812, Count Georg Franz August von Buquoy's lease for the glassworks was no longer extended because he intended to run the flourishing glassworks himself. Josef Meyr was to become its steward. However, Meyr left for Winterberg with the best workers to found a new glass factory there. The Gräflich Buquoy'sche Glashütte in Silberberg continued to produce glasses that were sold to Vienna, Trieste, France, Germany and Russia. In 1855 the products were awarded at the first Paris World Exhibition . But when sales continued to decline, some glass furnaces were initially shut down, and in 1881 the smelter was finally closed completely.

See also

Across the Lainsitz, the Joachimstal glassworks had been located since 1750 , and was operated from 1835 by Carl Stölzle , the founder of the Stölzle glass group .

Coordinates: 48 ° 38 ′ 17 ″  N , 14 ° 43 ′ 2 ″  E

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Description of Silberberg on taggmanager.cz.