Haberland mill
The Haberlandmühle near Johanngeorgenstadt was built as a grinding mill in the 17th century and is now used as a residential building. In the 19th century, the first permanently functioning sheet metal rolling mill in the Kingdom of Saxony was set up inside the building .
Geographical location
The Haberlandmühle is located at the northern exit of Johanngeorgenstadt in the direction of Erlabrunn in the Saxon Ore Mountains . It is located directly on the right side of the black water , between the confluence of the Seifenbach and Albertthal. It receives water through a mill ditch that is only approx. 250 meters long, the weir of which is located immediately after the sulfur stream joins the black water. To the north-north of the Haberlandmühle, the Green Hirschbächel flows into the Schwarzwasser.
history
Paul Haberland, an exile from Bohemia , had the mill named after him built after the Thirty Years War .
On the feast of Trinity in 1716 the mill was attacked and robbed by a gang of thieves. The miller was forced at gunpoint to hand over his cash to the thieves. Then everyone present was handcuffed and locked in the basement. The thieves fled and were never caught.
The Haberlandmühle achieved national fame through the grain dealer and Wittigsthal hammer owner Carl Gotthilf Nestler . In 1826 he met the goldsmith Daniel Schmidt in Johanngeorgenstadt, who had two small stands in the vaulted cellar of his house, each with a small roller inserted in them, with which he flattened gold. Nestler then tried again this principle for rolls of sheet metal to be used and a plate mill to create. He learned that sheet metal was already being rolled from iron in England and Bavaria. He traveled to Amberg with a carpenter to inspect the sheet metal rolling mill there and to get suggestions for construction. But the attempted industrial espionage was noticed and they were not allowed to enter the factory premises. On the way back they stopped at Hammerherrn Rosenbaum in Schönheiderhammer , to whom they told about their plan. A little later Rosenbaum had a sheet metal rolling mill built in Schönheiderhammer. But the hydropower of the Zwickauer Mulde was too weak and the rollers were running too slowly, so that after a few months the stands and rollers had to be sold. Nestler applied for it and was awarded the contract. He had the first functioning sheet rolling mill in Saxony built in the Haberlandmühle.
In 1716, not far from the Haberlandmühle, the new community of Stolln was muted.
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '58 " N , 12 ° 43' 35" E