Hammer Bärnau
The Hammer Bärnau is an iron hammer that was located in the south of the Upper Palatinate town of Bärnau outside the city wall. It was operated by the water of the Tirschenreuther Waldnaab .
history
This iron hammer is supposedly already mentioned in the Upper Palatinate hammer cleaning of 1387, but according to another source it has only existed since 1455. It was located on Goldenen Straße , which crossed the "Hammerdamm" (today Naaber Straße) to the lower gate of the City led. The ore was obtained from Waldershof , the iron produced was sold to Bohemia and the surrounding area. The hammer was still in use before the Thirty Years War began.
From a report by Johann German Barbing to Elector Ferdinand Maria of January 16, 1666, it says about the hammer in the Bärnau nursing office: “In the nursing office B. there is nothing more than a hammer that Andreas Hausner lives in and 'owns'; But because of the continued supply and poor wealth (of the owner), no 'iron doctor' but mostly old iron and what the farmers themselves bring is melted. "
Around 1630 a hammer is mentioned here, but it was demolished and is being continued as a mill.
literature
- Christine Brunner-Hastreiter: Bärnau - a home book . Verlag der Stadt Bärnau, Bärnau 1972, pp. 107-108.
- Dirk Götschmann: Upper Palatinate iron. Mining and iron industry in the 16th and 17th centuries. Edited by the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Mining and Industry Museum in East Bavaria (= Volume 5 of the series of publications by the Mining and Industry Museum in East Bavaria), Theuern 1985, ISBN 3-924350-05-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brunner-Hastreiter, 1972, p. 107.
- ↑ Götschmann, 1985, p. 132.
- ↑ Denk, Julius: Contributions to the history of mining and hammering in the electoral Upper Palatinate. 1902, p. 199.
- ↑ Historical Atlas of Bavaria: Altbayern Series I, Issue 21: Tirschenreuth. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1970, p. 345
Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 31.9 ″ N , 12 ° 25 ′ 46.9 ″ E