Hammer Eslarn

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The Eslarn hammer was located in the Upper Palatinate market Eslarn below the Schlossberg at the site of the former "Haberlmühle" (Brennerstr. 39). It was driven by the water of the Loisbach . The work was an iron and rail hammer .

history

In the year 1387 a hammer to Eslarn is mentioned in the Upper Palatinate hammer cleaning , which was in the possession of the Vellkes and the Ott Nottwein .

The ore for the smelter was obtained from Eisendorf ; There was also a mine in nearby Kößing from 1422 . It is reported that the Moosbacher butchers annually supplied 50 pounds of abandoned sledge to operate the pit lamps for the mining operations. Another ore mine was located between Lohma and Pleystein . In 1463, Dukes Johann IV and Siegmund of Bavaria granted him the Rattenberg mining rights and the freedoms customary in Upper Bavaria. But the work was not very productive and so the ore was procured from the Amberg mines in the 16th century.

Problems arose because of the scarcity of water as a result of the advancing settlement activity and the repressing of the forest. Therefore, larger amounts of water from the catchment area of ​​the eastern piece stone , which collected in the “Meerbachl” (also called “Möhrenbach”) and finally flowed into the Pfreimd in the “Fahrnbach”, “Ketschbach” and “Netschbach” channels , were diverted to Eslarn. To do this, the watershed between Fahrbachtal (near Lindau ) and Loisbachtal had to be overcome. Therefore, “a previous owner of the Eslarner Hammer acquired the right from the Pleystein lordship to transport the water from the Möhrenbächlein, which is located on Pleystein's territory, from the as yet uninhabited forest of Lindau to the Treswitzian administration office and thus to Eslarn. For this purpose, an approximately 2½ km long trench with a northern bypass of the Lindau mountain to the "Kreutherbächl" was created at a cost of 400 lambs (hence the "400-Lämmergraben", later and today still called "Lindauerbächl") and after the construction of the " Steinernen Wehr ”in the“ Möhrenbächl ”, the water from the same channeled over the watershed to Eslarn.” The Lindau and Loisbach later merge to form the so-called Hammergraben. The water collected here still supplies the Haberlmühle today. In the further course, the Bühler mill in the Eslarn area will be supplied with water energy.

1413 buys Friedrich Sentinger the Hans Hofer Track Stein various goods into Eslarn. It is mentioned that the Sentinger also received 60 pfennigs interest from the Eslar hammer. Ten years later, all these goods and income were transferred to the son Hans Säntinger .

In 1454 the hammer at Eslarn was called "öd" as a result of the Hussite invasions. The hammer must have been raised again afterwards, because it is reported that the court lord Hieronymus Stöckel " [built] his new home ... on the hill in the south of the village. Compared to the old one, the new castle was an elegant building. Stöckel borrowed over two thousand guilders from the neighboring hammer masters; he settled the guilt with charcoal obtained from the leasable forests. ”The hammer finally went off in the Thirty Years' War , when in 1621 the soldiers of Mansfeld devastated the place.

The mountain of slag , which had accumulated over time and still contained a lot of iron , was dismantled after the First World War and sold to the Luitpoldhütte in Amberg.

Today the saw and pallet factory of the company Josef Wildenau is located here , which still uses the water power from the Hammergraben.

literature

  • Josef Hanauer: Heimatbuch Eslarn. Marktgemeinde Eslarn (Ed.), Weiden 1975. S. 220ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Schlemmer: History of the Eslarn market. Weiden 1960, p. 13.
  2. ↑ Hanauer, 1975, p. 68.
  3. ↑ Hanauer, 1975, p. 32.

Coordinates: 49 ° 34 ′ 37.8 ″  N , 12 ° 31 ′ 7.1 ″  E