Hammer stair stone
The Hammer stairs stone was 3 km south of the Upper Palatinate market town of Mähring ; Staircase stone is now a district of Mähring. The work was operated by the water of the Lohbach .
history
The Eisenhammer was founded between 1605 and 1610 and was then exempt from all easements . This has to do with the founder of the plant, Georg Ludwig von Hutten , who held an important position at the Electoral Palatinate court in Heidelberg. Even after leaving the government there, he was Vogt and Oberamtmann von Mosbach and electoral councilor. Presumably inspired by the construction of the Gottesgab steelworks , he had a hammer built in this deserted area. Decisive for the choice of location was the area's abundance of forests and the relative proximity to the ore mines of Großen- and Kleinsterz and Waldershof . It was also advantageous that the hammer was located in Stiftland and thus enjoyed the privileges of the Waldsassen monastery and the exemption from membership of the Upper Palatinate hammer cleaning organization. In addition it says: a hammer, built just a few years ago, but not yet given any service . The hammer was landable to the Waldsassen monastery , the (high) jurisdiction lay with the curb Bavarian office of Waldsassen.
The employment contract with a blast furnace master from 1613 shows that a blast furnace was operated here. Georg Ludwig von Hutten had also recruited a smelter and brewer, “living at the stone gate in Neuen Hanau”, as well as a caster, another smelter and a loader. The caster was paid 1 gul per day and night , the two smelters were paid 12 chunks (15 chunks corresponded to 1 gul) and the topper was paid 9 chunks. The workforce received a tip of 40 fl per year, and 8 fl was paid each year to repair the stove. The smelter was entitled to a cast iron furnace, alternatively 8 fl. They received 1 fl per day of travel as a travel allowance. The wages were paid weekly, the notice period was one month for both sides.
In 1615 the works with blast furnace, casting and hammer hut as well as all supplies and privileges were sold by the heirs of Georg Ludwig von Hutten († 1610) to Philipp Heinrich von Aschhausen for 1,330 fl . It was stated that the sale should be without disadvantages for the other trades , but obviously there were no such things. In 1620 the plant was sold for 1,000 fl to Leonhard Frank , the manager of the Gottesgab mining and steel works. After the latter had lost his administrative position there, he successfully devoted himself to his own work. The plant remained in the possession of his successors until well into the 18th century.
The plant remained in operation during the Thirty Years' War and the years thereafter. Leonhard Frank taxed the hammer at 1,000 gulden in 1630 and the ore and coal stock at 100 gulden. In addition, the hammer master of Warmensteinach owed him 275 gulden. In 1638 the blast furnace continued to work and iron, sheet metal and cast goods were made that could be sold well.
In 1666, the then owners Georg Adam Frankh and Philipp Bauer still operated the factory, but it was only a hammer mill, as the blast furnace had been shut down due to a lack of ore and a lack of demand; in 1691 nothing had changed in this regard. In the 18th century the blast furnace was put back into operation, albeit in contradiction to the electoral mining college.
Since 1808, stairs stone has been part of the Mähring parish and tax district, also with regard to the parish and school.
literature
- Götschmann, Dirk: Upper Palatinate iron. Mining and iron industry in the 16th and 17th centuries. Ed. Association of Friends and Patrons of the Mining and Industry Museum East Bavaria (= Volume 5 of the series of publications by the Mining and Industry Museum East Bavaria), Theuern 1985, pp. 175–176. ISBN 3 924 350 05 1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical Atlas of Bavaria , Altbayern Series I, Issue 21: Tirschenreuth, p. 286, online (digitized) at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Coordinates: 49 ° 53 ′ 35 " N , 12 ° 32 ′ 21.1" E