Hammer mill Beratzhausen

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The Beratzhausen hammer mill was located north of the Beratzhausen market in Upper Palatinate in the so-called Thongraben . Today this is a dry valley that only carries water when the snow melts, but it drained large areas until the road was built in the 1950s.

history

Hans II. Von Stauff zu Ehrenfels built this hammer mill in 1440 in Thongraben. Dam walls and weirs were built to operate the hammer . As early as 1430, King Sigismund of Luxemburg had given Dietrich IV von Stauff all mines and ores in the Ehrenfels rule as an imperial loan. The ore obtained in the Ehrenfels rulership was processed in the hammer, which was not allowed to be sold, because the other Upper Palatinate hammers had to be supplied with Sulzbacher ore, which belonged to the sovereign and from which he received income. The Beratzhausen hammer therefore never joined the Upper Palatinate hammer cleaning organization . From 1492 there was an agreement between two Stauffern that "if a doctor was involved" they wanted to build a church. The hammer was a gun hammer and did very well after 1505. A gun hammer mainly produced tools and agricultural equipment.

In 1505, Duke Albrecht IV confirmed extensive mountain freedom to Saint Bernard and Hieronymus von Stauff . The Stauffer were allowed to continue to search for iron ore in the Ehrenfels rulership, to extract and process it without paying taxes to the sovereign.

It is not yet known exactly when the hammer was stopped. But in 1562 the hammer was described as "desolate".

Remains of the Beratzhausen hammer

Slag was found near the presumed hammer site in 1860, evidence of ore smelting in this area. You can still find lawn iron ore in the area of ​​the so-called Old Castle .

The field name "Hammerackher" on Thongraben was mentioned in 1630 and was reminiscent of the hammer that was gone. In addition, a three meter high wall has been preserved from the hammer, which presumably bordered the canal in which the water wheel was installed. The exact location of the hammer building itself and its technical equipment can no longer be determined today.

literature

  • Jakob Hellinger: Iron ore extraction and processing in the late Middle Ages and early modern times along the Laber and Naab. In: The Upper Palatinate. 104th volume, 2016, pp. 356–363.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elizabeth Spiterberger: From the history of the parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Beratzhausen. Catholic Church Foundation St. Peter and Paul Beratzhausen (ed.), 250 years of the parish church of St. Peter and Paul. Hemau 2015, p. 11.

Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 18.7 ″  N , 11 ° 48 ′ 16 ″  E