Hammerwerk Deuerling

The hammer mill Deuerling was a forge in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Deuerling and was operated by the water of the Schwarzen Laber .

history

On August 29, 1580, the Regensburg citizen Paulus Meusinger was approved by Count Palatine Philipp von Pfalz-Neuburg to found a copper hammer in Deuerling. Meusinger acquired the property from the neighboring blacksmith Stefan Eberlin, who sold him part of his garden. The wood was obtained from the forester in Burglengenfeld, "Wolffen Teufel". The water for operating the hammer was allowed to be taken from the Schwarzen Laber , a calibration post attached as a marking indicated the maximum permitted water level , so that the mills above and below would not be disadvantageous. Already on October 26, 1561 Paul and his brothers John and Henry of emperors Ferdinand I in the realm baron conditions were collected. Paulus Meusinger probably got prosperous through his economic ventures, because in 1587 he was able to acquire the court brands Kollersried and Laufenthal (today both districts of Hemau ). In 1597 Georg Meisinger took over his father's inheritance, and he also acquired the Großetzenberg Hofmark (now part of Laaber ). In 1607 a wire pull was installed in the Deuerlinger hammer . In 1607 Wolf Heinrich Sauerzapf von Schönhofen complained about Georg Meusinger from Kollersried , because he feared for the firewood he needed for his business; however, Meusinger and Sauerzapf operated together a coal mine in 1616 on Turberg (today Dürberg) in the Paintner Forest . Georg and Paul Meisinger died in 1623; the widows Sarah and Anna Meisinger had to cede the copper hammer to the creditors because of excessive indebtedness.

Towards the end of the Thirty Years War the plant was no longer in operation. After a foreclosure auction and rebuilding, the hammer was operated as a sling hammer by the Regensburg councilor Ludwig Erdinger . After 1600, the hammer mainly processed scrap iron and sinter , i. H. Slag from a stove . Erdinger initially leased the work, which he finally acquired at the foreclosure auction in 1654. He was an iron merchant in Regensburg and also owned the Gottesgab ironworks on the Fichtelberg ; but left his heir Ludwig Ernst Erdinger in debts of 4000 florins .

In 1673 Christoph Seydl was the owner of the hammer. He was followed in 1687 by the brothers Georg and Hans Michel. They wanted to enlarge the plant in 1693 and build a fourth waterwheel to operate a third fire and an additional bellows. The plan failed due to objection from the municipality, as an increased risk of fire was feared. Hammerwerk Deuerling remained in the possession of the Michl family for over 265 years. In 1771 Johann Michl was hammer master von Deuerling, in 1801 his son Johann Georg Michl (1775–1836) took over the work. In 1818 the government of the Regenkreis gave him permission to operate a blue fire . In 1833 the property was handed over to the son of the same name after Johann Georg Michl had settled down as a manufacturer in Regensburg. In 1845 the plant was on a list of the hammer mills supplied with iron ore by the Amberg Mining Authority.

The plant existed until 1853. The iron hammer property owner Georg Michl (1807-1860) had the inherited Hammergut Deuerling sold to the Regensburg factory owner Emanuel Rain. He had a mirror glass loop built here with 3 water wheels as well as 16 grinding and four polishing tables. In 1862 the company Philipp Crailsheimer from Fürth took over the glass ribbon, in 1880 it was sold to the company Sigmund Büchenbacher, also from Fürth.

In 1909 a Voith turbine was installed that is still in operation today. In 1930, the mirror glass manufacturer Josef Promberger from Steinerbrückl (now part of Deuerling) took over the glass loop. The glass ribbon came to Xaver Geiger (born April 27, 1933; † September 30, 2017; he had married Marianne Promberger) on the marriage route in 1955. In 1960, water power was used to generate electricity and the last mirror glass panel was produced in 1965. After the Second World War, the Upper Palatinate fur and leather industry Haschberger & Co was housed in the Spiegelschleife buildings. Today there is a beverage market in the building next to the E-Werk.

literature

• Götschmann, Dirk: 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 .
• Jakob Hellinger: Iron ore extraction and processing in the late Middle Ages and early modern times along the Laber and Naab. Die Oberpfalz , 2017, 105th year, pp. 5-14.
• Sebastian Schmidmeier: The history of the mill in Deuerling. Laßleben, Kallmünz 2010, ISBN 978-3-7847-1222-2 , pp. 26-58.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Götschmann, Dirk: 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, Theuern 1985.

Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 7.12 "  N , 11 ° 54 ′ 25.14"  E