Gumpenhof hammer mill
The abandoned Gumpenhof hammer mill was located in the district of the same name in the Upper Palatinate town of Vilseck in today's Amberg-Sulzbach district . Today Gumpenhof lies between Hahnbach and Vilseck on the orographic left bank of the Vils . The plant was located in a loop of the river that no longer exists today, which was straightened in the course of the railway construction in the 1870s.
history
For the hammer mill, Count Palatine Ruprecht II issued a hammer letter in 1399 for the Nuremberg citizen Dietrich Hegner and his housewife. He already owned the hammer from Bruck an der Vils (so-called Bruckhammer near Schlicht ) and is also known as the hammer mill owner in the Upper Palatinate hammer cleaning service . Other members of the Hegner family are also named as hammer mill owners, such as Hans Hegner , who owned the hammer at Altenweiher , Altneuhaus and Neuhaus an der Pegnitz . One of his sons, Endres Hegner , was the owner of the mine at Kueperg around 1550 . The Hegners were related by marriage to other important Hammer families, such as the Kastners , and belonged to the politically influential families of this region.
In the hammer letter, the ownership of the hammer and mill buildings is transferred (it can therefore be assumed that there were previous owners who had built the buildings), as well as the right to withdraw the resources necessary for the operation as the Palatine property and the lesser jurisdiction that he could exercise mainly against the blacksmiths. In return for the annual taxes, the plant is placed under the protection of the sovereign.
In the Amberg water history books, 1567 there are still provisions regarding the water level of the Vils, if there is no forging or grinding. At the water show on May 29, 1571, it was found that the hammer wanted to come off, but the owner was given the amount of water necessary for grinding. In the water history book of 1579, the hammer is reported as no longer existing.
Gumpenhof today
The mill at Gumpenhof lasted until the 1880s. The mill building then burned down around 1880 and was no longer rebuilt. Individual remains of the former plant (dam, water ditches, embankments) can still be seen.
literature
- Regulator, Rudolf: Mills and hammer mills on the Vils. From the water books of the Amberg city archive. Die Oberpfalz , 1959, Volume 47, pp. 206-208 and 223-225
- Regulator, Rudolf: The hammer letter from Gumpenhof from 1399. Die Oberpfalz , 1962, Volume 50, pp. 40–44 and pp. 61–63.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Regulator, 1959, p. 209
Coordinates: 49 ° 35 '14.3 " N , 11 ° 46' 17.7" E