Hammerwerk Hellziechen
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The discontinued Hellziechen hammer mill was located in Hellziechen, which no longer exists today and which used to belong to Vilseck in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg-Sulzbach . The name of the plant was derived from Helle Zeche , which means that iron was extracted here in open-cast mining . The hammer mill was on the Frankenohe , a tributary of the Vils , which flows into the Vils at Gressenwöhr .
history
The hammer Hellziechen was first mentioned in 1402, when the Bamberg bishop Albrecht enfeoffed the Vilseck citizen Heinrich Kratzer with the hammer Langenbruck and also the hammer Hellziechen. In the comparison between the diocese and the Upper Palatinate on June 8, 1510, it was determined that Hellziechen should continue to stay with Bamberg. The owners changed frequently in the 16th and 17th centuries. In 1625 the Hammergut is called "Höllziegen". It belonged to Jobst Merz, who had to leave his headquarters in Zogenreuth in 1629 in the course of the Counter-Reformation because he did not want to become Catholic again. The Merzens owned the Hellziechen hammer from 1600 to 1694. Subsequently, the Colonel Sergeant Count de Losa, whose wife built a small chapel here in 1715, bought it.
In 1742 the work came to Johann Ertl (Erthl), who already owned the Hammergut Röthenbach as well as Altenweiher and Langenbruck. In 1751 he had a granite and sandstone blast furnace built in Hellziechen . This had two bellows and trachea at the bottom and was fed with ore from above. Ertl's daughter Barbara married the mountain master Johann Baptist Schlör in 1761 and the property passed to this family. In 1807, the first-born son Johann Baptist Schlör (1766–1823) married Theresia von Grafenstein (1787–1861). From the marriage came Gustav Andreas von Schlör (1820-1883), the sixth of eight children, who was the last Bavarian State Minister for Trade and Public Works from 1866 to 1871. Gustav Schlör married Wilhelmine Gareis, a daughter of the judge of Winklarn , in 1843 . Both also acquired the Plankenhammer estate near Floß. On June 28, 1861 Gustav Schlör called the "Theresia Schlör'sche Schulstiftung zu Langenbruck" into being, the proceeds of which were used to finance school materials for needy pupils as well as scholarships for two pupils from Hellziechen. After Gustav Schlör's death, his brother Joseph took over the factory in Hellziechen; he was also the owner of the Annahütte near Pappenberg, which was also sold today .
In 1802 the Bamberg territories passed to the Electorate of Bavaria and Hellziechen came to the Amberg district court . When the Maxhütte was opened in 1852 , the hammer mills flourished again because the Maxhütte needed large amounts of pig iron. Minister Schlör promoted trade by building the Weiden – Neukirchen railway line (opening on October 15, 1875). The Hellziechen blast furnace ceased operations in 1878 and was demolished in 1885. In 1904, two years after the death of Joseph Schlör, his son Joseph sold the estate to Christian Feustl from Langenbruck, who in 1926 sold it to a Dr. Winn resold. Attempts by a Rhineland company to dig for ore here again turned out to be unprofitable.
Hellziechen today
Around 1800 the Hammergut consisted of the so-called castle building, a small chapel, the blast furnace, the hammer hut, a small wire hammer, a day laborer's house, a brewery and a schnapps distillery. Because of the expansion of the Grafenwöhr military training area in 1938, Hellziechen was also dismantled. A few remains of the wall are still preserved, but not open to the public.
literature
- Fitzthum, Martin: The Hellziechen blast furnace near Vilseck. Die Oberpfalz , 1968, Volume 56, pp. 15-16.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 32 " N , 11 ° 45 ′ 40.2" E