Hammer mill barrel
The Lauf hammer mill is an abandoned ironworks in what is now the Lauf part of the Hohenfels market , which was located on the trout stream there .
The Lauf hammer mill consisted of a rail hammer and a sheet metal hammer (called the upper and lower reaches). Gilg Valbeck was the first to hold the work in the 15th century . In 1459 it came to the Lienhart Alhard . The next owner was Hans Turrigl zum Riegelstein . His son Hans got into debt, his main creditor being Wolfgang Sauerzapf von Amberg , for whom he had a mortgage registered on the hammer mill. In 1512 he sold both works with all their affiliations to Georg Aukofer , with a high residual debt.
Therefore the work had to be sold to Wolfgang Sauerzapf as early as 1515 , who also took over the existing debts of 3200 fl . Shortly before, Wolfgang Sauerzapf had acquired the hammer mill in Theuern and around 1520 also got into financial difficulties. Therefore he had to prescribe 700 fl as security to Jorgen Holzschuher and Albrecht Portner as the lawyers of the heirs of the late hammer master Wilhelm Frank , and he also made a contract with Hans Turrigl for the 1,000 fl. Wolfgang Sauerzapf let go of the hammer The Upper Palatinate Hammer Cleaning Manufacture a maximum of 70 pounds of rail iron. As a hammer sign, Lauf led a Renngaißl (= deer goat). In 1540 the work was handed over to the second oldest son Hans the Elder (* 1516, † August 9, 1599). He married a Benigna von Saulberg († June 15, 1592). Both are buried in the parish church of Rohrbach (Kallmünz) . A red marble tombstone reads there:
“ All here buried Edl and Vöst Hans Sauerzapf the olter to Ober and Nieder Lauf. So in the Lord Christo souls asleep… Amen. God cares for his selenium! " And " Allhir ligt bury the Edl and Tugendhracht Fraw Benigna Sauerzapfin drilled ... His Ehlich Hausfraw So in the Lord Christo Seelighly asleep on June 15, 1592. God look after your selenium. "
The only daughter of Hans and Benigna was Anna Sauerzapf († August 19, 1596), she married Johann Joachim von Pertolzhofen († July 11, 1596), Palatinate-Neuburg councilor and land marshal. He already owned the Hammer Traidendorf . Due to the great wealth of his father-in-law Hans Sauerzapf, he was able to pay all debts on Traidendorf as well as acquire Bösenkirchen, Kirchenödenhart and Bergheim. The latter two goods were bought from Hans Heinrich Nothracht . The marriage of Anna and Johann Joachim had seven children. Only the youngest named Sebastian Wolf (* 1567, † November 30, 1626) reached a higher age and married Anna Martha Dölzky in 1589 . He took over Traidendorf, Lauf and the other goods from his father. In 1624 he gave Lauf to his son Johann Wolfgang for 7000 florins. He did not keep Lauf for long, because because of the Counter Reformation he had to sell his goods in Lauf on August 27, 1628 to Adam Sauerzapf von Schönhofen . Around 1623 he married Maria Susanna Neumayer , whose father was the wealthy Caspar Neumayer and whose mother was née Haller. Maria Susanna was actually Protestant, but had to convert to the Catholic faith at Easter 1629. The marriage produced three surviving sons (Johann Wolfgang, Georg Dietrich, Hans Leonhard). In 1632 both ironworks were completely destroyed in the course of the Thirty Years War . Adam Sauerzapf, who was a Bavarian officer, was taken prisoner by the Swedes for nine months, then reported back to the Bavarian army and was hired as a sergeant. After his wife died, his sons were brought up to their guardians Hans Christoph and Hieronymus Debl in Kelheim . Two sons reached adulthood, were recruited by Colonel Closen and went to war against the Turks in Crete in the service of the Republic of Venice . They probably perished there.
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Adam Sauerzapf married a second time, namely Maria Margarethe von Wölwarth . The daughter Catharina Dorothea emerged from this marriage . The father, meanwhile become a captain, continued to pursue the war trade and died in 1640 fighting for the Wolfenbüttel fortress . The dreary Hammergut Lauf now fell to the daughter. In 1674 she married the widower Jobst von Wölwarth ; his father was Alexander von Wölwarth († 1660) and his mother Sabine was born Butlar († 1666). Dorothea and Jobst von Wölwarth sold the boring hammer mill in 1675 to Ulrich Geyer , Mayor of Hemau , and his wife Catharina. They repaired the buildings again, but built a mill in the place of the tin hammer. His successor was his son Ulrich Geyer . Like his father, he tried to be accepted into the imperial nobility. This was rejected in relation to Lauf; only when they had received the noble castle property in Rieden in the Upper Palatinate , they were ennobled. After her elevation to the nobility, there were two family lines, the older one was that of Ulrich von Geyer on Lauf and Etzenberg (1656–1726) and the younger that of Balthasar von Geyer on Laufenthal and Beilnstein (1664–1742). In 1717, Mr. von Stachelhausen built a charcoal furnace in the lower reaches.
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Hammerwerk run today
In the place of the former hammer mill there is the former Lauf Castle with a farm building (Lauf 1 and 2). Archaeological findings and finds in the area of the former castle of Lauf from the 17th and 18th centuries indicate traces of the late medieval and early modern iron hammer.
literature
- Nikol, Hans: The former hammer mill in Lauf near Rohrbach. Die Oberpfalz , 1972, Volume 60, pp. 201-205.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 6.2 ″ N , 12 ° 8 ′ 31.3 ″ E