Hammer mill hole

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The Hammerwerk Loch was an iron hammer on the Schwarzen Laber between the present-day districts of Loch and Eichhofen in the Bavarian market of Nittendorf . In 1449 the hammer masters Albrecht and Hans Moller (later on the hammer mill in Heitzenhofen ) were occupied here.

From 1532 to 1563, the hammer delivered its Deuchel to Dießen, 15 kilometers away. In 1581 Leonhard Sauerzapf bought Eichhofen Castle and the Hammer zu Loch from the estate of hammer master Ambrosius Raiger . Then he came to the Rosenbusch family, who were related by marriage to the Sauerzapfs .

Between 1612 and 1614 the hammer lay still, but was ready for use. The ore was obtained from Amberg , the Ehrenfels rulership and from tunnels from the Frauenforst ; the latter forest area was bought by the hammer owners in 1606 from the monastery of Niedermünster .

In 1595 the annual production was 60 pounds of iron. The wage costs were 432  fl , the Bergfuder ore from Amberg cost 138 fl purchase price and 201 fl transport, whereby three Bergfuder were processed in the year. A further 572 fl was incurred for charcoal. In addition, there were costs for the Hüttkapfer (= operations manager), operating costs and transport costs for the removal of the iron. At a price of 50 fl. Per pound of rail iron, the hammer made an annual profit of about 600 fl.

Around 1600 eight men were working on the hammer. The iron hammer ceased operations in 1848, and the flour mills that were built have been idle since 1970.

literature

  • Dirk Götschmann: Upper Palatinate iron. Mining and iron industry in the 16th and 17th centuries. (= Volume 5 of the publication series of the Mining and Industry Museum 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. In: The Upper Palatinate. Vol. 105, 2017, pp. 6–7.
  • Ignaz Edler von Voith: The royal mining and steelworks office Bodenwöhr. Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, 1840, pp. 17–422.