Meischendorf hammer mill

The Hammerwerk Meischendorf (also called Hammer Meuschendorf ) was located in the district of the same name in the Upper Palatinate community of Schwarzhofen . The hammer was operated by the water of the Schwarzach .

history

The hammer Meuschendorf is mentioned in the Upper Palatinate hammer cleaning of 1387. At that time the owner was Jordan Gresser . The hammer consisted of a hut building, a coal shed and three houses for the hammer gentleman and the hammer workers. In 1386 a Conrad Steiner von Meuschendorf was mentioned here.

Altmann and Otto von Katzdorf and their aunt Elisabeth die Katzdorferin donated a perpetual mass to the church of Katzdorf in 1424 and bequeathed the large and small tithes to Meuschendorf, to the Zangenstein and on the hammer near Mäusendorf, with which they were given in 1410 by the Bishop of Regensburg had been enfeoffed to the church of Katzdorf. A lending certificate dated July 9, 1529 shows that Sebastian Altmann sold the hammer Meuschendorf to Count Palatine Ludwig , as he and his ancestors had owned. However, in the wake of the Landshut War of Succession, the hammer had long been wasted. The brother of the Count Palatine, Duke Friedrich II. Now allowed the Endresen Strobl , Hammer Master zu Stefling, to rebuild the Hammer Meuschendorf. For this he had to pay 20 Rhenish guilders annually to the box in Neunburg vorm Wald and pay additional taxes (two iron sticks). He was also allowed to obtain the wood for the work from the ducal forests. Only 100 years later do we hear from the owners of the hammer again: On September 10, 1620, Mrs. Margaretha Sigelin , posthumous Wittib of Antoni Siegel , traditional hammer master at Meuschendorf, handed over her inheritance justice to her son G eorgen Siegler . In 1630 the hammer was mostly operated with old slag.

During the Thirty Years' War , Duke Bernhard von Weimar devastated the entire Schwarzachtal and destroyed the Hammer Meuschendorf again. A purchase contract dates from 1670, with which a Johann Schreyer from Bodenwöhr the tinder, which is still available in Meuschendorf, is to be handed out. From 1684 comes a document according to which the Count Palatine Rudolf and Ludwig enfeoffed a Rutger von Wartberg and his cousin with a grinding and sawmill in Meuschendorf. It is unclear whether this was built in place of the hammer or whether both works existed side by side.

On March 24, 1684 Georg Lehner , Müller zu Meuschendorf, sold his mill and the dreary hammer to Johann Friedrich von Aufseß on Freyenfels and Zangenstein , treasurer, district judge and governor of Neunburg von Wald. The three remaining houses were sold to day laborers, and the place, including the grinding mill built on the site of the hammer, was named Altenhammer . The hammer in Meuschendorf does not seem to have been rebuilt.

At the beginning of the 19th century there was still a grinding and cutting mill in Meischendorf .

literature

• Ignatz von Voith: The hammer at Meuschendorf and the hammer at Zangenstein. Negotiations of the Historical Association of the Upper Palatinate , 1841, Volume 6, pp. 183–198.

Coordinates: 49 ° 23 ′ 35.5 ″  N , 12 ° 18 ′ 6.2 ″  E