Hans Heinrich von Elterlein

Johann Heinrich von Elterlein (born March 2, 1624 in Obermittweida , † March 20, 1685 in Kleinpöhla ) was an early modern German entrepreneur and owner of the arrow hammer in Kleinpöhla.

Life

The son of the Hammerherrn from Nuremberg in Kleinpöhla and Obermittweida Heinrich von Elterlein (1576-1640) married Susanna on February 8, 1652, the daughter of the Hammerherr Hieronymus Müller von Berneck from Breitenhof . After the death of his father, von Elterlein took over half of his share of the arrow hammer and bought the other part in 1669 from Hans Heinrich Eberwein from Elterlein, a brother-in-law of his aunt. Shortly before his death in 1684 he commissioned the building of the Herrenhof von Pfeilhammer, which in 1687 under the responsibility of his son and successor Johann Heinrich von Elterlein junior. (1658-1725) was completed. A cast-iron plate with the family's coat of arms, the year 1687 and the initials IH v. Is still located above the seating niche portal of the Hammerherren's house . E.

After von Elterlein's death, his widow Susanna moved to her daughter's home in Brothenfeld near Oelsnitz in Vogtland, where she died in 1693. Like her husband, she was buried in a hereditary funeral in Grünstädtel . The common youngest son Johann August von Elterlein (1669-1725) acquired beginning of the 18th century the Arnold Hammer and Hammer Schmerzingischen in Rittersgrün . The daughter Maria Catharina married Friedrich Siegel in 1671, the son of the Hammerherrn in Großpöhla and Blauenthal Heinrich Siegel .

literature

• Siegfried Sieber : Um Aue, Schwarzenberg and Johanngeorgenstadt , Berlin 1972, p. 141
• Karl-Heinz Linkert: The hammer family "von Elterlein" in the Western Ore Mountains , 2006.