House book of the rammer

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The house book of the Stampfer consists of personal notes and notes of Maria Elisabeth Stampfer , a housewife and family mother from the 17th century who came from the upper class . In terms of content, the Pichl she referred to encompasses the period from 1654 to 1694. Nevertheless, the author does not begin her notes until 1679 and initially writes looking back on the years 1654–1679. As in a diary , Maria Elisabeth Stampfer records not only family events such as births, weddings and deaths, but also constant existential threats such as illnesses, fires, floods and avalanches that threaten her family. The successes and setbacks of her husband's mining operations are just as central. Last but not least, the stomper repeatedly takes a position on political issues such as the siege of Vienna by the Ottomans in 1683 or the Palatinate War of Succession 1688–1697.

Author

The author Maria Elisabeth Stampfer, née Dellatore, was born in Graz in February 1638 and died in Obervellach in 1700 . In 1656 she married the twelve years older trades Hans Adam Stampfer , who was a cycling master in Vordernberg and from 1666 ran a copper mine in the Walchen near Öblarn . In 1692 Hans Adam Stampfer also took over a copper mine in Fragant near Obervellach . In the same year the family moved from Vordernberg to Obervellach, where Hans Adam Stampfer bought Trabuschgen Castle . In 1685 Hans Adam Stampfer was ennobled with the title of Walchenberg , which the Stampferess did not mention in her records. Starting with the success of Hans Adam Stampfer, the Stampfer family represented one of the most important mining families in Styria for over 100 years.

Maria Elisabeth Stampfer gave birth to a total of 16 children, only a few of which she survived.

content

In addition to the historical and cultural-historical value of the records, it is above all human warmth and maternal sacrifice that speak from the lines, but also the deeply religious attitude of a time in which humans were completely dependent on the forces of nature and fate he was often only able to face illnesses and accidents with a strong trust in God and devotion to God.

Some wording seems strange and out of date today, but it speaks of a deep seriousness in life and an awkward and often desperate search for ways to overcome the fateful difficulty of life. The authentic descriptions of the stomper sometimes make you feel like you have been transported back in time to the 17th century.

Expenses and reception

The Hausbüchl, which remained more by chance, fell into the hands of Archduke Johann after about 150 years , who bought the house in Vordernberg built by Hans Adam Stampfer, the associated hubs and the wheelworks . The Archduke's descendants donated it to the Styrian State Archives . In 1887 the director of this archive, the historian Joseph von Zahn , published the text for the first time completely in an almost unchanged form, with an introduction and a glossary of dialect expressions.

The doctor and poet Gustav Hackl from Vordernberg translated the text into more modern German without completely losing the stylistic peculiarities and vocabulary of the writer, and re-published the book in 1926.

Maria Elisabeth Stampfer's notes aroused interest primarily in economic and regional historical terms due to the enormous importance of Stampfer's mining operations for Styria. With regard to women's and gender history, the text was only noticed from the 1970 / 80s.

plant

  • Maria Elisabeth Stampfer: The house book of the Stampferin, a born Dellatorin, cycling champion zu Vorderberg , Klagenfurt 1982 (follows the edition by G. Hackl, Graz 1926). ( ISBN 3-85378-194-2 , out of print)

literature

  • Eva Kormann: I, the world and God. Autobiography in the 17th Century , Cologne 2004.
  • Eva Kormann: "And I always have a grim nut." Autobiography of bourgeois women of the 17th century using the example of Maria Elisabeth Stampfer's "Pichls" , in: Michaela Holdenried (Ed.): Written Life. Autobiographics of women, Berlin 1995, pp. 80–94.
  • Heath miracles. "He is the sun, she is the moon." Women in the early modern age , Munich 1992.

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