Johann August von Elterlein

Seal and signature of Johann August von Elterlein around 1700

Commemorative plaque with the coat of arms of those von Elterlein in knight green

Johann August von Elterlein (born May 23, 1669 on the Pfeilhammer in Kleinpöhla ; † April 23, 1725 in Rittersgrün ) was an early modern German entrepreneur and hammer owner in Rittersgrün.

Act

The youngest son of the hammer owner Hans Heinrich von Elterlein (1624–1685) on the Pfeilhammer in Kleinpöhla took over the hammer mill from the "Frau Generalin paining" in Gablenz, whose deceased husband was a descendant of Rudolph von Schmertzing , for lease at the end of the 17th century and in 1704 bought the bankrupt Arnoldshammer from Caspar Rockstroh. In 1710 he bought both Rittersgrüner hammer works by purchasing the hammer in the Pain, acquired additional buildings and land, had new houses built for his ironworkers near his hammer works and worked as heir, feudal lord and court lord in Rittersgrün. Von Elterlein died on April 21, 1725 in Rittersgrün and was buried three days later. It has not been proven whether he was the first family member to be buried in the hereditary funeral in the Rittersgrüner Church .

family

Johann August was the founder of the Rittersgrüner Von Elterlein line. In 1695 he married Christiana Regina in Grünstädtel, the youngest daughter of Tobias Biedermann, “Herr, hochbestallter Syndicus u. City judge in Chemnitz afterwards distinguished consultant u. famous mountain u. Hammerherr zu Großpöhla ”. After her death, Johann August married Johanna Christiana Schindler from Eibenstock on February 2, 1711. After the death of his father in 1725, the eldest son's first marriage, Johann August, took over both Rittersgrüner Hammerwerke and in 1735 married his cousin Juliana Sophia, widow of the sergeant under the Leipzig Dragoons Regiment Gottlob Sigismund Frentzel and née von Elterlein, "with whom he auff fatherl. Page Leibl. Sibling child ”. All other children of the progenitor of the Rittersgrüner von Elterleins seem to have died soon after the birth, as no further information is known about them.

literature

• Karl-Heinz Linkert: The work of the Erzgebirge hammer family "von Elterlein" between the 16th and 19th centuries in the valleys of the Western Ore Mountains , Rittersgrün 2006, ISBN 3-937190-11-2