Johann Georg Rachalß
Johann (Hans) Georg Rachalß (born November 30, 1630 in Lauter / Sa. , † December 12, 1671 in Aue ) was an electoral forester in Lauter and most recently in Aue in the Schwarzenberg office in the Ore Mountains .
Life
His father was the chief forester at Lauter and later stalking master at Dresden Christoph Rachalß and his mother Regina nee Hartenberg. In 1632 his father organized the uprising in Lauter against the imperial general Heinrich Holck and the construction of a ski jump at Lumpicht or Lumbach.
After attending school and the early death of his father, his mother gave in to the request made in 1646 by Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony to let Johann Georg grow up as a hunter boy at the Saxon court in Dresden. In 1650 he was officially employed as a so-called visiting servant in Zabeltitz . After the death of his brother-in-law Baltzer Kühner, he took over his chief forester position in Lauter in 1655 . He previously held on 22 September 1651 the ironworking Breitenbach Magdalena, the daughter of the hammer master to Wittigsthal and Breitenbach, Caspar Wittich , married, who was also his stepfather. From this marriage there were 6 sons and 7 daughters.
Due to his close family ties to the hammer mills Wittigsthal and Breitenbach, he was closely connected to the founding of the exile town of Johanngeorgenstadt in 1654 , whose development and prosperity he promoted.
Through favorable investment of his fortune in mining, Rachalß had achieved prosperity, which enabled him to do the churches in Lauter and Aue several good things. So he donated a cloth with the associated regalia around the altar and an altar cloth fringed with silver tips to the church in Lauter.
Johann Georg Rachalß should not be confused with the game master of the same name in Augustusburg , who died in 1658, and the Schwarzenberg bailiff Johann Georg Rachals .
literature
Wolfgang Möhrig reports in Volume III of his series Miriquidis Raunen , Scheßlitz 1993, p. 254 about his father:
The electoral Saxon chief forester was a well-known personality not only in Lauter, but throughout the Ore Mountains. He administered the Lauter Forestry Office, which the elector liked to go to for hunting because of its efficiency. Rachhals was very wealthy. He owned a tavern in Aue on the 'Berg Freiheit'. When he had the miners dug a beer cellar into the mountain for this purpose, they came across tin ore . The excavated tunnel is still called the 'Jägerstollen' today. In its place stands the house of today's 'traditional ore mining site'. For the church building in 1628, Rachel donated a bell that bears his name.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data ( Memento from March 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rachalß, Johann Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rachalß, Hans Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saxon chief forester |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1630 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Louder / Sa. |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 1671 |
| Place of death | Aue |