Johann Wolfgang Hammann

Johann Wolfgang Hammann (born June 11, 1713 in Weidenberg , † October 10, 1785 in Wallendorf ) was the owner of the ironworks and hammer works in Katzhütte as well as the Fürstlich-Schwarzburgischer ironworks inspector. Together with Gotthelf Greiner, he founded the Wallendorf porcelain factory in 1764 .

Manor house, 1760

Life

Johann Wolfgang Hammon (later Hammann) saw the light of day as the son of a line weaver. His birthplace, the bourgeois estate Unter der Linden , stood on the Warmen Steinach in the Untermarkt of Weidenberg.

Father: Wolfgang Hammon, (* May 18, 1676 in Gossenreuth; † February 24, 1727 in Weidenberg)

Mother: Margaretha Dorothea Braun, (* December 8, 1684 in Heinersreuth; † March 15, 1759 in Katzhütte)

He had 3 brothers, two of whom died in childhood. His brother Johann Georg (born December 8, 1709 in Weidenberg, † September 24, 1772 in Ludwigstadt) was hammer master on the lower hammer (Dittmarscher hammer) in Neuhüttendorf from 1760.

He first learned the weaving trade in his parents' house. Later he was a trader and came to the area around Ludwigstadt. In 1741 he leased the upper Eisenhammer (Wernerscher Hammer) in Neuhüttendorf and started a family there.

In 1747 Johann Wolfgang Hammann came to Katzhütte and leased the iron and steel works from the Counts of Schulenburg . He bought it four years later. Linked to this was the inheritance jurisdiction for the houses that belonged to the plant and the people employed there (plant community). In 1755 he was appointed as the Princely Schwarzburg Hütteninspektor.

Church (1756), peasant baroque

From 1754 to 1756 Hammann had the church in Katzhütte built in the peasant baroque style. He also donated a house to the community in which school could be held and made funds available to pay pastors and teachers. Because of its great merits the Hochfürstliche Cabinet gave him to Rudolstadt the church patronage . In 1755 he was appointed as the Princely Schwarzburg Hütteninspektor. As a residence for himself and his family, he built the manor house in Katzhütte, which still exists today, and the mansion garden, which reached as far as the Schwarza.

From 1755 onwards, Johann Wolfgang Hammann dealt with the reinvention of porcelain in Thuringia at the same time as Georg Heinrich Macheleid and the Limbach Gotthelf Greiner . The first kilns were located in the building of the former brewery. However, his multiple attempts to obtain a license to operate a porcelain factory in Katzhütte from the Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt failed.

In 1763 he bought the Hohenthalsche Rittergut in Wallendorf (Lichte), which belonged to the Principality of Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld. After Johann Wolfgang Hammann, together with Gotthelf Greiner, finally received the privilege to found a porcelain factory on March 30, 1764 , he relocated porcelain production from Katzhütte to Wallendorf. The Wallendorfer porcelain factory was owned by the Hammann family until 1833. After that, the owners changed several times. Until 2014, porcelain was produced at the same location.

family

Johann Wolfgang Hammann married Sophia Magdalena Müller on June 3, 1738 in Ludwigstadt (* December 4, 1715 in Neuhüttendorf; † November 29, 1776 in Wallendorf). She was the daughter of the coppersmith Christoph Adam Müller in Neuhüttendorf. The two had seven children, three of whom died at an early age.

• Ferdinand Friedrich Hammann (born February 24, 1739 in Neuhüttendorf; † November 18, 1786 in Wallendorf)

Co-owner and later the Duke of Saxon-Coburg-Saalfeld director of the fine porcelain factory Wallendorf and church patron

• Anna Maria Hammann (born January 31, 1741 in Neuhüttendorf; † June 16, 1802 in Katzhütte)

She married on October 13, 1761 in Katzhütte Johann Peter Heinrich Heuäcker (born February 5, 1736 in Rohrhammer (Oelze); † March 14, 1787 in Katzhütte). He was hammer master on the Rohrhammer (Oelze) and later owner of the iron and steel works in Katzhütte, as well as court master and church patron.

• Sophia Susanna Hammann (born May 4, 1743 in Neuhüttendorf; † July 8, 1810 in Bayreuth)

She married the chief forester Adolf Friedrich Böhner on October 26, 1762 in Weidenberg (born February 17, 1737 in Rosenhammer ; † April 23, 1802 in Goldkronach)

• Christiana Catharina Hammann (born December 15, 1749 in Katzhütte, † March 17, 1818 in Wallendorf)

1. Marriage to pastor Johann Nicolaus Stieda (born April 20, 1743 in Königsee (Thuringia); † May 23, 1772 in Katzhütte) on February 5, 1771 in Wallendorf

2. Marriage to Johann Heinrich Hutschenreuther (* May 23, 1751 in Wallendorf; † July 5, 1812 in Wallendorf) on May 6, 1774 in Wallendorf

More than five years after the death of Sophia Magdalena Müller, Johann Wolfgang Hammann married Johanna Maria Susanna Friedrich on February 25, 1782 in Wallendorf (* April 27, 1746 Wallendorf; † March 17, 1823 Wallendorf). The marriage remained childless.

literature

• Eduard Kühne: Chronicle of Katzhütte in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. Print by Otto Heinrich, Gehren 1891
• Rudi Greiner-Adam: The Schwabenhans and his descendants - the founders of Lauscha and Limbach. 2nd supplemented edition 2003
• Helmut Scherf, Jürgen Karpinski: Thuringian porcelain taking into account the products of the 18th and early 19th centuries. VEB EA Seemann, Book and Art Publishing Leipzig, 1980
• Neuhäuser Heimatheft No. 10 from November 27, 2013, publisher: Heimatverein Neuhaus am Rennweg eV
• Lindenzeitung of the senior center of the AWO in Weidenberg, issue 114, Jan./Febr. 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elke Küstner: The Thuringian Porcelain Route: the 40 most rewarding destinations between Kahla and Veilsdorf Monastery. Erfurt: Sutton, 2015, p. 60.