Junkers hammer
Junkershammer was the largest and most important equestrian center in the area of today's city of Stolberg (Rhld.) . The name probably goes back to the Zweifaller Joncker family from the first half of the 15th century. One residential and several farm buildings are still preserved. It is located in the valley of the Vichtbach .
history
Around 1640 the Junkershammer came into possession of Jeremias Hoesch, the younger . He had initially worked as a copper master at the copper yard Alte Krautlade of his father of the same name, who, like the copper master families Peltzer , Schleicher , Amya and others, had been forced to move from Aachen to the neighboring area due to the disadvantages and reenactments of the burgeoning Aachen religious unrest To emigrate to Stolberg. Jeremias, jun. Relocated the family-owned Vichter Hütte and the Zweifaller Kirchenhütte to Junkershammer and also acquired vital charcoal rights from other riding stables for his work, which he subsequently expanded and supplemented and made the most modern operation in the Duchy of Jülich .
His descendants, including the later diplomat and imperial councilor Matthias Gerhard von Hoesch , continued their riding stables for five generations until 1869. In that year the Junkershammer was shut down as the last riding facility on the Vichtbach after the attempt of the last riding master of this line, Henri Hoeschs III. (1800–1879) to convert it to coke had failed because of the resistance of his partner Jeremias Reidt. The Junkershammer remained in the possession of the Hoesch family even after it was closed .
literature
- Justus Hashagen / Fritz Brüggemann : History of the Hoesch Family , 4 volumes, Cologne, 1911–1916
Individual evidence
- ↑ Junkershammer on: stolbergtouristik.de from November 25, 2010
- ↑ "When the iron was still glowing in the Vichttal ..." Lecture on February 16, 2006 at: eschweilergeschichtsverein.de ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 734 kB) from November 25, 2010
Web link
Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 34.1 ″ N , 6 ° 15 ′ 50.6 ″ E