Ludwigshütte (Ziegenrück)

The Ludwigshütte was an ironworks located near Ziegenrück , which was later converted into a wool spinning mill. Today a street name reminds of this facility.

Geographical location

Ludwigshütte is about 1.2 kilometers below the town of Ziegenrück an der Saale in a mountainous, wooded area. At the end of the 19th century, the place consisted of two factory buildings, between which there was a turbine house, and twelve other buildings, which were used as housing for officials and workers, stables, utility rooms and storage rooms. The factory buildings were built in 1872 and the residential buildings in the 1840s.

history

In 1654, the Ludwigshütte belonged to the Külmla manor as a hammer mill, Lammerschmiede , came into the possession of the Weißker family from Schleiz at the beginning of the 19th century and then to the Prussian district administrator Ludwig Franz von Breitenbauch at Ranis Castle .

The iron ore was supplied to the hut from Kamsdorf via Hohe Straße and the Kalte Schenke, established in 1836 .

Until 1873 the Ludwigshütte was used as an ironworks and then set up to operate the wool industry. The administration of the Ludwigshütte publicly announced the sale of the hut inventory in 1881, including water wheels , cupola ovens and stone molding boxes . The owner of the Ludwigshütte was the then Ziegenrück District Administrator Ludwig Franz von Breitenbauch in Ranis .

The lease for the present in Ludwig hut carded spinning and - weaving ran out 1,883th The previous tenant built his own factory in the town of Pößneck and left Ludwigshütte. As a result, the lease or sale of the building complex was publicly tendered as early as 1882.

Later parts of the factory were used as a wood grinding shop. A weir was built in the Saale at this time.

literature

Rudolf Drechsel: Pictures from the history of the district of Ziegenrück and Orlagau. A home booklet for school and home. Gerold, Pößneck 1933.

Web links

Apartment Ludwigshütte

Individual evidence

↑ Alexander Blöthner: Volume I: Palaces, churches, Celtic field names , archaeological sites, places of worship . Ed .: Alexander Blöthner. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-8482-0912-5 , pp. 123 .

↑ Author collective: Festschrift 625 years Külmla, Schöndorf, Tausa . Ed .: Dorf- und Heimatverein Gemeinde Schöndorf eV Schöndorf 2003, p. 23-29 .

50.603866 11.642429Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 13.9 ″ N , 11 ° 38 ′ 32.7 ″ E

[1] Alexander Blöthner: Volume I: Palaces, churches, Celtic field names , archaeological sites, places of worship . Ed .: Alexander Blöthner. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-8482-0912-5 , pp. 123 .

[:2-2] Author collective: Festschrift 625 years Külmla, Schöndorf, Tausa . Ed .: Dorf- und Heimatverein Gemeinde Schöndorf eV Schöndorf 2003, p. 23-29 .