Södel Mint

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The Södel Mint was established in 1610/11 by Count Ernst II von Solms-Lich .

history

Confessional differences among the sons of Count Ernst I von Solms-Lich, Philipp, Hermann Adolf and Ernst II, among other things, led to the abandonment of joint coinage. Philipp established a mint in Hohensolms , Hermann Adolf in Nieder-Weisel and Ernst II in Södel . The coin in lich was empty. In addition to the tipper mints of the Counts of Solms-Lich, there was another one in the residence of the Counts of Solms-Laubach . After all, the Counts of Stolberg-Gedern owned kipper mints in Ranstadt , Ortenberg and Gedern in the Wetterau . Another of these mints was in theReichsburg Friedberg . These mints belong to the tipper and wipper era . The former Södeler mint journeyman (assistant to the mint master ) Simon Döbbeke was arrested on May 17, 1622 with two other journeyman in Aschaffenburg for "dump truck and rocker swindles". Döbbeke came from Goslar and had worked in "Siedel," Göttingen and Minden .

In Södel, a modern mint was built in the castle , which used a coin mill instead of hammer minting . This form of embossing is called roller embossing . A cyclist who received an hourly wage of three cruisers served as the drive . Already Reinhard zu Solms this new technology was introduced.

The mint cooperated closely with the mint masters in Friedberg Castle , in Hanau and in Ranstadt .

The General-Kreiswardein carried out an inspection of the Södeler Mint in August 1613 and stated, "Graff Ernsten zu Sollms in the village of Siedel briged three-cruisers go 144 and 145 on the mark."

There were complaints about the Södeler Mint on coin probation days. These concerned the quality and quantity of the coins, especially the small coins, because these promised the greatest profit. In 1615, the Countess von Hanau-Münzenberg banned Solms-Licher three-cruiser coins in her domain.

After the death of Count Ernst II in 1619, his sons Otto Sebastian and Ludwig Christoph Christoph Rees from Frankfurt am Main appointed mint master in Södel. Since the young counts were not yet of legal age, the "existing stamps with the name of Ernst II" remained in use for the time being. Later the inscription: "ILLUSTR (issimi) TUT (ores) COM (itum) SOLMS LICH" (translation: The very excellent guardians of the Counts of Solms-Lich) was coined.

The necessary silver was procured by a group of Jewish traders, namely Süßmann from Södel, Scholem von Munzenberg , Abraham von Wanebach and the brothers Seligmann and Ruffmann Blaut. They received the order on March 26, 1621 from the guardian of the young counts, Count Joachim Friedrich von Mansfeld .

When the Thirty Years' War also spread to the Wetterau in 1622 , the Södeler Mint was closed on March 22nd and everything valuable had to be taken to Lich. Allegedly, the unminted silver was left lying because it still belonged to Jewish traders until it was minted. Since the Jews could no longer deliver silver, the contract with them was terminated. “When the Jewish contract was over, the mint went badly, it lay idle for some time.” The move of the mint caused panic among the population and everyone fled the village.

In 1618, the councilor Johann Georg Purgold was given the chancellery and minting of the county, with the exception of the Licher coin, which was subordinate to the mint master Jakob Textor. In 1621, the underage sons of Count Ernst II complained to the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer against Purgold, who had destroyed the mint, brought all minted and unminted silver to Lich and imprisoned the mint master. In 1625 the damage caused by Purgold was given as 3,400 Reichstalers.

Mint master

The mint masters were paid by the count and had to keep very precise records of the silver waste.

  • The first mint master in Södel was Georg Kupper. He was the stepson of the mint master Peter Arenberg von Lich. Before moving to Södel, Kupper was a mint master in Ranstadt. At his salary of 300 Fl. every year he was given a free apartment and a horse for traveling.
  • On Michaelmas Day (September 29th) 1612 the mint master Hans Schmidt von Bielefeld received his appointment. Schmidt had a so-called talking mint master's mark : a hammer crossed with a tooth iron . Like his predecessor, the mint master received 300 Fl. Annual wages. Schmidt himself had to pay 4,000 Fl. as security. Five journeyman mints and two boys worked in his mint workshop. Münzwardein was Michael Loth von Gießen, who controlled Södel and Ranstadt.
  • Christoph Rees was a goldsmith and was appointed mint master on November 13, 1620. He originally came from Roßwein . He had a stag in his coat of arms, but his mint mark was a five-leaf rosette. As a mint master and silver buyer, his annual income was 500 fl., The 1621 in 10 fl. converted weekly.
  • Hartmann Diel was the last Södel mint master. Since 1616 he can be traced in the village. He held his office in Södel until March 20th and then minted in Lich. The coin administrator was Conrad Ebert, who also held the office of Hans Schmidt for a while. In 1622 he became a mint master in Friedberg Castle.

Coins

On the coins of Count Ernst II, his coats of arms of Munzenberg, Solms, Sonnewald and Wildenfels were struck until 1617 , later his motto: "SOLI DEO GLORIA" or the abbreviation SDG.

The house collection of the princes of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich was auctioned on June 19, 2012 in Osnabrück. The following coins from the Södel Mint were offered at this auction:

  • Tilting stamps of the 3 Kreuzer, minted 1611, 1616, 1617, 1623
  • Tilting stamps of the 12 Kreuzer, 1611.
  • Gold gulden 1617 with mintmaster's mark by Hans Schmidt.

literature

  • Paul Bamberg, Friedrich Uhlhorn : The coin-rolling mill of Count Reinhard zu Solms. In: German coin sheets. Year 55, number 389, 391/2, 393, 1935. (also as a special print, OCLC 498521136 )
  • Paul Bamberg: Further news on the mechanical coin operation of Count Reinhard zu Solms. In: German coin sheets. 55, 1935, pp. 317-327, 372-376, 395-398.
  • Georg Draudt: On the coin history of the House of Solms. In: Archives for Hessian History. 12, 1868, pp. 93-114.
  • Paul Joseph: The coins and medals of the Princely and Countess House of Solms. Frankfurt am Main 1912 (reprinted 1974)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eugen Rieß: The story. (= 1200 years of Södel. Volume 1). Rockenberg 2002, ISBN 3-923907-06-0 , chap. The Södeler Münze, pp. 121–124.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Eichelmann: Hessian coins and medals. Thoughts and reflections on the coins and medals of the House of Brabant. Münster 2010, p. 27.
  3. ↑ GH Lockner: The three trapped mint fellows . A contribution to the Löwenstein-Wertheim tipper coin history. In: Frankfurter Münzzeitung. 1904, pp. 75-78, 98-101.
  4. ↑ Paul Joseph: The coins and medals of the princely and counts' house of Solms. Frankfurt am Main 1912. (Reprint: 1974, p. 44)
  5. ^ Paul Bamberg, Friedrich Uhlhorn: The coin rolling mill of Count Reinhard zu Solms. In: German coin sheets. Year 55, number 389, 1935, as well as Paul Bamberg: Further news about the mechanical coin operation of Count Reinhard zu Solms. In: German coin sheets. 55, 1935, pp. 317-327, 372-376, 395-398.
  6. ↑ Paul Joseph: The coins and medals of the princely and counts' house of Solms. Frankfurt am Main 1912. (Reprint: 1974, p. 42)
  7. ↑ Paul Joseph: Report on the findings of Upper Rhine mints in 1607 and 1613. In: Archives for Hessian history and antiquity. 15, p. 718.
  8. ↑ Eugen Rieß: The story. 2002, p. 124.
  9. ↑ Georg Draudt: On the coin history of the house of Solms. In: Archives for Hessian History. 12, 1868, pp. 93-114, pp. 104f.
  10. ^ Wilhelm Fertsch: Münzmeister and Münzwardeine in Friedberg Castle. In: Wetterau history sheets. (WGBll), 9, 1960, pp. 16-36, p. 25.
  11. ↑ Eugen Rieß: The story. 2002, p. 123.