Marcus Semler

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View of Semler's house in Stolberg im Reichen Winkel (right)

Marcus (Marx) Semler (* Nuremberg ; † 1511 ) was a German mining entrepreneur. The largest tunnel system in Germany, the Marx-Semler-tunnel , with a total length of more than 220 kilometers was named after him.

Life

Marcus Semler came from Nuremberg and was active as a mining entrepreneur, hut owner and Saiger trader in the Thuringian Forest, the Ore Mountains and most recently in the Harz Mountains.

With the possession of 62 Kuxen at the copper mines Ober-Nicol-Schmid and King David , Semler was one of the main trades of the mines on the Oberschlemaer Kupfergang. Together with his brother Matthias Semler, he inherited the Saigerhütte Schleusingen in the Franconian county of Henneberg from his father Martin Semler before 1494 , which they operated from then on. In addition, together with Ullrich Erckel the Elder, who also came from Nuremberg, he was a shareholder in a Nuremberg trading company whose business field ranged from the silver and copper trade to the production and sale of brass products .

In the autumn of 1502, Marcus Semler founded a union to encourage the establishment of an inheritance tunnel on the Zwickauer Mulde in Niederschlema . In 1503 the Erbstolln on the Mulde in the Silberwaage mine was awarded and named “St. Marcus Stolln ”entered in the Schneeberger publishing house. 128 Kuxe were sold.

Immediately after 1504, at the beginning of the 16th century, he settled in the capital of the County of Stolberg , the city of Stolberg (Harz) , where he bought and traded the raw copper mined in his domain from the smelters there and Count Botho zu Stolberg . In Stolberg he bought the representative house of Hans Rühle the Elder on the market square in Reichen Winkel (today the hotel and restaurant Stolberger Hof ).

In 1511 Marcus Semler was killed by Balthasar von Myla ( Mylau ), who felt attacked by him. In September 1511 Count Wilhelm von Henneberg was instructed. Balthasar von Myla justified his act to the brothers Matthias, Hans and Lucas Semler and declared his readiness to stand right before Messrs Reuss in Schleiz .

literature

  • Ulf Sauter: In Martin Luther's footsteps in Stolberg / Harz. Personalities from the family and business environment of Luther in Stolberg / Harz. Insights into the development of the Reformation. Stolberg / Harz, self-published, 2016, pp. 101–102.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulf Sauter: In Martin Luther's footsteps in Stolberg / Harz. Personalities from the family and business environment of Luther in Stolberg / Harz. Insights into the development of the Reformation. Stolberg / Harz, self-published, 2016, p. 102.
  2. ↑ Thuringian State Archives Meiningen.
personal data
SURNAME Semler, Marcus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Semmler, Marcus; Semler, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mining entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH 1511