Muldenhammer (Eibenstock)

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Muldenhammer in the valley of the Zwickauer Mulde before the construction of the dam
Muldenhammer inn with bathing establishment around 1905

Muldenhammer (also known as Windischhammer , Windischthal , Kleinhempel and Georgenhammer ) is a former district of the Erzgebirge town of Eibenstock that was sunk by the Eibenstock dam and emerged from a hammer mill mentioned for the first time in the 16th century .

history

The hammer mill on the Zwickauer Mulde is known in the 16th century as the hammer under Eybenstock . Hans Dietz is known as the first well-known hammer master, under whose leadership only " things that were indispensable for the housekeeper " were made. It was only Jacob Kleinhempel, Melchior Siegel's father-in-law , who set up a gun hammer in 1531 and, on March 12, 1568, was one of the first hammer lords from the Ore Mountains to receive the concession to build a blast furnaceto melt the iron stone. It was a structure 6 to 8 meters high and could produce a ton of iron a day. The hammer remained in the possession of the Kleinhempel family until the middle of the 17th century. Hence the popular name for the hammer mill, the Kleinhempel . As a result, the Uttenhoven and Gottschald families and, in 1748, Johann Paul Vogel can be verified as owners. In 1788, the Muldenhammer consisted of a blast furnace, two fresh and stick fires and a tin house. When in 1797 hammer justice was acquired together with the hammers in Neidhardtsthal , Schönheiderhammer and Unterblauenthal , only one Zain hammer was reserved for the Muldenhammer and the blast furnace was shut down. In 1819 August Schumann mentions 21 houses and the well-established economy of the Hammergut “ in a very deep and winding, to the rocky, dark, but romantic valley, above the Mündg. des Weißbach, rainend with Neidhardsthal ”. Until the 20th century, a hammer estate and an inn were a reminder of the traditional iron processing on site.

The former Werkweiler, which had initially belonged to Hundshübel , formed its own rural community from 1881 ( 1939 census : 50 inhabitants) and was incorporated into Eibenstock on October 1, 1939, where it had always been parish. The inhabitants of the small settlement were resettled when construction of the Eibenstock dam (1974–1987) began, as the ten residential buildings, the wood grinding and paper mill and the large estate were located in the flooding area of ​​the dam.

literature

  • Siegfried Sieber : Muldenhammer at Eibenstock. In: Glückauf, Kultur- und Heimatblätter der Kreis Aue and Schneeberg 4 (1957), issue 11, pp. 207-209.
  • The mining landscape of Schneeberg and Eibenstock (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 11). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1967, pp. 113-114.

Web links

Commons : Muldenhammer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Muldenhammer in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g The mining landscape of Schneeberg and Eibenstock (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 11). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1967, p. 113.
  2. ^ Albert Schiffner : Handbook of geography, statistics and topography of the Kingdom of Saxony . First delivery, containing the Zwickau directions district. Leipzig 1839, p. 192. Digitized
  3. ^ Adam Daniel Richter: Cumbersome Chronica of the Churfürstl, compiled from reliable news, at the foot of the Meissnischen Ertzgebürges. Sächßl. City of Chemnitz, with attached documents . Spickermannsche Buchhandlung, Zittau, Leipzig 1767, p. 297 f ..
  4. ^ Johann Paul Oettel : Old and New History of the Royal. Pohln. and Churfürstl. Saxon. freyen Berg-Stadt Eybenstock , 1748, pp. 287–288; see. also Main State Archive Dresden , 10036 Finanzarchiv Loc. 36278 Rep. IX No. 3797.
  5. ^ Johann Paul Oettel: Eybenstock , pp. 283–284.
  6. ^ Friedrich Gottlob Leonhardi : Description of the earth of the electoral and ducal Saxon lands , 1788, p. 399.
  7. ↑ Carl Schiffner . Old huts and hammers in Saxony , 1959, pp. 221–222.
  8. ↑ August Schumann: Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony , Vol. 6, Zwickau, 1819, p. 638; Vol. 18, Zwickau, 1833, p. 231.

Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 10 ″  N , 12 ° 35 ′ 13 ″  E