Upper blue ink factory (Breitenbach)

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Location of the former upper blue paint factory in Potůčky.

The upper blue color factory in Breitenbach , or Oberes Werk for short , at times also called Breitenbachisches Werk and Miesl'sche Schmaltenfabrik , was a factory below Heinrichstein in the Bohemian Ore Mountains . It was used to produce blue paint from cobalt-containing ore and to make glass. At weddings, the plant produced 700 quintals a year of blue paint and sold the products as far as America . The main building, located on Poststrasse from Johanngeorgenstadt to Karlsbad , was last used as the Heinrichstein Inn until 1945 and then demolished. Your rival company was the Morbach'sche Blaufarbenwerk, which also produced in their vicinity in the Breitenbachtal and was an employer for numerous paint mill workers from Platten and Breitenbach.

description

In the 19th century, the factory consisted of a smelter, including a gravel mill, a paint mill, a river hut, a braunstein stamp mill, a magazine building for storing the vessels and props, as well as two residential buildings for the cultivation of the fields and forest properties.

history

Coat of arms of the Putz von Breitenbach family . The three flowers and the wavy bar refer to the plant on the Breitenbach .

The Jugler smelter Georg Preußler Senior bought the burned-down paint mill from Martin Päßler in 1622 . In 1632 he founded a second glassworks in the immediate vicinity and combined it to form the so-called Breitenbach factory . Since the family suffered from the persecution of Protestants, on February 17, 1677 the glass and color maker Georg Preussler Junior offered his glassworks and blue paint factory for 1000 florins. Half of it was acquired by the forest ranger and city judge von Platten, Paul Wenzel Seeling , who sold it on August 24, 1681 to the Hofrat von Schlackenwerth Johann Wilhelm von Steinhofer for 1,800 florins. Steinhofer, later a Saxon-Lauenburg court advisor, took over the trade in blue paint in Prague in 1687.

According to the letter of purchase, on August 12, 1688, the imperial and imperial clergyman Christoph Adalbert Putz bought the upper color works including glassworks and all other buildings from Steinhofer for 1910 fl.Under Putz, who was raised to the nobility in 1719 with the title of Breitenbach , took the local blue color production experienced a significant upswing. Due to rich cobalt ore finds in the area, the glassworks was redesigned into a blue paint factory. On August 4, 1698 there was an incident in which the 17-year-old paint mill worker Johann Christoph Leipold, who was in the service of Christoph Adalbert Putz, was caught by the comb wheel and immediately crushed.

The glassworks were finally closed between 1722 and 1725. After the death of Christoph Adalbert Putz in 1726, the plant remained in the family's possession. In 1735 the Oberbergamt St. Joachimsthal reported the sequestration of the blue color works of Christoph Adalbert Putz. In 1743 it is mentioned that von Breitenbach has a good blue paint mill. In 1751, Ferdinand Jentsch appears in the registers as the Breitenbach factor.

The work was sold in 1775 by Baron Franz Xaver Putz von Breitenbach to Franz Anton Miesl, who previously worked at the plant as a Breitenbach factor. After his death, the Mieslian heirs continued to run the company under the name of Franz Anton Miesl'sche Blaufarbfabrik . At the beginning of the 19th century, Anton Kolb was the color master and factor in the factory. The wholesaler Felix Kerl was among the Mieslian heirs . At the end of the 19th century the owner seems to have been Anton Carl Kolb.

Operations were stopped before 1900. The Leibelt family took over the site and converted the paint mill into a board mill. The Gasthaus zum Heinrichstein emerged from the former main building, the so-called manor house . Like all individual buildings in the upper Breitenbachtal, it was demolished after 1945.

The community chronicle of Platten reports on the history of the inking plant:

“The Georg Preisler paint mill was built by the same, the said inking plant with the associated reason was firstly bought by Paulo Wenzl Seeling, a well-appointed forest ranger, then later to Johann Wilhelm von Steinhof in Princely Lower Saxony Hofrath zu Schlackenwerth, and in 1688 according to the sales contract book, it is with all buildings with associated witnesses Reasons to mountain and counter-writer Christ. Adalb Putz with 1910 fl completely sold. This property today, whose encl Baron Franz Xaver Putz von Breitenbach Her auf Luck, Buda, Werschoditz sold it to Franz Ant Miesel in 1775. "

production

The ore mining and blue paint production resulted in 232 quintals of blue paint in 1692. Two years later, blue color production had doubled.

In the years 1778–1800 up to 15,000 quintals and from 1800 to 1840 up to 30,000 quintals of blue paint were produced in the inking unit. Although the cobalt ore in the surrounding mines was no longer as abundant as it used to be, and partly from Hungary, and the prices for the fuel had risen significantly, 600 to 700 quintals of blue paint were still produced annually and some were sold at home and abroad .

The Miesl'sche factory initially limited itself to sales abroad and had a warehouse in Frankfurt am Main . Despite the competition from Saxony and Hesse, the products were sold to the Rhine provinces , Holland , England and America. The company, hard pressed by the Prussian Customs Association , received the state factory license in 1841 and then set up a defeat in Prague (Jesuitengasse No. C. 185-1), as well as another warehouse in Pilsen and Bohemian Leipa .

Ownership successes

  • Georg Preussler Senior
  • Georg Preussler Junior
  • Johann Wilhelm von Steinhofer
  • Paul Wenzel Seeling
  • Christoph Adalbert Putz
  • Franz Xaver Putz from Breitenbach
  • Franz Anton Miesl
  • Joseph Prokop Miesl, Joseph Cosmas Miesl
  • Felix Kerl, Alois Kolb's children, Anna Kerl and Barbara Braun
  • Anton Carl Kolb
  • Leibelt family

Others

A legend about the Faust of the Ore Mountains , Father Hahn , is associated with the Upper Work , which revolves around the owner's wife and wet hay that became dry after she agreed to sit down with Father Hahn as a conversation partner who had returned to the otherwise empty inn.

Web links

Commons : Oberes Blaufarbenwerk (Breitenbach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Libussa. Yearbook for ... Ed. By Paul Aloys Klar . Calve, 1843 ( google.de [accessed August 19, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Manfred Bachmann, Harald Marx, Eberhard Wächtler: The silver soil: art and mining in Saxony . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1990 ( google.de [accessed January 27, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Sabine Baumgärtner: Saxon Glass: d. Glashütten u. their products . GMBH, 1977, ISBN 978-3-515-02543-0 ( google.de [accessed on January 27, 2019]).
  4. ^ Volkswerk: Yearbook of the State Museum for German Folklore . E. Diederichs Verlag, 1943 ( google.de [accessed on January 27, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Wenzel Hahn: Gemeindechronik , Platten, 1850–1877, p. 212
  6. ^ Wenzel Hahn: Gemeindechronik , Platten, 1850-1877, p. 213
  7. ↑ https://www.bohemia-online.de/index.php/bohemia/article/viewFile/2969/4540
  8. ↑ Manfred Bachmann, Harald Marx, Eberhard Wächtler: The silver soil: art and mining in Saxony . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1990 ( google.de [accessed January 27, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Libussa. Yearbook for ... Ed. By Paul Aloys Klar . Calve, 1843 ( google.de [accessed August 24, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Horní Blatná 14 | Porta fontium. Retrieved October 31, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Kauffmanns currently living in and outside Germany . 1743 ( google.de [accessed on August 20, 2017]).
  12. ^ Karl Franieck: Weekly newspaper for Karlsbad and the surrounding area . Franiek, 1875 ( google.de [accessed on August 17, 2017]).
  13. ^ Kronika města | Porta fontium. Retrieved April 11, 2019 .
  14. ^ Walter Kolb: Four hundred years of mining town plates 1532-1932, commemorative publication for the four hundredth anniversary of the mining town plates. Bergstadt Platten 1932.
  15. ↑ Libussa. Yearbook for ... Ed. By Paul Aloys Klar . Calve, 1843 ( google.de [accessed August 24, 2017]).
  16. ↑ Contributions for art, trade and commerce in Bohemia . 1843 ( google.de [accessed on August 19, 2017]).
  17. ↑ Libussa. Yearbook for ... Ed. By Paul Aloys Klar . Calve, 1843 ( google.de [accessed August 19, 2017]).
  18. ↑ Johannes End: Legends of the Erzgebirge, p. 42

Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 56 "  N , 12 ° 44 ′ 48.3"  E