Obermittweida
Obermittweida was a part of the municipality of Markersbach in the Saxon Erzgebirgskreis .
history
The Obermittweida hammer mill was located below the union of Kleiner Mittweida and Großer Mittweida . In 1546 it was first mentioned in a document as an ironworks with a flame. The owner Matthes Schumann also owned another ironworks, which was located downstream, at the mouth of the Roßbach. In contrast to many other hammer mills in the Ore Mountains, the owners of Obermittweida had no lower jurisdiction. However, they were privileged with the inferior hunting justice. Obermittweida was under the municipality of Mittweida .
Wolf von Elterlein took over the burnt down hut in 1588, for which he received the concession to build a blast furnace in 1594 . The hammer also owes its nickname Wolfhammer or Hammer Löwenthal to him , because the von Elterlein family had a lion in their coat of arms.
After the facilities had been destroyed several times by floods (including 1661) and fires (including 1613, 1667, 1673 and 1724), in 1731 Dr. Andreas Nietzsche created the hammer mill, which soon received the name Nietzschhammer , which is still used today . In 1788 there was a blast furnace, two fresh and stick fires, a tin fire and a tin house in Obermittweida. The ironworks was in operation until 1860. After that, the property was dismembrated. A small shovel hut worked until 1878, before the narrow valley floor became a center for paper production and wood grinding. The valley became known as a summer resort with the Casino Nitzschhammer convalescent home . The latter was used as a rural year camp during World War II and as a children's recreation home “Oskar Schieck” during the GDR era.
The area around the former hammer is flooded today by the lower basin of the Markersbach pumped storage plant . The residents were evacuated from 1968 onwards and the buildings in the floodplain demolished.
literature
- Siegfried Sieber : Nitzschhammer convalescent home in Obermittweida i. Erzgeb. - The story of an Erzgeb. Hammer mill. 1929.
- Karsten Richter: The iron hammer works in the Mittweidatal as reflected in the writings of Christian Lehmann (1611–1688) , in: Martina Schattkowsky (Ed.): The Erzgebirge in the 16th Century - Change of Shape of a Cultural Landscape in the Age of Reformation (Writings on Saxon History and Folklore Volume 44) , Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2013, pp. 201–233. ISBN 978-3-86583-737-0
- Wolf hammer . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 13th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1826, pp. 240–242.
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Gottlob Leonhardi : Description of the earth of the electoral and ducal Saxon lands , 1788, p. 399
Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 57 ″ N , 12 ° 53 ′ 42 ″ E