Breitenbrunn paper mill
The Breitenbrunn paper mill was a commercial enterprise for the production of paper in Breitenbrunn / Erzgeb.
history
In 1642 the papermaker Georg Kunzmann built a paper mill at the foot of the village mountain, which was driven by the village stream, now known as the " Großer Ortsbach ". Presumably, the founding of the mill was also associated with the right to collect rags in the Schwarzenberg office.
However, due to the events of the Thirty Years War , the operation of the paper mill soon came to a standstill. It is 1651 as discussed throughout designated. The exile and papermaker Hanns Ruscher, expelled from Bohemia, bought the mill from the late Kunzmann's widow and got it going again. In 1653 the owners changed again. The papermaker Hanns Lucas was followed by Johann Konrad Körner. The latter later complained that the operation of the mill turned out to be difficult in the summer, as the village stream then carried little water. In 1685 the mill was owned by Hans Georg Schmeltzer from Michaelsberg. This received from Elector Johann Georg III.of Saxony the privilege to collect rags in the Schwarzenberg office. Later the mill owners changed several times.
In the 18th century, the Breitenbrunn paper mill gained lasting importance, as it produced, among other things, the paper for some sheet music by Johann Sebastian Bach from at least 1717 under the direction of Georg Adam Walther . The paper had a hanging post horn as a watermark and a plaque with the initials GAW. This paper was made until 1757.
Mill operations finally came to a standstill in the 19th century. Paper production was relocated to the newly founded Antonsthal . After the mill burned down on January 21, 1893, a youth club moved into the building, which was rebuilt as a residential building during the GDR era. Today the building complex is only used as a residential building.
In 1814 August Schumann mentioned in his Lexikon von Sachsen not only German types of paper but also Dutch, French, Swiss, English line paper and colored paper as famous products of the Breitenbrunn paper mill.
literature
- Richard Berger : The history of the former Breitenbrunn paper mill , in: Our home , Schwarzenberg, 3 (1926), No. 1/2, p. 1–5 DNB 1035964597
- Heiko Fiedler: The paper mill in Breitenbrunn and its owner. Breitenbrunn 2011. DNB 1012524191
- Manfred Blechschmidt : Elephant paper from Breitenbrunn , in Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 37 (2015), issue 1, pp. 29-30. ISSN 0232-6078
Web links
- The papermaking trade in Breitenbrunn ( Memento from August 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 24.4 " N , 12 ° 45 ′ 29.7" E