Peter Kuhn (Bergmeister)

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Peter Kuhn , also Peter Kühn (e) , (baptized March 1, 1628 in Abertham ; † February 20, 1682 in Platten ) was a Bohemian mountain master and entrepreneur . As an exile , he was one of the founders of Johanngeorgenstadt .

Life

Peter Kuhn was the son of Simon Kuhn from Abertham. Kuhn moved to Platten and bought a house there from Jacob Kirchner. The mountain settlement of Hengst is given as the place of origin in the land register . Since 1654 he ran a paint mill on the Breitenbach. At the time of the Counter Reformation he emigrated briefly to Johanngeorgenstadt as a religious refugee , where he was led by Johann Löbel the Elder in 1658. J. bought the house under construction next to the church . Kuhn was a member of the council in the newly founded town and appeared in 1662 as one of four shift supervisors.

As he was threatened if he did not return to Bohemia, his paint mill would be withdrawn, Kuhn moved back to Platten and converted to the Catholic faith. In 1671 he gave a higher tariff for Bohemian blue color, which aroused the displeasure of Elector Johann Georg II of Saxony. In 1682 the miner's position was newly filled with Kuhn. He died in the same year at the age of 54, less than 26 days.

After his death, through the marriage of his widow Maria Kuhn in 1684 to master butcher Peter Elster from Neudek , his paint mill came into the possession of the Elster family, who continued to operate it until it was closed at the beginning of the 19th century.

reception

Friedrich Franke wrote about Peter Kuhn in 1854:

There are only a few unpleasant incidents in the history of the blossoming Johanngeorgenstadt. Above all, this includes the fact that three exiles disdainfully fell away for the sake of time: Hans Poppenberger, Melchior Siegel , Peter Kühne (Kuhn) [...]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Sieber: From Bohemian blue color works. Bohemia, Munich 1969.
  2. ^ Johann Christian Engelschall: Description of the Exulanten- and Bergstadt Johann Georgen Stadt, in four parts introducing, I. The Exulanten condition and where it turns. II. The city's cultivation, growth and events that have occurred in it. III. The local mining industry, its origins, finding metals and all the mines. IV. The parish Hammerwerck Wittichsthal, as well as the Obere- and Untere-Jugel . In transfer, Friedrich Lanckischens Erben, 1723 ( google.de [accessed on January 7, 2018]).
  3. ^ Friedrich Francke: On the founding history of Johanngeorgenstadt: Mittheilungen from archival sources . Schumann, 1854 ( google.de [accessed January 7, 2018]).
  4. Andreas Erb: Mining in Platten- and Gottesgab - a Saxon-Bohemian story. Special inventory: MM 1379 - 7 - 1682 .
  5. ^ Friedrich Franke: On the founding history of Johanngeorgenstadt. Schneeberg 1854, pp. 52/53.