Peterhansel (glassmaker)

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The Peterhansel were an important family of glassmakers whose members were mainly active in Bohemia and Moravia and for three generations in the County of Glatz . They originally came from the Diocese of Passau . The first known glassmaker from this family was

  • Martin Peterhansel , who is recorded in Weißwasser ( Bílá Voda u Štítů ) for the years 1620 and 1621 . He presumably took over the hut from Dominik Schürer von Waldheim, who in 1596 had received the privilege of building a glassworks in Weißwasser near Mährisch Rothwasser ( Červená Voda ) from Ladislav Velen von Zerotein . Martin Peterhansel is documented as a glassmaker in the Moravian Glasdörfel ( Sklené ) on the southern slope of the Kłodzko Snow Mountains in 1638 . Presumably his father died in the battle of the White Mountains .
  • The smelter Peter Hansel ( Hanzel ) was probably a son of the aforementioned Martin. In 1689 Peter Hansel sold the glassworks in Glasdörfel ( Sklené ) to the landlord of Goldenstein . Other well-known Peterhansel were:
  • Adam Paul Peterhansel acquired the Bohemian glassworks Friedrichswald in the Eagle Mountains from Johann Friedrich in 1652 . The hut was on the right bank of the Wilder Adler in the upper Erlitz Valley, which belonged to the Königgrätzer Kreis in Bohemia . Since the forest was largely cut down to Friedrichswald at this time, negotiated Peterhansel from the year 1657 with the Glatzer Governor John George of idols on the acquisition of a part of the Imperial Forest, which lay beyond the savage eagle on the left bank and the territory of the county Glatz belonged. The sale came in 1662 reached, the contract was the Emperor Leopold I. confirmed. On the acquired property, Peterhansel built a glassworks and a small Vorwerk as well as other houses. The entire property was given the rights of a free judge property . This included the settlement of craftsmen as well as gardeners and cottagers , the lower jurisdiction , the hunting law, the serving of wine and beer, etc. The settlement that developed around the glassworks was named Kaiserswalde . Adam Paul Peterhansel and members of his family are recorded several times as godparents and witnesses in the parish registers of the Kronstadt parish church , to which both Friedrichswald and Kaiserswalde belonged. For example, Adam Paul's wife Anna was the baptismal witness of Ignaz Preissler , a son of the glass and porcelain painter Daniel Preissler, whose second son Florian was the glassmaker Adam Paul Peterhansel godfather. His older sons Johann Franz and Adrian Florian were probably born in the Moravian Glasdörfel. Another son and six daughters are listed in the baptismal registers of the Kronstadt parish church. Adam Paul Peterhansel died in 1693; his son took over the Friedrichswald and Kaiserswalde glassworks
  • Johann Franz (Ferdinand) Peterhansel († June 13, 1733). Although he moved his residence and the Friedrichswald glassworks to Kaiserswalde around 1700, Friedrichswald remained in his possession. In his capacity as King of Bohemia, Emperor Joseph I raised him to the bohemian knighthood in 1710 with the title “von Retzburg”. The survey is also said to have taken place because of the merits of Franz Ferdinand Peterhansel's grandfather, who died in the Battle of the White Mountains in 1620. Thirteen years before his death, Franz Ferdinand Peterhansel transferred his debt to his son in 1720
  • Franz Anton Peterhansel of Retzburg . He ran the combined glassworks Friedrichswald and Kaiserswalde, but had to sell them with the associated property to the imperial general Franz Paul von Wallis on Plomnitz in 1728 due to over-indebtedness . The corresponding handover protocol was drawn up on July 23, 1728. A few weeks later, Franz Anton Peterhansel von Retzburg died at the age of only 40 and was buried on August 16, 1728 in Kronstadt. His father Johann Franz Ferdinand Peterhansel von Retzburg survived him by five years. With him the history of the glass gentlemen Peterhansel von Retzburg ended. The Kaiserswalder Hütte was leased from the landlord of Valais to the glassmaker Ignaz Rohrbach .

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  1. ↑ http://aleph.vkol.cz/pub/svk02/00001/70/000017086.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.obecmalamorava.cz/vismo/dokumenty2.asp?id_org=9015&id=1046&p1=1646
  3. ^ Probably a son of Martin Peterhansel and brother of Peter Hansel
  4. ↑ Joseph Kögler : The chronicles of the county Glatz . Revised by Dieter Pohl . Vol. 4, ISBN 3-927830-18-6 , p. 185