Price house beech

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Preißhaus beech in winter 2005
Board at the price house book
Rebuilt Preißhaus pond

The Preißhausbuche , also Preishausbuche , was a natural monument at an altitude of 886 m in the forest area between Johanngeorgenstadt and Breitenbrunn / Erzgeb. and knight green . The common beech stood near a forest house that was built here in the late 17th century in the lonely forest not far from the border between Saxony and Bohemia . The natural monument existed until the 1970s, when the beech fell apart due to its heavily hollowed trunk. In 1966, the Breitenbrunn Heimatfreunde planted a new beech that still exists today. The Anton-Günther-Weg leads directly past the Preißhausbuche.

history

The owner of a stately corner house on the market square of Johanngeorgenstadt, Johann Rockstroh, who worked as a fresher at Caspar Wittich's hammer mill in Breitenbach, acquired in 1665 on the southern border of the Schwarzenberg office directly on the Bohemian border a wooded property in the size of 300 double steps square, that he had cleared. On the vacated space he built a house with a barn and stable, which from then on was called Rockstrohisches Waldhaus . The house was located directly on the Sternflügel not far from Poststrasse between Breitenbrunn and Johanngeorgenstadt and Rockstroh was probably hoping to acquire the bar license for this house and thus obtain an additional source of income. But the plan did not work out, since at the beginning of the 18th century the Poststrasse was relocated to the Schwarzwassertal to Erlabrunn and the Däumerhaus was converted into a street inn there.

After Rockstroh's death in 1667, the house remained in the possession of his widow († 1680) and his children, of whom his son Christian Rockstroh worked as a foreman at the Breitenbach hammer mill. Johann Rockstroh's son-in-law, the staff smith Friedrich Schott († 1686), took over the house. His widow sold it in 1700 to the hammer gentleman Johann August von Elterlein from Rittersgrün . He sold the building complex in 1710 to the wife of the mayor Johann Bleyer from Johanngeorgenstadt and her daughter Maria Rosina. Preiß, the widow of shift and quarter foreman Johann Heinrich Preiß (1667–1707). A little later, the latter also took over her mother's half of the house and so the name Preißhaus , which is still known today , emerged.

In the summer of 1832, the Preißhaus was the scene of a bloody act about which a popular song in the form of a morality soon emerged, which was put on paper by Johann Schott in 1922 and a little later by Richard Truckenbrodt .

Since the Saxon state tried to remove individual houses near the border as much as possible, as they were often difficult to control bases for illegal border trade, the opportunity was used in 1846 to purchase the price house for the sum of 7,300 thalers for the Kingdom of Saxony . Shortly afterwards, the demolition of the building began. All that remained was a beech tree standing a few meters north of the Preisshaus, which in the following decades marked the approximate location of the Waldhaus. After the old Preißhaus beech as a natural monument had been almost completely destroyed by the adverse weather conditions, friends of home from Breitenbrunn planted a new beech in 1966, which still marks the location of the Preißhaus in the solitude of the Ore Mountains forests.

In 2006, the Erzgebirgszweigverein Breitenbrunn erected a memorial plaque next to the Preißhaus beech.

It should be noted that the Preißhausstrasse does not lead past the Preißhausbuche, but instead at the reconstructed Preißhausteich, which the Preißhausbach drains. From there you can get to the Preißhausbuche via the star wing.

literature

  • Heiko Fiedler: The Preißhaus on the Bohemian Border , Breitenbrunn 2007 (self-published)

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Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 49.3 "  N , 12 ° 46 ′ 12.8"  E