Quandt's tobacco mill
The Quandtsche tobacco mill was owned by the Leipziger located Quandt family, for the production of snuff used windmill , which is associated with the Battle of Leipzig gained importance in 1813, since Napoleon had set up his command post on 18 October.
location
The mill was on a hill, the Marienhöhe, near the Marienquelle between the former villages of Stötteritz , Probstheida and Connewitz on the corridor belonging to Thonberg . It was on the road leading from Connewitz to Stötteritz.
history
Born in Düben in 1696 , Johann Gottfried Quandt completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Leipzig from 1709 and then worked as a barber, servant and chocolate maker before turning to the tobacco trade in 1726. After he had acquired Leipzig citizenship in 1729, he founded a tobacco factory at Brühl in 1734 . He obtained the raw tobacco mainly from the neighboring village of Stötteritz, where Calvinists who had fled at the end of the 17th century introduced tobacco cultivation and which became the main source of income for many Stötteritzers until the 19th century.
In 1743 Quandt bought a piece of land on the Marienhöhe near Stötteritz and built a "Dutch machine windmill" there for processing tobacco, especially snuff production. As early as 1748 he was able to buy a city courtyard at Nikolaistraße 24 in Leipzig, where he had the front building rebuilt and a small theater built in the courtyard (Quandt's court, later Oelßner's court ).
After Johann Gottfried Quandt's death in 1749, his son Johann Gottlob Quandt (1721–1784) continued the business, which apparently flourished very well, so that in his will he gave the Leipzig alms office with a foundation of 4,000 thalers to support poor people in need People could consider.
Then the grandson, also of the same name as his father, Johann Gottlob took over the business. From 1801 he was also the owner of the Wachau manor . In his time, the tobacco mill was destroyed during the Battle of the Nations.
The mill was not rebuilt. In its place is now the Napoleon Stone . The name of the street An der Tabaksmühle is still reminiscent of the former tobacco mill, which is part of Bundesstraße 2 in its eastern part in front of the Völkerschlachtdenkmal .
The location of the tobacco mill
The founder Johann Gottlob Quandt (1721–1784)
Napoleon at the destroyed tobacco mill
Quandt's court around 1900
The Napoleon Stone
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig A - Z . PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 482
- ↑ Stötteritz # 18. century
- ^ Biogram in the Leipzig Lexicon
- ↑ Poenicke, GA (Ed.): Album of the manors and castles in the Kingdom of Saxony I. Section: Leipziger Kreis. Leipzig , around 1860
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 49 ″ N , 12 ° 24 ′ 25.8 ″ E