Schürer (glassmaker)

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The Schürer were an important family of glassmakers that originally came from the Ore Mountains .

Wernesgrün and Aschbergk ( jump ) are named as the family huts of the Schürer . The latter is proven for the year 1497. Further smelters were founded in northern and central Bohemia , in the Bohemian Forest , in Moravia , in Silesia , in the County of Glatz and in the Upper Palatinate . Due to their outstanding position, the Schürer glassmakers exerted a great influence on the economic and cultural life of their time.

Well-known glassmaker Schürer

  • Paul Schürer , also Paul Schierer. He was born in 1504 in Aschbergk ( Sprung ) in Saxony and founded the North Bohemian hut Falkenau near Kittlitz in 1530
  • Paul Schürer the Elder J., son of Paul above. Glassworks master in Reiditz , Schwanenbrückl , and Braum .
  • Georg Schürer built a glassworks in 1562 in the north Moravian town of Lenzdorf ( Mlýnice ) near Mährisch Rothwasser , which belonged to the Schildberg domain . A castle and a brewery that he built also belonged to the Hüttengut.
  • Dominik Schürer von Waldheim, son of Georg above, founded the hut in Kunčice pod Ondřejníkem in 1587 . Later he also took over his father's glassworks in Lenzhof (Mlynice).
  • Georg Schürer , a son of Valentin Schürer von Waldheim from Krombach ( Krompach ), acquired the glassworks in Rokitnitz in the Eagle Mountains in 1594. * Then master glassworks at glassworks in Moravia .
  • Christoph Schürer (~ 1500– ~ 1560) founded the glassworks in Albernau and the Bohemian Eulenhütte .
  • Christoph Schürer , who took over the glassworks in Crottendorf in 1560 . In 1585 it went to his son of the same name Christoph Schürer the Elder. J. about.
  • Bartholomäus Schürer (* 1585 in Falkenau Kittlitz , † May 10, 1649 in Grünwald ), glassmaker and owner of a glassworks in Grünwald, which remained in the family's possession until 1744. Distantly related to the foreman in Labau Johann Schürer, whose daughter he married. He put on a family chronicle until 1776.
  • Kaspar II. Schürer von Waldheim is proven to be the owner of the Kindelsdorf glassworks in 1616 .

Other family members

Well-known Schürer glassworks

In Saxony

In Bohemia

  • In 1530 Paul Schürer the Elder founded Ä. a glassworks in Falkenau near Kittlitz in North Bohemia . A village was built around the hut and was settled by Saxon glassmakers. The hut remained in the possession of the Schürer for several generations until the 18th century.
  • Krombach in the north Bohemian rule Reichstadt
  • The Schürer hut in Labau has been recorded for 1558
  • Reiditz , founded by Schürer and later taken over by the Preussler family of glassmakers .
  • Rochlitz , on the Bohemian side of the Giant Mountains
  • Schatzlar , on the Bohemian side of the Giant Mountains
  • Braum in Central Bohemia near Krivoklát
  • Schwanenbrückl in the Upper Palatinate Forest

In Moravia

In Silesia

In County Glatz

  • Volpersdorf , 1667 the glassworks was owned by the glass master Georg Schürer

See also

literature

  • Ferdinand Seibt , Hans Lemberg , Helmut Slapnicka: Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) s . Volume III, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-55973-7 , p. 777 f .: Name bearers Schürer, Schürer von Waldheim
  • Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected people from the former government district of Eger. Volume 2, Männedorf / ZH 1987, ISBN 3-922808-12-3 , p. 182.
  • Dietmar Zoedler : Silesian glass - Silesian glasses . Würzburg 1996, ISBN 3-87057-208-6 , p. 33.
  • Josef Blau : The glassmakers in the Bavaria and Bohemian Forest . 1954, p. 46: The Schürer von Waldheim, through the nobility letter of June 1, 1592, Emperor Rudolf II (HRR) raised Valentin, Kaspar, Dominik, Paul and Martin Schürer to hereditary nobility.
  • The coat of arms of the Moravian nobility, Siebmacher's large book of coats of arms. Volume 33, 1979, Neustadt an der Aisch, ISBN 3-87947-031-6 : Martin Schürer von Waldheim, secretary to the gentlemen von Rosenberg; Heraldic panel with an illustration of the coat of arms
  • Karl R. Fischer: The Schürer of Waldheim. Self-published by the Association for the History of Germans in Bohemia. Prague, 1924.

Individual evidence

  1. sudetenpost.eu (PDF; 10.2 MB)
  2. Jaroslav Sula: Rokytnice v Orlických Horách a Mauschwitzové of Armenruh . Ústí nad Orlicí 2010, ISBN 978-80-7405-086-2 , p. 47.
  3. K. Zenkner: The old glassworks in the Jizera Mountains. A historical overview based on the results of well-known local historians. (= Gablonz books, No. 19). Leutelt Society, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1968, p. 21 f. ; Sudeten German images of life. 1, 1926.; KR Fischer: The Schürer from Waldheim. 1924.; Edmund Schebek: Bohemia's glass industry and glass trade. Sources for their story. Publishing house of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Prague 1878, pp. 25–60.