Sebastian Köppel

Sebastian Köppel was an early modern Bohemian entrepreneur. He owned the hammer mill in Breitenbach .

Life

Köppel was wealthy in the mountain town of Schlaggenwald and moved to the Saxon-Bohemian border in 1583, where he acquired the rights to build a hammer mill not far from the confluence of the Breitenbach and Schwarzwasser from the council of the mountain town of Platten . He had a hammer mill built with residential and farm buildings. As a hammer owner, he ran Breitenbach until 1599, before he sold it for a profit and moved back to Schlaggenwald.

In order to get enough ore for processing in his hammer mill, he bought one of the most famous tin mines in the western Ore Mountains , the Fleschmaul mine near Carlsfeld .

In 1591 he built the Höllhammer and its accessories in what was then Höllengrund . From around 1604 the settlement was named Klingenthal after the new owners, the Hammerherren Klinger .

In the feudal rule of Count Schlick, Köppel owned a hammer mill on the Wilder Steinroda with hammer property, stables, barns, houses and all hammer facilities. He sold it for 1514 Bohemian guilders to Hans Hutschenreuter von Eibenstock in Saxony. Köppel's wife came from the Siegel family of hammer masters in Saxony. Sebastian Köppel founded Hellhammer near Klingenthal (Vogtland) in 1541. He can also be proven at times as the owner of the Rothauer hammer mill near Heinrichsgrün (Bohemia). In 1583 he acquired the Breitenbach hammer mill in Bohemia for 800 guilders. King Ferdinand promised him iron stones from the Platten mountain area. He was supposed to sell the iron products to the Bohemian mining towns. In 1599 Köppel gave the hammer mill for 8000 thalers to two brothers from the Saxon hammer master family Siegel and to hammer master Melchior Kleinhempel, also from Saxony.

Individual evidence

^ Sieber, Siegfried: Ironworks in Silesia, Saxony, Thuringia, Bohemia and in the Upper Palatinate . In: Focus on iron mining and iron processing in Europe 1500–1650. Cologne colloquia on international social and economic history. Volume 2. Ed. Hermann Kellenbenz . Böhlau Verlag Cologne Vienna, 1974. Pages 250-251.

personal data
SURNAME	Köppel, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	early modern Bohemian entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	16th Century
DATE OF DEATH	16th century or 17th century

[1] Sieber, Siegfried: Ironworks in Silesia, Saxony, Thuringia, Bohemia and in the Upper Palatinate . In: Focus on iron mining and iron processing in Europe 1500–1650. Cologne colloquia on international social and economic history. Volume 2. Ed. Hermann Kellenbenz . Böhlau Verlag Cologne Vienna, 1974. Pages 250-251.