Seigerhütte Stolberg
The Seigerhütte Stolberg was an early modern steelworks near Stolberg in the Harz Mountains . Together with the Count's silver smelter mentioned in 1491, which was only in operation for a few years and had to be closed due to unprofitability, it was used to process the ores found within the Stolberg County and in the Ebersberg district on the territory of the Counts of Stolberg .
The establishment of the Seigerhütte in the immediate vicinity of Stolberg is dated between 1505 and 1512 in the literature. The founders were the Mansfeld smelter Rincke († 1516) and his son-in-law Dr. Drachstedt. In addition, there was a Graflich-Stolberg ironworks in Rottleberode since at least 1491 , which was fundamentally renewed in the spring of 1522. Here mainly the ores extracted from the Eichenberg and the new mine in Günzelsdorf near Harzungen were processed. In particular, the raw copper produced or purchased in the melting furnaces was denied in the Rottleberoder Hütte . Since there was often not enough copper available for further processing, this raw material was acquired outside the county of Stolberg in the trade with the slate obtained at Eichenberg and with iron. A brisk Seiger trade developed .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ekkehard Westermann : Eisleben Garkupfer and its significance for the European copper market from 1460 to 1560 . Böhlau, Cologne, Vienna 1971, ISBN 978-3-412-09571-0 , pp. 111 f . (Dissertation, University of Marburg).