Veit Hans Schnorr

Headquarters of Schnorr von Carolsfeld in Schneeberg

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Veit Hans Schnorr (* 1614 in Wiesenburg , † 1664 in Vienna ) was a hammer owner in Saxony .

The son of Wiesenburger Schössers and later Schneeberger City Judge John Schnorr and his third wife Sabina Nitzsch from Schneeberg founded in low Pfannenstiel 's first major Saxon Blue Color Works for the production of cobalt and bismuth compounds , for which he a privilege by the February 20, 1635 Counts of Schönburg received . The Aue nickel smelter emerged from this factory through the later processing of nickel and copper .

In addition to his work as "Cobald-Contrahent", as it is called in contemporary writings, he was also active as a trader in Schneeberg and as the hammer owner of the Auerhammer . In 1634 he and Zacharias Schoppel bought the destroyed hammer for 1000 guilders and put it back into operation.

In 1648 he was abducted on the way back from Leipzig to Russia and employed as a mining expert in the mines there. Only after 16 years could he escape. On the way home he died in Vienna in 1664. In Christian Meltzer's Schneeberger Stadtchronik there is a description of the events:

"When he at. In 1648 he traveled to Leipzig for his work and action and went away again after having done things, no one could have had any news of where he was at that time, he finally took a bite. 1664 after 16 years come to Vienna and there reported for information how he was brought to Moscow by a hostile party in Prussia, Pohlen and from Dar, but because of his mountain experience he was kept there by Groß-Czaar and at the Astrakhan border for his mountain awakenings brought and (according to the Russian custom at the time) not released and let out again, he bit in a Tartar incursion got away with prisoner and after several years after having gained freedom through Wallachey, Transylvania and Hungary arrived at Vienna, wherever he was on the journey home been hasty by death. "

In 1636 he married the craftsman's daughter Rosina Hübner (1618–1679) from Schneeberg , with whom he had five children. While her husband was missing in Russia, she continued to operate the works. After his death in 1665 she sold the Auerhammer to her son Veit Hans Schnorr the Elder. J.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christian Meltzer: Historia Schneebergensis renovata . 1716, p. 560
2. ^ Siegfried Sieber : Festschrift for the 750th anniversary of the city of Aue in the Ore Mountains . 1923, p. 43.