Veit Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld

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Veit Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld 1688

Veit Hans Schnorr (born March 15, 1644 in Schneeberg ; † January 26, 1715 there ) was a hammer and blue color lord in Saxony . He founded the hammer mill and the resulting town of Carlsfeld in the Ore Mountains .

Life

The second son of the Auer Hammerherren and paint mill owner Veit Hans Schnorr the Elder. Ä. 1665 took over the father's blue paint factory Niederpfannenstiel and the Auerhammer from his co-heirs. In 1677 he built another hammer mill on the Wilzsch , which at his request was named " Carlsfeld " based on the Saxon forest master Georg Carl von Carlowitz . In the concession deed he was referred to as the " heir of the privileged hammer mills on Pfannenstiel, Carlos- and Ellefeld , Auerhammer and Schwefelhütte and chief of the council and cobalt opponent of the city of Schneeberg ". As a result, he tried very hard to find the site of the hammer mill, for which the existing hydropower and the surrounding vast forests were decisive. In 1682 he arranged for a foundation to build a church with a rectory and a school in the small settlement. The Trinity Church was built 1684–1688 and consecrated on September 2, 1688.

In 1683 he bought the neighboring glassworks from Abraham Löbel for 3,000 guilders . As a result, he obtained the inheritance courts over the small settlement and the authorization to build twelve new houses and a blacksmith by electoral privilege.

After fire damage in 1682, Schnorr had the Auer Hammer expanded into a modern iron hammer mill with a blast furnace, sheet metal hammers, tin house, fresh furnace, racing fire, rod fire, forge, board and grinding mill and an iron and slag pounding mill. In addition to his iron smelting plants, he owned considerable shares in the regional mines. An overview from 1696 names 3904 Kuxe , u. a. at the pits "Weißer Hirsch" near Auerhammer, "Trost Israel", "Irrgang", "Himmelfahrt", "St. Johannes ”,“ Margareta ”and“ Ritter St. Georg ”, in his possession.

The " Weißerdenzeche St. Andreas " in Aue, in which kaolin was found for the first time in 1698 as an impurity in iron ore, belonged to him with all 128 kuxes. After targeted mining of this "white earth", which was delivered to smelters for the production of refractory furnace bricks, the kaolin later proved to be an important raw material for porcelain production in Saxony. According to an order of the Saxon Elector August the Strong , the "Schnorrsche Clay" named after Schnorr was to be delivered to the Meißen factory from 1711, which until November 12, 1855 burned the famous Meissen porcelain exclusively with kaolin from this mine .

On April 4, 1687 Schnorr was ennobled by Emperor Leopold I under the name " Schnorr von Carolsfeld ". He was married to the daughter Susanna (1647–1716) of Hammerherrn Friedrich Röhling in Erla and had six sons and eight daughters with her.

He died in 1715 as one of the most important entrepreneurs in the Ore Mountains. More than 400 miners formed a funeral procession on the way to his final resting place.

literature

  • Siegfried Sieber : Festschrift for the 750th anniversary of the city of Aue in the Ore Mountains on May 7, 1923 . 1923, reprint 2007
  • J. Siebmacher's [sic] large book of arms, vol. 21: The arms of the Saxon nobility, ND Neustadt ad Aisch 1972, p. 46 and plate 53.
  • Mario Titze: Veit Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1644–1715, in: Sächsische Lebensbilder, Vol. 4, Leipzig / Stuttgart 1999, pp. 283–297, ISBN 978-3-515-07469-8
  • Manfred Bachmann (ed.): Veit Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld - mining entrepreneur of the 17th century. In: Small chronicle of great masters - Erzgebirge we are proud of. Part 1, printer and publisher Mike Rockstroh, Aue 2000, pp. 21-23
  • Eberhard Görner (Ed.): White gold in the Erzgebirge? Mironde Verlag, Niederfrohna 2010, ISBN 978-3-937654-57-7
  • Richard Steche : Carlsfeld. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 8th booklet: Amtshauptmannschaft Schwarzenberg . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1887, p. 9. (with biographical information on Veit Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld:  Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Veit . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 191–193 (mentioned in the article on the great grandson of the same name).


personal data
SURNAME Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Veit Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schnorr, Veit Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Erzgebirge hammer owner and founder of Carlsfeld
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1644
PLACE OF BIRTH Schneeberg
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1715
Place of death Schneeberg