Weitersglashütte

Weitersglashütte City of Eibenstock Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 49 ″  N , 12 ° 36 ′ 53 ″  E
Residents :	57  (May 9, 2011)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1997
Postal code :	08309
Area code :	037752
Location of Weitersglashütte in Saxony

View along the main street

Weitersglashütte is a district of the town of Eibenstock in the Saxon Erzgebirgskreis .

history

Weitersglashütte around 1910

The settlement was built around a glassworks founded in 1624 on the Frühbusser Pass road . On February 4, 1625, Christoph Seeling from Eibenstock and Jobst Schuster from Schneeberg received by electoral privilege “ a place or refier on the Frühboßer Walde from the Fleischmauler water, when the glass master ends in the Jugel Revier [...], bit Hannsen Hofens "Oberförsters in Ampte Voigtsberg, Reinung " was awarded because the wood there was very withered and broken. In addition, they were given a hereditary allocation of a room called the Wide Meadow , on which they were allowed to build a glassworks and three houses for servants and journeymen as well as a grinding and board mill. Furthermore, they were allowed to incinerate the dry wood in the area mentioned as well as in Christoph Trummer's territory, but had to completely spare the pitch forests and fresh wood and were only allowed to fell trees in them after the instructions of the electoral officials. The first hereditary interest, for what u. a. Six Schock mirror glasses, six Schock small pointed wine glasses and four Schock beer glasses were paid to the Schwarzenberg office at Michaelis 1625 .

In 1638 the glassworks was acquired by the previous tenant Michael Markert. After his death (1643), Markert's widow sold the hut to Christoph Löbel , owner of the neighboring glassworks in Jugel . Löbel produced, among other things, green glass, laboratory assistant and pharmacist glasses. After Löbel's death (1651), the glassworks ceased operations for almost 30 years.

It was not until 1680 that Löbel's son Abraham started making glass again. On September 4, 1683, Löbel sold the Weiters Glashütte for 3000 guilders to Veit Hans Schnorr , who in 1678 had re-established the neighboring Carlsfeld hammer mill . In 1685 he asked the sovereign to expand the existing justice that existed in addition to the operation of the glassworks in free baking, slaughtering, brewing and serving as well as the use of the wide meadow as a field or meadow. In return for a higher hereditary interest, he was then given the inheritance courts over the Weitersglashütte and allowed the construction of twelve further houses and a blacksmith's shop.

Schnorr von Carolsfeld's heirs sold the glassworks to Johann Benjamin Hennig in 1746. Its privileges stated, among other things, that the hereditary interest had to be paid only when the hut was in operation.

In 1819 Nicolaus Jacob Böhme owned a glassworks. He produced, among other things, white and green pharmacy and laboratory assistant glass as well as wine, beer and brandy glasses. The hut, which was only in operation from April to December due to the harsh winters near the Erzgebirge ridge, used 400 fathoms of wood a year. The glassmakers came mainly from abroad and spent the winter in their homeland.

In the first half of the 19th century the settlement consisted of five houses.

In 1857 the hut became the property of Karl Eduard Borges. He modernized the glass production in 1871/72 by switching to gas firing. In 1874, 25 ironworkers produced around 4,000 quintals of flat glass in the glassworks. After a gas explosion in 1876, the destroyed hut was rebuilt in the same year. Between 1877 and 1883, production was stopped in the summer months in order to install a new harbor furnace . In 1886 up to 80 workers were employed in the works, producing table and utility glass worth 150,000 marks. In 1898 the Radeberg glass manufacturers Otto and Edmund Hirsch, members of the famous Hirsch family of glassmakers , leased the Weitersglashütte. But as early as 1901, the lease was probably terminated for lack of profitability. Between 1901 and 1907 there were several changes of ownership and two bankruptcy proceedings by the hut owners. In 1906 50 workers were still producing here, they produced 100,000 m² of window glass. From 1907 the glassworks stopped operating. In 1913, the glassworks in neighboring Carlsfeld acquired the Weitersglashütte, but without putting the furnaces back into operation. The hut buildings were completely demolished by 1937.

As a district of Carlsfeld, where the residents are also parish, Weitersglashütte was incorporated into Eibenstock in 1997.

tourism

Weitersglashütte has a direct connection to the Kammloipe and is a popular destination. In the immediate vicinity is the under nature conservation standing bog Big Kranichsee .

literature

• The mining landscape of Schneeberg and Eibenstock (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 11). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1967.
• Albrecht Kirsche: Cistercians, glassmakers and turners: Glassworks in the Ore Mountains and Vogtland and their influence on Seiffen wood art . Cottbus studies on the history of technology, work and the environment, Vol. 27, Waxmann, Münster / New York / Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8309-1544-6
• Dietrich Mauerhoff: The Weitersglashütte in the Ore Mountains. Newer information and findings . in: Pressed Glass Correspondence 2012-1, January 2012 ( PDF ; 451 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Small-scale municipality sheet for Eibenstock, city. (PDF; 0.23 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on January 28, 2015 . 
2. ^ Friedrich Hermann Löscher : Old glassworks in the Saxon Ore Mountains. In: Glückauf Heft 8/1957, pp. 74-77; Issue 9/1957, p. 92f
3. ^ Karlsfeld, Carlsfeld, also Karolsfeld . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 4th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1817, pp. 468-471.
4. ↑ Dietrich Mauerhoff: The Weitersglashütte in the Ore Mountains. Newer information and findings . in: Pressed Glass Correspondence 2012-1, January 2012 ( PDF ; 451 kB)

Web links

Commons : Weitersglashütte  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Weitersglashütte in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony