Whetstone production (Reichsgrafschaft Hohenems)

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Location of the county of Hohenems

The whetstone production in the imperial county of Hohenems ( imperial county since 1560) is documented by a written source based on a fiefdom letter issued on May 19, 1610 . Not much has been researched about the origins of whetstone production in Vorarlberg . It is not certain whether whetstone production existed at the time of Kaspar von Ems or before, or whether it was only brought into being by him. Only in the writing and paraphrase books of the late 18th and early 19th centuries can whetstone production be recorded again and research has been carried out on this.

Feudal holder

Kaspar von Hohenems (* 1573; † 1640) and Gallara, councilor and treasurer and steward of the lordships of Bludenz , Sonnenberg and Neuburg am Rhein, gave this to his valet , Peter von Ried ("from the Riedt"), and for his legitimate offspring in 1610 Fief of breaking and manufacturing of all whetstones exhibited in the imperial county of Hohenems along with accessories .

In the Vorarlberg State Archives there is already a register of the whetstones that Peter von Ried had exported from the county in relation to the files of the Reichsgrafschaft Hohenems from 1611 .

Exercise of fiefdom

According to the issued fiefdom letter, the fiefdom holder was obliged to exercise the right. If the quarry ( quarry ) stands still for two years or the fee is not paid or the legitimate offspring die out, the fiefdom should fall back . The sharpening stones were by a sworn coopers in cask pursue, and it was quatemberweise display of which 100 pieces were to be paid 3 Kreuzer the number of sent stones.

Geographical scope of the fief

This fiefdom points to the quarrying of whetstone in the lower Rhine Valley , as the imperial county of Hohenems also included large parts of the municipality of Dornbirn and the Hof zu Schwarzach (from 1527). The geographical scope or the mining site or locations of the whetstones and the refinement in the imperial county of Hohenems has not yet been finally researched. The fiefdom letter cannot be clearly related to Schwarzach or one of the other surrounding settlements belonging to the County of Hohenems.

A few hundred years has been in the Hohenems plot long Klien glauconite - sandstone mined, which then in the plot ground before Dornbirn Gütle was ground. In addition to whetstones , the material from the Klien quarries was used for the production of mill and paving stones as well as for building houses .

See also

literature

  • Bruno Koch, On the history of the Schwarzacher whetstone production , Edition Europa Verlag, online publication , accessed on December 10, 2016.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emperor Ferdinand I stood on April 27, 1560 Ems under the rule of the father of Kaspar, Jakob Hannibal I of Hohenems (1530-1587), the kingdom County . This imperial county was part of the Swabian imperial count college .
  2. ↑ Bruno Koch, On the history of the Schwarzacher whetstone production , p. 6 f.
  3. ↑ The assumption that “peter ußm Riedt” was a Schwarzacher resident in Ortried cannot be proven. The fact is that he was Count Kaspar's treasurer, held the Vogtamt in Dornbirn in 1619 and was wealthy in Hohenems (Josef Amann in Heimat Schwarzach , Schwarzach 1990, self-published by the community of Schwarzach, p. 47).
  4. ↑ Vorarlberger Landesarchiv 225/288, Rep. 14-120, Reichsgrafschaft Hohenems Akten ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , under the file number HoA 056, 11; File plan number 131. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vorarlberg.at
  5. ^ Vorarlberger Landesarchiv Hohenems: Document: Hohenems, Reichsgrafschaft 8755 in the European document archive Monasterium.net .
  6. ↑ Quatember refers to the “fasting of the four (annual) times” in the Roman Catholic Church and is used here for taxes to be paid quarterly.
  7. ↑ For comparison: the customs tariff for the rule of Schellenberg and Vaduz provided for a tariff of 3 kreuzers for whetstones (Klaus Biedermann, Das Rod- und Fuhrwesen im Fürstentum Liechtenstein , p. 146).
  8. ↑ In 1527 knight Max Sittich von Ems bought the farm in Schwarzach from Margarethe Pfannerin (Emil Gmeiner in Heimat Schwarzach , Schwarzach 1990, self-published by the community of Schwarzach, pp. 15, 43).
  9. ↑ Franz Goll, Chronicle of the Rhomberg Quarry Hohenems-Unterklien and the rock mining between Dornbirn and Hohenems , p. 7, 205, citing further evidence and sources.

Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '46 "  N , 9 ° 41' 24.7"  E