Wok Pniowsky by Eulenberg

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Coat of arms of Wok Pniowsky von Eulenberg (1523)

Wok Pniowsky von Eulenberg ( Wok IV. , 1499 - 1531 verifiable; Vok Pňovský ze Sovince in Czech ) was a north Moravian nobleman and researcher. Like his father, he held the court office of the chief judge.

Life

He came from the noble family Sovinec and was the eldest son of Jan III. (occupied 1466–1507) and Machna von Lomnice and married to an Elisabeth / Eliška from the Dauba family . From this marriage the son Ješek (IV., † 1548) emerged, who was married to Anna von Würben (Wrbna) on Freudenthal (documented 1535–1549). Wok had two sisters and a brother who reached adulthood.

With the death of Johann Herald von Kunstadt in 1492, Wok Pniowsky took over Eulenberg Castle with market and customs rights as well as numerous villages and patronage rights . In Ruda (Německá Ruda; German  German Eisenberg ) mining efforts took place at this time. Wok von Eulenberg was both a mining entrepreneur and a taster there . In 1499 he is documented as Burgrave of Olomouc . In the years 1518–1525 he held the post of chief judge in Moravia. While the Eulenburg remained in his possession until the end of his life, the next generation, that is Ješek and his wife Anna von Wrbna, had to cede it to a creditor in 1545 due to over-indebtedness.

Ješek inherited the debts from his father, who, as the head of a mining company, incurred heavy losses over the years, believing in his business fortune, both his own mines and those leased by other noble societies. The interrelationships at Wok's time were extremely complex. Several noble houses competed for the mining rights around Ruda, where iron ore, silver and gold had come to light in various places. Wok von Eulenberg, who received mining privileges from the king, will have tried to enforce his rights and gain market power. Specifically, it was about six tons of mined ore, which was awarded to his competitor Vilém Mládenec after the dispute in court. In another case on record, Wok dealt with Peter von Zierotin and Rabenstein . Wok demanded 4,000 gold guilders for failing to pay for gold and silver mined. A little later a similar lawsuit was brought against the mayor and council of Mährisch Neustadt . With another defendant, Wok came to an agreement on a land register that henceforth regulated fundamental rights in a certain area. His entire last decade up to his presumed death in 1531 is riddled with such disputes. A complaint came from Maria of Hungary , also known as Maria of Austria, who complained from Pressburg that Wok's miners had evicted their own in the Hluboký mine and then continued the work themselves.

Tasting book

Wok Pniowsky of Eulenberg is today mainly still historically tangible, because of him tasting book as a manuscript is preserved, in which he 1526 " method describes the analysis and processing of various ores and metals". This manuscript of this work with the title ayn liblichs piechel comprises 420 pages and is written in German. It is located in the iron library and is also available as a digital copy.

The manuscript has been lost since 1924, which was confirmed by the Czech researcher and author Ladislav Hosák (1898–1972) in his 1959 work Dějiny Rýmařovska . In this he wrote that the manuscript had been kept in the Landesmuseum Troppau , which burned down in 1945. It was Ivo Kruliš who must have been presented with Wok's work during a visit to the iron library in 1966, because he thanked him for it in a letter that has survived. The following year he briefly mentioned the existence of the manuscript in his specialist article Hutnické listy . Today one can assume that this metallurgical trade journal was not noticed by historians, so that it was forgotten again.

literature

  • Florian Ruhland: “Ayn liblichs piechel” is being digitized . In: Ferrum . News from the Iron Library , Volume 90 (2018), pp 96-107 (accessed July 12, 2019)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gregor Wolny : The Margraviate of Moravia . Volume 5, 1839, p. 306
  2. ↑ a b Florian Ruhland: “Ayn liblichs piechel” is digitized . In: Ferrum . News from the Iron Library , Volume 90 (2018), p. 97
  3. ↑ Franz Alexander Heber : Moravian castles and their sagas , Volume 1, Medau 1848, p. 50
  4. ↑ David Papajík: Páni ze Sovince. Prague 2005. In: Florian Ruhland: “Ayn liblichs piechel” is digitized , p. 99
personal data
SURNAME Eulenberg, Wok Pniowsky by
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sovince, Vok Pňovský ze
BRIEF DESCRIPTION North Moravian nobleman and researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1531