Wolf Schaller

Wolf Schaller (* before 1530 in Ehrenfriedersdorf ; † after 1536) was a mining entrepreneur from the Ore Mountains . Along with his brother Barthel Schaller, he is one of the co-founders of the mountain town of Platten on the ridge of the Ore Mountains, after they discovered tin ore deposits there.

He was the son of Martin (Merten) Schaller from Ehrenfriedersdorf and invested money in several mines on the Plattenberg in the Upper Ore Mountains at the beginning of the 1530s . He owned the Kießzeche and the pit called Kaltenbrünnlein . In 1534 he also owned half of the newly established stamping works on the Breitenbach and also operated the two pits explosive boiler and Wolf-Schaller-Lehen . In addition to the so-called Elector's House in Platten, he had a stately house built on the Ring (today the market square) and became a magistrate under city judge Gregor Stübner. After irregularities occurred in 1536, Wolf Schaller was taken prisoner so that his wife had to sell the house to J. Neumann.

In Johanngeorgenstadt there has been a Schallergasse (today: Untere Gasse) since the city was founded in 1654, the name of which is suspected to be related to Wolf Schaller.

literature

• Erich Matthes: The house loan book of the Saxon-Bohemian mountain town of Platten in the Ore Mountains , 1967