Veit Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Veit Hans Schnorr (* March 15, 1644 in Schneeberg, † January 26, 1715 ) was a hammer, and blue color Lord in Saxony. He founded the hammer and the developing therefrom place Carl field in the Erzgebirge.
Life
The second son of Auernhammer Men and color Veit Hans Schnorr Elder mill owner 1665 took over his father's blue colors work Niederpfannenstiel and Auernhammer of his co-heirs. 1677 he put on the Wilzsch to another hammer mill which was given the name " Carl field " at his request on the basis of the Saxon chief forester Georg Carl von Carlowitz. In the license deed he has been called " Erbsaß those privileged hammer works on the Pfannenstiel, Carlos and Elle field Auernhammer and sulfur hut and Posh Council and cobalt counterparty to the town of Schneeberg " means. As a result, he was careful about the hammer plant site, for the application of the existing hydropower and the surrounding vast forests were particularly decisive. In 1682 he arranged with a foundation to build a church with parsonage and a school in the resulting small settlement. Holy Trinity Church was built in 1684-1688 and consecrated on 2 September 1688.
In 1683 he bought for 3000 florins neighboring Weitersglashütte of Abraham Lobel. As a result, he became the Erbgerichte over the small settlement and the authorization for establishing 12 new houses and a blacksmith by an electoral privilege.
Due to a fire in 1682 left the Schnorr Auernhammer expand into a modern iron hammer mill with blast furnace, sheet metal hammers, Zinnhaus, refining furnace, bloomery, bar fire, forge, board - and grist mill and an iron and Schlackenpochwerk. In addition to his Eisenverhüttungsanlagen he possessed considerable proportions of the regional mines. An overview from 1696 called 3904 Kuxe, including to the pits "White Deer" at Auernhammer, " consolation of Israel ", " Irrgang ", " Ascension ", " St. John "," Margareta "and" Ritter St. Georg ", in his possession.
The " White Earth Colliery St. Andrew " in Aue, in 1698 Kaolin was first found as an impurity of iron ore, belonged to him with all 128 mining shares. After targeted degradation of these " white earth ", which was delivered to smelters for the production of refractory brick furnace, the kaolin was found later as an important raw material for the manufacture of porcelain in Saxony. According to an arrangement of the Saxon Elector August the Strong was named after him as " Schnorrsche clay " from 1711 to deliver to the manufactory in Meissen, the generated until November 12, 1855 exclusively with kaolin from this mine the famous Meissen porcelain.
On April 4, 1687 Schnorr was knighted by Emperor Leopold I, under the name " Schnorr von Carol Field ". He was with the daughter Susanna (1647-1716) of the hammer Mr. Friedrich Röhling married Erla and had with her six sons and eight daughters.
He died in 1715 as one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the Ore Mountains. On the way to his final resting place made more than 400 miners a funeral.