Glassmakers Part 5 The Glassworks Eidenheim At the Paulus Mill Marcus shows a sketch from the atlas of Bitsche on page 52 from 1755. On this map you will find on number 14 which shows the former location of the glassworks. The Glassworks Eidenheim in Andernheim. It was supposedly already destroyed in the fifteen century. There was also a church and a village at the location, not only a glassworks. At the location were the former Glassworks Eidenheim stood a piece of a goblet was found in 1883. Page 40 which was pictured by Marcus on page 54 and page 55. Marcus writes about it on page 55. Two paragraphs in French It is my opinion that this goblet was manufactured at an earlier time than the pieces that I found at Speckbronnen last year. It seems to be a somewhat more primitive making. The Glassworks Munzthal 1585 On page 26 and 27 is a report from T.H. Alix (1594), he writes that from the Glassworks Holbach were moved in 1585 to Munzthal. Marcus writes that he's uncertain whether the Swabia colony settled there or if it was a different. But, Henry Heigel writes in his article the German Ballai (1600-1633) that Martin Greiner and Simon Stenger moved the glassworks from Holbach to Munzthal in 1585. In 1601 the glassmaster, Martin Greiner paid 80 floren for his glassworks and his eight partners (Siegwalt Steffel, Hensel Schurer, Ulrich Scheidhauer, Hans Schirer von Petersbach, Hans Greiner, Paulus Glaser, Andres Spessart and Henre Wincker). There were ten glassmakers in Munzthal in 1603. In 1607 two of the glassmakers had to pay 12 franconia because they had a fight. In 1609 there were 14 glassmakers - Martin Greiner, Jean Houber (Huber, Houver, Hoover) , Adam and Gaspar Greiner, Nicolas Krebs, George Hoff and Sebastian Ehrlich. The widow of Martin Greiner was allowed to open up one of the huts in a different location. The first glassworks works from 1585 destroyed the wooded area. She was allowed to stay five to six years before she had to move. It was reported in 1613 that the glassworks from Martin Greiner was located at the end Munzthal. His son, Jean Greiner took it over in 1614. In 1625 both masters of the glassworks, Nicolas and Leonard Greiner, employed ten workers including Martin Siegwart, Adam Greiner, Andres Stenger, Page 41 Bastien Fleckenstein, Cuntz Betz, George De La Cour, Samuel Legros. The widow Greiner planned to give up the lease for the hut because of the lack of wood. There were still eleven workers employed in the 1629 including Koch, Steffel, Contz, Andres Stenger, ----- Sigwart, Adam Greiner, Jean Schwan. In 1632 Simon Meyer and Zintz Brenner leased the hut for 250 francs (according to Henry Heigel and his article "Glassworks in the County of Bitsche", in the Saarbrucker Magazine, 6, page 42. There are no records of the fight near Pfaffenhoffen in the summer of 1633 where the Swedish came through Bitsche and had Bitsche under seige. According to Georges Walter, Peter Walter was all our father which is also known by me through the stories of our elders. Peter Walter worked with glass during the time of the Thirty Year War, which started in 1618 and ended in 1648. = Therefore, he worked in Munzthal in around 1644. In 1661 the glassworks in Munzthal were announced closed and in a report of the domain of Bitsche it reads: Sentence in French: It is believed, therefore, it was closed because of the war and plunders of the Thirty Year War. Peter Walter and his wife and the last child, Adam Walter were on the way back to Soucht where they started working at the glassworks in Soucht. In 1663 Sir Romecourt leased the land around Munzthal to the brothers Pierre and Mathieu Unteriener. They recorded a large area of land, one lake, and one durrenwald. In 1585 the glassmaker Schwerer and several helpers joined the first glassworks in Munzthal. They were searching for a new location to start a new hut. This one was named Soucht. According to documents the name Soucht came about because of the Count from Bitsche said to the glassmakers, "geht und Soucht". Before I go deeper into the development of the glassworks Soucht, I want to mention another glassworks in the closer area. Page 42 The Glassworks Mattstall Marcus writes that the glassworks belonged to the County Fleckenstein. It was located close to the village Mattschall and the village remains today "Glashutte" (Verrerie). In the year 1585 the glassworks master, Greiner, received the hereditary leasehold. They manufactured regular window glass, drinking glasses, and before the Revolution in 1793 it belonged to Jacob Seiler from Petites Pierre Lutzelstein and Joseph Burgun from Meisenthal. It was closed down in 1788 and both moved to St. Louis in Munzthal where Jacob Seiler became director. I will talk about this name later concerning the crystal company in St. Louis. 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