Eisenkammer Pirna

Market square in Pirna with St. Mary's Church, the Canaletto House and (r) House No. 10, 1472-1686 seat of the Eisenkammer

Haus am Markt 10 in Pirna, today the community hall
The Eisenkammer Pirna ("Iron Chamber") was an electoral Saxon institution, whose task it was to distribute and allocate the iron products within its area of responsibility (Revier), the so-called Pirna Iron Mining District (Pirnaer Eisenrevier). It was founded in 1472 and existed until 1686. It had its seat in Haus am Markt 10, the present town community hall, in the Old Town (Altstadt) of Pirna.
There were other Eisenkammern - the authorities of the iron businesses - in the former Austria iron centres of Steyr and Scheibbs.
Sources
- Petrus Albinus: Meißnische Land- u. Berg-Chronica, 1589/1590 (XVI. Titel, p. 134).
- Uwe Schirmer: Öffentliches Wirtschaften in Kursachsen (1553-1631). Motive – Strategien – Strukturen. in: Jürgen Schneider (Hrsg.): Öffentliches und privates Wirtschaften in sich wandelnden Wirtschaftsordnungen. Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-515-07868-9
- Gunter H. Schmidt: Vom Pirnischen Eisen. Aus der Geschichte der alten Hämmer und Hütten im Raum Pirna, Pirna 1984, p. 49-52.
- Gunter H. Schmidt: Der Eysingberg zum Gishobel als Grundlage des Sächsischen Eisenhandelsmonopols der kurfürstlichen Eisenkammer in Pirna. in: Ferdinand Opll (publ.): Stadt und Eisen. Linz 1992, p. 359-376, ISBN 3-900387-51-6
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