YSENBERG

After a very long, nearly complete darkness of the high Middle Ages even a modest hand down

of the 14th century lets you recognize the mining in Vorarlberg and the Walgau as a remarkable economical resource, specially for the “Montafon” and the “Walgau”.
In both regions the old iron mining industry went on at many stockrooms, from the famous

“YSENBERG of Bürs” 1355 (also called “Eysenberg, May 1355), which belonged to the sovereign,

up to the small veins in Walgau, at “St. Bartholomäberg, otherwise in Montafon, which were ran by farmers as additional job and are hardly mentioned in the documents.
Only “Flur-names” and the fixed conception in this region “Vornarecht = Ofenrecht
(that means the right to melt iron) testify their existence besides numerous traces.
That mining and processing had a substantial social effect show the blazons of some of the

outstanding races, belonging to the boundary layer between the low aristocrates and

the free inhabitants of the village.

 

Source: History of Vorarlberg, Band II, Bendikt Bilgeri

As being situated in the home town of Johanna Fritsche, Y S E N B E R G was ideal as godfather

for the name of the company, also being tightly connected with metalls and handicraft art.