YSENBERG

 

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

of the 14th century lets you recognize the mining in Vorarlberg as a remarkable

economical resource, specially for the “Montafon” and the “Walgau”.
In both regions the iron mining industry went on at many stockrooms, from the famous

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

up to the small veins in Walgau, which were ran by farmers as additional job and are

hardly mentioned in the documents. Only old field names and the fixed

conception in this region testify their existence besides numerous traces.

That mining and processing had a substantial social effect, shown on the crests 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, YSENBERG was ideal as godfather

for the name of the company, also being tightly connected with metals and handcrafts.