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Some Weipert banter between Axel E. & I on NitroExpress some time ago:

>>....so Springer`s merely bought in the rifles, already mounted, proofed and finished, for resale. Pre-WW1 Austria did not recognize foreign proof, so every imported gun had to be reproofed. To me, the Austrian proof seems to be the Vienna NPv one instead of the Weipert NPw.
BTW, last Saturday I passed through Vejprty, the former Weipert. It is a small, former industrial town in terrible state directly behind the German-Czech border. Only a small creek, the Pöhlbach, seperates it from German Bärenstein. In 1939 Weipert had about 11000 mostly German inhabitants. Due to the "ethnic cleanup" of 1945, when more than 10000 of it's citizens were thrown out of Czechoslovakia, wide parts and most factories are in ruins or torn down. Vejprty's population is now 3000, among them about 400 Germans who returned after 1995.<<

>>Of course Mike(sic-Hammer) contacted the Vienna proofhouse. As you may gather from my post, Weipert does not exist any more, even the adress of Fückert and the location of the former proofhouse is forgotten since 1945. Weipert had about 50 factories before WW1, making all sorts of metal, textile, glas and other goods. Many of them closed down during the 1920s-30s economic depressions, But most fell into disrepair after their owners and workers were expelled in 1945.<<


>>I read a "4" too. Up to 1918 it was 1-Ferlach, 2-Prague, 3-Weipert, 4-Vienna. After 1918 in Austria, one-headed eagle holding hammer and siccle, it was 1-Ferlach, 2-Vienna. In new-founded Czechoslovakia, Czech lion, it was 1-Prague, 2-Vejprty.
Weipert even met a worse fate than Zella-Mehlis, Suhl, St.Etienne or Birmingham: In those former gunmaking centers at least a few gunmakers are left and there are still people to remember the old times. Not so in Weipert/Vejprty: The entire population has been changed in 1945, and what was left of gunmaking was swallowed up by socialism and government agencies like Lovena. I doubt that the Weipert proofhouse files are available through Austria: In 1918 the Weipert proofhouse was taken over by Czechoslovakia as a running concern without a change of persons. 1945 Vejprty disappeared behind the iron courtain, the people who ran the proofhouse were gone. How can local Weipert files be found outside of Czech archives?<<


>>Maybe I should have posed the question in an alternate form or either I am confused as to the location/whereabouts of the Weipert ledgers, but I thought that they were either kept in the Weipert/Vejprty area, akin to the state of the info at the Zella-Mehlis museum, or they were transfered to either the Brno or Prague facility? Or were they transfered to the Wien facility? I've seen this site many times, http://www.cuzzs.cz/index.php?lang=en , but haven't made an attempt to contact them as I suspect they only respond to German language requests? Early on I had thought that the Weipert facility closed in 1945 but it appears it remained open until 1954.<<


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