Old Hammer (Eiserfeld)
The old hammer in Eiserfeld was a craft business in the time before industrialization. Driven by a water wheel, a heavy hammer hit forgeable iron so that it could be forged and rolled.
history
The old hammer in Eiserfeld was owned by the Steinseifer (Stonecipher) trade family in the 18th century , the exact date of foundation is not known. (Albert Hees names Johannes Steinseifer as one of the founders of the “Old Hammer” in 1762.) Around 1800 it came into the hands of Eberhard Schleifenbaum from Reckhammer near Siegen . He set up various puddling ovens , in which the pig iron was welded into lobes and processed into wrought iron using hammers powered by Sieg . In 1860 a heavy steam hammer was added to the existing water hammers .
In 1892 the property was sold to the Stolz family , who also had shares in the nearby Reinhold Forster ore mine . They enlarged the factory, built a rolling mill in it and operated it until 1903. Karl Plate sen. bought the plant in 1908 and built a mustard factory powered by a water turbine . In 1919 the property was sold by the court, the highest bidder being the municipality of Eiserfeld.
literature
- Andreas Bingener : Iron smelting on the Eisernbach. The Eiserfelder Hütte and its trades ; in: Siegerland: Sheets of the Siegerland Homeland and History Association , Volume 76, Issue 2, 1999
- Albert Hees: Old houses in Eiserfeld ; in: Eiserfelder Heimatblatt 9/1955
Web links
- Eiserfelder Heimatverein
- Reckhammer ( Memento from March 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 5 ″ N , 7 ° 59 ′ 5 ″ E