Broad hammer
From the late Middle Ages to the time of the First World War, a wide hammer was a water- powered hammer mill in which copper or iron bars were flattened into flat workpieces and sheets . Wide hammers were used in particular in the manufacture of scythes .
A particularly high distribution of wide hammers was found in the Wupperviereck , the Enneperaum , the Siegerland and the northwestern Sauerland .
literature
- Siegfried Horstmann : From Bergischen people and the places their work , RGA-Buchverlag, Remscheid, 1971/1990, ISBN 3-923495-20-X