Freibergsdorf hammer
As a former hammer mill, the Freibergsdorfer Hammer is an important witness to the proto-industrial development in the Ore Mountains . Of the previously numerous hammer mills in Saxony, in addition to the Freibergsdorf hammer, only three other systems, the Eisenhammer Dorfchemnitz , the Frohnau hammer and the " old hammer " of the Saigerhütte Grünthal remained functional.
The Freibergsdorf hammer mill is the only preserved iron hammer in the Freiberg mining area . It was also the last hammer mill in Saxony to be used as a production facility.
history
The hammer was first mentioned in 1607, when the owner of the manor in Freibergsdorf, Ernst Schönlebe, was awarded water for his Zainhammer . The water of the Goldbach was repeatedly the subject of controversy between Freiberg mining, the hammer and a neighboring mill. Over the centuries iron products were mainly manufactured both for mining (e.g. tools such as hammers, chisels, crowbars) and for farming purposes. Until it was sold to the St. Johannis Hospital in Freiberg in 1903, the hammer was in private hands. Between 1903 and 1945, copper products were manufactured almost exclusively. The commercial operation of the plant was finally stopped in 1974.
The Freibergsdorf Hammer was reconstructed between 1979 and 1989. There were u. a. Securing work carried out on the roof structure, the water wheels, hammer shaft and structure as well as on the quarry stone masonry and the water boxes. The from Freibergsdorfer Hammerverein e. V. supervised hammer was opened to the public in 1991. It can be viewed by prior arrangement or as part of events such as the German Milling Day or the Day of Traditional Crafts .
technology
The hammer systems are fully functional. A hammer ditch is supplied from the hammer pond slightly above, with the water of which the wooden overshot water wheel with a diameter of almost four meters is loaded and driven. The octagonal hammer shaft made of oak has a weight of about 7 tons and a length of 9.5 m. Three tail hammers with bears weighing 250, 200 and 100 kg are moved with iron thumbs .
literature
- Eberhard Löffler : On the history and reconstruction of the Freibergsdorf hammer mill. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter . 30 (1984) 6, pp. 241-246
- Karl Kutzsche: The hammer mill of Freibergsdorf. Reconstruction of a technical monument . In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter , issue 4/1986, pp. 99-102
- Eberhard Löffler, Karl Kutzsche, Johannes Seidel: The Freibergsdorf hammer mill. In: Series of publications Stadt- und Bergbaumuseum Freiberg 9 (1990), pp. 42–75
- Freibergsdorfer Hammerverein eV (Ed.): 400 years Freibergsdorfer Hammer. Freiberg, 2007
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Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 36.7 " N , 13 ° 19 ′ 36.9" E