Hammer lock
As Hammerschloss are mainly in the Upper Palatinate as representative residential building of hammer mill-owners (called hammer men ) from the 16th to the 18th century built country palaces called.
The hammer locks are usually located in the immediate vicinity of the hammer mill or a hammer mill , i.e. also on a river, which helped to drive the mill wheel. Important hammer locks are located along the Bavarian Iron Road , such as B. in Theuern , Röthenbach , Dietldorf and Schmidmühlen to see.
Due to the end of iron processing in Bavaria, many castles were unused for years. Today they are often restored and marketed as tourist destinations.
A counterpart are the Hammerherrenhäuser , which occur mainly in Austria .
Web links
Commons : Hammerschloss - Collection of images, videos and audio files
See also
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- ^ The story of Gut Eichhofen near Regensburg ( Memento from September 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )