Hilbert hammer
The Hilbertshammer is a listed historic hammer mill on the Leyerbach in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Remscheid .
Location and description
The Hilbertshammer is located in the Leyerbachtal in the Lüttringhausen district between the Remscheid villages of Leyermühle and Clarenbach on the L157 road . The building is a wooden building with verschiefertem roof bay windows and roof tiles laid gable roof . Two brick food with chimneys located on both sides of the building.
The Leyerbach is dammed up in front of the hammer in a large reservoir, from which two upper ditches lead to an overshot waterwheel on each side of the hammer. An ice box and a shut-off valve protect the water wheels from ice or floods . The wooden shaft of the larger water wheel on the mountain side is connected to the camshaft of the drop hammer and the water wheel on the valley side is connected to that of the bellows for the food.
history
The first hammer mill at this point has been documented since 1460. The name of the facility often changed with the owners. So after the owner Johannes Hilberts from Stursberg the hammer was finally called Hilbertshammer from 1648 for the first time. During the Thirty Years' War the facility fell into disrepair, but was rebuilt in 1732 by Dietrich Hilberts, whose ownership the name Hilbertshammer was confirmed in the document.
The Reckhammer was converted into a refining hammer in the 19th century , in which the molds from the Siegerland iron mine Müsener Stollen , which were transported on the Bergische Eisenstraße , were refined into high-quality refining steel .
Until 1943, the Hilbertshammer worked with water power , while the other hammer mills still in operation at the time had switched to steam power or electric drives in the 19th century . The facility passed from the owner at the time, Karl Grimm, to the Gustav Grimm company. This maintains and maintains the structure as well as the technical facilities and the water-technical buildings to this day.
So the hammer is fully functional to this day. In addition to regular company demonstrations for the public, the company's trainees learn the traditional old blacksmith's craft as it has been practiced there for centuries as part of their training here .
literature
- Günther Schmidt: Hammer and Kotten research in Remscheid . Volume 4: Leyerbach, Diepmannsbach, Mückenbach Buchhandlung R. Schmitz, Remscheid 2004, ISBN 3-9809033-8-9 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 4.3 " N , 7 ° 12 ′ 42.6" E