Scratch hammer

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Scratch hammer around 1966
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Kratzhammer is a district of Altenberg in the Ore Mountains .

The settlement laid out as Werkweiler was designated as the suburb of Lauenstein in 1875 . A settlement called Cratza was mentioned as early as 1791 . The name Kratzhammer , which was used from 1875, comes from a hammer mill ( stamping mill ) with its smelter , in which the already roughly processed, still ore-containing rock (the dross or dross = the waste) was further processed, the last of which was removed (scratched) has been. The hammer mill was later used as a butcher's shop and restaurant : it allowed the free fiefdom to bake, slaughter and give wine and beer as a gift . This was then turned into a company holiday home and, during the GDR era, machines were set up in the hall on which Mozambican forestry apprentices worked. After the fall of the Wall , the machines were dismantled, the hall was used again, and ethnic repatriates moved in for a while . The restaurant and memorial room for George Bähr are still preserved .

The place was part of the Pirna office . Between 1856 and 1875, Kratzhammer was part of the Lauenstein court office and then to the Dippoldiswalde administration . In 1952 the place became part of the Dippoldiswalde district , which had emerged from the administrative authority and which became part of the Weißeritz district in 1994 . In 1956, Kratzhammer became a district of Fürstenwalde at its own request , as the official routes to Fürstenwalde were shorter than to Lauenstein. Since Fürstenwalde became part of Geising in 1994 through the municipal merger , Kratzhammer has also belonged to this town. Geising was incorporated into Altenberg on January 1, 2011 .

Kratzhammer was parish in Lauenstein. In 1834 39 people lived here, in 1871 there were 54.

Museums, sights

freetime and sports

  • Bathing pond in the lower village, near Kratzhammer
  • Bowling alley in Kratzhammer
  • Football pitches in Kratzhammer and between Oberdorf and Müglitz (located outside the forest)
  • popular climbing rock "Grafenstein" between Kratzhammer and the flood retention basin Lauenstein

Web links

  • Kratzhammer in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '  N , 13 ° 51'  E