Ball hammer (production company)
Historical drop hammer in the Freibergsdorfer Hammer in Freiberg for the production of cannon balls
A ball hammer was a production company in which balls cast from cast iron were reworked. The balls were heated and forged in appropriately matching dies . The purpose was to compact and smooth the surface of the spheres; this served both to protect the cannon barrels and to increase the resistance of the bullets.
Historical examples of ball hammers
- In steelworks Gottesgab in Fichtelgebirge 1608/09 a ball-peen hammer was established.
- The Weiherhammer ironworks received an order in 1794 to manufacture thousands of cannon balls and grenades.
- Cannon balls were made in Gugelhammer , Franconia , and the Hammerherrenhaus built there is also known as Kugelhammer Castle.
- In Traunstein , at Untere Hammerstraße 7, there was a ball hammer, in which cannon balls and grapefruit were produced from 1623 to 1676 and which was converted into an electrical power station in 1896.
literature
- Götschmann, Dirk: Upper Palatinate iron. Mining and iron industry in the 16th and 17th centuries. Ed. Association of Friends and Patrons of the Mining and Industry Museum in East Bavaria (= Volume 5 of the publication series of the Mining and Industry Museum in East Bavaria), Theuern 1985, p. 206. ISBN 3 924 350 05 1 .