Multiheads hammer
The Multhäupter Hammer is an old hammer in the Ringelstein Forest, in the urban area of Büren (Westphalia) in the Paderborn district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). Today, electricity is generated in the Multhäupter Hammer with the power of the alpine pastures . The hammer is located in the nature reserve FFH area Alme- and Afteaue .
history
After a hurricane raged in the Ringelstein Forest in December 1612 and brought down many trees, it was decided to process the beech and oak storm wood into charcoal . In 1613 a forge hammer was built in Ringelstein , in which the produced charcoal was used. Water that was diverted from the Alme by side ditches drove the hammers on. The pig iron produced in smelting furnaces and freed from slag was forged here and processed into weapons, for example.
At the time of the Thirty Years' War the facility fell into disrepair and was bought by a Dutch entrepreneur in 1656. Ten years after the purchase, operations were closed. The hammer fell to the Jesuits from Büren. After that there was a dispute over the facility for a long time because the noble families from the neighboring village Alme by several belonging to the Mult heads Hammer weirs felt impaired in their fishing rights. In the hammer battle, the weirs of 200 Almer farmers were destroyed. In 1669 the dispute was settled.
In the following years production was cut back due to a lack of wood and stopped in 1704. In the Seven Years' War the multi-head hammer was destroyed again. In 1773, after the dissolution of the Jesuit order , the multi-head hammer passed into the possession of the house of Bürens. Shortly afterwards, a contract was signed with an entrepreneur to build a new hammer below the previous location. In the middle of the 19th century the iron industry in Ringelstein was stopped. In 1881 the plant was converted into a wood pulp factory. In 1917 the factory passed to the current owner, Grafen von Spee. The wood grinding shop set up in the building belonged to a paper mill from Alme.
literature
- All about water at Alme and Afte Hiking guide to the Auen cycle path , page 31 ( Multhäupter Hammer )
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 4.3 " N , 8 ° 34 ′ 22.2" E