Geiserschmiede museum
The Geiserschmiede Museum has been a local history museum in Bühlertal in the Rastatt district in Baden-Württemberg since 1999 .
exhibition
The museum shows a water-powered and fully functional hammer forge that has been in use for over 100 years in a building that is at least 300 years old. In addition to the local history, the traditional craft of the blacksmith is explained in an exhibition, demonstration and interactive media.
history
The grinding mill powered by the Bühlot flowing past was converted into a hammer forge in 1891. Until 1961, the blacksmiths, most recently the brothers Eugen and Josef Geiser, produced all tools for regional agriculture and forestry there. The workshop and the building increasingly fell into disrepair until 1994, before a group of Bühlertal citizens spent more than 7,500 hours doing voluntary work to renovate and restore the building complex and its technical equipment. The museum was opened in 1999 and in 2002 was recognized as an exemplary museum of local history by the work group Heimatpflege in the administrative district of Karlsruhe.
Organizational matters
The museum is run by a museum association and is open every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month in the afternoon.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 41 '25.8 " N , 8 ° 10' 52.7" E