Rame hammer

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The Rameishammer building seen from the northeast (2019)

Rameishammer is the name of a former blacksmith's workshop in the municipality of Ternberg in the Steyr-Land district in Upper Austria . In the 19th century, the building was used to manufacture blades for the traditional pocket knives known as Trattenbacher Taschenfeitel in Trattenbach . It is located at Hammerstraße 45 at the end of the themed trail in the Trattenbach museum village .

history

Josef Rameis in a historical photo

For centuries, the blades for the Trattenbacher Feitel were forged from red- hot steel with a fist hammer . After the carbon-rich Scharsach steel used for this , a Styrian crude steel, was no longer produced from 1860, the manufacturing process had to be changed. The local master blacksmiths then decided to use steel from Leoben-Donawitz in the future and to convert the forging process throughout the Trattenbachtal to forging with tail hammers driven by water wheels.

The Rameishammer blacksmith's workshop was built in the second half of the 1870s by a Feitelmacher family called Rameis on Hammerstrasse in the Trattenbachtal. According to the building files in the Upper Austrian Provincial Archives , Josef Rameis submitted plans for the construction of a water hammer building to the authorities in 1877 and erected it the following year.

The operation of the rame hammer was discontinued after the end of traditional pocket knife manufacture. The workshop is one of the few production facilities that have remained largely unchanged. The Kulturverein Heimatpflege Ternberg-Trattenbach was able to purchase the building and used it in the 1990s for demonstrations of the old craft technology. Two information boards on the themed trail are located by the building and provide information about its previous use. On it, among other things, a historical postcard is shown, on which the blacksmith's workshop is shown as a Trattenbach attraction. Today the Rameishammer is privately owned and is no longer open to the public.

The building is a listed building . The monument preservation supervision of the blacksmith's workshop was taken over in the course of the preparations for the Upper Austrian provincial exhibition 1998 "Land der Hämmer - Die Eisenstraße" . At that time, the Rameishammer was part of the so-called Messerer ensemble , which also comprised the objects Hammerstrasse 21 (Löschenkohl), Hammerstrasse 23a (Brandstätter) and Kienbergstrasse 1 (turnery).

description

The double-tailed hammer from 1878 with inscription
A historical postcard on an information board shows a photo of the blacksmith's workshop

The two-story building with a saddle roof was built in the typical late Biedermeier style. The entrance to the blacksmith's workshop on the ground floor is on the gable side in the northeast. The upper floor, which can be entered from Hammerstraße, was used as an additional work, lounge and storage room.

The blacksmith's shop is located in a large, undivided room that receives daylight through windows on three sides of the building. Essential parts of the original equipment, including the fireplace ( forge ), the devices for driving the hammer ( transmissions ) and the double- tailed hammer , have remained unchanged to this day. On the south-eastern outer wall of the building, a wooden overshot water wheel - also preserved - which was fed via a channel, the so-called Grindl , from further above from the Trattenbach, drove the heavy double - tailed hammer in the interior. According to an inscription on the massive crossbeam of the hammer, it dates from 1878 and is still fully functional. The inscription also includes the initials of the owner couple Josef and Katharina Rameis, "J u KR".

Rameiskapelle

Katharina and Josef Rameis, who had lived in the Rameishaus , a little below the hammer mill since 1876 , had a small chapel built in 1891 to the southwest of the hammer mill. The building was demolished during a road construction project in the 1960s. In 1995 the so-called Rameis Chapel was rebuilt at its current location a few meters northeast of the Rameis Hammer. The Neuhäusl or Zimmermannshäusl , which was built before 1820, had previously stood at this point .

literature

  • Helmut Begsteiger: Large Ternberger House Chronicle. Part 1: Trattenbach - Kienberg - Wendbach . Market town of Ternberg, Steyr 1998.

Web links

Commons : Rameishammer  - collection of images
Commons : Rameiskapelle  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scharsachstahl. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 14 : R - skewness - (VIII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1893, Sp. 2221–2222 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  2. ↑ a b c d protected positions . In: Upper Austrian Museum Association (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association . 143b. Linz 1998, p. 167 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  3. ^ Upper Austrian regional archive: files and manuscripts of the district administration Steyr-Land in Upper Austria . State archive (as of 2007) . 2007, p. 51 ( online [PDF]).
  4. ↑ a b Monument Preservation . In: Upper Austrian Museum Association (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association . 142b. Linz 1997, p. 135, 136 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  5. ↑ Helmut Begsteiger: Large Ternberger House Chronicle. Part 1: Trattenbach - Kienberg - Wendbach . Marktgemeinde Ternberg, Steyr 1998, p. 53-54, 74-75 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ 12.7 ″  N , 14 ° 20 ′ 13.6 ″  E