Scythe smith

Sense blacksmiths are artisans who is the leading manufacturer of scythes , sickles have specialized and straw knives.

Blacksmith fire for heating a Bröckl (forge demonstration Geyerhammer, Scharnstein)

Zainen on an air hammer

Widths at the tail hammer

history

Scythe smiths had their origin as a specialization of iron and blacksmiths . They processed Knüttel, a semi-finished product from the Zain forge , into their products. The blue scythes from Upper Austria and Styria as well as the white scythes from the Bergisches Land ( Solingen ) and the Sauerland ( Plettenberg ), which differed in their forging techniques, were in demand and famous all over Europe .

In the peasant wars of the 16th century, scythes on long poles played an important role as weapons (their "hammers" were merely straightened). Blacksmiths in Austria were sometimes punished with death if they forged scythes into weapons.

In Michel village in Upper Austria of the former is on the grounds Sense forged am Gries the Upper Austria. Scythe forge museum .

Preserved scythe smiths

The only surviving scythe forge in Austria is in Himmelberg in Carinthia.

See also

• Scythe work
• List of scythe factories in Austria

literature

• Rudi Palla: The lexicon of the lost professions . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-8289-4152-4 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Sensenschmied  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Here the old craft of the scythe forge lives on in the Kleine Zeitung of May 21, 2017, accessed on July 11, 2018