Scythe factory in Deutschfeistritz
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| Address: | Rudolf-Klug-Gasse 73 u. 128 | ||
| Cadastral municipality: | Deutschfeistritz | ||
| Coordinates: | 47 ° 12 '0.9 " N , 14 ° 20' 15.6" E | ||
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| Founding: | 1819 | ||
| Shutdown: | June 30, 1984
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| Character: | Hungarian saber | ||
The scythe factory in Deutschfeistritz was closed in 1984, making it the last in Styria . Today the two production halls are under monument protection and the "Museum Sensenwerk Deutschfeistritz " was set up in them. At peak times, up to 84,000 scythes were made a year.
history
The scythe factory that is preserved today was built by Johann Pachernegg on the remains of the burnt down previous building by 1819. In 1819 Pachernegg received permission to operate the scythe hammer. In 1849 the “Markthammer” was built on the site of the old mill. In 1876 Pachernegg's son had to sell the work to Wolfgang Trippold from Graz. From these it passed into the possession of the Carl Greinitz Erben company, which stopped production. In 1931 Florian Obergruber bought the factory and had scythes made there again . His daughter finally ceased operations on June 30, 1984. The work was restored by an association and a museum was set up.
description
The two one-story production halls are around 11 meters wide and 40 and 53 meters long. Its facade is plastered and only the walls of the gates are partly made of natural stone. The buildings are covered by tile-roofed gable roofs with open wooden roof trusses . The south of the building was built over with a residential storey on the west side. An octagonal chimney made of bricks with a cornice was added. The factory canal with a wooden float and six water wheels is located between the two buildings . There is a connecting passage below the flood.
There is an inscription in the market hammer with the initials "JP" and the year of construction. All of the production machines in both halls have been preserved. In the southern hall you will find all the machines for producing a scythe blank, while in the northern hall the gouging, grinding, hardening and fine work took place.
See also
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- Manfred Wehdorn, Ute Georgeacopol-Winischhofer, Paul W. Roth: Architectural monuments of technology and industry in Austria . 2, Styria and Carinthia. Böhlau Verlag Gesellschaft mbH and Co. KG, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-205-05202-1 , p. 12–13 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Scythe factory in Deutschfeistritz. www.bda.at, accessed on December 4, 2011 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Deutschfeistritz scythe factory. www.bda.at, accessed on December 4, 2011 .
- ↑ a b c d Manfred Wehdorn, Ute Georgeacopol-Winischhofer, Paul W. Roth: Architectural monuments of technology and industry in Austria . 2, Styria and Carinthia. Böhlau Verlag Gesellschaft mbH and Co. KG, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-205-05202-1 , p. 12–13 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Chronology. (No longer available online.) Www.sensenwerk.at, archived from the original on January 5, 2009 ; Retrieved December 4, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
