Whetstone grinding

Whetstone mill in the Glentleiten open-air museum .

Model of a whetstone mill on the Schleifmühlenlaine, Unterammergau .

A whetstone grinding shop (also: whetstone loop, whetstone mill or grinding mill) is a production facility for the production of whetstones from raw material such as B. sandstone (see e.g. Deistersandstein or Schwarzachtobler sandstone ).

Surname

honed whetstone.

Whetstone is the name of many geographical objects where sharpening stones were recovered as a raw material, in shape of a whetstone recalled or menhir lying and of places that such production plants near or where were those manufacturing or grinding shops / Mills.

history

Whetstone maker figure at the village fountain on the village square in Unterammergau

Whetstones have been known tools since prehistoric times (in the inventory of the Drosa stone grave , in sites of Montoume and Nouaillas near Vayres from the Neolithic Age , in the burial mound of Leubingen from the Bronze Age , in the megalithic complex Ses Roques Llises on the Spanish Balearic island of Menorca ). The sharpening of the whetstones served to improve the functional properties and was not used until the late Middle Ages.

In the whetstone grinding process, suitable fine crystalline natural stones are processed, which are usually obtained using mining methods. The whetstones have been made from manually prepared blanks on high-speed small grinding millstones since the late Middle Ages; these processing centers were always close to the find or mining sites on a river. The oil painting by Johann Georg von Dillis (1759–1841) about the whetstone mill near Ohlstadt is well known .

In the 19th century, the Steinacher whetstone makers specialized in the production of sharpening stones for razors and craft supplies.

From the 19th century, whetstone grinding took place on an industrialized scale, see as an example the whetstone production in the Schwarzachtobel .

Show systems

1. Whetstone grinding shop in Schwangau
2. Whetstone making in Unterammergau
3. Glentleiten open air museum

See also

• Whetstone
• Grindstone

literature

• Bernhard Lehnert: Dengeling. The art of sharpening scythe and sickle. Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2586-5 .
• Wilhelm Liebhart (Hg) in Schwangau: Village of the royal castles , Sigmaringen 1996, Thorbecke Verlag, ISBN 3-7995-3435-0 , p. 21.
• Frankdieter Grimm: Between Rennsteig and Sonneberg . Values ​​of our homeland , Volume 39: (2nd report. Edition. 1986)

Web links

Commons : Whetstones  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Images of old whetstones in the ADH Müschede scythe museum
• from the material to the typical shape of the Ammergau whetstone quarries also as PDF Bavarian State Office for the Environment, 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to Franz Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, with the collaboration of Johannes Graf von Preysing and Werner A. Widmann in Vorarlberg and Liechtenstein , Munich 1989, Prestel Verlag, ISBN 3-7913-0851-3 , p. 107 f Whetstone grinders in Schwarzach in Vorarlberg, around 1.5 million whetstones delivered all over the world per year (see →  Whetstone production in the Schwarzachtobel )