Freibergsdorfer Hammer

Om museet

The hammer mill in the former village of Freibergsdorf was built around 1600 by the local manor owner Ernst Schönlebe; it is first mentioned in 1607, when the bar-iron hammer was granted water rights. For a long time the water of the Goldbach stream was disputed between mining, the hammer mill and a neighboring mill. Over generations of changing hammer smiths, the forge produced mainly tools and ironware for Freiberg's mining industry and the crafts of the surrounding area.

In 1903 the Freiberg hospital St. Johannis bought the site and leased it to a coppersmith, who for decades made mainly copper goods there. After the last tenant, commercial forging ended in 1974 after 367 years; by then the forge was considered the last working hammer mill in Saxony.

From 1979 onward, the dilapidated buildings were restored to heritage standards by volunteers, companies and municipal institutions; since 1988 the machinery has been fully operational again. In 1991 this group gave rise to the Freibergsdorfer Hammerverein (hammer mill association), which has looked after the monument and kept it open to the public ever since. An overshot water wheel almost four meters high drives the 9.5-meter oak camshaft, which lifts three tilt hammers with hammerheads weighing 100 to 250 kilograms. It is the only surviving iron hammer mill in the Freiberg mining district.

Højdepunkter

• Fully working tilt hammers with hammerheads weighing up to 250 kg
• Water wheel chamber with two large water wheels
• Forging demonstrations on New Year's Day, Easter, Whitsun and the Day of Traditional Crafts
• Small exhibition on forged products and the forging process
• Idyllic setting on the Hammerteich pond

Permanente udstillinger

• Hammerwerk und Schmiedeausstellung – Forge workshop with three tilt hammers, a water wheel chamber with power transmission and a small display of wrought-iron products with explanations of the forging process.

Grundlagt

1991

Ejer

Freibergsdorfer Hammerverein e. V.

Entrépriser & rabatter

Admission of €5 (reduced €2.50) applies on forging days; admission is free on the monthly Saturday openings from May to October.

Tilgængelighed

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Børn og familie

Velegnet til børn og familier

• Familieomvisninger & workshops
• Interaktive stationer

On forge days, children can do their own forging at the field forge, plus Knüppelkuchen (dough baked on a stick) at the campfire. Free admission for children up to 6.

Transport & parkering

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Service & spisesteder

Snacks at the hammer pond on forge days.

Arrangementer & udlejning

• Lokaler til leje
• Private fester
• Firmaarrangementer

Op til 20 personer.

Hammerstube room for family, club and corporate celebrations with up to 20 people, with a private guided tour and forging demonstration on request.

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