Gravendals bruk
Preserved ironworks from the 1720s in Gravendal, with a reconstructed water-powered slitting hammer, nail smithy and bakehouse, shown on activity days.
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About the museum
Gravendals bruk (Gravendal ironworks) was established in the 1720s by Sebastian Grave at Skärsjön, where the river falls about 30 metres per kilometre. The water drove a saw, a mill and a slitting hammer (räckhammare), as well as a nail and sheet-metal smithy. Later another slitting hammer, Stensmedjan, was added, where bar iron was produced for export, including to England and America, and towards the end of the 19th century a rolling mill was built. Operations in Gravendal ended in 1916.
Stensmedjan was demolished in the 1930s, but in 1987 a hammer with a water wheel and wheel shaft was reconstructed, and in 2003 a newly built German hearth was inaugurated. Gravendal village association (Gravendals byalag), founded in 1993, has helped restore the buildings, and the ironworks is one of the sites of Ekomuseum Bergslagen.
Today there is, among other things, a reconstructed water-powered bar-iron hammer with hearth and bellows, a renovated nail smithy with try-it-yourself forging, and a renovated bakehouse. A few times a year the village association holds activity days when the slitting hammer is shown, bread is baked in the bakehouse and forging takes place in the smithy.
Highlights
- Reconstructed water-powered slitting hammer
- German hearth from 2003
- Renovated nail smithy with try-it-yourself forging
- Bakehouse
- One of the sites of Ekomuseum Bergslagen
Permanent exhibition
- Gravendals bruk – Reconstructed slitting hammer with German hearth, nail smithy and bakehouse, plus an exhibition at the summer events.
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- Gravendals byalag
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| Good to know | On activity days visitors can experience how German forging was done and try forging for themselves. |
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